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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 4h

"We have 'crawled hard straight over my face' at home..." 👍

A moonbounce (kelly green floor, red & blue trim) in our basement with a sparse amount of "ball pit balls" (red, purple, orange, yellow, & pink) in it due to me being too lazy to empty them all out knowing I will have to just put them away again; three of our children laying across each other with limbs akimbo

I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 5h

A group tried a more edgy national version of Hooters complete w/ bustiness & ink a while back: Tilted Kilt. They leaned more into that aesthetic & the Naughty Catholic Schoolgirl Vibe; it went downhill a while back & there are only a handful of locations left👍
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilted_...

A picture of a pint of light beer on a dark brown bar top at a Tilted Kilt restaurant with a menu to the left and a "CODE OF CONDUCT" laminated flyer to the right as that was needed at these places

I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 21h

Absolutely badass! Our Kids know him even if they don't actually know his name 👍

William Smith in the movie "Conan the Barbarian" in the opening scene telling young Conan about "The Riddle of Steel"

One of our sons holding a copy of the "Conan the Barbarian" DVD showing Arnold Schwarzenegger on the cover as the titular character, shirtless, in a loin cloth, with sword in hand; son in a yellow shirt, medium brown couch & burnt orange walls in the background

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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 22h

Hey! That's Conan the Barbarian's Dad you're talking about there...amongst other things 👍

Any Which Way You Can - Barfight

YouTube video by actorwilliamsmith

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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 1d

Was never a cat person until I met my wife; now I have both a great respect and a great fear of someone who would willingly invite seventeen of them into their home 👍
www.cnn.com/2025/09/14/p...

A picture of NYC Mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa in a dark gray suit with silver herring tie & dark red beret to the left and the main character of the photo, a Standard Issue Cart with Boots & Ascot Upgrades standing atop a darker brown wooden table in what appears to be a home offie with white walls and various items about

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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 1d

I bought this NES in 1986. Our oldest now has it in his dorm room at college. Four decades isn't forever, but it's a pretty damn good run👍

One of our sons sitting on the edge of a green couch in red pajama bottoms & a gray shirt playing a Nintendo Entertainment System that is sitting on the top of a small set of stairs to the side of the couch; medium brown hardwood floors in the background; NES shows Super Mario Brothers being played

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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 2d

"Beans" 👍

A baking sheet covered with brown parchment paper of red-to-dark-red Thai chilis dehydrating in the oven; my left hand to the left extending the Middle Finger of Endearment toward them

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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 4d

And most of us do I assume, however their missives tend to reinforce the “Not a Wartime Consigliere” accusations 👍

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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 4d

Always a good reminder that this below is how he thinks about "The Relationship Between Men & Women"👍

$A screenshot from the article linked below showing RFK Jr.'s sex diary with text as follows: LINK: https://nypost.com/2024/09/20/us-news/inside-rfk-jr-s-secret-sex-diaries-including-the-codes-he-used-for-women-while-grappling-with-his-lust-demons/ On days without a woman's name, Kennedy would often write "Victory." This meant he'd triumphantly resisted sexual temptation, according to a source close to Richardson. "Despite the terrible things happening in the world, my life is... great," he wrote on Nov. 5, 2001. "So I've been looking for ways to screw it up. I'm like Adam and live in Eden, and I can have everything but the fruit. But the fruit is all I want." MARCH CASH ACCOUNT APRIL CASH ACCOUNT De 5 10 4 10 A 18. Receved 2 2 7 8 10 10 N = \mathbb{I} U Vitth$

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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 4d

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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 4d

The '"Slay the Queens' Queen" strikes again 👍
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1eT...

A screenshot from the wedding ceremony of the quote-tweeted author (Helen Andrews, nee Rittelmeyer) in the post above as uploaded to YouTube in the above showing her (white wedding gown, black glasses, tall white lit candle in hand) and her husband (black suit jacket, white dress shirt, white tie, tall lit white candle in hand) in a matching set of orthodox wedding crowns (black hoop, burgundy body, gold accents & monde) with various onlookers in attendance

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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 6d

Having worked in or related to the restaurant/bar industry for decades, this sounds relatively par for the course👍

A screenshot from the Stanley Kubrick film "The Shining" showing Lloyd the bartender behind the bar of the Colorado Room as the Overlook Hotel after asking Jack Torrance what he would like to drink before being both praised and talked to in very loud tones as seen below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnzYWsdHEpM

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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 6d

This is what happens when you cut corners 👍

A picture of an aisle in a Sheetz convenience store featuring PB+J "SAMMICH" products in both grape jelly (purple/yellow) & honey (brown/yellow) flavors; the shape of the sandwich is squared off rather than rounded as examples in the above complaint are.

I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 6d

Requiescat in pace👍

The Mist Opening Scene

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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 6d

Our Grandfather came to the US from Lietuva around the same timeframe & someone during the process decided there were too many damn letters in their name that they did not want to keep writing again & again on the forms. So, now there is a branch of the family tree that is easily distinguishable 👍

A blue & white text street sign in Lorton Virginia with text as follows: (gray structural traffic sign arm on which it is attached; trees with green leaves in the background; gray overcast skies):

<--- CHERWEK DR

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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 7d

At least I knew this 1950's fiction was full of it from the get-go 👍

A copy of Robert A. Heinlein's novel "Starship Troopers" (Space marine on the cover; purplish mechanical background; white text held in my left hand in front of a bookcase with various other books in various genres

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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 8d

Who exactly do you think is the "Thought-Police" in this situation...? 👍

A post of Twitter/X by Caitlin Flanagan quote-tweeting a post showing NYU faculty peacefully assembling with text as follows (LINK: https://x.com/CaitlinPacific/status/1782862405304983838?lang=en):

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NYU faculty creating a ring around the Gaza solidarity encampment to protect their students after the school threatened mass arrest. So beautiful.
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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 8d

Generally not a jacket person, but I got this a couple years ago & it seems to garner instant attention every time I wear it. Not always a good thing, but it does make things interesting 👍

A medium brown leather suede jacket with lighter brown stripes on the upper arms & neckline hanging on the back of a white door; my left hand pulling the left sleeve across the front of the jacket

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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 9d

Sorry, forgot you were Balmer, Hon 👍

A National Bohemian beer ( white with Maryland colored accents, black yellow & red) with a yellow Jello shot in a clear plastic tub atop, on a darker brown wooden bar; my left hand in the foreground extending the Middle Finger of Endearment at the camera

I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 9d

Scrambling the incentives of the party in power should be a goal of an effective opposition party...no? I mildly agree with his position here over yours; however, I am about to have Jello shots, which seems like a mildly more productive use of my Saturday afternoon at the moment (unfortunately!) 👍

A can of Pabst Blue Ribon beer (white, red & blue accents) with a red Jello shot in a clear plastic tub atop, on a darker brown wooden bar; lemons, limes, & mint stocked at the bar in the background; my left hand in the foreground extending the Middle Finger of Endearment at the camera

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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 9d

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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · Sep 20

Seriously, like our kids learned this lesson before they aged into double digits 👍

A picture of our oldest son's room when he was ~5 years old, a "Rage Against the Machine" poster (black background, white text, rest fist image) on a purple wall with him and his younger brother pointing at it while giggling at the lyrics we just listened to (F-bombs)

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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 9d

He did so a couple posts above that one 👍

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9d

This is the thing. Republicans blocked a standalone Dem bill in the House to pay the troops because they thought it would weaken their ability to just get Dems to fold on the clean CR.

Thom Weaver @thomweaver24.bsky.social · 9d

That sound you just heard is Johnson and Thune loudly shitting themselves. He just completely eliminated their leverage

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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 9d

The "Set List" 👍
youtu.be/3ajABuRj67o?...

A "setlist" on white paper in black marker from the sketch in the YouTube link posted above with text as follows:

Set List 7/28
CRAP
POOP
PURE CRAP
TRASH
TOTAL CRAP
CRUD
MORE POOP
GARBAGE
EARLY CRAP
POOP (ACOUSTIC)
TURD

I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 9d

So many options for music mayhem on a Saturday morning 👍

A screenshot from the Touch Tunes app (black background/white text) showing various local jukeboxes, mostly unavailable at local restaurants but available at the BMW dealership and the American Legion

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I am Jack's Cellphone @jackscellphone.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah, but they look cute 👍

A mini yellow bell pepper held in my left hand; beige ceramic tile in the background along with partially seen medium brown kitchen cabinets