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Hoarse Whisperer

@therealhoarse.bsky.social
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Father, writer, photographer, drinker of Guinness.

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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wasn’t planning on stopping by one of my favorite places but it was on the way and the weather was just so effing spectacular, how could I not? As perfect an early fall day as you will ever find. Blue sky. Crisp autumn air. Bald eagles having a conversation across the water. Perfect.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Weekly tradition time: finding a glimmer no matter the gloom. Tell me something good. What good thing happened in your life this week? Saw the lights come up on Broadway or caught a sunset over Gotham, both work. Just something good.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Find someone who loves you as much as I loved this burrito.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ugh. New Jersey is so ugly. How does anyone live here. Just look at all of this… nature and stuff.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mitch McConnell has not yet returned to Congress. In his defense, it takes longer when the ground is really dry.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Friday tradition time: ending the week with some light no matter how dark the days. Tell me something good. What good thing happened in your life this week? Minute or momentous, size doesn’t matter. Just something good.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Look at this pretty little skipper in the first light of day. They’re called ‘skippers,’ ya know, these little big-eyed butterflies. Or so I’m told.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Encountered this handsome little scamp on the road today. Not terribly friendly. Didn’t seem to enjoy being petted AT ALL. 
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Caught this busy little bee bustling about the goldenrod today. The fields are so pretty right now. Hard to stay inside when life is so beautiful outside.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
While John Fetterman may be considering switching parties, I don’t think he has given enough consideration to a viable third option: Going and fucking himself.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The only other broad-winged hawk I saw close enough for pics…
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Y’all, look at this pretty little one. That’s a broad-shouldered hawk. They are hella good at the whole flying thing. This time of year, they gather up before winging their way to South America for winter. I’ve only seen one close enough to get a picture one other time, so this was a treat.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
So, I’m minding my business at this lovely wildlife preserve when a grasshopper comes and lands on the fence post right next to me. At first, it was like “Oh, shit. What have I gotten myself into here. This is a VERY sheer climb.” 1/
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Bold move, rolling out the Alex P. Keaton look at 80.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My son has been at college for a week and texted me about Parents Weekend. Can someone teach me how to DJ? I only have a couple weeks.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Nobody tells you about how surreal it feels to come out of living in survival mode for years and get to just… exist.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Rise and shine, friends. It’s going to be a pretty one.
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OriginalWeirdo66 @vegasmaggie66.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My grandson's (that is him holding the trophy) local hockey team won their championship. He is 13, has ADHD and is on the Spectrum. It has been a lot to get here since he was diagnosed at 6. This is his first win at anything and I am so proud. It has been 4 days, I'm still crying.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How about we make this week’s edition of One Good Thing a really good one? Weekly tradition: finding the light no matter how dark the days. Tell me something good. What good thing happened in your life this week? Got out of a rut or found your groove, both work. Just something good.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Metaphor alert! Even happy face balloons are worn out these days.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have no idea what these flowers are, but aren’t they just the prettiest little things? It is like they have 1000 tiny little flowers in the center of one larger flower. I dunno man, that just seems really cool to me.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Now we’re un-eradicating diseases.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I miss shooting concerts. I really need to get back into that.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Two days until I drop this kid off at college. The aquarium days go by so fast.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I found this perfect little acorn today and was reminded of something I learned a few months ago that has stuck with me ever since. Healthy acorns don’t keep their caps. They only fall off to seed a new tree when they’ve outgrown them. What we see as ‘perfection’ is usually the opposite. 1/2
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
So, how was everybody’s weekend?
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
You’d never know there were four million people on the other side of that fog. New York City completely banked in by fog this morning.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Behold some flowers I’ve recently observed. As you will note, they are quite pretty.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Weekly tradition time: ending the week with some shared joy. Tell me something good. What good thing happened in your life this week? Caught a pretty sunset or lived to see the sun rise seven more times, both work. Just something good.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Sometimes when I feel sad, I like to watch vultures turning wheels in the sky to cheer myself up. “I bet they’re on their way to feast on my enemies,” I tell myself, and that usually makes me feel better.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It’s interesting, a lot of people think life would get easier or more affordable for families if aging boomers turned over their houses to younger owners. In my area (suburban NJ) the exact opposite is true. My town would be *fucked* if older residents were replaced by households w kids. 1/
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If this isn’t a canary in the coal mine re: the economy, I don’t know what is: Stopped by a Habitat for Humanity thrift store to ask about donating some furniture. Clerk told me they’ve been so inundated by people downsizing, the earliest they could pick up a donation is… December. Holy shit. 
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I didn’t even know cops had dirt bikes.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The bond market: He’s going to invade us? The Strait of Hormuz: You’ll be fine, believe me.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“I’m making hospitals maul children’s genitalia,” has to be first-ballot Sociopath Hall of Fame material.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
So, I have a very specific question for parents of college-age or older kids: Are there any parents out there who adored their kids, loved spending time with them, and wished their childhoods had gone slower… but *weren’t* plunged into some heavy loss/sadness/grief when they went away to school?
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Guys from company that makes exploding rockets totally sure they’d be better at nukes.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
When you are five days away from taking your child to college, there is truly nothing in the world better than waking up to a text that reads: “Hey, dad. You free today? Want to go fishing?” I was elbow-deep in some work. It can WAIT.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Here we see a wildlife scene as old as time The motion of the golf cart lofted the scent of a spray-tanned wet diaper into the air… The leopardess alerted and gave chase. Classic Animal Planet stuff.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you find yourself about to say how sorry you feel for a woman who gets paid six-figures to voluntarily obsess over and shamelessly promote with dishonest propaganda a notorious lying pedophile rapist who calls other women “piggy,” don’t.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“Tariffs don’t affect Americans!!!” —Donald J. Trump, genius “I’m going to lower the price Americans are paying for this one product by getting rid of the tariffs on it!” —Also Donald J. Trump, genius
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I, for one, am shocked one of Elon Musk’s dipshitted overpromises went nowhere.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
What a freakshow.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Breaking: Administration unable to find proof of thing they just made up.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I would be more than willing to piss on a data center. They wouldn’t even have to pay me.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just to be clear, the United States Treasury is taking a narcissist’s approach to solving every problem they create: Manipulate their way out of the consequences while taking no responsibility for the damage or the actual problem.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
So lettuce is poisonous now and we can’t eat blueberries. What matters is that a guy who dances like he’s pullling a towel through his ears is getting a new ballroom.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I have to say, getting a slew of incredibly dumb replies to a simple post about groceries and blocking a ton of dumdums… It feels like old times. It’s good to be back.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Stopped at the grocery store and bought peanut butter and jelly, a loaf of bread, two cans of tuna, and mayo. Thirty dollars. This shit is insane. 
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
People are all worked up about Trump’s White House ballroom. Guys, relax. The man built the Taj Mahal, for God’s sake.
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