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SpottedTowhee

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Birder, former Firefighter. Citizen Scientist. Activist since the Civil Rights Era. #Haiku

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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Why bother keeping Pete Rose out of the Hall of Fame?
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is that the highest number of vehicles and fuel tanks?
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He's like a kapo in a concentation camp. The reprieve was only temporary.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Does he plan to send in ground troops? Or use nukes?
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Agatha Christie searches for clues.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Luck of the Bodkins by P. G. Wodehouse contains a memorable first sentence: " Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French."
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Men go to a funeral inside a church for crying out loud, and wear their ballcaps.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Once, I tweaked my knee trying to avoid stepping on my cat while not letting a mosquito get inside the screen door. Cats have a way of complicating things.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Those two guys flanking him don't even look like Patton or MacArthur.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It's a big cargo plane. What's it carrying? Gold? Contraband? Secret munitions?
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Yes, we have schools, but our slack jawed mouth breathing vacant eyed citizens weren't paying attention.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If some one enjoys people watching they can't be bored at the ballpark. Too many amusing antics going on in the stands. The food reminds me of a county fair. The walkup music is like a mini concert. What's not to like.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Let's hope they have waning of enthusiasm.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Yeah, I'm 78. I remember high school civics. Much of what I learned seems unknown to many citizens today, even people in government. Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama when asked to name the three branches of government completely overlooked the judiciary guessing "the president, senate, and congress
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Conrad Viedt who played the Nazi major was a German national that fled the Nazis in the 1930s. When asked about his performance he said he'd live among such men all his life, knew their arrogance, cruelty, and determination.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"Fat Nixon." Thanks for the big out loud chuckle this morning.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
End the Ukraine War on Day One.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Kinks Greatful Dead Dropkick Murphys
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Kinks Grateful Dead Dropkick Murphy
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Military bunkers do not need ballrooms.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Catch and release.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Keeping frogs and lizards off the finish.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My emotional support animal is a honey badger. It doesn't soothe my anxiety, just attacks any sources of irritation.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I go to 3-4 protests a week with a Veterans group. We see lots more support than in Feb. '25. There is increased support from Hispanics, truck drivers, contruction and sanitation workers, even CalFire. Only sporadic opposition is offered, invariably from white males in their thirties.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
None of those guys look like Patton or MacArthur.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Gausmann decamped from the SF Giants after they helped him get on track. That's business. Still, sorry for your loss.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I remember the joke going around Brooklyn after the Dodgers left for the West Coast: O'Malley, Hitler, and Stalin get on your elevator. Your gun has only two bullets. Who do you shoot? The answer: O'Malley, twice!
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
LA Dodgers meet the draft Dodger.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I use Bird.NET a lot. It helps me ID birds in the field that I never see.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Spain has a real King, not some wanna be.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Do the Russians have enough hard currency to buy the necessary trucks? They can offer oil at a cut rate. They must be careful, they do not want to become a supplicant or a client state of China.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Tell them to take Idaho with them.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
His wife reportly decamped to Taiwan.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Another impressive loss of automotive and fuel tanks. These cumulative losses complicate Russian logistics. How can they build enough replacements? In WWII the Soviets depended on American lend lease trucks, the famous deuce and a half.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Because it doesn't have any pictures.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Gozo is in the independent country of Malta.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Link won't let me read it.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Doesn't today mark the anniversary of Operation Barbarossa?
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
One of the pitchers at the middle of this controversy has a tatoo. Leviticus 19:28 says you should not get tatoos. Some say this does not apply to modern tatoos. I hate when people apply an ancient text to oppose gays, then explain away ancient texts that are inconvenient to themselves.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The starting pitcher at the middle of the controvery has a tatoo. Leviticus 19:28 says you shall not get tatoos. Some say this does apply to modern tatoos. I'm sick of people who use an ancient text against gays but explain away ancient texts that are inconvenient to themselves.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Buffalo Springfield, Wings Buffalo Wings I know, low hanging fruit.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I don't want to be paraded past starving skeletons like the townsfolk of Dachau. And pretend I never knew.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Like those puffy lipped clones at Mar-a-Lago.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Except for those puffy lipped clones at Mar-a-Lago.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Your comment is worth recommending more than once.
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The president did several odious things at the G7. This incident caused the Italian Foreign Minister to cancel a visit to the US next week. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
theguardian.com
Italy PM Meloni ‘stunned’ by Trump’s claims she begged him for a photo
US president provokes outrage as PM says he ‘totally invented’ story in interview with Italian media
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
As reported by The Guardian the president did other odious things. This prompted the Italian Foreign Minister cancel a visit to the US next week. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
theguardian.com
Italy PM Meloni ‘stunned’ by Trump’s claims she begged him for a photo
US president provokes outrage as PM says he ‘totally invented’ story in interview with Italian media
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Cannot like your post, but really appreciate your comment. I live in the States and sometimes I feel as you do. Other times I'm all "If you got a blacklist I want to be on it."
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SpottedTowhee @spottedtowhee.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
He looks sharp in a tan suit.
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