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Be Jay, Do Crimes 🦌
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Museum Nerd, Deadhead, and Dork Lord of the Sith. Master Gardener. Hunter. Jack of all trades. Veteran of the War on Drugs. Gizzard King of the Gizzard King Cabal.
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A photo of a Hobbit hole with the caption “Strong Floor; Low Ceiling.”
November 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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A photo of a Hobbit hole captioned “Strong Floor; Low Ceiling.”
November 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Pete Hegseth- Secretary of War Crimes
November 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Pete Hegseth- Secretary of War Crimes
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Pete Hegseth- Secretary of War Crimes.
November 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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A red panda making a threat display with the caption “I am alarm.”
November 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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🎵And Mrs. Templin called for brunch!🎵
Scrambled egg with veggies and cheese sammich on hash brown patties and a cup of coffee as black as a moonless midnight.
November 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Pete Hegseth with the caption “Secretary of War Crimes.”
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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A photo of Pete Hegseth shouting “Kill ‘em all” angrily in front of a tasteless American flag-based background with the title “Secretary of War Crimes.”
November 29, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Because SLIMY and SEDITIOUS DEMOCRATS have STOLEN the color Blue from True Blue (or should I say True Red) Americans, THE COLOR BLUE IS NOW AN ABOMINATION UNTO NUGGAN! It is now TOTALLY ILLEGAL to look at anything Blue including the sky and the sea. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
More idiotic shrieking from the Marmalade Mussolini, claiming things that aren’t true and powers he doesn’t have. Transcription below. Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect. The Autopen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the President of the United States. The Radical Left Lunatics circling Biden around the beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office took the Presidency away from him. I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally. Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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My Bride came by while I was working, so here’s a shot of your Humble Narrator working on the deer. The leg bones you see will be turned into things like needles, knives, arrowheads and fishhooks. The lower leg bones are very dense and strong. Like wood, they are easier to work when fresh.
Middle aged guy cutting up a deer with a stone flake. The surface I’m working on top of is actually the bottom of a quintan (a dugout canoe) that we’re in the process of making. Very convenient working height! A goose and a duck on a spit over a fire. Hanging near the fire, barely visible unless you zoom in, are some slices of venison we’re smoking. The Powhatan didn’t have ready access to salt, so smoking was pretty much the only way they had to preserve meat in the 17th century. Fruits and vegetables were typically sun-dried.
November 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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You can’t even believe what a joy a fresh, sharp flake is to work with! It requires so little effort to cut through hide and meat, it’s almost like having a zipper. The edge on a fresh flake can literally be thousands of times finer (hence sharper) than any steel blade ever made. Also less durable.
November 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Historically, you don’t see the pretty,standardized cuts of meat you see from a modern butcher. It’s all about efficient conversion of the animal into usable parts. Faunal remains indicate that many animals were taken apart along the natural divisions between muscles and along bones.
Fred, working on the deer. I cleaned the ribs more than I normally would because we need them to make the curved needles used for sewing mats onto the frame of a yehakin. Removing a roast with a stone blade. Venison. Yum!
November 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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A picture of Krampus menacing a young girl, captioned “My neck, my back, my naughty children sack!”
November 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Fred’s deer. He got it yesterday morning with a Lee-Enfield rifle in .303 that he borrowed from his brother. Range was about 130 or so yards, deer was quartering to. He hit high, got the spine, and it dropped in place. He had to finish the job with a .357 to the neck.
Deer was shot with a rifle, gutted with a steel knife. Today we’re skinning and butchering using sharp flakes of stone, which I’m doing as a training class for the interpretive staff at a local museum. The stone flakes beside the deer are novaculite and dacite, which we’re using because they aren’t stones the Powhatan used, so we aren’t wrecking the archaeological record. First order of business is an incision from one end of the deer to the other along the center line. Then from that cut, out the legs along the line where the white hair meets the brown. Then one around the neck. Now, PUT THE KNIFE DOWN. Peel the skin. Best written set of instructions I’ve found for the process is in Matt Richards’ book “Deerskins into Buckskins.” I don’t have any pictures of the skinning because I had both hands in the deer.
November 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Not even once.
An angry Black woman scolding her daughter for trying some damn fool shit she saw on the Internet instead of making Auntie Karen’s macaroni and cheese for thanksgiving, even though Auntie Karen gave her the damn recipe.
November 28, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Post something random to have an awesome December?
Worth a shot…
A Cadbury egg with a blue crab emerging from it.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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John Smith, trading for corn. (1609, colourised)
Fozzie Bear dressed as a Pilgrim, holding a blunderbus and an ear of corn.
November 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health
A cartoon of a baby deer captioned “I’m tired and my brain is soup.”
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Thanksgiving breakfast shakshuka, just like the Pilgrims ate!
A bowl of shakshuka- eggs poached in a hearty tomato stew.
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Still showing up for me. Thank goodness!

Things I am bad at

1. Remembering to use alt text
A picture of a coyote scampering across a snowy field with the caption: My Resume things I am good at 1. Scampering
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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The “are we the baddies” meme, but the Nazi is Peter Thiel asking “Is it me? Am I the Antichrist?”
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The “are we the baddies” meme, but the Nazi is Peter Thiel asking “Is it me? Am I the Antichrist?”
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Today was my 22nd anniversary at work. For the first time, I celebrated the day by not going to work. Back at it in the morning, though.
This was one of my first gigs at work. The four of us were sent to a winery in Fauquier County to be an honour guard. Only two of us are still alive, and we’re still doing the work albeit in different positions.
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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A photo of 20th century rock flautist Ian Anderson captioned “Who you think I mean when I mention Jethro Tull” next to a portrait of 17th century agricultural guru Jethro Tull, captioned “Who I actually mean when I mention Jethro Tull.”
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 AM