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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 1h

That track is a regular on my exercise playlist.

Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 1h

A very small thing. The river below, which tends to the shy side of life in summer, almost entirely obscured by lush green, is once again twinkly in the afternoon sun.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 1h

Generally the domain of one person and select guests.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 4h

I would think so. Though, thankfully, it was not an unannounced visit and there was time enough to put away the genuinely embarrassing stuff.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 5h

Beauty comes in a great number of forms. Would be foolish to be embarrassed by celebrating it.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 5h

That slightly awkward, though nevertheless amusing moment, when the house painter, called in to give an estimate for the hard to reach high ceiling of the staircase, asks to see the rest of the upstairs. Changing rooms are supposed to be in various states of undress.

The smaller one on the far wall is, in fact, autographed and addressed to my wife, so please do understand this is decorated with mutual enthusiasm.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 8h

Which is, of course, not a reflection on any individuals, but as a collective.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 16h

“How easily happiness begins by dicing onions.”

This is the best domestic perfume.
You sit down to eat with a rumor of onions still on your twice-washed hands and lift to your mouth a hint
of a story about loam and usual endurance. It's there when you clean up and rinse the wine glasses and make a joke, and you leave the minutest whiff of it on the light switch, later, when you climb the stairs.

Some parts of life have yet to be painted over.

But they will.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 17h

Happy Thanksgiving. Keep doing your thing.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 18h

They are kind enough to be fond of grouping in one convenient location.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 18h

We might need to distinguish here between wants and needs. I enjoy the atmosphere. Whereas my wife might freeze to death on an otherwise please late August evening.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 19h

He runs and eats and naps. It is still a good life.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 19h

Butts to the stove season.

Two humans and a rabbit seek warmth on one particular evening.

A red rug on the left to aid those who may or may not have both arthritis and really adorable fluffy yet slippery feet.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 22h

One of these days I’ll start listening to the birds all around me, instead of straining to hear the other shoe drop. But I’m getting there. And cheers.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 23h

Beauty by happenstance. Let’s roll with that.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 23h

You had a three in four chance there. The odds were not in your favor.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 23h

"Astral blue of old mountains, ridge after rising ridge Blurring the western horizon just after the sun goes down"

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 23h

Ha. Not quite the sound of Westley's Ultimate Suffering, but perhaps close.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 23h

Lego comes with its own challenge of trying not so scream at four in the morning, as to not wake up the adorable yet guilty young architects.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I would not, unfortunately, put much stock in either.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If anyone were looking for some clumsy Be Here Now metaphors in life, the perils of looking too far off into the distance, can confirm that shit hurts.

Still the season for barefoot in the afternoon sun.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My hope is for a 101 win season filled with single-entry doubleheader sweeps and one dollar extra large crinkle cut fries from Nathan’s. My expectation is a 68 win season and a botched first round pick on a can’t-miss prospect.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There has to be a reckoning one day. There just has to.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not quite reaching a tipping point into conversations.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

To the two-thirds of life still yet to be lived. Happy Birthday.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thank you kindly. Sir Bun is “an unforgetting witness to every one of our acts.”

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That sounds like a wonderful way to spend the day.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m going to have to do the same.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An otherwise sunny morning. All blue sky and warm sun.

An elderly rabbit, with three water bowls to choose from.

Some years ago my wife and I stayed at the large hotel which dominates the base of Rusutsu in Hokkaido. This was before we knew where else to go.
It was the holiday season and crowded. The main dining halls were full and so the convention halls, with their straight-back meeting room chairs, were opened to handle the overflow.
The food was perfectly fine. Everyone friendly enough. All-you-can-eat dessert, those chocolate fountains, you know the sort. But families of four sat at tables for twenty. So conversations did not drift up and get lost in the high ceilings, people whispered. It was an honest effort, circumstances given, but nobody lingered.
Not unlike this clumsy metaphor for BlueSky, the only platform I've used for two years. Filled with honest efforts and good individuals and yet I can't shake the feeling that it's a lonely space, not for lack of trying.
I wish I felt otherwise. Surely a few others must feel similarly.
Here's a rabbit to balance the look-at-me gibberish.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Perhaps not a bad opportunity to revisit other classics in the genre.

Jesse Ventura pontificates about 9/11. An orca, demonstrating its intellect, reacts accordingly. Stugotz does Stugotz things.

It was a simpler time.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ahh. This is now the inaugural podcast on my apple podcast app, complete with a handy transcript, though I do like your speaking voice so it's not a necessary thing.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There are moments, however fleeting, that make me question everything I have ever done, am doing, and will do, for however many years I have left. Such as waking up to this movie recommendation from my brother. All that ails, and heals, still rolls on. youtu.be/S_LJ2GVttdk?...

youtu.be

North of the Sun Trailer

YouTube video by Film Festival Flix

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I would watch the Netflix special "The Wilds of Suginami-Ku."

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In the next life I'd like to give obscene wealth a spin. Compare and contrast. Take notes. But apart from that, yes.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If not the draft then something else.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Drafty. Hot in summer. Cold in winter. Insects. Other inconveniences. But, hey, that's most of them anyway. So perhaps you wouldn't mind so much. A small house in Nakano, near Shinjuku. www.realtokyoestate.co.jp/estate.php?n...

A typical scene from a typical home on a typical corner in Tokyo.

Sliding doors and windows and, yes, they would like rattle. But that is life.

One of those small houses on a corner you sometimes see. Occasionally there is a woman in her late 80s shuffling out front and you wonder if she is alone or if there are others who comfort her, and her to them.

The layout to a small home in Ochiai, where Nakano and Shinjuku.

But this is the great loneliness that is BlueSky, and the Alt-Text at that, so I could so anything here, without consequence and nobody would ever know. Just like all the other things I say in everyday life.

Saying all the words so you are left all alone with whatever is left, to borrow a line.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Their cover of "The Only Living Boy in New York" belongs on one of those Great Cover lists. That said. If you were to look for it on Spotify you might find it listed under a more disturbing and alienating alternate title.

Tom is, understandably, flying down to Mexico to cure himself of the great loneliness and isolation that has become life in New York.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Four Thousand Weeks"* For something that is likely in the self-help section, full of sentences worth remembering. *because that's how much time we have, if things go well

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Perhaps some bear spray anyway. The Yamanote Line late at night can get a bit rough.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Also of note, from the "How Kumamap reviews every bear sighting page." "This matters because the real crisis is severe... When the majority of bear content online is fabricated, it becomes harder to know what’s actually happening.

The Homer Simpson eats Guatemalan Insanity Pepper background should give this one away as fake, but others are, indeed, harder to discern.

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Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Because the Sunday news carried a segment on recent bear encounters in Nikko, I've been spending time on the delightful website Kumamap, which tracks sightings. Putting aside the three pins on the map within 100 meters from home, I'm most interested in the budding cryptozoology field in Wakayama.

As might be expected, there is no photograph, not even a grainy one, out of focus and at a distance, of the "bear-like animal" in Wakayama, and thus the website is forced to rely on the more salacious use of vicious claw prints instead.

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