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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️

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Later life transition, second try after first derailed in 80s. S: 11/07/22, E: 03/05/23 Retired and F🌈A🌈B🌈U🌈L🌈O🌈U🌈S!!!

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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 22h
Apparently there is also an issue with her husband and handling investments in North Korea - Trump now loving “Rocketman”, he was probably fine with that, but who else would be?
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Canadian scientists discover nature of Dark Matter: “It’s Poutine!”
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Trying to remember that far back - a buddy had introduced me to Frank Zappa a year or two before, and I was building up a selection of his music. This was before “Valley Girl” (Okay, fine, for sure, for sure).
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Frank Zappa - Peaches en Regalia
YouTube video by fabrizio reda
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Watched a movie that was a real tear jerker this afternoon. I brought a whole box of tissues because I knew that would be the case. Strongly recommend it, and ask for it if you are not in Canada but have known someone dealing with cancer - this is part of why more people now survive.
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Run Terry Run | Official Trailer | Documentary
YouTube video by Elevation Pictures
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I read the news today… Oh boy…
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So far, I get a laugh on my bloodwork results as every time they end up running my T numbers twice because they are so low - my health card still is an M as I am holding back on the legal gender/name change until my parents’ estate are closed out.
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
On election nights, he has been getting his own KornackiCam shows where he presents the data and results, breaking down the trends along with NBC News Now updates. You can find them on YouTube - expect that he will be doing something similar on November 3rd.
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I just was thinking of it last night - Aztec Camera’s cover of Van Halen’s Jump.
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Jump - Aztec Camera
YouTube video by farfa64
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That is also Lou Reed’s favourite version of the song - his comment after hearing what they got from it.
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Some days, your entire scope of what you will do is defined even before you get out of bed. I woke up to a bad leg cramp, meaning that even after the shower pulsing on it for multiple stretches and a painful muscle rub cream, I have had a “sitting around all day” type day.
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Tiya Sircar Puts Feet Up
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I worked for a call centre for 18 years, although most of that was in a back office role dealing with customers primarily by email. Still, I can relate to this:
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Mandy gets (and swiftly loses) a new job at a call centre 📞 | Mandy – BBC
YouTube video by BBC
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When the first ChatGPT news reports came out, having seen the 1970s film Collosus, I asked Amazon Alexa if it controlled any nuclear weapons. Alexa: Would you like to buy some nuclear weapons?
Dog with shocked look and the caption “Say What?”
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Originally it was in French with lyrics, by Greek singer Vicky Leandros, with a later English version, before Paul Mauriat switched it to a harpsichord led instrumental.
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VICKY LEANDROS 🎤 L'Amour Est Bleu 💙 (Montréal, Québec) 1968
YouTube video by FYO PIX
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bagpipe Blues, performed by Gunhild Carling
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Gunhild Carling - Bagpipe Blues
YouTube video by Gunhild Carling
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Covered by Weird Al on the accordion. During COVID lockdown.
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Classical Gas
YouTube video by alyankovic
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For an ancient generation of Canadian kids, between The Friendly Giant and Mr Dressup, we had Chez Hélène.
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Chez Hélène ~ La grenouille
YouTube video by Soeur Thérèse
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I went to my first new movie release in the theatre in sixteen years around the end of August. I am now seeing that another movie is coming up that I should go to catch on the big screen. The Friday before Canadian Thanksgiving. I’ll need to bring a couple boxes of tissues, mind you.
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RUN TERRY RUN | Official Trailer HD
YouTube video by Elevation Pictures
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When visiting Prague on a “2 week date”, my host took me to Hrad Karlstejn - a castle in the countryside. When I entered the gate, in the back of my head I heard the harp and recorder of the theme. No giraffes or roosters, though.
View of Hrad Karlstejn from across the river on the golf course. Walking up, wa-a-ay up, the lane way to Hrad Karlstejn.
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Working in a call centre for a cellphone company, I’d say “One ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingies.” I never tried to get away with “Is this the party to whom I am speaking?” “And that’s the truth, PBLFT!!!”
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Some of it depends on the language. Nightwatch/Daywatch in Russian, Czech for Who Wants to Kill Jessie, much Almodovar in Spanish, French would be Amelie and Delicatessen, Italian is Volere Volare. Shame I can’t attach multiple clips for reference. The entirety of that movie is on YouTube.
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Who Wants to Kill Jessie? Clip
YouTube video by tuco1
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In S02E01 Richard Nixon: "Sock it to me?"
YouTube video by Movie Samples
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The funniest thing is that it was set way in the future - in 1980!
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nah, the reply there should have been “Wunnerfull, Wunnerfull!”
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yes, there was an actual show behind that wonderful Mancini theme song, and it was very cutting edge for its film noir brought to television nature. Much of it is on YouTube, and I believe still on Amazon Prime Video.
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Peter Gunn (1958) 20 Weird Facts That You Didn’t Know About
YouTube video by Film Noir
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That part of the opening now makes me think of Zoom calls.
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and there are a couple times in the first season that she resorts to such moves as part of trying to address a problem. It was too obviously trying to borrow from Dick Van Dyke, which her show was trying not to be connected to, so it was dropped.
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Of course, the shoes had to be rotary dial as push button dialing would result in all manner of wrong numbers being dialed during vigorous runs or while dancing.
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Doctor Who (1963-could it ever end, given The Doctor is a Time Traveller?)
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Susan Foreman Explains TARDIS Origin in Doctor Who
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To think, that song is only 45 years old, and it was available as a 45 rpm record. “Not Say Goodbye” was the ’B’ side.
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Jenny 8675309 - Tommy Tutone (1982)
YouTube video by PS César
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Got a t-shirt made with what should be an ear worm for people of a certain age. See if I get asked if my name is Jenny. The folks at the t-shirt shop had trouble getting the number right, they were too young to know the song.
Black full sleeved shirt with “867-5309” across the bust.
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sorry folks, but this is a tearjerker…
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Best Christmas Commercial Ever
YouTube video by Micah LaCerte
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lucifer missed out??? That leaves the whole process of the list bedevilled!
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal Whatever you do, don’t watch the movie version!
Hardcover edition of MYRA BRECKINRIDGE A Novel by GORE VIDAL
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I have commented that if there was a “Cunk on MAGA” series produced, she would be the smarter one.
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What if Stacy’s Mom… Was Jessie’s Girl, And her number was 867-5309?
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
An aside - of all that I have done in my life, and I am now in my 60s, it was the most fulfilling thing I have done. If you can do something like that, look into the training and volunteering - the people who do that are overall good people and the phones are usually quiet to get to know them. 2/2
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I spent years volunteering evenings on a distress line, and fortunately have talked around a dozen people out of doing anything stupid. While I could only finish calls reassured that they wouldn’t do anything that night, have heard those voices in public places over the years to know I helped. 1/
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Snow Angel
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The Snow Angel (HWW Parody)
YouTube video by Hinterland Who's Who / Faune et flore du pays
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Stuck my nose in the Apple TV Store again - in light of the Star Trek 60th anniversary, most “boxed sets” of Star Trek series are on very significant sales. Entirety of Lower Decks for Cdn $24.99. Even The Orville is on sale.
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
When I was working, by the latter part of Tuesday I found myself looking at little but WTF filling the rest of the week: Wednesday-Thursday-Friday
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
At least it is only the United States infected by that - it is still correct on devices outside the US. “Gulf of America” and “Lake America” only apply to the US government; people and businesses and even states are free to ignore and even defy obviously false executive orders.
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Around two months ago, got a nice coordinated three piece lounge outfit - sleeveless top, light joggers, knee length cardigan. Got four separate praises for how it looked when I wore it to my doctor’s appointment, three by total strangers.
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A quick reminder (image from a post by @RealLyndaCarter)
We are ALL Wonderwomen!
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Why wasn’t he sent to Africa or CECOT for some consistency?
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
There is a reason I call it “autocorrupt”.
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’d forgotten that until I got the whole Mary Tyler Moore series at the Apple TV store for $15 Canadian a couple months ago. They have random sales on their television box sets, and I got lucky finding that one.
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Murray Slaughter - The Mary Tyler Moore Show He got shipped out on a boat after being sacked by the station.
WJM-TV NEWS
 MURRAY SLAUGHTER
 News Writer
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Reportedly one Texan school district is now shut down because anti-vaxxers have allowed COVID to break out to an extent that it is unsafe for the students and staff. Texan law validates the anti-vaxxers.
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This afternoon, I went to my first movie theatre new release since the original Avatar. Dunno why/how, but it was showing Coyote vs ACME a day early. I enjoyed it, not Casablanca, but it does have Peter Lorre. The climax brought tears to my eyes. Two beeps up.
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Markětá (New Woman) 🏳️‍⚧️ @marketa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
That’s why I didn’t point at “entitlements” for cuts as they already have been broadly hit in the Big “Beautiful” Bill - it is time for the rest of the outlays and evaded revenues to be addressed. Corporate tax rates got cut without closing loopholes, while companies still get broad ad hoc grants.
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