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David Brooks
@grandpadavid.bsky.social
Microsoft alum, UK/US citizen, municipal volunteer.

Lt-Col (retd), Antifa Freedonia regiment.

Proud husband of @jeanniebrooks.bsky.social and dad of @johnbrooks.bsky.social.

"Use every man after his desert, and who should ’scape whipping?"
Warm milk and your favorite blankie?
December 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
They're expecting a newborn to signal consent?
December 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
In Welglish, Myllyllated Spyrŵt.
December 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
<s>19</s>9
December 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Oh, sorry, did you mean methamffetamin?
December 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Gwirod methyledig. You're welcome.
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
From the new MuskDuffy truck company, boasting 19 MPGe!
December 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Quick, get one before the panels fall off!
December 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
But, until that happens, let's keep vaccinating!

(Flashback to "don't give birth control lessons in school because parents should do that")
December 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Steam-powered cars! They can use the wood panels as a backup if out of coal.
December 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If you run out of coal on the freeway you can shove wood in the boiler.

I learned that tip from the Automobile Association in 1893.
December 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Christian, no.
December 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
So two wrongs make a right after all. Got it.
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
@jeanniebrooks.bsky.social was so pissed that a Republican was in Teddy's seat that she flew from our then home in Seattle to work on the Warren campaign. I joined for the last couple of days
December 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
You mis-spelled SSECRETARY.
December 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Blood coming out of their wherever?
December 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
But we only got Scott Brown because Martha Coakley treated the seat as an inheritance, and never knew the score of last night's game (a disqualifying failure).
December 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The Streisand effect!
December 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Alt text: Bruises, swollen ankles and drooping eyes: Donald Trump is increasingly showing signs of aging.
December 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Prithee, noble Jerry, mock us not,
Lest I, though sad, unfollow...
[The assembled company]: David, no!
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It's Dave Wasserman. He's the guy.
December 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
And clicks his heels.
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Not to mention my grandkids' grandfather.
December 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
All the talk about Admiral Bradley, but did he order the drone operators personally? If not, then every commissioned officer in the chain has also violated the UCMJ by issuing illegal orders.
December 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM