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Rusty Ring

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Zen hermit monk on the North Pacific coast. That which does not kill me, makes me kinder. #Buddhism #writing #history #radio #brasspounder #boats #bikes #Esperanto #français #español #music #movies #the70scalled #humour That last one isn't optional.

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Jim Robert @mollygrub.bsky.social · 13h
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Canuckstan 🇨🇦 @jonchevreau.bsky.social · 13h
#via Canadian cartoonist Dave Whamond #CanadaSky #USpol
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 6h
But power is telling us that these are luxuries. That we haven't earned. And we're buying it. (How's that for irony?)
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 6h
Here's to twice that again, Frank.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Geese Military birds. rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/10/gees... #aviation, #bird, #book, #GoldSide, #outbacking, #river, #Washington
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Geese
Military birds.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Speaking of self-declared geniuses who literally never learn.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bad, but completely expected. We got used to Trump the instant he won the primary. Bug in the human OS.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Indian summer dahlias Just the right colour for the season. rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/09/ww-i... #autumn, #flower, #photography, #WordlessWednesday
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WW: Indian summer dahlias
Just the right colour for the season.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Having been a convicted Christian for 40 years, I can attest to the utter precision of this statement. As a Zen hermit monk for the past 24 years, I can also attest to its complete application to Buddhism.
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seattle
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Disclaimer Sensitive readers may wish to look elsewhere. rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/09/disc... #100DaysontheMountain, #ango, #book, #Buddhism, #hermitpractice, #meditation, #photography, #the70s, #Zen
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
According to this data, there aren't even the wide margins we usually see. The whole nation is saying "Release."
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feminise a band name: Silly Witch. (Scottish folk music. Deal with it.)
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
N'SYNC'D Cycles I'll see myself out now
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I can see several faults in this argument. "Cranks rejected" by this administration. Uh-huh. And "doesn't exist in this country". Have you been asleep since 2015? We've had masked tax-paid thugs and federal troops in our streets this year. Everything exists here. Only question: will it happen now.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oh, I totally get it. I'm just pointing out that the thing was ridiculous from go. 185 votes is worth nothing on the national scale. No call for a witch hunt in the first place. Also, just so everyone remembers, the only recent times voter fraud was proved, it was the GOP doing it.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
185. All this hysteria was about 185 voters. Jesus Christ.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
C'mon, Anil. Do you expect employers to make their decisions based on qualifications alone?? Read all those c.v.s?? Weigh for and against for all candidates??? The applicant has less social status than the interviewer, duh! It's not the interviewer's job to do the interviewer's job.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don't know, but there's a pronounced inflection toward Republican sentiments among airline pilots. That does in fact suggest a marked lack of judgement.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seems like nobody remembers the first Muppet Movie today, which is tragic because it deserves to be counted in the same category as the DeMille epics and Citizen Kane. I was 18 when it came out, and my best friend and I went to see it something like 4 times.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jim who?
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Dr Philip Boyes @philipjboyes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This picture looks like a better timeline's version of the House of Lords.
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Will Heff @willheff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy 90th Birthday Jim Henson 💚
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of the truly influential people in my past.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Half moon over the pond Not bad for handheld. rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/09/ww-h... #lake, #moon, #photography, #WordlessWednesday
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Not bad for handheld.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In fact, Canada has slavishly followed recent American fashion in immigration policy, adapting our own system to mimic theirs. We should go back to what we were doing pre-MAGA. (Family reunification, skills recruitment, etc.) That was working.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Remember when we thought Khrushchev was outrageous at the UN? Seems pretty mild now.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In other news, DOJ publicly recognises that people speak, and may even read, other languages. MAGA calls for investigation of possible Communist infiltration in the department.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's what they're doing instead that worries me.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I was already tired of him when the media started smashing him into our faces in the 80s.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Because he thinks like a toddler. Why the rest of us can't seem to understand that, is a deeper mystery.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Tear it down in broad daylight
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Suchness Haiku Things as they are. rustyring.blogspot.com/2026/09/such... #Buddha, #haiku, #Issa, #Japan, #poem, #tathata, #Zen
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Suchness Haiku
Things as they are.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This guy has no idea what AI is. None of his proposed adjectives apply.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Should've started in Canada from Day 1. Just like the EU sites its major instances in non-dominant countries. (Exception: Strasbourg, invaded and counter-invaded by two neighbouring powers for centuries. Symbolic.)
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The more tariffs the better. We (Canada) need to pull out of the American sphere as far as humanly possible.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
He's also just a nice guy. We all remember him from school - self-effacing, on the smart side but not a prick, prone to a silly grin when embarrassed. Donald Trump never matured to the level of that Grade 5er.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
2026 and the National Post is still headlining Conrad Black's latest pout. For a second there I thought I'd awakened in 1992.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh, it's a conspiracy, alright. It was Canadian nationalists who did it. You go, PM!
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Depends on the family. If it's as dysfunctional as American society, the answer is never.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Also, it's not just about Trump. Trump was installed, returned, and maintained by millions of Americans, including virtually all of the robber baron class. Economic distance from the US was standard policy for the first 120 years of our history. Now we understand the wisdom of that.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You know thousands of Americans are reading this post and saying, "Yeah? So?", right?
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sadly, yes. His supporters by and large still worship him.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Also, the alleged "trade bloc" they're talking about was disastrous for Canada. As it was intended to be.
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Rusty Ring @rusty-ring.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Goddam Cardassians, amirite?
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