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Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair

@swampfoot.bsky.social

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SJW. KHive. Citizen of US & Canada. Married, inexplicably. Astrophotographer & airplane whisperer. From rural Nebraska. Gun-free since 1997. I want to meet your cat. He/Him. Live on unceded Mi'kmaq land - Unama’ki, AKA Cape Breton Island.

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Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair @swampfoot.bsky.social · Aug 3

I don't get to just declare myself an ally - that's something only members of the marginalized groups I support and defend can decide about me. And, if granted, that allyship can be revoked the moment I do, say, or advocate things that harm or erase them.

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Shontel @shontelmorris.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day of mourning for the innocent civilians brutally attacked & massacred by a terrorist org who killed entire families because they were Jewish.
Hamas aren't martyrs or some resistance movement; they're sadists, murderers & rapists & anyone celebrating their actions should be condemned.

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 3h

I'm looking forward to Maggie Haberman stepping in to tell me what on earth I just heard. Put another way, the number of people who sane-washed this during the campaign should be made to answer for it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We call them the water drugs. The drugs that come in through water. They're not coming. There are no boats anymore. Frankly, there are no fishing boats. There are no boats out there period, if you want to know the truth. Does anybody go fishing anymore?"

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Marie Laveau's Modern Day BS Killer & Eater of 🍬 @youraibabydaddy.bsky.social · 3h

Yep. And it's why white wealthy people despise them and always have and always will.

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Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair @swampfoot.bsky.social · 3h

Don't trifle with frogs.

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Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair @swampfoot.bsky.social · 3h

Can't remember who originated it, but:

"I could agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong."

Sam @samuelhlowe.bsky.social · Jan 31

I’ve quit telling people that I disagree with them. Instead, I now say, “I’m gonna have to agree with myself on this one.” It’s self-positive, non-confrontational, and just weird enough to end the conversation.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 9h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair @swampfoot.bsky.social · 5h

"Yes, do you have a Miss Piggy?"

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 5h

DAILY DEMS DOING THE WORK, MAKING NOISE, AND FIGHTING BACK Day 256

What do you think Democrats aren’t doing? Cause if you want them to message a certain way and you don’t think they are? Chances are it’s happening, it’s just not getting amplified.
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Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair @swampfoot.bsky.social · 5h

So you're saying there's a chance!

Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair @swampfoot.bsky.social · 5h

Put her in charge of any airplane I'm riding in, please!

Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair @swampfoot.bsky.social · 5h

What a precious girl! She loves you so much.

Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair @swampfoot.bsky.social · 5h

"Habeas Corpus is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice."

Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair @swampfoot.bsky.social · 5h

Some of us going round the hangar back in the day quoting lines from 1980's 'Airplane' while we ensured the airworthiness of commercial airliners.

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 5h

I don't know how we can have any confidence this man knows how to handle top secret anything, let alone could tell you what day it is.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 8h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair @swampfoot.bsky.social · 5h

Next thing you know he'll be tweeting out the positions of our nuclear subs.

Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair @swampfoot.bsky.social · 5h

Pretty unsettling overall, maybe even doom-inducing.

Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair @swampfoot.bsky.social · 6h

Makes me think of the very first episode of Black Mirror which ran with the presumption the *everyone* in the country would drop what they're doing to watch the vile spectacle the PM was forced into.

Like, no f'ing way would I want to watch that.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7h

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6h

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Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair @swampfoot.bsky.social · 6h

I'm an atheist and pray for it every damned day and twice on Sunday.

Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair @swampfoot.bsky.social · 6h

California's worst prop comic, and from a state that had Gallagher, that's saying something.

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 7h

💀😭😂😂😂😂

I keep trying to tell people that California does not want Porter as our governor. We didn’t want her as our senator either.

Once again…BW warned y‘all about her when she lied on Aunty Maxine🤷🏾‍♀️

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