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Hello Andrew
@helloandrew.bsky.social
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Antifascist, activist, songwriter, filmmaker, humorist
Long-time cat person, first-time dog person
Animal rescue & TNR volunteer
Cinephile, TCM loyalist
I’m so happy to see you again, I missed you so much!
Doctor Gori was right!
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Check out this 35 lb beauty; my first ever homegrown #garden jack-o'-lantern harvested and carved last night!
Happy #Halloween!
A pumpkin hanging in a net in a garden surrounded by corn stalks and tomato plants A wide wide sideways pumpkin carved into a jack-o-lantern with pointy teeth and a red glowing interior A pumpkin turned sideways with a jack-o-lantern face carved in it with four pointy fangs and pointy eyes dark inside in sunlight A freshly carved pumpkin jack-o'-lantern with a red glowing interior, pointy eyes and pointy fangs sitting on a stove with various tools and pumpkin seeds scattered around
November 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Wintertime brings all the cats to the lap.
That’s right, they’re ready for a nap.
That’s right, they’re furry and fat.
Rub their bellies and you might get a slap.

#Caturday
#CatsOfBluesky
POV shot of two cats in my lap, both tabbies, one mackerel, and the other orange. The orange one shows his belly while the Mackerel Looks backwards over his shoulder at us
October 26, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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#Caturday
Orange tabby cat with eyes closed head upside down getting belly rubs on a gray blanket
October 26, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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This playful pal is truly man’s best friend, but don’t get too grabby or his dad will smack your hand away. It’s easy to get jealous over orange tabby belly rubs.
#CatsOfNoir
#NoirAlley
#TCMparty
#Southside1-1000
Black and white movie still of a man sitting with his foot up on a table playing with an orange tabby cat Black and white movie still of two men sitting at a table with cards and ashtrays, while a third man stands behind, and one of the sitting men is slapping the hand of the standing man
October 26, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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I know there are a lot of great scientists here, I urgently need to talk with a #Raccoon #Scientist.
Not like the one in the picture, i mean a human scientist who studies raccoons.
Does anybody know anybody like that?
Can you introduce us?
Thanks!
Green drawing on a off-white background, detecting a raccoon working with glass files and other science equipment. In big letters, it says stand back and then in small letters I’m doing science
October 25, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Ladies of Hollywood in his day said Boris was a top hearthrob. As I've noted here before, the resemblance to a mature George Clooney is remarkable.
A smiling photo of Boris Karloff looking handsome Sepia toned photo of handsome Boris Karloff reclining George Clooney appearing last year on late night with Stephen Colbert looking a lot like Boris Karloff
October 22, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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October 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Middletown, CA, population 1800
October 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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October 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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It was also amusing that with all the talk from Team Trump about pre-printed identical signs (which is actually a normal thing at all types of protests for at least the last 100 years) proving “terrorist” funding, the MAGAs had identical signs paid for by a billionaire, we had homemade.
#NoKings
A group of four teenagers hold handmade signs saying one: I’d call him a pussy, but he lacks the warmth and depth, two: no Kings, three: a drawing of a Hitler like Trump, four: stop regulating women and start regulating guns and five: (with balls on) Free balls for the congressmen who need them. Signs leaning against a fence at a park one says can’t win votes then gerrymander another says stop corruption and BBB save the courts. All because of Trump another says resist another says melt the ice another says Dumpty Trumpy and another says Make orwell fiction again. A bearded man at a protest holds two homemade signs with letters from a home printer the first one says things I cherish: I love America. I love the Constitution. I love liberty. I love free speech I love my family, no kings. The other says behaviors I dislike: truculent, raucus, untrustworthy, malicious, petulant (spelling out Trump) no kings. Seven people spread out partially on a street side holding American flags and science including three handmaid science saying FAFO we have no King and we got rid of our King in 1776 but they also have mass printed yellow signs that say no on 50, which is a campaign against a California ballot initiative, and the no on 50 campaign is paid for almost exclusively by one billionaire
October 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Some of my favorite signs from #NoKings in Middletown, CA
A group of teenagers holding handmade protest signs. One says I’d call him a pussy, but he lacks the warmth and depth. Another says no kings. Another says stop regulating women and start regulating guns. Another has a caricature of a Hitler like Trump and another has balls taped to it and says free balls for the congressman who need them. A protest sign that says time zones are so crazy in Denmark. It’s noon in Canada at 6 AM in the USA. It’s late 30s Germany a second sign has a picture of people in frog costumes and says united we ribbit divided we croak. Several protest signs leaning against a fence with a park with trees and grass in the background one says can’t win with votes then gerrymander another says stop corruption and BBB save the courts. All because of Trump another says resist another says melt the ice another says Humpty Dumpty with a cartoon of a fat egg like Trump and another says make Orwell fiction again A group of protesters holding signs where you can see one sign has a sketch of the outline of Princess Leia and says a woman’s place is in the resistance.
October 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Middletown, Ca (population 1,854!), approximately 100 people at the #NoKings protest, and 7 angry MAGA hecklers across the street. They had yellow signs, American Flags, and signs saying America doesn't have a king. We also had all those things so most passing drivers thought they were with us! 🤣
A diverse group of protesters line a small town street with signs with handmade writing on them and American flags and fists in the air Protesters holding American flags, handmaid sign, saying dump Trump and no kings in America with trees in the background A group of protesters holding American flags and handmade signs on the side of the road in a small town with mountains in the background Seven people standing on the side of a street holding American flags and mass produced printed signs that say no on 50 as well as handmade signs that say FAFO we don’t have a king 1776. We got rid of our King.
October 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Great idea, if you‘re looking for a shortcut, James Thurber detailed his efforts to find A Box To Hide In, in this one and a half page very short story A Box To Hide In
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Line drawing of a wooden box with a long eared dog sniffing at the base
October 17, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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From her own mouth quoted on Wikipedia her favorite politician is Margaret Thatcher and she called Donald Trump a great visionary, has recently expressed extreme support for his illegal murders of fishing boats off the coast.
October 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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In a career of playing queerbait typecasted effeminate coded stereotypes, punctilious officials, and persnickety shopkeepers, I finally saw Franklin Pangborn playing a canonically explicit gay character in the remarkable silly gender-swap body-swap comedy Turnabout (1940) from Hal Roach.

#TCMparty
Black and white movie still of a man and a woman in bed together the woman wearing men’s pajamas, and the man wearing a nightgown looking at each other with shock Movie poster for Turnabout, with The slogan “it’s the gayest craziest laugh tonic that ever reached the screen” featuring a man in a pink nightgown and a woman in striped pajamas gesturing at a stork with a collage of photos of movie characters in the background.
October 11, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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It’s curious that you think my definition is not the same as other humans when every dictionary says the same thing: censorship is not solely a government activity. First amendment violations are government only, censorship is anyone who censors.
A screenshot from dictionary.com defining censorship as noun: the act or practice of censoring, the office or power of a sensor, the time during which a sensor holds office, or the inhibiting and distorting activity of the Freudian censor Screensh censorship, noun the practice or system of censoring books, movies letters, etc. Saying censorship, dictionary, noun one the suppression or removal of writing, artistic work, etc., two, in ancient Rome, the office and disposition of censor
October 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Fact check, false.
USA Today newsweek PBS Reuters Chicago Sun times npr cnn abc, even people magazines for crying out loud.
“Occupy Democrats” have always been grifters farming for clicks and never providing links or action steps for people other than to build their brand.
A page of search results from various mainstream media outlets, covering the attack on the apartment building in Chicago by ice A second page of mainstream media news stories on ice attack on Chicago apartment building A third page of mainstream media coverage of the attack by ice on the Chicago apartment building
October 7, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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My cat addresses his royal subjects. (His brothers who are still semiferal)

#caturday

Apologies to the brilliant person who first posted this but you disabled replies and quote posts so I had no choice.
Medieval style painting of a striped cat sitting upright on their hind legs, wearing a crown and holding a scepter while addressing a group of three other striped cats standing quadrupedally at attention, enraptured by the Royal address
October 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Just sitting down to watch The Invisible Woman (1940) for the first time and right away I have questions, like why does she need a vanity mirror and chair if she‘s invisible?

#TCMparty
A title card from a black-and-white movie that says the invisible woman, copyright MCMXL by universal pictures company Inc.. Behind the lettering is a silhouette of an old-fashioned ladies, vanity mirror table, and chair with perfume bottles.
October 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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So this just happened & of course, the item, clearly marked as electronics, was destroyed when we opened the box. Is this allowed? Would you report this to the local postmaster or would you be afraid of retaliation? Certainly a postal carrier would be a very dangerous enemy. They control your mail.
Postal carrier throwing a box over a fence Postal carrier throws package over a fence like a basketball
October 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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As a mycophile (mushroom lover) I’ve been dreaming for decades of the holy grail of agricultural infections; huitlacoche!
(Aka Mexican truffles aka corn smut) a rare & delicious wild corn fungus, and I finally got to eat some from my garden tonight! Simmered with onions & yellow pear tomatoes.
Yum!
Corn stalks in a raised garden bed Huitlacoche, otherwise known as corn smut, large growths on corn cobs colored white, black and blue.
September 30, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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My guess is he's back on the hard stuff.
And he’s wrong, they didn’t just kill a reporter that killed a bunch of reporters and they locked up a ton of people for things they said on social media. And he had to agree to censor himself.
“Not a hill he’s gonna die on“ unless he criticizes the Saudis.
People have been going “oh how dare you go over there after they killed the reporter” Jeffries said during August appearance on Theo Vaughn this past weekend podcast. The comedian went on to say that the allegation was not enough to compel him to back out of the festival. “One reporter was killed by the government” Jeffries said “unfortunate but not a fucking hill that I’m gonna die on.”
September 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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This guy really reminds me of Kirk Douglas.
Can’t seem to get one still that really shows it but when you watch him walking around talking, it’s clear.

#NoirAlley
#BerlinExpress
#TCMparty
A black-and-white movie still of a man in uniform
September 28, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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It may not look like much but I’m pulling this type of harvest out of my 20‘ x 6’ garden three times a day. It adds up quick!
A steel colander with various colors of tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers, some ripe some not A small vegetable garden with arches made of cattle panels, five raised beds with tomatoes, corn, cucumbers, figs, pumpkins, chard, strawberries, and beans
September 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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But you see even the dictionary has four conflicting definitions.
All but one of which perfectly describe our current situation.
So asking for a more specific definition is a valid and important point in such a debate.
Screenshot of the dictionary definition of fascism a way of organizing a society in which a government ruled by a dictator controls the lives of the people, and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government or a very harsh control or authority. Then full definition, a political philosophy, movement or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual, and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic, and social regimentation enforceable suppression of opposition. Two a tendency toward our actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control.
September 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM