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@sgazzetti.bsky.social

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Never broken a bone. Mercator’s projection deplorer, Grice’s maxims supporter. Like but not identical to patience on a monument. Fascist-hating army vet in The Land of Enchantment.

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sgazzetti @sgazzetti.bsky.social · Nov 14

Batter my heart, three-personed fry-cook.

sgazzetti @sgazzetti.bsky.social · 1d

Albuquerque sky closes out a variable Saturday on a high note:

A pastel sunset reflected on the west-facing ridge of the Sandía Crest, pink, purple, and orange, with a sherbet cloud bank above and behind.

sgazzetti @sgazzetti.bsky.social · 1d

No balloons aloft today as Balloon Fiesta 2025 winds down. Also grounded: a very damp (Cooper’s?) hawk, who stopped by for a while during a rare midday downpour.

A wet hawk perches on a cinder block wall, looking pretty pissed off about the weather.

sgazzetti @sgazzetti.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t over.

The same image as above, sans cat. The pocket tools abide, but Jimmy will be back.

sgazzetti @sgazzetti.bsky.social · 1d

Absolute banger this week.

sgazzetti @sgazzetti.bsky.social · 1d

Jimmy is pointedly *not* pushing any Swiss Army knives or Leathermen off this credenza, but he is nothing if not patient.
#caturday

An entitled gray male tabby cat perches innocently on a walnut credenza, pointedly not pushing any objects off of it to clatter to oblivion.

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sgazzetti @sgazzetti.bsky.social · 11d

“I fear President Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interests are not affected.”

“Is he correct?”

sgazzetti @sgazzetti.bsky.social · 3d

Few so-called news outlets have the vinegar to stand up to the pedophile-industrial complex, but The Onion knows which side of their bread is buttered by non-pedophiles, and I say hurrah! HURRAH!

Screenshot stating that the Onion’s seminal biopic of Jeffrey Epstein, detailing his intricate friendship connections to Donald Trump, is widely available, including on YouTube. It is called “Jeffrey Epstein; Bad Pedophile.” Watch it over and over and hide yer dottirs!

sgazzetti @sgazzetti.bsky.social · 3d

@monteiro.bsky.social in his newsletter nails it hard this week:

Screenshot from Mike Monteiro’s indispensable newsletter reading: “If you had dinner with a trans friend on Tuesday, and dinner with fascists on Thursday, your trans friend had dinner with a fascist on Tuesday.”

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 4d

Me, in the bathroom

Cat: omg I need you it's an emergency

Me: no

Cat: omg yes it is

Me, coming out of the bathroom: fine, what?

Cat: huh? what do you want?

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rionchama 🖤💛 @rionchama.bsky.social · 4d

hkim0817 sharing on IG writes:

Ever tried REAL kimchi?

Now's your chance!

K-Kimchi Festival

Saturday, October 25, 2025

10 AM - 4 PM

KAANM Center
9607 Menaul Blvd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87112

www.instagram.com/p/DPer8UTEj9...

Korean American Association of New Mexico

K - KIMCHI FESTIVAL

2025/10/25 Sat

10 AM - 4 PM

@9607 MENAUL BLVD NE, ALBUQUREUQUE NM 87112

CONTACT US

(505) 271-1777

INFO@KAANM.COM

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hkim0817 sharing on IG writes:

Ever tried REAL kimchi?

Now's your chance!

Join us at the K-Kimchi Festival for a day filled with authentic flavors, culture, and community.

Saturday, October 25, 2025

10 AM - 4 PM

KAANM Center - 9607 Menaul Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87112

sgazzetti @sgazzetti.bsky.social · 4d

A rare cloudy morning in ABQ, but the balloonists got the green flag for mass ascension. Here are the northernmost dozen of the 50 or so aloft by 7:20.

12 balloons rise against a backdrop of clouds and ridgeline at Albuquerque’s 53rd Annual Balloon Fiesta.

sgazzetti @sgazzetti.bsky.social · 8d

He looks super-pleased

sgazzetti @sgazzetti.bsky.social · 10d

“That’s a relief, because the last people you want unhappy with you in Saudi Arabia are the people with the famous bone saws.”
Fixed.

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jagosaurus @jagosaurus.bsky.social · 10d

I would pay good folding money to read a long-form piece about the actors who play Roman soldiers, prehistoric humans, druids, etc., in science and history programs.

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𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖒𝖞𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖑𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 🕯️ @warmyellowlight.bsky.social · 11d

might like to see a glacier before they’re all gone

sgazzetti @sgazzetti.bsky.social · 11d

Better yet: walk on one. It’ll change your life. (Could also end it. Glaciers can be dangerous.)

sgazzetti @sgazzetti.bsky.social · 11d

I trust you’ve seen the updated riff on this classic from January of this year (when we all knew on a cognitive level but did not really, deep down, believe that what was coming was *really* coming? And it is now here.

www.democraticunderground.com/100219957461

Who Goes MAGA? - Democratic Underground Forums

www.democraticunderground.com

sgazzetti @sgazzetti.bsky.social · 11d

My kid learning of the passing of Jane Goodall:
“The gorilla lady? Was it *by* gorilla?

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Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 11d

gulp

a single panel of a color newsprint comic showing a very concerned skeleton standing in a mid century american looking living room. He’s got his hand on his head and is saying “My flesh! My clothes! What happend to them? I’m…GULP…A S-SKELETON! ………GULP……"

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 11d

let the gourd times roll

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12d

"I’m the first guy to get a whole circle, it’s terrific. They evicted the Kennedys to put it in. Nobody, and I mean nobody else, has this much abyss."

Trump Shows Off His Own Circle of Hell

I’m the first guy to get a whole circle, it’s terrific. They evicted the Kennedys to put it in. Nobody, and I mean nobody else, has this much abyss...

sgazzetti @sgazzetti.bsky.social · 11d

“I fear President Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interests are not affected.”

“Is he correct?”

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 11d

open.substack.com/pub/logicall...

The Deafening Silence

I watched the coverage of Trump and Hegseth speaking to the military yesterday with a kind of uneasy fascination.

open.substack.com

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 12d

The Generals: are we about to get Long Knifed?

Trump: have some laughs and clappies fellas!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Trump to a room of generals: "I've never walked into a room so silent before. Just have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud."

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 12d

if i were a would-be dictator whose only civilian check on power had been consumed by total-complete partisan loyalty, something i would definitely do is call an unprecedented in-person meeting of the only people who could stop me and then proceed to illustrate why they should stop me