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Al Bouteiller

@boutaj2024.bsky.social

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Retired Navy Chief Electrician and Instructor, Comic Book Nerd, Sci-fi Geek. "Do, the right thing, even when nobody is watching!"

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Al Bouteiller @boutaj2024.bsky.social · Oct 11

This is my biggest takeaway from Star Trek!
It's not the space battles, the technology, or even the sci-fi themed stories... it's the thought that without embracing our own diversity, we would never be able to venture out and discover any of those new worlds!
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Al Bouteiller @boutaj2024.bsky.social · 5d

A daily dose of reality

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Al Bouteiller @boutaj2024.bsky.social · 5d

If the government shutdown was a meme

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Al Bouteiller @boutaj2024.bsky.social · 5d

Tuesday vibe

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Tobi @tobifrenzen.bsky.social · 7d

The same applies to interviewing a Reform UK MP or spokesperson.

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Al Bouteiller @boutaj2024.bsky.social · 8d

Some of the donors for the demolishment abomination of the White House:
Amazon
Comcast
Google
Apple
Microsoft
Meta

Encroached in nearly 100% of our lives and fucking us for allowing them to be nearly 100% encroached in our lives.

The cycle of abuse is never ending!

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Al Bouteiller @boutaj2024.bsky.social · 10d

Maybe...just, maybe this should have all been considered before the last election we will ever have...
There should have been warning signs...

Oh, wait!

October 22, 2025

“It’s not his house.

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Al Bouteiller @boutaj2024.bsky.social · 11d

Was there ever a doubt?

Al Bouteiller @boutaj2024.bsky.social · 12d

A middle finger to the courts...defecation to the people...
A (sort-of) shutdown of the government that still manages to pay for the total obliteration of decency and norms...
What more can you want from your government??

October 20, 2025

Over the weekend, as millions of Americans attended “No Kings” protests, President Donald J.

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Al Bouteiller @boutaj2024.bsky.social · 13d

Honorable Service. A thing of the Past!

Re-watching The West Wing...lamenting for the time when the opposition wasn't demonized or vilified...and were portrayed as honorable representatives with a different view only, and was willing to do ...

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Al Bouteiller @boutaj2024.bsky.social · 15d

When the vision...is obstructed.
How the vision...is obstructed.
Why the the vision...is being obstructed!!

Al Bouteiller @boutaj2024.bsky.social · 15d

On this NO KINGS Day, I'm just gonna leave this here!

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Al Bouteiller @boutaj2024.bsky.social · 18d

I retired from the Navy 23 years ago this past August, and I have never been nervous or embarrassed to wear my Retired CPO Cap in public... Until now!

Al Bouteiller @boutaj2024.bsky.social · 19d

What does it say about your commitment to peace that you are following a plan developed by someone who is cruel to and vindictively vilifies his own citizens on a daily bases?