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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

#readandplay (426) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶 With that in mind, please welcome @savemeaseat.bsky.social & friends as your new hosts for ReadAndPlay beginning tomorrow. Love you all & will see ya around for other challenges in Sept.

"What we call a new beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
T.S. Eliot

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

#readandplay (425) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

"Golden bridge, silver bridge or diamond bridge; it doesn't matter! As long as the bridge takes you across the other side, it is a good bridge!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

#readandplay (424) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

#readandplay (423) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
TODAY

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

#readandplay (422) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

"I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake."
- Mitch Hedberg

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

#readandplay (421) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

#readandplay (420) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

Is marijuana
addictive?
Yes, in the sense that most of the best things in life are worth endlessly repeating.
Richard Neville

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

#readandplay (419) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶 Sorry it’s so early- mistakenly told a friend I’d take them to the airport today. Send coffee!

Some changes happen deep down inside of you.
And the truth is, only you know about them.
Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.
TIGER EYES
BY JUDY BLUME

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

#readandplay (418) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel T. Coleridge

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

#readandplay (416) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.
Dalai Lama

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I think he had a blast and I know I did! Enjoy your Sunday, Dino!

A toddler stuffing their face with cake.

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

#readandplay (414) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

Be still! Be quiet! Find acquaintance with silence. Go inside, delve into your heart.
Take a day off from the clamour.
Rumi

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

One of these cool cats is celebrating turning 1 today. The other is me. Happy birthday, Caden! Here’s to many, many, many more.

A man in glasses and a ball cap and a toddler in a black shirt.

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

#readandplay (412) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

IF YOU WANT TO BE A TRUE PROFESSIONAL, YOU WILL DO SOMETHING
OUTSIDE YOURSELF.
SOMETHING TO REPAIR
TEARS IN YOUR
COMMUNITY. SOMETHING TO MAKE LIFE A LITTLE
BETTER FOR PEOPLE
LESS FORTUNATE THAN
YOU. THAT'S WHAT I
THINK A MEANINGFUL LIFE IS - LIVING NOT FOR ONESELF, BUT FOR ONE'S COMMUNITY.
JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

#readandplay (410) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

"We may speak in different tongues
- but we are united by a universal language which we can all speak fluently if we only allow ourselves to open our heart to others...
We all speak the language of love."
- Ranata Suzuki

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#MusicChallenge #DetectiveSongs Day 15, Fingerprint. And a chance to post my favorite Animaniacs bit. Lights Band Of Horses “Swept up all the charcoal dust for the fingerprints.” open.spotify.com/track/6kAdz1...

6 panel Animaniacs cartoon featuring Wacko, Dot, and Prince

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

#readandplay (408) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
Plato

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Dammit. All I really wanted to do today was get high and motorboat. (If you’re following along, the first half of that was just a joke for effect).

Sign says:
IT IS AGAINST THE LAW TO OPERATE A DANGEROUS DEVICE, MOTOR VEHICLE, AIRCRAFT, OR MOTORBOAT WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MARIJUANA

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

#readandplay (406) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

"A woman whose mood improves with a book, a poem, a song or a cup of coffee is not defeated by anyone; even life loses with her."
Khalil Gibran.

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

#readandplay (404) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

"WHAT A WASTE MY
LIFE WOULD BE
WITHOUT ALL THE
BEAUTIFUL MISTAKES
I'VE MADE."
-Alice Bagg

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

#readandplay (402) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

#readandplay (400) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

"As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way."
—MARY ANNE RADMACHER

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

😂🤣😂🤣 I can’t with my daughter.

Homemade American flag t-shirts with “we have old navy” at home in text below them.

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I’m sure he’ll say “hello, Richard!” When he gets up from his latest nap.

The top of a dogs head and his orange collar

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Meet Gus, who I am sure will be called Gus Gus. He needed a new home and I happened to have one! Welcome aboard the crazy train, buddy.

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

#readandplay (398) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

Do no harm, but take no shit.
Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

On Wednesdays we drive to Missouri to eat chilaquiles

Beans, rice, eggs, tortilla chips, and green sauce on a red plate

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

#readandplay (396) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

Even the day's last sliver of light must submit to darkness.
But it also holds the fierce will of the sun to rise once more.
Angie Weiland-Crosby

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

#readandplay (394) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

Human behavior flows from three main sources:
desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

#readandplay (392) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

• "What really knocks me

out is a book that, when

you're all done reading

it, you wish the author

that wrote it was a

terrific friend of yours

and you could call him

up on the phone whenever

you felt like it. That

doesn't happen much,
though."

- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Well played, Spotify. Well played, indeed.

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Arkansas lawmakers (probably): “How do we make weed less safe, expose more people to laced drugs, decrease our revenue, add more burden to our medical & law enforcement staff, and discourage tourism?” Genius across the table (probably): “oh, I have an idea!” 🤡 state in a 🤡 country.

Poster announcing the Banking of legal thc products in Arkansas.

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

#readandplay (390) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

His one sorrow was not solitude, it was that other gulls refused to believe the glory of flight that awaited them; they refused to open their eyes and see.
RICHARD BACH,
JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

#readandplay (388) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

“Butterflies are not insects…
They are self-propelled flowers”
Robert A Heinlein

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

#readandplay (386) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

The sea was our main entertainment. When company came, we set them before it on rugs, with thermoses and sandwiches and colored umbrellas, as if the water - blue, green, gray, navy or silver as it might be - were enough to watch.
Sylvia Plath

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

#MusicChallenge #ArtistFave90s 22 June Today is my out-of-order day. As of tomorrow, I will have had this tattoo for 15 years as I got it to celebrate being clean for 1 year. Muzzle is actually my #3 fave song, but I’m improvising. open.spotify.com/track/583Inh...

Tattoo on a bicep (don’t laugh)
Blessed
Cursed
Won

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.

Customer: orders literally anything
Line cooks: you gotta be
FUCKIN KIDDING ME

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

#readandplay (384) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶 Note to self:

NEVER ARGUE WITH A FOOL.
ONLOOKERS MAY NOT ABLE TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE.
• MARK TWAIN

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

#readandplay (382) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the
shadow of my sword. But shadows also come
from trees and living beings.
Do you want to strip the earth of all trees
and living things just because
of your fantasy of enjoying naked light?
You're stupid.

The Master and Margarita
- Mikhail Bulgakov my own true north

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

#readandplay (380) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶 🚨NSFW🚨

"Before we go any further tonight, I'd like to thank you all for coming. Or however you reacted."
-Martin Mull

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

#NoKings Got to scoot over to the rally in what is for all intents & purposes a ruby red county in rural north Arkansas. First two pics are We the People. Last pic is they the suckers. I’m not good at math but I’d say ≈200 to ≈13 is pretty great! (Wish I could’ve caught the flag ratio).

A crowd on a sidewalk holding signs and banners for democracy

10 people standing across a street with Trump and other flags

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

#readandplay (378) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶 🚨 Alert! On Monday (380) the quote will be NSFW but (hopefully) not offensive. 🚨

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Kitchen people are my people.

White board with
We’re Out Of
*Sanity
*Love, so lost w/o you
*Tony’s
*Dill

Written on it.

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

#readandplay (376) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

A spiders web is stronger than it looks.
Although it is made of thin, delicate strands, the web is not easily broken.
- E.B. White -

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Pops Back In @pops1971.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

#readandplay (374) #MusicChallenge “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play 🎶

i gathered my habits and started releasing the ones that can never lead me to lasting freedom and joy
YUNG PUEBLO

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