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Mike Billips

@mbillips.bsky.social
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Actor, handyman, retired Navy officer and former newspaper reporter. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
No, it’s illegal regardless. You can’t bribe people to vote AT ALL; it doesn’t require a promise to vote a certain way. It isn’t a felony in Michigan, but it’s illegal.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When bicycles became a craze in the late 19th century it was the first time the middle class had to encounter dogs on the road without the protection of a horse or carriage. It spawned a whole class of tiny “bicycle revolvers” to scare away dogs, often loaded with non-lethal ammunition.
Belgian Velo Dog revolver.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This girl passed away aged almost 17 this year. VERY SNUGGLY.
Cinnamon cat
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Gorgo” (1961), the British Kaiju movie, in like 1965-66. I was 3 or 4.
Gorgo destroys a bridge in London on the way to rescuing her baby.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The trick is to make the overhead lights REALLY BRIGHT. I think something’s always been a bit off with my eyesight because I hate dimly lit rooms with pools of illumination from table lamps and what not. This is about four feet wide in my 12 by 13 den:
Sputnik overhead light fixture with 10 40W bulbs.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
1970 Ford Torino
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Is frontotemporal dementia contagious?
Donald Trump weirdly leaning forward
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Goddam you, “origin obscure!”
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My grandmother painted this from life of our cat Smudge.
Painting of a black cat sitting atop a bird feeder.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
He got shot in the ear, full stop. The bullet grazed his skin and left a scar. There is no possible way he could have faked it and left two people dead. He would have blabbed about it and accused others of doing it if it were faked. Not to mention he’s WAY too big a coward.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I got in a bunch of arguments on Facebook with people who were convinced that McConnell was dead and Trump didn’t get his ear grazed by a bullet. They’ll probably claim it’s a body double when Mitch shows up. No, shut up, he has a fucking scar where it just touched his skin.
Donald Trump’s right ear with a small scar from where an assassin’s bullet grazed it.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It still makes ME giggle, though. This hangs in my den:
Uncut sheet of Wacky Packages stickers from 1974.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Forgetting about the attacks on 9/11 would be good and we should do it because the US response to 9/11 killed far more people and made America a less-free, worse place.
Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom of Speech” painting
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Howdah pistol.
Howdah pistol, a large-bore, double-barreled pistol used for self-defense by 19th-century, big-game hunters.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I am petless atm after recent bereavement, so I’m having to pet sit to get my fix. Cassie and Kennedy are my fren’s babies:
Cassie (left) and Kennedy.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Tony Millionaire sea monster, à la “The Drinky Crow Show.”
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Gross. I’m trying to do outdoor work this weekend and then drive to Mobile on Thursday. At least the humidity’s nice and high.
10-day weather forecast for Decatur, Ga., featuring lows above 75 for the next eight days and a high of 97 on Monday.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Possibly Little Lulu and her mother? It’s definitely not Popeye; she’s carrying a baby doll.
Little Lulu Sunday newspaper comic
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Nod and a wink.
Mutt and Jeff
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Counterpoint:
Study Reveals: Babies Are Stupid
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I have also commuted by bike in Christchurch, NZ; Norfolk, Va.; London; and Baghdad. I love it but it is WAY less convenient and practical than driving.
Up-armored mountain bike
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I never heard of him but boy howdy would he fit right in to MAGA America. He was even apparently an incel:
Religion

As a young man, Schmitt was "a devoted Catholic until his break with the church in the mid twenties".[24] From around the end of World War I, he began to describe his Catholicism as "displaced" and "de-totalised".[25] N. S. Lyons claims that something in Schmitt's interior life seems to have begun to shift around 1914, when his diary entries started to hint at a crisis of faith. According to Lyons, it was his troubled relationships with women that estranged him from the Faith.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Flowbee home circumcision system
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I can’t get over the trees catching strays. The hell is he yammering about?
Piedmont Park, Atlanta
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Called it yesterday!
I bet Trump continues to claim it was vandals. He’s constantly contradicting his underlings when they are forced to admit facts.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Syracuse theatre graduate:
Sheldon Leonard in “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Aside from being a legendary and possibly mythical figure who lived before history, Grokdysseus is wearing 1st century CE Roman parade armor. Bronze-Age Achaean armor looked like this:
Several examples of Bronze-Age Greek armor.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
And that wasn’t even the best duck cartoon:
Queer Duck logo
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Oh, please. Donald Trump’s not IN the US military, either. From the DSA website front page
Bernie Sanders launched a political revolution and DSA continues to build it, training our chapters to effectively support democratic socialist candidates running for local and state office while lifting up our key issues. We’re also grappling with how to build independent political power to hold elected officials accountable to their constituents rather than the donor class.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Huh. I never heard of this and turns out I’ve always had it. Eyes are the same now as 60 years ago.
My eyes at 64My eyes at 6
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Nothing tops this
Flag of Strongbadia
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Approves:
Lafayette G. Pool, America’s top tank commander in WW2, nicknamed War Daddy.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Ah, dang, the lunatic fabulist is losing the Colorado Republican gubernatorial nomination. Hope there’s a runoff.
Colorado governor - Republican primary results
Barb Kirkmeyer 41.1%
Victor Marx 38.9%
Scott Bottoms 20%
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Well, shit. Had to put my cat to sleep.
Cat
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
1.5 miles through the Green Zone from my hooch over to where I worked next to the Parliament building. Really easy tbh, very little traffic except at one roundabout. Got waved through checkpoints. Saved me 15 minutes over linking up with my boss and riding in the armored SUV.
Up-armored mountain bike.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I’ll take it! britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...
73% Woke vs Chud
44% Techbro vs Nei-Luddite
69% Hopepilled vs Doomer
81% David vs Dubai

Closest Match Pope Leo XIV
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The coffee shop:
“Brooklyn Coffee Shop” sketch show. Caption: “We only have a non-binary bathroom so none of us here can use it.”
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Dried-apple stack cake. It’s an elaborate Appalachian recipe that I’ve made exactly once because as much as I love it, it’s too much work.
Appalachian stack cake.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Fixing up an old house is a lot of work and occasionally it gets discouraging, but then there are fun moments like this:
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I’m guessing she hasn’t actually been to a No Kings rally, because the US flag was all over the place.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Croquet with flamingos for mallets, hedgehogs for balls and servants dressed as playing cards for the hoops.
Alice in Wonderland holding a flamingo with her foot on a rolled-up hedgehog.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Peter Cook in “Bedazzled” (1967)
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We don't usually see each other's headers. Here's mine. Quote post with yours. Some years back with the Seed and Feed Marching Abominable.
Mike Billips — Actor, handyman, retired Navy officer and former newspaper reporter. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
At maturity, Man o' War stood 16.2 1⁄2 hands (66.5 inches, 169 cm), with prominent withers and a high croup, but was sometimes faulted for a dipped back that grew more pronounced with age. He had virtually flawless legs and solid bone, traits he passed on to his offspring. He had a slightly Roman nose and notably high head carriage.[9] His nickname was "Big Red", though his coat had tinges of yellow and gold. An energetic, spirited horse, he is often pictured standing very still and gazing off into the distance,[10] described as the "look of eagles".[11] His stride was measured at 28 feet and, to this day, is believed to still be the longest of all time.[12]u
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
For all the “Iran’s navy is supposed to not exist” posts, Iran’s shore-based antiship weapons are likely also controlled by their navy. Fun fact, the US Navy runs the anti-ballistic-missile bases in Romania and Poland and they look like this:
Naval Support Facility Deveselu, Romania, uses the superstructure of an Aegis destroyer to house its radars.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
30 comments in and no AITF?
All in the Family
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Pick a Bond villain from the pictures you already have on your phone
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Yup!
Kitty stretching on bed
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I had a cat like that. Chloe always ate from my wife’s plate. One Thanksgiving we fixed her her own plate of a little of everything and she polished it off and demanded seconds. On the second plate she ate everything but the turkey. Cat would fight you for a slice of bell pepper.
Chloe and Sebastian, dear departed kitties.
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Mike Billips @mbillips.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
As I suspected. The Advocate left out this bit: If he hadn’t granted her clemency she’d have spent months more time in prison serving an improper sentence length while they did the resentencing.
In April, a state appeals court upheld Peter’s’ 2024 conviction but ruled she should be resentenced, saying that the trial court judge who issued her nearly nine-year sentence improperly factored in her protected speech.
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