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@paghetti.bsky.social
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former DoD civilian; language geek; blogger (pajheil.blogspot.com) about: Urban legends about Jews; Mendel Beilis blood libel trial; knitting; Biblical Hebrew and Classical Greek don't work the way you think. Card-carrying troublemaker and bitch.

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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How I arrived on Bluesky
Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner playing on the beach
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@support.bsky.team third time. Wtf is going on that I can't read notifications on the app only on the website? P.s. the previous two notifications have not shown up either
Third time the app has failed to display a notification
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@support.bsky.team
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@support.bsky.team notifications on the app won't show me that message, I can only see it on the website
App notifications on my phone will not show me that message though I can see it on the website
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Cornell 7 rapists
Faces of the 7 Cornell rapists
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How about contacting anybody that you know is in town and having them get involved in this TONIGHT Friday 9/18 630-8pm
Hands Around the Kennedy Center event Friday sept. 18, 630-8pm
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@georgetakei.bsky.social there's an H to the right of the S
Correct photo showing the word is past tense. Somebody (probably Natalie) made this for him to drool over
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
heh heh. heh.
Washington Commanders logo. BRING ON DALLAS
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
GasBuddy just now
Gasbuddy for Pennsylvania gas stations   shows the cheapest is more than twice what McCormick is saying
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
and will be for some time. from WTOP
weather radar showing the storms in the DMV at seven fourteen pm August 2
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
when India knows you're facing famine, you're in trouble
Post on X showing that India knows Russia faces famine
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
if you liked music by at least three of these groups you may be a boomer (apologies to Jeff Foxworthy)
1969 groups lineup at Laurel Maryland racetrack presages Woodstock
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
@wtopnews.bsky.social on the weather page
Banner on radio station weather page has a typo. notifying them.
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
OMFG they are converging on DC cc @bradmossesq.bsky.social @realclaudetaylor.bsky.social
Screenshot from Tornado HQ shows storm centers converging on DC
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
or drinking.
The "koolaid" meme refers to Tom Wolfe's book Electric Koolaid Acid Test about LSD
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I bought this at Historical Emporium on a whim and it saved my life after the 2012 derecho cut power for 22 hours. Useful now too
Reproduction Victorian hand fan is a comfort in the heat wave
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Raccoon raided a liquor store and...
The famous drunk raccoon splooted in the bathroom at a liquor store
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
December 1973 taken by Marty Lederhandler for AP News
gas lines in the U.S. in 1973 during the energy crisis. by Marty Lederhandler for AP News
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I probably don't follow most of the people who are posting these but this one came up on Facebook
the empty Great State Fair venue under sunny skies with puffy fair weather clouds.
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
but he'd be fine with this cc @jeffsharlet.bsky.social
Image from Handmaid's Tale as comparison with bourkas
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
1.84 euros is $2.14USD
Some European fuel prices, gasoline and diesel. The UK's 1.84 euros is equivalent to $2.14USD
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Uh I believe she makes #6. That's her in the upper left of this image
The first five artists to withdraw from Trump's "National Fair"
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
he wants to go after the ZERO proven oil reserves in a Greenland that actually looks like this
Greenland with its nearly 90% ice coverage
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
the real Greenland
Screen capture showing that 90% or better of Greenland is ice covered
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
here's a copy, pass it along
trump as jesus post which he took down after MAGA dragged him. SHARE.
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
uhhh so tell me what this means?
iranian peace plan
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
yay I found it:
Cover art from Broadway version of My Fair Lady album showing George Bernard Shaw pulling Rex Harrison's strings, who is pulling Julie Andrews' strings
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
the list, is your country on it? remember Sweden also said no
List of nations who rejected Trump's call for help, Sweden announced a NO later
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I've been hearing my local robin(s) for weeks now
European robin to the left and American robin to the right
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
@hollybfletcher.bsky.social you too?
Holly tree covered with snow
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
My holly tree half an hour into the snow fall
Photo of a holly tree with snow on its leaves
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I had to post this because it all looks so different once the sun comes out.
Monday January 26, the big snow with the sun coming out
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
@bradmossesq.bsky.social @realclaudetaylor.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social 8 a.m. northeast of DC
The first 7 hours of snow northeast of DC in Maryland: up to the middle of the wheels on an SUV.
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
@annabower.bsky.social @bradmossesq.bsky.social @realclaudetaylor.bsky.social
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
My winter sock wardrobe. Cuts down on my coughing from asthma. cc @10rowsaday.bsky.social
14 pairs of socks in rainbow colors knit from Knitpicks Wool of the Andes worsted weight to keep my feet and ankles warm this winter
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
@bradmossesq.bsky.social black ice everywhere in the DMV and WTOP reporting wrecks everywhere
The light snow looks pretty but it's below freezing and there's black ice everywhere
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
How Meta is amplifying racist and divisive messages
Racist GOP disinformation amplified by Meta
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
@kylegriffin1.bsky.social @govwesmoore.bsky.social as usual, GOP calls anything rigged that has to do with elections and Democrats.
another GOP calls election processes rigged because Democrats are involved.
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
makes me think of Snoopy in his vulture pose
Snoopy in his vulture pose
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
cousin of the founder of antifa
Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman, cousin of the founder of antifa
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
the founder of antifa
Xena Warrior Princess as founder of antifa
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
@altspaceforce.altgov.info dihydrogen monoxide interacting with atmospheric humidity
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The ginger boi who followed my niece home under the Cat Distribution System. His name is Jameson after the whiskey that she and I both like.
Jameson the Washington State ginger boi who followed my niece home
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...
I'm going to roll up my sleeves and get to work
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
@onenerdsopinion.bsky.social This is Jameson. My niece says he and Fenrir, the younger dog, chase each other and Jameson sometimes jumps on Fen.
Jameson, the orange boi whom the Cat Distribution System awarded to my niece
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
@roguenasa.altgov.info no, their CEO just gives the orange felon a gold telephone...
Scene from The Godfather II where Michael Corleone passes along the golden telephone AT&T gave Batista in Cuba.
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
no sharpie involved....
graphic from NHC showing that Erin will not come ashore in the US as far as we know 5 days in advance
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I guess she's never seen a discontinuous contrail like the one in this photo. Ten minutes after I took it, another plane went through the field of view and had gaps in the same places.
Photo shows a discontinuous contrail caused by the plane moving through areas of differing humidity
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
This shows what I call a hyphenated contrail. Ask the chemtrail idiots how they explain this
Hyphenated contrail caused by the jet flying through regions with different humidity
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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
the blob from a classic horror movie
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