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Coinneach Fitzpatrick

@coinfitz.bsky.social

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Tangerine Nightmare despiser. Airplanes and cats and books lover. PA-28 pilot and Kawasaki rider. I am large, I contain multitudes. For more fascinating details, see my pinned post. No lists/packs. Signal: flyingfitz412.08

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Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · Nov 8

Little about me, not that any of yez care:

GenX. Atheist. USAF veteran. Pilot (obv, and yes that is my plane). Cat dad. Token CSWM in my social circle and violently protective of my people.

Books: Pratchett, Banks, Scalzi, Stephenson.
Music: Everything but gospel and bro country.
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Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 12m

How is it that the entire crowd didn't scream BULLSHIT?

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 19m

25 years isn't shit for aircraft, especially bizjets. There are OG B-52s that are still airworthy. My own little birb is 53.

The rest of her statement is just the usual flat-out lies.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 2h

A picture is worth 1,000 words.

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Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 25m

YET. Gotta have them engraved with his profile first.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 34m

"I don't know anything about that." -Li'l Johnson, probably

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 1h

If he can't be put into the Crucified Hero pose then I'm not interested.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 1h

He's going to be very popular.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 1h

My sister and son are the beneficiaries of my life insurance. Sis and I agreed long ago that if either of us dies, the other adopts our cats. Everything else is irrelevant.

I refuse to give up the things that make me happy just to satisfy some actuarial lifespan expectation.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 1h

I have very few joys in life. Riding and flying are most of them. I do all I can to mitigate risks; after that, it's out of my hands.

The only people who depend on me are my cats. I have a living will and advance directive. If I do end up splattered across a mile of ground, so be it.

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Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 1h

The YT Al Gore Rhythm hath decreed that I am destined for an early and gruesome demise because I ride motorcycles and fly light aircraft, thus my feed shall be nothing but medics and hospice workers describing the horrors of both.

To which I say, fie on you.

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Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 19h

I'm rooting for cholesterol.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 1d

If it turned out to be Russia, we'd invade Ukraine and kill half a million.

No, I'm not still pissed as hell about our Middle East rampage, why do you ask?

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Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 1d

Part of the reason I gave up Christianity (and religion in general) 45 years ago is that the people who yell the loudest about how holy they are invariably turn out to be the absolute worst.

*looks at every evangelical Christian*
*looks at camera*

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 1d

"...and that's the way it is."

We need Walter now more than ever. Dan Rather's a good'un, but nobody compares to Walter.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 1d

"Do you have any idea how long it takes to dig a 6x6x3 hole by hand?"

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 1d

[extremely Attenborough voice] The once-mighty T-rex, last of its kind, searching for its final resting place

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 1d

Chillin' on a Sunday morning

Fionn, a very large white shorthair cat, loafing on a cat tree.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 1d

Yeeeah, that description is pretty generic, innit.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 1d

Broken for us. Functioning as intended for them.
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The Coup - "The Guillotine"

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Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 1d

Starting with that smarmy, smirking little shitweasel.

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Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all.

I just made the most unbelievable beef shawarma, tzatziki and saffron rice. The hummus is from Haji Baba and the lavash is from Safeway.

Who's coming for supper?

A black dinner plate containing homemade beef shawarma wrapped in lavash, saffron rice, tzatziki, hummus and another hunk of lavash.

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Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 1d

Usually we have to rely on Faux Noise to ignore actual events in favor of inconsequential minutiae.

Also, it seems their motto turned out to be aspirational.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 2d

Suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the sort of people who follow a Shakespeare account would all make exactly the same joke in response to [Exit king].

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Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 2d

...pursued by an inflatable bear.

Coinneach Fitzpatrick @coinfitz.bsky.social · 2d

ERMAGERD TEH VIOLINS