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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

@keaplin.bsky.social
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Retired Math, Physics, Computer…teacher. Music and Movie fan. Pragmatic Progessive. Romantic Realist. Agnostic. Philomath. Gentle Cynic. "At the end of my rainbow lies a Golden Oldie"

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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 17m
"It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them." -- Pierre Beaumarchais …ain't that the truth!
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 17m
Orwellian to the max.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
random note to relieve pent-up aggravation: Lose - when something is lost. Loose - when something is not secured. Lightning - Electricity in the sky. Lightening - reducing weight or shade.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck." -- Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
imho we are raising generations of kids who do not know how to play and that bodes ill for a happy future.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things." -- Russell Baker
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." -- Steven Weinberg
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If she'd do it I'd back Kamala as Special Prosecutor for all things Trump.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thought for this morning. Opinions on taste aren't right or wrong. Opinions on matters of fact are definitely right or wrong.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine." -- Fran Lebowitz
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've considered going to Starbucks for baked goods, but I don't speak the language.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
thought of a name for a coffee house: Brewtique.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
in two (nice) words NO PROBLEM!
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
on my bank's website: "FDIC-Insured - Backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government" …somehow that's not very reassuring these days.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's National Name Your Car Day. Mine is "Hedy" (as in Lamarr) because it's German and beautiful.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just wondering… why haven't we gotten a live-action Jonny Quest movie (or series)?
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." -- Erica Jong
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Best. James Earl Carter Jr, October 01, 1924…December 29, 2024
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I hear today is "Take Your Bible To School Day". Seems like it would only be fair to have a "Take Your Darwin to Church Day" for balance.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ever wonder what was wrong with Love Potions #1_8?
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When it comes to Business, Self-Regulation = No Regulation.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wordle 1,929 X/6 ⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 too many possibilities! 😡
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm so old … when I was in kindergarten we got our milk in little glass bottles with cardboard disc tops. (the chocolate was delish)
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Life is a sum of all your choices" – Albert Camus …plus the ones you avoided making
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough" -- Mario Andretti
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why don't we pronounce llama "Yama"?
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up." -- Tom Lehrer
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Well behaved women do not make history." -- Mae West
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast." -- W. S. Gilbert
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My 9 games. I'm not much of a gamer, but I've spent entirely too much of my life playing these…
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What’s the most famous movie you’ve never seen? I’ll start: Titanic. (And, yes, I’m actually a cinephile)
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but raptors are pretty dang scary." -- Devin J. Monroe
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.gocomics.com/bc/2026/09/27
gocomics.com
B.C. by Johnny Hart for September 27, 2026 | GoComics
Read B.C.—a comic strip by creator Johnny Hart—for today, September 27, 2026, and check out other great comics, too!
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Whatever happened to Loving Christianity?
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No one makes billions, they take it from others.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Johnny Appleseed Born John Chapman September 26, 1774 Died March 18, 1845 (aged 70) Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing." -- Jessica Alba
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@markhamillofficial.bsky.social Happy Birthday! So glad you are with us!
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Who believes Trump stole the 2024 Presidential election? ✋
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day." -- Mickey Rooney
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How is it possible that James Mason never won an Oscar?
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." -- Laurence J. Peter
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's criminal. Call it that.
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The secret of eternal youth is arrested development." -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." -- Elbert Hubbard
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Kirk 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @keaplin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
a mood lifter for anyone (like me) who needs it: youtu.be/geooJv-Usus?...
youtu.be
Hole In Your Soul
YouTube video by ABBA - Topic
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