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Mike Vogt
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Retired means every day is a Saturday!
Math and science nerd. Current age is a prime number! 😎
Good music is my oldest friend. ❤️
Not ashamed of a life spent growing the 'sin' of empathy.
Thought this might be fun. Two songs that have apposing messages.
#MusicSky
#MusicChallenege
Head East - Love Me Tonight
Touch - When The Spirit Moves You
November 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
A cover of Toots & the Maytals "Monkey Man" that surpasses The Specials cover.
#MusicSky

youtu.be/e6STkfnP1w4?...
MONKEY MAN(THE SPECIALS cover)/ ORESKABAND@恵比寿LIQUIDROOM
YouTube video by ORESKABAND
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree."

-William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (28 Nov 1757-1827)
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Reposted by Mike Vogt
"We invented phonetic writing so we could put our sounds down on paper and, by glancing at a page, hear someone speaking in our head—an invention that became so widespread in the last few thousand years that we hardly ever stop to consider how astonishing it is."

-Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead."

-Arundhati Roy, writer and activist (b. 24 Nov 1961)
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
"To learn who rules over you, simply find out whom you are not allowed to criticize."

-Voltaire, philosopher (21 Nov 1694-1778)
November 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live."

-Holmes Rolston III, professor of philosophy (19 Nov 1932-2025)
November 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Reposted by Mike Vogt
Art from the "DOCTOR WHO ANNUAL 1981". #DoctorWho #scifiart
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Reposted by Mike Vogt
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
😆 😂 🤣 😘 😜
November 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Reposted by Mike Vogt
"Kneel before the might of Sutekh!"

"Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars" part 4 (1975). #DoctorWho #DrWho
November 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Reposted by Mike Vogt
😏
November 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love."

-Claude Monet, painter (14 Nov 1840-1926)
November 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
"It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (13 Nov 1850-1894)
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
[1/2] "No one in this world, so far as I know -- and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me -- has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."
November 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Reposted by Mike Vogt
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."

-Oliver Goldsmith, writer and physician (10 Nov 1730-1774)
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Every accusation is always an admission of something already done, or something wished for.
November 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Reposted by Mike Vogt
😂
November 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Not shown is the crying toddler left buckled in the car seat.
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A deep cut that's going into heavy rotation for a while.
#MusicSky
youtu.be/-NuVB8aX6z8?...
Here Comes President Kill Again (2001 Remaster)
YouTube video by XTC - Topic
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The joy of learning about a true hero is tempered by only finding out about them after their death.
Opinion: Remembering Bob Trumpy — NFL great, broadcaster, and life-saver
Bob Trumpy has died. While he leaves a fine legacy as a Cincinnati sportscaster, his best moment might have been the two hours he spoke with a desperate and depressed woman who called into his show.
www.npr.org
November 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Surprisingly though, not the first Llama.
The Dalai Lama would be the first Dalai Lama to win a Grammy

www.stereogum.com/2329066/gram...
November 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Even the Right side of his face is losing to the Left! 😆
He’s been falling asleep everywhere lately.

Sleepy Don
November 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
November 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM