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Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 7h

You love to see it! Go BlueJays!

a group of men sit at a table in front of a sign that says the long road home

Alt: David Ortiz saying ‘Daaaaa….Yankees Lose!!!’ As Alex Rodriguez looks on laughing. Others are briefly seen in the gif.

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Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 8h

Inflatable green frog costume with blue bandanna standing in front of a line of overly-militarized individuals and other protesters and media.

Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 9h

It shouldn’t have to be said, but I am, in fact, a member of Antifa. I’d be a card-carrying member, but my Soros check doesn’t cover that AND the Portland-branded inflatable frog costume, so…I guess, you’ll just have to take my word for it.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 17h

Stand up for the rights of trans folks because everyone should have human rights and freedom to live their lives, it's really not complicated.

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Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 12h

The name of the city: Louisville. A definitive IYKYK situation.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 15h

Wait til you hear about baskarts.

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Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 19h

In Trump's America, you're an order of magnitude more likely to get attacked on the street by ICE and the National Guard than by any foreign gang member.

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Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 1d

Your IKEA product is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut.

NORÄA is an outdoor umbrella that isn’t weighted so it must be held down even in a slight breeze lest it end up in the neighbors’ yard.

eigenvogel.bsky.social @eigenvogel.bsky.social · 1d

ELLIVRÖ is a home automation hub that just does what you need it to do without a fuss 90% of the time, but is infuriating the other 10%.

Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 1d

Your IKEA product is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut.

ANÄD, an occasional table. Like the kind Llewellyn had: it’s occasionally there. Usually it’s not there. Where is it then? It can’t tell you, it’s a table.

Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 1d

Yo Gabba Gabba was one of the few shows that didn’t make me lose my mind when the kids were little. My wife and I still sing the ‘party in my tummy’ song when we’re eating as a family. It’s a catchy groove.

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Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 1d

<begin rant>

I love the self-checkout at the grocery (and elsewhere), but like drive-thru and ATM lanes, they should really be reserved for the percent of the populace who are not too much of a fucking imbecile to work them in an efficient manner.

<end rant…for now>

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Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 1d

Nice shot. Saw several of these on my vacation in Hilton Head last week. I love their whistling call.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody tell me why Amy McGrath thinks it’s a good idea for her to run for Senate. Again.

Does she just have money to burn? Poor advisers? No real job? If we loan her a fighter jet, will she just fly away? Please?!

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Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 2d

Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

Sculpture of a muscular man pushing a large rock up a hill, a la Sisyphus.

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Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 2d

This. I’m planning to be there! I mean, I did 100 and 200, so might as well continue the trend. If you want to join me, the run/jog/walk starts at 9, down near the creek on the Trevilian side.

Supposed to be cool and sunny. Don’t miss one of the three days of fall we’re supposed to have this year.

Joe Creason parkrun @joecreasonparkrun.bsky.social · 23d

In a little less than a month (Oct 11) we'll be hosting our 300th free weekly 5K! We've been providing Louisville a free, regular, hassle-free way to get together and get a little exercise since April 2018. We'd love to have a huge crowd that morning so tell all friends and make plans to join us!

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Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 2d

Autumn is scheduled for about 37 minutes on Wednesday afternoon around 3 pm. Summer will begin immediately following. Plan accordingly.

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 2d

Is it just me, or do these two have similar familiarity with the actual truth?

Man in glasses and brown military uniform with cap, Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, also known as ‘Baghdad Bob’

White man in dark suit with blue tie, Stephen Miller

Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 2d

Also, with Republic of Tea, I think you’re paying for packaging. And I don’t know where you stand on caf/decaf, but rooibos has been a fave of ours for 20+ years and is great with a bit of milk.

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Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 2d

I know you’re not trying to spend a fortune, and Tazo and Bigelow (official tea of the Boston Red Sox!) are good, but my wife has been buying Vahdam over the past couple years and they are really good. I hesitate to look at the price…I’d rather not know.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it

Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations

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Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 2d

As I sit in my home office, plowing through last week’s email (from vacation), I am enjoying the various #birds who visit the backyard. In particular, the Tufted Titmouse and the White-Breasted Nuthatch which are filling the air with song. #addbirder

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Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 3d

Unfortunately my #RedSox are out of the postseason, but I’m thrilled that the #BlueJays are hammering those Bronx losers into the ground!

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Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 3d

I did it! I DID IT! It took me many moons, many states, many times of dropping successive tomes on my face while reading before bed, but I completed Proust. #MarcelProust #FriendsofProust #Alarecherchedutempsperdu

I can now enter Monty Python’s ‘All-England Summarize Proust Competition.’

A set of six books comprising Proust’s ‘In Search of Lost Time’ in varying shades of bronze and linen, with a background image of a removable collar.

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Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 3d

Sheer luck!

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