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magistercalvert.bsky.social
Curmudgeon Obscura
@magistercalvert.bsky.social
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Cranky old MI veteran, medieval reenactor, grognard board wargamer, grand strategy computer gamer, disabled retiree with a bad attitude. If your profile is pro-MAGA, pro-crypto, pro-Soviet, pro-AI, or "I'm giving away a free" whatever, you're blocked.
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I can do Shakespeare! Really!
Yours Truly as Shylock in Kentucky Shakespeare's 'Shakespeare With Veterans' production of 'The Merchant of Venice.' 10 July 2025
July 15, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Lead singer holding up paper saying "Oneders" (pronounced One-ders). Bassist saying "It looks like the O-nee-ders."
June 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Five seasons of pain, but I keep going. #NWSL #RacingLou #RunWithUs
April 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Cue the Kristen Bell crying meme.
Musk wearing an ushanka and captioned "In Soviet America, Illegal Deports You!"
April 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Sabres hockey is a lot harder than it looks.
March 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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And she's tough.
Cece Kizer, grinning through a black eye after a collision in 2021.
March 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Repost with the first album you bought with your own money.
Album cover of progressive rock group U.K. for their live album 'Night After Night Live.'
February 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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I'll do what I can but they already ignored me when I told them their Arabic text was reversed several years ago. I don't think I'm a wealthy enough STH for them to listen to, despite being on the big board.
Photo taken of several names that are on the Founding Members of Racing Louisville FC placard that is in Lynn Family Stadium.
February 21, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Sandor Clegane would like to offer a rebuttal.
February 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Liz Ten there is breaking up.
British actress Sophie Okonedo as Queen Elizabeth X (aka Liz 10) in Doctor Who
February 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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The individual in the center of this photo has just been declared a "dire threat to the American people and our way of life" by the President of the United States and the Secretary of Health and Human Services because of a condition that prohibits them from serving in the military.
Promotion ceremony to sergeant (E-5) of the OP. Ceremony held 1 July 1985. The Captain to the left is the OP's Detachment Commander and the Lieutenant Colonel to the right is the OP's Battalion Commander.
February 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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(looks around nervously)
Steam loading screen showing a player (me) who has 12,532.6 hours playing Stellaris.
February 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Works in sci-fi, though.
"I mean, my TV Guide interview was six paragraphs about my boobs"
February 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Remember that this poster was made twenty years ago. Conservatives, like the ideologically similar Soviets, have long sought a rubber-stamp judiciary.
Poster of former SCOTUS Justice Thurgood Marshall with his head in rifle scope crosshairs. Text reads, "Wanted Dead or Alive. Activist Judges. For being uppity troublemakers who think they can deprive wholesome Christian folk of their right to despise and subjugate disgusting inferior trash." Poster is from the now defunct parody website www.whitehouse.org, which harshly criticized the W. Bush administration over twenty years ago. More posters can be found on the archived version of the whitehouse.org site at https://web.archive.org/web/20090131145254/http://whitehouse.georgewbush.org/initiatives/posters/index.asp
February 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Godspeed, Cooper. Go and live the dream.
A smiling, undressed skinny white man being romantically embraced by a stunningly gorgeous and ecstatically happy black woman wearing a leopard-print swimsuit. Caption reads "Cooper DeJean when he gets back to Philly."
February 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Without downloading any new pictures where are you mentally.
Actor Jason Isaacs as Captain Gabriel Lorca on Star Trek: Discovery, standing in front of the Mirror Universe Throne on ISS Charon holding the Imperial sword of state with text below saying, "Right, what's a war hero got to do to get some lubrication around here?" The quote is from his performance as Marshal Georgy Zhukov in the film 'The Death of Stalin.'
February 4, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Dammit, @actordougjones.bsky.social !
AI picture of a depressed looking monster with a caption reading "Monster devastated to see film depicting things he told Guillermo Del Toro in confidence" Picture is from The Onion
January 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Anakin and Padmé meme template Anakin: We're starting the anti-immigrant raids! Padmé (excited): And arresting the executives of the companies that hire them, right? Anakin: (stares) Padmé (worried): And arresting the executives of the companies that hire them, right?
January 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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The Lorax says, "UNLESS someone like you brings out the chippity chop, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
January 24, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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VIctor, is that you?
A still photo of British actor Harry Treadaway in his role of Victor Frankenstein in the TV series "Penny Dreadful."
January 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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You don't get rich playing the lottery. You get rich running the lottery.
From "FRESH AIR" In this week's news... Expert says Trump owning 80% of his crypto coin and launching before inauguration is predatory "You could compare this to Trump lining the National Mall with slot machines and saying, 'Hey, while you're here in town for [sic] inauguration, why don't you play some Trump slots?' It's an unregulated form of gambling. He is selling a made up coin, that doesn't do anything, for real money. And people are going into it buying it, hoping it's going to go up when it reality it's doomed to go down, whenever Trump decides to sell his big holding of coins. It's a gambling game where the only winners are the insiders who made up the coin themselves." - Zeke Faux, Bloomberg
January 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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"Josh Allen is coming for your souls."

(Cartoon by @adamzyglis.bsky.social of the Buffalo News)

#NFL #BuffaloBills #BaltimoreRavens #DenverBroncos
A cartoon of the infamous "horse head" scene from The Godfather except the head is the Denver Broncos logo with a note attached which says "We're waiting for you - The Bills" with an older man lying in bed wearing a Baltimore Ravens t-shirt looking on in horror.
January 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Bills fans, it is time to...
#Bills #Ravens #NFL #DoctorWho
The title card from the Doctor Who episode "Face the Raven."
January 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Yeah, it's like that. #Sabres #NHL
Meme captioned "Buffalo Sports Teams." Depiction is a three headed monster, two of the heads looking fierce and marked "Bills" and "Bandits." The third one with a goofy stupid face marked "Sabres."
January 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Hey, look what I found on the bookshelves. Apparently this has completely disappeared from availability but not from memory. Jays fans watching this might be interested.
#baseball #bluejays #sabermetrics
A copy of the 1985 Blue Book by David Driscoll, a statistical analysis of the '85 Toronto Blue Jays. It was one of the earliest privately published sabermetric analyses.
January 10, 2025 at 4:49 AM