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This is how you “photo bomb.”
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mastodon 4.7.3Social awkwardness is often the curse of genius. - Raylan Givens
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Uh … holy shit. 😳
“What could possibly go wrong?” - The Resistance
RE: https://mastodon.social/@CakesOfPan/117339938879223905
Actually, this isn’t too far from truth at all over the course of the past few years of MAGAt bullshit.
#VeteransAgainsttRump#VoteVets
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Got back to the house, got out of the Edge, looked to my left and there was this mini-fall color explosion happening right here at my place.
#Autumn#NorthernWayOfLife
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Jack Smith is a badass; I don’t wanna say investigating the FOTUS was easy or anything but when you have prosecuting war crimes in your background, going after the FOTUS would definitely be in your wheelhouse.
#USpol
“Watching these Republicans trying to pin down Jack Smith with car salesmen tactics makes me feel giddy for Election Day.
We can end this cavalcade of arrogance and corruption, folks. Don’t you dare NOT vote.” - Bruce Lindner
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“Project Meridian”? Kegsbreath gets rid of more commanders with experience and appoints these morons? A more appropriate name would be “Project Clusterfuck.” 😳
#USpolhttps://thehill.com/policy/defense/6121108-pete-hegseth-pentagon-project-meridian-warfare-future/amp/
This is a first; usually, it’s Nubs in the bed and Gizmo has to figure a way to share. This time, Gizmo is in there but instead of trying to find a way to climb in, Nubs is like “Oh, fuck it” and does the best he can.
#CatsOfMastodon#CaturdayEveryday#NubsNGizmo
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Good heavens, I hope this is available in a hoodie. If not, I have my ways to make it so. 😉
#FuckFascism
I could be at the moment partaking in the biggest event this town has each year and has since 1964. I could be but there’s a shit ton of people and I’m quite content here on deck with a cup of hot tea, a little bourbon and ELP.
#MusicOfMastodon#70sProgressiveRock#EmersonLakeAndPalmerhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs8F1a04rHY&ra=m
Lucky Man (2012 Remaster)
The car of the day: 1968 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray with a 427 and in Chevrolet Forest Green at a car show I stumbled across while on assignment today. The white ‘75 Stingray next to it wasn’t too shabby; that one reminded me of the ‘Vette Bill Bixby drove in “The Magician.”
#CarsOfMastodon#Vette
Funny and true.
#USpol
Trout Lake sunset near Boulder Junction in Vilas County, Wisconsin, 27 September, 2012. Photo by me.
#NorthernWayOfLife#Sunsets
Morning view from Ladies Lookout in St. John’s Newfoundland, 19 September, 2026. Photo by Russell Lynch.
#HeartOfTheSunrise#AtlanticOcean
“As darkness slowly gave way to morning, the sky over the North Atlantic came alive.” - Russell Lynch
Derp. Apparently, RFK Jr. has never seen photos from WW2 of four-engine B-17 and B-24 heavy bombers of the U.S. Army Air Forces flying at high altitude on their way to bomb targets in Nazi Germany with the condensation following each engine. That worm must be nibbling on remaining brain matter. Or he’s doing heroin again.
#USpol
“Former pilot and veteran Amy McGrath took to X to call out Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claims about ‘chemtrails.’” - McGill Media
Before I left my bourbon writer battle buddy’s place this morning in Prospect, Kentucky, he fixed me up with some stuff from his personal stash that distillers send him to be reviewed. Fred keeps a bunch of it in his “man cave” in his basement. I have been waiting all day to get out on deck to chill with some of this stuff and tuneage. Because tomorrow, it’s back to the proverbial grind.
#VodkaSucks
The FOTUS’s regime uses national security as an excuse for everything from a defense in court cases to using it as justification for the Mango Mussolini’s different vanity projects like his stupid ballroom and REALLY stupid arch and then he goes and offers to sell communist China U.S. weapons? Holy shit.
#USpol
It’s Friday and raining but I’m good out on deck as the umbrella is up and the bourbon glass contains some Four Roses Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. 😉
#MusicOfMastodon#2000sPop#Breakawayhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3553TFmkb4A&ra=m
Walk Away
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Thank you to Irish President Cathrine Connolly for showing the world what real leadership looks like and not giving Trump the flattery that he has never deserved! - Truth And Accountability Project
#USpol
The evening’s “live” selection on deck: my son-in-law who, like me, is a Tom Petty fan, made me aware of this little performance from a couple nights ago. I’ve always liked the song and it took on a special meaning when it was played as he and my daughter, who had just gotten married, left the alter in the church. Chris Stapleton does a nice job in the late Tom Petty’s place.
#MusicOfMastodon#90sAlbumRock#Wildflowers
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a8V7zzRSiSU&ra=m
Chris Stapleton & The Heartbreakers - "You Wreck Me" LIVE at the Ryman | Americana Honors & Awards
Fuck YES this is going on a hoodie!
#Bourbon
An Israeli prime minister walked into the White House Situation Room with a plan for war. Seventeen days later…we were in one. Here’s who was in the room…and who wasn’t. - Jack Hopkins
#USpol#IranWarhttps://www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/seventeen-days-the-fastest-road-to
Well, today it is. 😉
#Bourbon
as everything goes to shit, and the cost of living grows ever higher — as We the People struggle to pay for basic goods and services — America’s Mad King wasted countless millions of taxpayer dollars, just so that he and his beloved diaper nurse could have a 48-hour golf motel holiday in Ireland. - Jeff Tiedrich
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/why-the-fuck-were-millions-of-dollars
The evening’s “live” selection on deck: I may be a goober but as a classic rocker, it sends chills to see Randy Bachman of Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive fame perform this 90s tune with his son, Tal.
#MusicOfMastodon#90sPop#TalBachmanhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CAhBTV_l21M&ra=m
Tal Bachman and Bachman-Turner Overdrive - She's So High (Live in St Charles 08-30-2025)
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@Jam123@mstdn.ca The urge to throat punch tends to enter the thought process but when it’s a crowded place such as a busy grocery store, one must keep that urge in check
I think they kick ass and kinda want one just to drive Nubs and Gizmo bonkers; an Atlantic puffin somewhere in Newfoundland, 15 September, 2026. Photo by Russell Lynch.
#BirdsOfMastodon#MeanwhileInNewFoundland
“Standing among the lush greens and tiny bursts of wildflowers, an Atlantic puffin pauses along Newfoundland’s rugged coastline. Behind it, the ocean and breaking waves melt into soft layers of blue and white, creating an almost dreamlike backdrop.” - Russell Lynch
One on deck from one of those 60s “super groups” that I loved playing on the radio.
#MusicOfMastodon#60sAlbumRock#FreshCreamhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=prnbF8Eagdg&ra=m
I Feel Free
One of those tunes the Stones did that summarized some of the evil men do (like Hitler’s blitzkrieg in September, 1939, that essentially began WW2) that could be updated just a bit because there’s a shit ton of material from just the past decade thanks to assholes like the FOTUS, Putin and Netanyahu.
#MusicOfMastodon#60sAlbumRock#BeggarsBanquethttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uWepTCBBnLo&ra=m
Sympathy For The Devil (50th Anniversary Edition)
THE definitive version of this tune. Sorry not sorry but the Guns And Roses rendition just wasn’t.
#MusicOfMastodon#70sPop#PatGarrett&BillyTheKid
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rM8YH3pU798&ra=m
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
The evening’s “live” selection on deck actually occurred in the past several hours and I would’ve loved to have been there.
#MusicOfMastodon#60sR&B
#WilsonPicketthttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WkQK2EvYbAk&list=RDWkQK2EvYbAk&start_radio=1&pp=oAcB&ra=m
John Fogerty 'In the Midnight Hour' w/ Steve Winwood - 9/18/26 St Augustine Amp - St Augustine, Fl
It’s a good thing the college and pro football seasons are underway so a shit-ton of people don’t have to pay attention to what’s happening and are able to shrug everything off as “Meh, it’s just politics.” 😳
#USpol
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@k8quinn@social.vivaldi.net The ‘69 Impala was a fine automobile but yeah, as far as cool, not quite to ‘68 ‘Vette standards!
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@GPJohnston@mastodon.social I told my son-in-law I would probably get a ticket to see these guys if they were to tour. It would be the second time for me to see Campbell and Benmont Tench as I saw Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers on the “Long After Dark” tour in Minneapolis in ‘83
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@GPJohnston@mastodon.social I thought the same thing when I saw it the first time; kinda choked up and trying to sound a little like Tom
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai Anything sewer or sewage-related suits the sorry motherfucker absolutely perfectly. I hate this fucker.
From the 60s “one hit wonder” file; for Christmas, 1980, I received from Santa a two-album set titled “The History Of British Rock” and this one blew my mind.
#MusicOfMastodon#60sPop#PicturesqueMatchstickablMessagesfromtheStatus Quo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KhoDUHLjW8M&ra=m
Pictures of Matchstick Men (Mono Version)
R.E.M. did a great rendition of this tune for their “Life’s Rich Pageant” album from 1986.
#MusicOfMastodon#60sAlbumRock#TheCliquehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IyfDH0HKLjs&ra=m
The Clique - Superman
Current scenery on I-65 in Indiana headed back to Wisconsin nowhere near as alluded to in the tune but it IS fine highway song.
#MusicOfMastodon#70sRock#ThunderIsland
“Bad news? Uh oh. Did I give another hand job in a Beetlejuice musical again?”
#GoForHobertBoebert#USpolhttps://m.youtube.com/shorts/V-ka7Tx2Qhw?ra=m
Absolutely classic stuff from Desi Lydic and The Daily Show.
#USpol#TDS
“They’re reptiles who play professional football but … they’re also hookers?”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DhNEcUGaVmI&ra=m
Trump Spooked by Plane at Xi Meeting & Sen. Tuberville Rails Against Flying Furries | The Daily Show
As far as I’m concerned, one of the better rock bands of the past 40 years and this tune is another that made it on the playlist of the pirate radio station I programmed in Mosul during 2004.
#MusicOfMastodon#SevenYearItchhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=11mX603zv1A&ra=m
Energy
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I understand the regime has taken action to “correct” the bot initially put out there regarding the Mango Mussolini’s 2020 election loss. Which I figured the assholes would try and do.
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So Trump has inadvertently launched a government funded and supported real-time fact checker for his own lies at America.gov.
Any over/under on how long this lasts before he shuts it down completely?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/30/trump-america-gov-ai-chatbot
Open quoted postof course, this whole fucktangle is about more than legal battles over who gets to be a reporter.
the larger issue is, what kind of country do we want? one where the government and those who report on the government engage in an open and honest dialog? or one where some cranky Diaperload-in-Chief gets mad at words, and tries to hide his shitty crimes from public view? - Jeff Tiedrich
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/what-kind-of-shithole-piss-baby-president
Some how, some way, you’ve got to. Even with the FOTUS’s manure and the rest of it.
#MusicOfMastodon#80sAlbumRock#Reconciled
I've been in a cave for forty days
Only a spark to light my way
I wanna give out, I wanna give in
This is our crime
This is our sin
But I Still Believe
I Still Believe
Through the pain and through the grief
Through the lives
Through the storms
Through the cries and through the wars
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s9EdEfjH4_Y&ra=m
I Still Believe (Great Design)
“The Strait of Hormuz (dramatic music) has a twin.”
#USPol#TheDailyShowhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TrOkjH80sPE&ra=m