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Arolpin
@arolpin.bsky.social
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Dad, husband, runner, snowboarder. Proud NJ resident.
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Here you are
November 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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It sure is hard to find it.
What was happening in March of 2024?
Was that the Primary, or the General Election?
And basically uncontested.

Oh, ZM was pushing “Uncommitted” at the Convention. Israel/Palestine is a real issue.
He backed Dems in Nov, they should back him.
Mamdani didn’t just fail to support Democratic presidential nominees Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden in last year’s existentially urgent campaign, he spoke out and organized against them. In March of 2024, Mamdani urged voters to withhold their vote from Biden
October 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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#running

One of my better efforts recently.

Such nice negative splits.

strava.app.link/wgNXBrbHJXb
A view of 2 Strava charts. The top chart has a grey, mountain-shaped background representing elevation over time, and a blueish bar chart in the foreground showing the pace for each mile. The bottom chart shows mile splits, starting at 8:17 and finishing at 7:22. It is almost a perfect negative split chart.
October 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Here is one of the twins.
A thin, muscular young white man viewed from behind and to the side. He is wearing grey sweatpants, with darker underwear visible and no shirt. His arms are lifted like wings in a weird position.
October 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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I have been fully accepted by the kittens. I sat down to watch the baseball, and they both jumped into my lap and fell asleep.
#proofofcat
Two grey kittens sitting on a person’s lap. The person is wearing light brown pants and a green shirt. They are sitting in a brown leather chair with a remote control on the left armrest. The first kitten, roughly horizontal, has her front paws stretched out in front of her. This is Frances. The second kitten, parallel to the person’s legs, has his head resting on Frances. This is Gandalf.
October 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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My office buddies.
A short-haired, grey tabby kitten named Frances sits in the sun on a windowsill. Through the screen you see bits of roof, a white picket fence, trees, and a neighboring yard. Her front legs are stretched out, but her hind legs are kind of tucked under her tail. A long-haired, fluffy, grey tabby kitten named Gandalf is lying on a black office chair that also has a black backpack on the seat. Gandalf has one paw stretched out towards the viewer, who should realize that this paw is very large. His expression indicates that he thinks I need to be working more and looking at him less.
September 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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This is his psycho sister Francis. This is as demure as she gets. Her mantra is “ENJOY MY ANUS! ALL THE TIME!”
I have the best kitties.
#proofofcat
A grey tabby kitten is standing on a wooden floor, next to a copper heating grate. Her tail is almost completely vertical, and she is absolutely showing cat butt. This is her most demure pose. Normally her cat butt is pointed directly at your eyes.
September 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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This is my kitten Gandalf. Note his ridiculous tail. It is ALWAYS puffed up like that, not just because he’s sniffing my bourbon. He’s so silly.
A grey tabby kitten with a ridiculous tail lying on a blue/gold/off-white rug sniffing a glass of bourbon. The tail is truly something, completely puffed up like a raccoon tail.
September 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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This person just followed me. They have no posts, replies, media, or videos. They follow follow 3100 people & have 120 followers. Are bots following bots? Is this going to be Twitter?
#bots #blueskybots
A screenshot of a profile of “Donna Harris”, following 3100 people, 120 followers, but no posts or anything. How? Fucking bots.
September 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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I've just seen the worst fucking NIMBY excuse of all time. Some idiot is opposed to the IBX, because the trains might disturb the dead bodies in the fucking cemetery.
Send this asshole to some fucking ghost town in Kansas or something.

www.amny.com/nyc-transit/...
“My father is buried near those tracks and they are going to disturb him and many others,” local resident Debbie Hippie said.
August 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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#kittens #proofofcat

Our kittens are getting much more comfortable in the rest of the house, which has made getting them back to the kitten room for the night more difficult.
I pulled out the laser pointer tonight, they came charging down the stairs and I just led them right home.
A red dot on a wooden floor, of intense interest to two grey kittens. The top kitten is bouncing & her tail is distorted because of the movement. The kitten on the right is just looking, though he will pounce soon. There is an off-white chair, with a blanket and a Wesleyan pillow, blue walls, and white baseboards and trim.
August 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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I was Today Years Old before I saw this advancement in “go-cup” technology.
A clear plastic cup with an aluminum pop-top lid. Best go-cup ever.
July 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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This is what it looks like when a body realizes it’s no longer as hot and humid as Satan’s scrotum, and can step up the pace.
#running #strava #negative-split
Two charts showing different views of a run. The top chart has a light-gray inverted V shape showing elevation v. Time and a light blue, vertically-oriented bar chart in a clear “stairs going up” fashion showing increasing grade-adjusted pace each mile. The bottom chart is a horizontally-oriented bar chart showing mile splits, and it is very obvious that the pace is steadily increasing every mile. A perfect “negative split” workout.
July 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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This is Frances. She is one of my two new kittens. She is an absolute badass.
A grey & white striped kitten, Frances, is lying on a wood floor, with her left front paw resting on a pink & yellow ball. There is a small section of sunshine on the floor just beyond her head, with a chair leg & baseboards in the background. Frances has her eyes partially closed, and her expression is pretty much saying, “Feeling froggy? Then jump MFer!”
July 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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As a “I drank out of a hose as a kid, and I mean any random house that had a hose & faucet available”-year old man, I never thought I would be a water-bottle guy.
Had to run pick up zip ties for my BIL last week, this was on sale, son convinced me it was a really good deal, grabbed it.
1/x
A 36oz Yeti water bottle. It is mainly blue, with a stainless steel base and neck. The cap is white, with a grab-handle and a prominent red gasket. It is sitting on a whiteish countertop, with a wall and some cabinets in the background.
July 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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This is the most Outer Cape picture imaginable.
#CapeCod #Truro #vacation
A middle-aged white man walking on the sandy shoulder of a road. There are pitch pines and dunes shrubs behind him. He has a broad-brimmed hat, sunglasses, a mustache, a t-shirt, shorts, and flip flops. He is carrying a beach chair and has a backpack on.
July 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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We have two new kittens. Siblings from a rescue litter. They weren’t home 5 minutes before they crawled into a hole in the kickplate of kitchen cabinets. And they’ve already broken a planter bigger and heavier than their combined weight.
Gonna be great cats.
Two gray kittens wrestle on a blanket. The kitten on the left is on her back rabbit-kicking the face of the kitten on the right. The left kitten is lighter, with more pronounced stripes. The blanket is off-white and appears to be very soft & fluffy. Too fluffy for the violence it is hosting.
July 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Damn, I’m really missing my cat tonight. She passed a couple weeks ago, we will get a couple of kittens as soon as we’re back from Cape Cod in about 15 days, but tonight is the type of night where Willow would just sit outside with me for hours.
A grey & white car lies on brown-painted stairs. She is very ill and will soon be taken to the vet and then over the rainbow bridge.
July 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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and in one image:
Image showing a shoe with 0mm drop on the left and 10mm drop on the right. In this case, 'drop' refers to the difference in the height of the heel of the shoe compared to the toe (actually ball of foot rather than toe).
June 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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#MontclairPorchfest

Stop #8. Probably 100 people watching this band.
A band plays on the lawn of a suburban house. The keyboard, bass, & drummer are on the porch. The two singers and guitar are on the lawn in front of the porch. A 3-piece horn section is off to the right. People are standing next to parked cars or on the lawns. A man on a bike rolls past looking at the band.
May 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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#MontclairPorchfest
Stop #7. Don’t know this guy, but I see him on the train. Local talent.
A middle-aged white man plays guitar in a suburban driveway. People sit on blankets & lawn chairs watching. It is sunny, but most people are sitting in the shade, indicating it’s rather warm.
May 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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#MontclairPorchfest
Stop #5. Beat band so far is “Roe Knows Best”.
A white gravel bike leaning against a signpost. Behind it a woman in a dress is signing to pre-recorded backing tracks. Neighbors are sitting in lawn chairs and listening.
May 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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#MontclairPorchfest

Biking to see local bands playing on front porches. Maybe some bike pictures. Maybe some beer pictures. Or pitchers.
A white gravel bike leaning up against a basketball riser. It is sitting on top of a lovely (if destructive to tires & runs) Belgian block curb. Behind is a suburban home with musicians tuning up and getting ready to play a set.
May 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie:

84
Picture of Jackie Robinson sliding into second base, his right hand clenched in a fist and raised above his head, his left arm trailing behind as he slides. He is wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, and there is a number 42 in the upper right of the picture.
May 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Completed the Five Boroughs Bike Tour. Really cranked the section through Brooklyn & SI.
My on my gravel bike keeping up with, then dropping, very good riders on $10k road bikes makes me think my fitness is pretty solid.
Two men in biking gear pose in front of thousands of other people in biking gear while waiting for the start of the Five Boroughs Bike Tour. Both men appear to be physically-fit, middle-aged men. The man on the left is a white man in a yellowish biking jersey and the man on the right is a Black man in a black jersey with yellow & white accents. They are both smiling and posing.
May 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM