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Chip Frigon
@chipfrigon.bsky.social
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Scientist 🧬🔬, ally 🌈, spork aficionado, misanthrope (probationary), geek, nerd, metalhead 🤘, Parrothead 🦜🌴, gearhead 🛠️, SciFi/fantasy fan ⚔️🖖, band geek (emeritus) 🎺, AvGeek, sarcaster, humanist 🤟

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So…. What did you all do this weekend?

2006 Prius, 160k miles, all original equipment (even the plugs! Hybrid ftw!).

Wheel bearing, all four struts, water pump, plugs, and PCV valve, as well as transmission service.

It’s sitting 2 inches higher than before, and rides a /lot/ more comfortably 🙃
November 4, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Never forget this.
Red-tinted drawing of a homeless man, sitting against a brick wall on the street, and propping up a sign. The Sign: You are always closer to being unhoused than you are to being a billionaire
October 31, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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No Kings in Colma, CA today....
October 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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October 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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October 19, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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October 19, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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No Kings in Colma, CA today...
October 19, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Relationships, amiright? 😆
A bathroom sink. Sitting behind the faucet are two tubes of toothpaste. One, Colgate total, sits folded neatly behind the hot water valve. The other, Sensodyne Pronamel, squeezed in the center of the tube, leans drunkenly across the middle of the faucet, threatening to capsize at the least provocation ……
October 18, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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REPRESENT!
Photo: Closeup of Sesame Street's Oscar The Grouch, popping up from his trash can, and staring down at a smaller red-haired Muppet (obscured by the text) to hid left (lower right of the pic) Text (right-justified): National GROUCH Day
October 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Courtesy of Mama Bears on another platform....
A stylized drawing, pale blue sky and clouds in the background, a faceless indigenous person of indeterminate gender wrapped in a Progress Pride flag in the foreground. Text Indigenous Peoples Day October 13, 2025
October 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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"We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the common denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all the boundaries, and goes right to the soul." ~ Willie Nelson
October 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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The Dude, contemplating his ubiquitous White Russian. Text: "You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." ~Jane Goodall watermark: dudeism.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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h/t Shaxposting on an another patform....
Still from Star Trek: Lower Decks. Lt Shax offering advice to Ens. Boimler. A calmingly parental looking Shax has his hand on a very nervous looking Boimler's shoulder. Text: You have walked through shadow, trauma, and flame, and you doubt yourself yourself in this world? Remember who the hell you are.
September 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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black and white photo of Jim Morrison's (The Doors) face on a black background, so it looks like his face is just floating there. His expression is blank as he stares into the camera.... Text: Jim Morrison was right People are strange..
September 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Top caption: Here. You look like you need this. Photo: Bill Murray, wearing a black T-shirt with an open white overshirt with black stripes. He is standing behind a bar, with a lot of high-end bottles in the background. He is proffering a shot of some delicious looking amber liquid, so close it (and his hand) are out of focus....
September 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Correlation ≠ Causation.
Threads post from "azmatthews > RFK Jr" Approximately 70% of all people who get cancer have eaten pickles. Most people who have recently died in car accidents ate pickles in the past year. All Americans who ate pickles in 1901, have died. Therefore pickles obviously kill people. (This is a post about Tylenol and autism.)
September 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Giving a bully your lunch money is only a temporary downpayment on future bullying. We ALL need to step up for the first amendment. ~Mark Hamill
September 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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found in FB group AsAbove SoBelow
Picture (possibly a portrait) of Oscar Wilde, resting his face on his left hand, white cuffs and collar just visible under a lush black fur coat, the brass (gold?) head of a cane just visible in his right hand. Dark red velvet background. White text just below the pic / Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it. / ~ Oscar Wilde "The Artist As Critic" watermark: As Above So Below
September 16, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Courtesy of the FB group "Frogspotting"....
Drawing of a large frog, slightly resembling Jabba the Hutt, holding a takeout cup of hot beverage of some sort (incongruously steaming, even though it is clearly capped...). Text bubbles: top: Let's play hide and seek. bottom: I'll hide and you seek professional help.
September 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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I am reminded of a phrase from high-school or early college biology: Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
(embryonic development is a mirror of evolutionary development)
Photo: Sir Terry Pratchett, dressed in black (including fedora), and holding a black cane topped with a brass skull finial, looking every inch The Wizard (or should that be "WIZZERD" ;-p) posed on the left side of a textured grey background Text (white lettering, right side of picture): "Once we were blobs in the sea, and then fishes, and then lizards and rats, and then monkeys, and hundreds of things in between. This hand was once a fin, this hand once had claws! In my human mouth I have the pointy teeth of a wolf and the chisel teeth of a rabbit and the grinding teeth of a cow! Our blood is as salty as the sea we used to live in! When were frightened, the hair on out skin stands up, just like it did when we had fur! We ARE history! Everything we've ever been on our way to becoming us, we still are! ~Terry Pratchett "A Hat Full of Sky" Watermark, above his head: the letter "A", surrounded by three orbital figures reminiscent of stylized electron orbits, circled by letters "we fucking love atheism"
September 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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"All libraries, everywhere, are connected by the bookworm holes in space created by the strong space-time distortions found around any large collection of books." ~ Terry Pratchett - Small Gods
September 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Top Text (black on white): The incredibly rare Scottish hummingbird. Photo: Non-descript nature photo (blurred focus) in the background. Foreground: A tiny, red plaid bagpipe. Hummingbird wings sprout from between the drone pipes. tail at the back, tiny feet at the bottom. Chanter pipe positioned to look like a hummingbird's beak. The miniature perfection of Nature....
September 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Courtesy of the Heinlein Society from that other platform....
A black star field, with a tiny Starship Enterprise (from the original series) moving left-to-right through the field, Yellow lettering. Top: 58 years ago today, nobody heard of Star Trek. Bottom: 58 years ago tomorrow, nobody will know a world without Star Trek. Very bottom, yellow banner / black lettering: Happy Star Trek Day!
September 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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True not just for Pride....

(borrowed from another platform...)
Black background with overlapping rainbows in the lower half. SILENCE IS A SIDE <realmamabears.org>
September 6, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Yeah. This is pretty much what 60 feels like....
"Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened." ~Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
September 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM