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Joel
@jijoel.bsky.social
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Van-life vagabond, exploring all over with the world's best dog.

He/Him | Programmer | Acro-Yogi | 💙 💙 💙
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A picture of migrants lifting a cow over the border wall, with the caption: High beef prices are a result of South American immigrants bringing their diseased cattle here. Scott Bessent, US Treasury Secretary
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Is it? Or is it really un-dead?
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Picture of a little boy in a frog costume and a little girl in a princess costume trick-or treating. Four agents wearing camouflage uniforms and covering their faces are pointing weapons at them. The caption reads: Kids: be careful! There are real monsters hunting humans tonight.
November 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Nah… dogs have their places in the revolution. :-)
Cute Australian shepherd wearing a sign that says “Justice for Cricket - Bite Noem”
October 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Reactions to Pete Hegseth's speech to the military brass:
Generals: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot ??!? Pete: Did somebody say whiskey?
September 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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For #WaterfallWednesday, here's a photo I took at Niagara Falls last year.
Close up of Niagara Falls. So much water!
September 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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A happy dog, wearing #shiny rabbit ears, for today's #BlueSkyArtShow
August 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Portrait of the president with the caption Letting the country burn while ICE abducts firefighters
August 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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I want to see this movie. :-)
Picture of Ryan Gosling on a sidewalk in Washington, DC, wearing a pink shirt. The caption reads: Sandwich Guy -- ICE made him angry, But Subway made him a hero.
August 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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It's clear that Trump loves Putin, but I think it's an unrequited love. Putin only loves the things Trump does for him.
August 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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August 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Evolution of MAGA
Meme shows the evolution of MAGA talking points. 3 months ago, shouting "Release the Epstein files!" Now, "we're pro-pedophilia now, deal with it libtard!"
August 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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This picture of Sox always makes me smile. I’m really impressed that you were able to reach out when depressed. I’ve historically not been able to do that. You’ve got this! <virtual hugs>
August 2, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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I think we already know what was in that missing minute.
July 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Today, I was excited to learn that Earth to Eve's "Threat Level Orange" is going to be released in a week! (7/21)

♬ Coward, traitor, liar, foe, grab a tyrant by the toe. ♪
July 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Sox is so proud of himself for killing the duck. :-) #dogsofbluesky #happydog
My Australian Shepherd, Sox, sitting proudly over the remains of the toy duck that he just disemboweled.
July 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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I had a few minutes... What was going through my mind when I watched this video.
July 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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How I suspect the decision to bomb Iran was made.
June 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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From Ogden, Utah
Picture of sign saying “from red coats to red hats 86 all the autocrats”
June 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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June 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Where we've been / where we are
Comic constrasting the words written on the Statue of Liberty with more recent quotes by Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump. On the Statue of Liberty: The New Colossus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, / With conquering limbs astride from land to land; / Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand / A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame / Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name / Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand / Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command / The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. / "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she / With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Emma Lazarus November 2, 1883 From Adolf Hitler, writing Mein Kampf in Festungshaft in 1925: All the great civilizations of the past decayed because the originally creative race died out, as a result of poisoning of the blood. From Donald Trump, over the past few years: They're poisoning the blood of our country. Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here? They’re bringing drugs. they’re bringing crime. they’re rapists. We’re a dumping ground. we’re like a garbage can for the world. We’re taking people out of the country. you wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. these aren’t people. these are animals. We have to get rid of the judges… judges are making our country unsafe. Pictures include the Statue of Liberty and modern ICE agents kidnapping a girl.
June 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Some imagery to go along with excerpts from Frederick Douglass's words on presidential pardon power, taken from https://frederickdouglasspapersproject.com/s/digitaledition/item/18126 Another thing I would abolish -- the pardoning power. I should take that right out of the hands of this one man. There is a good reason why we should do away with the pardoning power in the hands of the president, that is that our government may at some time be in the hands of a bad man. We ought to have our government so shaped that even when in the hands of a bad man we shall be safe. A bad president, for instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? if he wanted to revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the dogs of war,” and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and you are safe. Go on and revolutionize the government; I will stand by you.” the bad man will say or might say this. It has been that with which a treacherous president has trafficked. He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of securing allegiance to the government.
June 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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I hear that Pope Leo XIV is a Sox fan from Chicago. As a traveling dog, Sox apparently has fans all over the country. :-) We had a lovely time exploring Chicago last year.

#dogsofbluesky #chicago
My Australian Shepherd, Sox, and I standing in front of Jorge Marin's "Wings of Mexico" art installation in Chicago. Sox and I sitting at the "hope" sculpture by the Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation in Chicago. My Australian Shepherd, Sox, sitting in a seat that looks like a baseball mit, entitled "Harry Caray's Chicago" My Australian Shepherd, Sox, sitting in front of a marker denoting the start of historic Route 66. #route66
May 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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How is it snowing in late April? Sox was loving it, though!

#dogsofbluesky #vanlife
My Australian Shepherd, Sox, happily running through fresh, new snow.
April 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Greetings from the Easter Doggy!

#dogsofbluesky
April 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM