ChuckPaone
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ChuckPaone
@cpaone.bsky.social
(Very married.)
Writing fiction in a post-fact world.
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This is an American patriot.
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
She's 86 now, still going strong and playing nearby tonight.

My wife is taking my 83-year-old mother in law, and I sort of wish I'd jumped in too.

Suite: Judy Blue Eyes

Judy Collins
a woman with a nose ring looks at a group of clowns on stilts
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December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
#Wordle 1,629 4/6

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Tiptoing around typos that took as words.

🙄
December 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Here comes the sun.
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Wake-up walk.
December 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I am not in any way distracted by the beauty of crystallized ice suspended in the trees outside my office window.

🙄🙃
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Best "typo" of the year.
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
From this morning's NY Times news coverage of Trump's latest racist rant--this time against Somalians.

"Even for Trump -- who has a long history of insulting Black people, particularly those from African countries -- his outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry."
December 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Daybreak
December 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
#Wordle 1,628 3/6

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Well, that came fast.
December 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
#Wordle 1,627 4/6

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Take that all you modern "es" people.

😂
December 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Current view.
December 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If Hegseth survives this calendar year as SecDef (not SecWar, as there's no such thing), this country might be FUBAR.
News --> The commander who oversaw Pete Hegseth's alleged killing of two boat bombing survivors is now likely to come in and face questions from the House Armed Services Committee, ranking Dem Adam Smith tells me.

In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Trump Boat Bombings Suddenly on Shakier Ground as Damning Info Emerges
Will Republicans give us a real investigation into Trump’s bombings, now that we just learned horrific new details about them? Or are they seriously going to fall on their swords for Pete Hegseth?
newrepublic.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Happy #December.
December 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Happy meteorological #winter.

And, yeah, that early morning dog walk was an adventure.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
#Wordle 1,626 2/6

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What's in your groundwater?
December 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
#Wordle 1,625 4/6

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Pet name for my favorite coffee cup.
November 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
#Wordle 1,624 4/6

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OK, ^$%^&*# done with that.
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
#Wordle 1,622 4/6

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Thanks for giving?
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Heading out to go to the turkey farm for my annual retrieval, and these feisty fowl were surrounding my car.
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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The centerpiece of Trump's forthcoming housing plan.
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
There are cheaper portable heaters, but none as good.
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
If you think Trump is a patriot and Senator John McCain wasn't, you're an idiot.

If you think Trump is a patriot and Senator Mark Kelly isn't, you're an idiot.
November 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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a white plate filled with chocolate chip cookies and a giant cookie
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November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Cheers to newlyweds and fantastic friends @mistybrown.bsky.social & @docsavage88.bsky.social, who so generously treated us to this wonderful Gibbet Hill dinner this evening!
November 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM