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Bill Jank
@billjank.bsky.social
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Turkey, cider, and pumpkin pie aficionado

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My opinions are my own
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TIL that in pretty much every state in the country, regulated utilities get way more profit than other industries.

Good piece by @johnffarrell.bsky.social on how to reduce utility bills for Americans.
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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A movie that takes place where you’re from (at least for part of my life)
Poster for The Road to Wellville
November 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Ah-one
Ah-two
Ah-three

Take me out to the ball game
Take me out with the crowd…
The pope, singing.
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Sponsor a cycling team for a decade or so and I will buy your stuff for life
Box of quick step laminate flooring.
November 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Today’s brunch: toad in an onion hole:

Had leftover onion rings, so I stacked two, cracked an egg into each stack, let it cook on the bottom. Flipped the stack, and let the other side cook, then slid the spatula between the rings so I could make sure it was cooked all the way thru.

Tony C’s & 😋
November 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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I still get my porn delivered on dead tree.
Mystic Seaport Magazine fall/winter 2025 with a beautiful brass and steel mechanism on the cover. There is patina and grease and springs and levers and I’ll be back in 5 minutes.
November 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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I love the new-ish tradition of breweries brewing with fresh hops right after the harvest.

Like Beaujolais Nouveau, ‘cept bougie American.
Sitting on a kitchen island: An open pint can of Tilted Barn Brewery’s Little Field Fresh Hop IPA A glass pint with an NPR logo full of the beer from the can A mason har with fresh flowers
November 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I would crush this for breakfast.
November 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Anyway, Lincoln saw this for what it was, and did his best to burn it down before he caught a bullet in the neck from a salty slaver apologist.
In 1858, the year after the Dred Scott decision, rising politician Abraham Lincoln explained to an audience in Chicago what a system that set some people above others meant. Arguments that those deemed “inferior” “are to be treated with as much allowance as they are capable of enjoying; that as much is to be done for them as their condition will allow…are the arguments that kings have made for enslaving the people in all ages of the world,” he said. “[T]hey always bestrode the necks of the people, not that they wanted to do it, but because the people were better off for being ridden…. [This] argument…is the same old serpent that says you work and I eat, you toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it.” “Turn in whatever way you will—whether it come from the mouth of a King, an excuse for enslaving the people of his country, or from the mouth of men of one race as a reason for enslaving the men of another race, it is all the same old serpent….”
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Trickle Up economics is coming back, baby.
in 1889, during the Gilded Age, industrialist Andrew Carnegie embraced a similar idea when he explained that the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few was not only inevitable in an industrial system, but was beneficial. The wealthy were stewards of society’s money, administering it for the common good by funding libraries, schools, and so on, to uplift everyone, rather than permitting individual workers to squander it in frivolity. It was imperative, Carnegie thought, for the government to protect big business for the benefit of the country as a whole.
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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One
Of
Us

(Complimentary)
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Soon.
DVD of Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas on top of Amy Tan’s Backyard Bird Chronicles on top of a wooden table
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Miles 18-25 in a marathon
November 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Sometimes the timeline is perfect

The greatest American novel sandwiched between Sen. Warnock and Rep. Crockett talking about America’s Captain Ahab.

Only question is if he takes the entire ship of state down with him.
November 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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I am seen.

Working hard on the ponytail.
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Trickle down doesn’t.

The rich know this, which is why they have to keep repeating the lie.
"We can discuss response to tax cut criticism. The 83 percent to rich is misleading by miles. Cash back. Pension funds up," Epstein wrote, adding: "Corporations are not people. Giving corp breaks, is perceived as giving it to someone else. wage inflation cant be the first focus, the additional money in the system. First goes to hiring new people, only afterwards can wages rise."
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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For the record, we did take the kids to ride the Thomas the Tank Engine train when it came to the Essex (CT) Steam Train.
Life-sized, fully operational Thomas the Tank Engine.
November 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Look!
A cute cat!
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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We may have the same dog
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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I can’t believe this site is free
Femto Pagalies @durgediggler.bsky.social How shocking that a writer for The New York Times is so pissy about a trilogy of movies that deal with political corruption November 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Word Perfect?

Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long, long time.

A more elegant weapon for a more civilized age
Boxed copies of Word Perfect Office on sale at Staples
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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"If ICE agents were arresting or deporting the worst of the worst, they probably wouldn't have to wear masks.”

They know what they are doing is wrong.
Wexler said police departments in some cities are getting 911 calls from community residents reporting the presence of armed masked men in their neighborhoods, hoping local officers can protect them. "I think most people who live in those communities want the worst of the worst deported," Wexler told me. "If ICE agents were arresting or deporting the worst of the worst, they probably wouldn't have to wear masks. „»
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The officers should be ashamed of what they’re doing.
T HE MASKS, which DHS insists are a means of keeping officers safe, have also served as a rallying point for protest and a spur to confrontation. They "immediately escalate things, " another former ICE official told me, and reinforce an impression that agents and officers are ashamed of what they're doing. Officers and agents with faces covered have been confronted by local residents and protesters who denounce them as "cowards" for hiding their faces.
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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"Protecting their identity is one way to prevent bad actors from targeting their homes and threatening their families."

It also lets DHS employees target members of communities in their homes and threaten their families without repercussion.
Todd Lyons, ICE's acting director, told CBS News that he wasn't a "proponent of the masks," but he would allow them if officers thought they would help "keep themselves and their family safe." Noem said that the masks help officers protect themselves "in dangerous situations," and that DHS agencies could set guidelines for their use. Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the department, told me in an email that federal law-enforcement officers are facing a rash of threats and assaults "including terror attacks, cars being used as weapons, bounties to murder them placed on their heads" "That is why our officers wear masks," McLaughlin wrote. "Protecting their identity is one way to prevent bad actors from targeting their homes and threatening their families."
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM