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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 24/09/2026

One glaring lie is their claim that people are abusing the ACA tax credit. Tax payers reconcile their tax credit when they file in April, via the 1095-A and 8962 forms. Nobody just skates along paying fraudulently low premiums. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...

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Trump Officials Eject 750,000 From Obamacare Markets, Claiming Fraud

Vice President JD Vance said the measure would save the government $2.2 billion.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 11/09/2026

Democrats should counter-offer $7000 for a veto proof majority. Republican pundits will carp “where’s this money going to come from?”

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 01/08/2026

“Police are treating the foot as suspicious…”

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 31/07/2026

(Continuing the Fred Ward theme) Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 19/07/2026

I know this is un-American, but I find this Final way more compelling than yesterday’s high scoring 3rd place match.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 12/07/2026

“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” - Clarence Darrow

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 06/07/2026

A month ago, right before the Maine primary, Graham Platner went to Washington to be grilled about his candidacy’s viability by other Dem Senators. They asked if there was the risk of more allegations from women. He assured them “No.” Whether he lied or simply didn’t know is equally damning.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 30/06/2026

It’s super easy to guess (without even looking) which SCOTUS justices voted against birthright citizenship in Trump v Barbara. It’s gobsmacking it wasn’t 9-0.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 16/06/2026

Tales from Next Door, the world’s most annoying app. #nextdoor We took advantage of Memorial Day sales to buy a new TV. I wanted to upgrade to a 4K. Our old TV totally worked, but is old and doesn’t have much resale value, so we decided to put it out for our Recycling Bulky Items day. /1

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 06/06/2026

The kid from “Lonely Boy” should hang out with the kid from “Seasons in the Sun”. #at40

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 05/06/2026

Bummer that the Graham Platner campaign is imploding in the worst way possible because I really wanted to get one of those Maine Bicentennial “Dirigo” logo t-shirts he sports.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 28/05/2026

This one ate almost every quarter I earned in high school. Later in my career, I was thrilled to work on a rom-based browser port for Shockwave.com.

Classic arcade game Robotron 2084’s title screen.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 30/04/2026

I don’t buy the “Graham Platner will just be a Fetterman” online hand-waving. He seems to be a lifetime, truly left of center guy. But my concern is he may have more skeletons in his closet. He’s had foot-in-mouth issues just a couple weeks ago using a slur (while talking about the tattoo no less).

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 05/04/2026

Dispatch from Mossbirn, NZ: I don’t know what’s going on with this roadside sign. I don’t know if I want to know. But I’m grateful they didn’t spell “You” as “Ewe.”

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 05/03/2026

Trump literally appointed Noem to be an Agent of SHEILD.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 23/02/2026

The USA Gold in Men’s Hockey reminded me of a flight we took from Boston to Barbados. It was a vacation flight; everyone was hammered. The airline knew the route though, so the in-flight movie was “Miracle.” At the end, all the passengers were crying and hugging “GAWD, THAT WAS WICKED EMOTIONAL!”

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 15/02/2026

David Byrne’s cover of Olivia Rodrigo’s “drivers license” is about 10x better than it has any right to be. And yes, I acknowledge I am in the core GenX, alt-dad demographic targeted by this release. youtu.be/LmeeH2c6Xfo?...

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David Byrne - drivers license (Official Audio)

YouTube video by David Byrne

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 11/02/2026

Two guys in front of me in the coffee shop. The conversation was along the lines of “yeah, we just inked our Series A which gives us a run to summer. No talking B round yet, but if we get $12M revenue, we’ll see…” Unremarkable other than that they seemed like fetuses to me. Where’s my Geritol?

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 09/02/2026

Post a banger not in English. (This cheats with a little English, but I appeal to the judges for dispensation) youtu.be/kgB9aXhogLA?...

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Jacqueline Taïeb - 7 heures du matin (1967)

YouTube video by Nostalgies 60'-70'-80'

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 07/02/2026

The dog was an oddly agitated this morning. She jumped right out bed and beelined it to the back door. I went to let her out and fortuitously glanced out the window before opening the door, because there in the middle of the backyard were two raccoons in flagrante delicto.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 04/02/2026

I occasionally pop onto Threads and was prompted to join their Community Notes system, so out of curiosity I did. After a little playing with it, I’m convinced that Community Notes itself is a cynical user engagement feature rather than any kind of a good faith moderation tool.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 17/01/2026

#AT40 I haven’t heard “Sister Mary Elephant” in decades, but this time I picked up the production detail of gating the “SHUT UP!” to make it sound like it’s blowing out the speakers, regardless of the volume.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 03/01/2026

#AT40 My college roommate’s sister played violin on “Le Freak” (and other Chic and Madonna songs, and more). It was always fun to see the platinum record on the wall of their family house in Maine.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 28/12/2025

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains. “Girlfriend” by Matthew Sweet pretty much cemented my musical taste for the next 35 years.

Cover art of the album “Girlfriend” by Matthew Sweet, featuring a photo from the 1950s of actress Tuesday Weld.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 18/10/2025

In an attic box somewhere, there’s a dusty cassette of my cousin and I’s attempts at “Mr Jaws” style humor…only with more fart jokes. #at40

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 09/10/2025

It seems like the Colorado Gay Conversion Therapist petitioner in the Supreme Court case yesterday is basically arguing that “Come on, we all know therapy doesn’t do anything, it’s just talking.”

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 03/10/2025

Democrats need to stop calling the ACA Tax Credit a “subsidy”. It’s a tax credit for regular Americans who buy their own insurance. Rolling back the tax credit is a huge middle class tax increase. Democrats should be punching Republicans hard on this every time they are in front of a camera.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 27/09/2025

I know that you aren’t supposed to respond to spammers but I was in a mood

First of two screen shots of a text conversation with a Spammer.

Transcript:

Spammer (from out of the blue): Like I said, I, ll keep my promise and see you in San Francisco.

Me: Ummm, OK

Spammer: We could go wine tasting in Napa Valley and play golf in Marin County.
What do you think?

Me: That would be tough because I'm serving a prison sentence right now. We could hook up after 2031

Spammer: When were you arrested, Lisa? But why were you able to use your cell phone?

Me: Oh, this isn't Lisa. My name is Shank.
I trade phone use for my cup o'soups from the commissary carts.

Second of two screen shots from text exchange with a spammer.

Transcript:

Spammer: I thought you were in jail?

Me: You also thought I was Lisa. Jail is short term. Prison is long stretches.

Spammer: No, I know you're not Lisa. I checked the number. I made a mistake. But how could you use a cell phone in prison?

Me: I told you. I trade phone use with another prisoner for my commissary stuff.

But if you want to visit when you're in California like you asked, you can visit me at Pelican Bay State Prison. It's a bit of a drive up north.

THE END

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 23/09/2025

It can only good happen.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 22/09/2025

It wouldn’t be entirely bad if Trump convinced enough followers to stop taking their baby aspirin.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 22/09/2025

My wife and I were sequestered with COVID this weekend, so we did some catching up on movies. So…”Superman” was supposed to be good? Because damn, that was a colossal chore to watch.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 20/09/2025

I cancelled Hulu/Disney+ because of the ABC Kimmel suspension, but noticed that I can still watch the last two episodes of “Alien Earth” before the end of the billing period. So I’m not exactly a Freedom Rider, but damn that show is good.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 09/09/2025

Real conversation today: Cardiologist: It’s great that you lost 20 pounds. How’d you do it? Me: Reduced caloric intake and increased exercise. Cardiologist: Wow, people still do it that way?

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 27/07/2025

Dang, this one hurts. Along with Mad Magazine, Tom Lehrer was a developmental cornerstone of my sense of humor. As a kid, it was revelatory to learn “wait, there are adults who see all this nonsense too?” /1 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 23/07/2025

@kenwhite.bsky.social sees the Candice Owens story, sighs, and dusts off his First Amendment explainers.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 21/07/2025

I guess it’s ime to be reminded that there IS a lot of evidence that the 2016 Trump campaign coordinated with Russian Intelligence on the release of hacked (stolen) DNC server documents and emails. www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/u...

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How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt (Published 2017)

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 19/07/2025

Rickie Lee Jones is one of those artists whose number of chart appearances don’t convey her awesomeness. #at40

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 15/07/2025

I opened up Wordle and got a “What’s new in Apple Game Center” pop up. I briefly thought I time-travelled back to 2007.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 27/06/2025

Workout Playlist Random Song of the Day (6/27/2025) The Happy Fits “Everything You Do” Not really random because it’s on heavy rotation. Probably gonna be my song of the summer. youtu.be/oKf11AW1RbM

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The Happy Fits - Everything You Do (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by The Happy Fits

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 13/06/2025

The Administration is simply reminding citizenry “You know, we control the military, right?”

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 12/04/2025

“Action” by Sweet is my song that blasts when I plug the phone into the car”, not “A-Punk” by Vampire Weekend. #at40

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 30/03/2025

Finally watched “Nosferatu” (2024). Watchable…but Coppola’s “Bram Stoker's Dracula” (1992) is still my fav. Although avoid the cable TV edit that cuts out Tom Waits’s Renfield.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 22/03/2025

This week is definitely an #at40 of “Songs that will be used as the centerpiece of movie soundtracks in the next century”

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 20/03/2025

This DOGE claim is bogus and the press coverage of it has been completely gullible, particularly if you know anything about how these database systems work. 🧵 /1 finance.yahoo.com/news/musks-s...

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Musk’s DOGE scrubs 3.2 million ‘dead’ names from Social Security database

Kashif Raza, CEO of Bitinning, suggests blockchain technology could prevent future record-keeping errors.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 19/03/2025

Workout Playlist Random Song of the Day. 03/19/2025 Guided by Voices, “Glad Girls” Because sometimes, you gotta go straight to the chorus. youtu.be/XZsi9uEOJLg?...

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Guided By Voices - Glad Girls

YouTube video by Radial by The Orchard

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 15/03/2025

Workout Playlist Random Song of the Day. 03/15/2025 Ides of March, “Vehicle” Because I remember a cover of this song by Blotto (of “I Wanna be a Lifeguard” novelty hit fame) at a live show in the 80s with a stellar guest horn section. youtu.be/xvnv34eS7n4?...

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Ides of March Vehicle

YouTube video by Cal Vid

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 13/03/2025

Uhg…our financial advisor called us yesterday. She was working down her client list, doing the obligatory “don’t panic” phone calls. Not an unusual event, but in the course of the conversation, it became apparent she’s way more Trumpy than we would have thought.

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Peter Glover @peterglover.com · 01/03/2025

“And you're a prima ballerina on a spring afternoon. Change on into the wolfman howlin' at the moon…” RIP David Johansen of the New York Dolls, who could literally bring the house down. Or at least collapse the roof of The Mercer Arts Center, NYC. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/a...

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David Johansen, Who Fronted the New York Dolls and More, Dies at 75

In the 1970s, he and the transgressive Dolls were proto-punk pioneers. He later refashioned himself as the pompadoured lounge lizard Buster Poindexter.

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