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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In a time when antisemitism is increasing on the far left and the mainstream right, and when Islamophobia is at a fever pitch in the US and the UK, Bonnie Kristian keeps an eye on what's really important: Defending white evangelicalism.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“Mr. President, a second big, burly firefighter is dragging Donald Trump to safety …”

The famous/infamous photo of George W Bush learning about the second plane

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

If you come to the Big Box needing sand for a sandbox, I will point you to our bags of fine, white, washed playground sand for your tykes to play in. If the sand is for a sandpit, I will send you to the concrete aisle for the dingier, cheaper yellow stuff to cushion your long-jumpers' landings.

A bag of "Washed Play Sand" marketed for use in sand boxes, not sand pits. This company seriously needs a thicker grade of plastic for their bags.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Post old memes to confuse young people

Anti-Goldwater button from 1964 reading “in your GUTS you know he’s NUTS,” a play on Goldwater’s slogan/dogwhistle “In your heart, you know he’s right.”

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

KYW slapped the play button for their blizzard forecast right on top of our house.

Screen shot of a Philadelphia-area weather forecast map with the little press-to-play-video-arrow appearing just east of Coatesville and covering most of Chester County. The arrow (and my neighborhood) sits in a dark purple band on the map where they are predicting 8-12 inches of snow.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Not the first robin of spring, since it’s still 25 degrees in February, but I still choose to view this impressively fluffy visitor as a portent of better days ahead.

An almost round orange-breasted robin poses among the yellow berries of a holly tree.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

This incident was horrible, but observe the reactions from the women on the left in this photo from the AP's Steven Garcia.

A security guard tackles a MAGA terrorist seconds after he sprayed something foul and possibly toxic at the American congressional Rep. Ilhan Omar at a town-hall meeting with constituents. Omar is rushing AT her attacker, ready to throw hands.

Rep. Ilhan Omar rushes at her attacker, prepping a left jab to set up a widow-maker roundhouse with her right that would've left her assailant looking like Jake Paul. Behind her two women react, one recoiling from the shock and smell of the attack, the other with a formidable look of ice-hot indignant incredulity that conveys something like "Oh, you did NOT just do that ..."

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The bare brick wall makes a good visual allusion to the bare cinderblock wall on Marshall Street that marks another Philadelphia site where women were enslaved 200 years later. (This is the former site of Gary Heidnik's house.)

A gray cinder block wall stands between two decrepit row homes at the site of serial killer Gary M. Heidnik's row home in North Philly. Everything Heidnik did was legal in much of America prior to 1865.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

N.B.: "Pastor Easterwood" is another one for my Real Dickensian Names collection. And here is the only previous thing I've posted about Philip Yancey.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

It's just hard to know whether to go with "We got a brand new dance it's called the Bird" or, like "All seven and we'll watch them fall. They stand in the way of love and we will smoke them all." These pics just take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This picture from Billy Graham's 95th birthday explains so much about 21st-century America.

An aged Billy Graham has been placed in a chair. His grandson sits next to him on one side, Rupert Murdoch on the other. Also present are Sarah Palin and her husband. Some lady from Fox News, Donald Trump, and four people I don't recognize, but who didn't mind having their picture taken along with Murdoch, Palin, and Trump, so.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Me, listening to the new Amy Grant song.

Leo DiCaprio in "One Battle After Another," but instead of reciting Gil Scott-Heron he's reciting the lyrics to the early CCM Amy Grant deep cut "Great Grape Joy."

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Folks, I don't like to be a stickler, but the costumes in this ODYSSEY adaptation do not strike me as historically accurate either.

Harold and Kumar are delayed on their journey to White Castle.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

All people means ALL people. (Anybody who says different and wants to make exceptions to that ALL people is invited to take that up with the angel of the Lord, but just be warned the response you'll get won't start with "Fear not.")

The text of Luke 2:8-10 -- the Linus bit from Luke's Nativity -- is overlaid on a picture of two shepherds abiding in a field, keeping watch over their flock. The two shepherds are Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhall, in a scene from Ang Lee's 2005 film "Brokeback Mountain," two characters representing some of the "all people" that some people seem to want to exclude from "great joy to all people," an exclusion not permitted by the text, which reads: "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, "Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to ALL PEOPLE."

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Been a banner week for odious white guys sitting awkwardly in front of blue walls while saying dumb things.

Pete Hegseth sits awkwardly in front of a blue wall while saying dumb things.

Joe Lonsdale sits awkwardly in front of a blue wall while saying dumb things.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp sits awkwardly in front of a blue wall while saying dumb things.

Scott Bessent sits awkwardly in front of a blue wall while saying dumb things.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Their humans had a sign with a picture of a butterfly that said “THE ONLY ORANGE MONARCH ALLOWED.” (West Chester, Pa. No Kings.)

Two dogs at the No Kings protest rally wearing monarch butterfly wings. They’re good dogs.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Is Ask An Entomologist on here yet? Wondering who this is crawling around in my pachysandra.

Some kind of wasp, maybe? Reddish/maroon head and body with yellowish tail.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Packing out pots in the garden center overnight and it’s making me hungry and the noodle place will not be open when I get off work at 6 am.

Boxes for noodles from Vietnam or maybe Thailand were repurposed as packing material for these pots.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

A very small toad on our front porch welcome mat. He is welcome.

My index finger, included for scale, appears huge as the very small toad is roughly the size of a fingernail.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The good news, such as it is, is that the hole in our roof is directly above the bathtub, so when it rains the water is somewhat contained.

Waterlogged insulation from the attic sags through a hole in the drywall ceiling above our bathtub.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Play Pharaoh games, win Pharaoh prizes.

Archer meme reading: "Do you WANT plagues? Because that's how you get plagues."

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Peonies have been in a holding pattern for like a week now. The deer will eat them as soon as they bloom, but I’m still hoping to catch a glimpse of actual flowers before that happens.

Tight green balls at the ends of stalks look like they’re ready to burst into peonies any day now, but they’ve looked like that for nearly a whole week.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

About 15 feet from where I’m sitting on the porch.

One of the neighborhood rabbits, who seems pleased that I haven’t yet gotten around to mowing my lawn yet.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Plenty of precedent for treating these thugs as lawless kidnappers and charging them as such.

Poster from Fugitive Slave Act-era announcing emergency community meeting to address the ICE-equivalent kidnappers of that time: "A Man Kidnapped! A public meeting at Faneuil Hall! ... Virginia Kidnapper!"

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

These little guys were not there yesterday!

Tiny little shoots appearing in the flower bed!

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Sometimes you gotta stick with the classics.

The "In This House, We Believe ..." sign, but with every line just repeating "Nazi Punks Fuck Off."

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

It was good to hear this affirmed today from, among others, Steve Chalke, Bryan Stevenson, and Hillary Clinton.

Picture of Peggy Campolo with the caption "PEGGY WAS RIGHT." Because she was (is).

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Trump Administration Day One: A dozen eggs cost $6.70.

Price tag on shelf for a dozen jumbo eggs. They cost $6.70 on January 21, 2025.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

CharisMAGA whackadoodle Jonathan Cahn smashes an altar of Ishtar at a Christian Rally for Trump in Washington. Where did he find an altar of Ishar? He made one. This is how they do. They spend their time and money building symbolic objects they can then smash apart while cheering one another.

Jonathan Cahn, wearing a black jumpsuit under what appears to be a Messianic Jewish cape, smashes an "altar of Ishtar" he had build just for the smashing. The "altar of Ishtar" looks a bit like the Stonehenge set from Spinal Tap.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Suspect that this has something to do with the scraping noise I was hearing coming back from the supermarket yesterday.

A sexy, stylish 2008 Yaris is parked in a driveway and its passenger-side rear right wheel is tilted at a Very Not Good angle.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

“Shrinkflation” is annoying on its own, but when you switch from selling 44 packets to only 40 — but still tell everybody they’re getting 44 — that ain’t shrinkflation, that’s just fraud.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

This guy is out here proud to be the Manfred ghost runner they put on second base to start extra innings.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

Noting the uncertain etymology of the name, this baby-naming site says: "Orenthal is a name that your little one can make their own. It may even foster a love of nature and all living things."

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

The pretty good store brand “Dr. Bob” has me wondering what names they give the Dr. Pepper knock-offs in other places.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Glad tidings of great joy to all people. All. People. All.

The angel's message to the shepherds from Luke's gospel written on a picture of Jake and Ennis, the shepherds from Brokeback Mountain.

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