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Blocking trump images. Him his - ally to all margins. Calumny is the noise of madmen Author: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Joseph_Gillis/works Free Plays▶️: https://ericheismanandtheformation.bandcamp.com/ Author: https://a.co/d/8yFLYb5

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Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 17d

Zeta is a five year old, adventurous, lost child. Two old retired cats help her get home.

I took a break one night from writing the wip and this stream of consciousness required little editing.
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I hope you enjoy it, the wip is a published debut now.

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Zeta Goes for a Ride - Joseph_Gillis - Original Work [Archive of Our Own]

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Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 11h

I love Mr. Flacco! His interviews are the best. I hope he strikes gold in Cinci.

Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 1d

Flights? Not on my radar.

Folk less fortunate than I and others struggling? My number one concern.

a drawing of a swirl with the words i understand on it

Alt: a drawing of a pink swirled heart on an all black canvas, with the words - -I understand - - on it

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Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 2d

I brok choo ta webble.
Tú gloffn par yah piddam.
Fo mockle zaa brea.
Hippny chibb maa ninner loo.

Have you read Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac. Entire paragraphs of scat. Just trusting Jack is an odd read. (above is my original improv scat.)
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Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 2d

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Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 2d

Such straight forward, one part questions, and she turned them into mental marathons of grade school level drivel. "Have you seen pictures of trump with half naked children?" "Senator, how much money have you taken from Epstein's friend?"

I'd like that answer, too, but lead with yes or no, trumper.

Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 3d

My debut included two species, one unrevealed, likely humanish, from a failing planet in the Sombrero Galaxy.

The other, near-pure-energy beings, had hitched a ride. These beings were unlike Asimov's Lucky Starr, but research had led me to the earliest mention in canon of pure-energy beings.

Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you!
Have a lovely weekend, my dear friend!

Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 5d

A 7 year old angel is one of Tom's best friends, so the sprinkles are for her smile.
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Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 5d

Plateaus are a total drag. I'm on one. Having lost weight and gotten blood pressure down, this last five pounds is a too-long back and forth. It will start dropping again, stay the course, I tell myself, too. When a new low comes off that scale, it will be an inspiration. Best Wishes!

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Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 5d

The plan:
Chocolate Chip Cookies with sprinkles!

Maybe I'll use thin icing to design pumpkin faces with sprinkles!

Something about me not in my profile is, as a baker, precision is priceless.

The chaos of sprinkles is disarming. 🥹

So, no faces. WWIT? (What was I thinking?)
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These cookies are so good!

Extra Cacao and extra chips! The chips used today are milk chocolate, for a change. Almost no icing and then dipped into a bowl of sprinkle chaos.

I actually sat for thirty minutes trying to separate the colors. That was a dead end. I did use those by taste testing them, yum!

In my mind, I had carved pumpkin faces with triangle nose, Cheshire cat smiling eyes and a zig-zag mouth. I had one cookie ready, dipped it and umm, it was chaos and effectively just covered the cookie with sprinkles. So, I just went with that, honestly, rolling my eyes the entire time I pulled each cookie out of the bowl. They are super yum!

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Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 5d

What a wonderful service that is for the least among us, thank you and your team!

winnie the pooh and piglet are giving each other a high five and saying `` thank you '' .

Alt: Winnie the Pooh and Piglet are carrying a dialogue bubble into the cartoon that reads "Thank you"

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Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 5d

Wow! You'll be making this day better for so many! May God bless you and each of those you see today!

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Lorenzo805 @loman805.bsky.social · 5d

Hola Jo-Jo(have a cousin with that name)☕☕☕🥞🥞🥞🥓🥓🥓🍓🍓🍳❤️🙏😇 I haven't seen anyone use spoons as a musical instrument in 50 plus years. I think it's a lost art now. Sounds like you are going to have a pachanga today! Please enjoy!!

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Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 5d

I tried finding a washboard being played. The spoons was actually in a few gifs. It'll be fun! Thank you, Lorenzo! I pray your day is your favorite sort of day!
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Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 5d

Good Morning, Lorenzo!
Good Morning, Breakfast Club!
Making cookies today for a birthday party. At the party, we'll be playing music too, a bunch of great people!

I hope you have a lovely Saturday, all!

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Alt: a man with a beard is sitting on a bench with his eyes closed and playing the spoons!

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Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 6d

"The Whole World is Watching," sounds sadly correct today.

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Someday (August 29, 1968) (2002 Remaster)

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Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 6d

His deal with the NFL, all songs will be sung in Spanish. He was okay on SNL, didn't knock my socks off, and I have written a song in Spanish. But I support him 100% and will watch. I like the kid.

Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 6d

Drove up to Wapakoneta today, swung through Sidney for the scenic view. This is Ohio!

The Space Museum in Wapak is cool! No need to get out of the car to see a sweet old jet! This is red and white and I don't know much about it. It's not a huge vessel. It looks fast!

Al lunar landing module and another capsule sort of gizmo here, You can touch it, but while I was there, I didn't get out of the car.

As I was leaving the lot, I saw this and took a picture. Another aircraft sits out front of the museum. The museum has a dome, that when I was a child in the early 1970s was open to schools as a planetarium.

I wanted to hit the far Eastern edge of Piqua, and rt. 25-A, an old road that was the main highway to Florida from Piqua and Sidney, Ohio. Interstate 75 has rendered this once heavily traveled highway cut up a bit. The old road had sharp turns and cities ran the old road in a path that opened up as much of the city to the traffic as possible, meaning many turns through many neighborhoods. 25-A is Piqua's Main Street.

In Sidney, 25-A was an artery that trains were routed over top of, as in this video screen shot. You're surrounded by houses and trees, heading South, and as you exit town, you see this huge railroad structure almost Aqueduct like structure maybe 40 ft, over ten meters tall and spanning a great valley. A relative passed working on this structure. They are buried with their cart in the concrete, my Uncle told me. There is a commemorative plaque bearing his name and perhaps the name of his beast of burden. Nothing like this in Piqua. It seems Roman.

Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 6d

See Rome. Sick Tiberius parties and a senate with no power is likely in that future, which I will never abide. (I'd rather starve in Finland.)

Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 6d

From my digging, it won't work. Austerity is not welcome there, it is clear. Plus, it is investing in a really lousy sort.

Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 7d

I'm up to 1800 steps, which, 400 of my old man steps is 1/13 of a mile, so, a little over a quarter mile now. It's going slow. I'm walking more than I'd've guessed, by now, but the numbers, BP snd weight, very slow coming down.

Thanks for asking!

You started a beautiful thing! Thank you!
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Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 7d

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Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 7d

I wasn't all that, but go on. Lol!
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Thank you!

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Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 7d

"If you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room—of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future". That is how he started. Also:
Gen. McCaffrey called the speeches "one of the most bizarre, unsettling events" he had ever seen.
Gen. Hertling described it as "embarrassing".

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Joseph P. Gillis @josephpgillis.bsky.social · 7d

Hi, Lorenzo! Good morning! I served breakfast a couple days, one wonkily, but I learned. I'm jazzed seeing you back at it!

Have a best day, all you Breakfast Club gems!

(Time for me to get to a walkin'!)

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Alt: Morning Walk with a taste of Keep On Truckin'! GIF A happy cartoon character is having a happy walk with a big gate and with a joyously bouncing Sun and pretty purple flowers!

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