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woike.bsky.social
Retired academic. Old band director. Lover of Democracy. Prolific punster. Sarcasmastic. Facebook and Xitter refugee. Cat lover. Apple geek. Star Trek devotee (Infinite Diversity, Infinite Combinations). Happily married to a linguist. No bots allowed here.
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submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

What a different world we could have.

submitted 16 hours ago • 692 comments

👋 Hey Kids!!! Get ready to either laugh uproariously or sob inconsolably, cuz it's time for either the SUNDAY FUNNIES or the TRUTHFUL TRAGEDIES, depending on your own personal point-of-view. #Enjoy 🤣 (or) #Despair 😩

submitted 11 hours ago • 613 comments

Happy "that thing shouldn't even have a clock on it" day to all who celebrate.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Oh myyy

submitted 1 day ago • 3777 comments

And watch the incompetently engineered, flaming SpaceX rocket debris fill the sky like the most expensive fireworks in history.

submitted 1 day ago • 1098 comments

They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.

submitted 1 day ago • 324 comments

The nation’s “Conservation President,” Theodore Roosevelt created the Bureau of Forestry in 1905, with Gifford Pinchot as its first Chief.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Today, 08 March, is National Proofreading Day. Please celibate responsibly.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

And to calm down.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Elon, I'm gonna need you to provide 5 things you accomplished this week. Looks like a lot of wasteful government spending.

submitted 2 days ago • 184 comments

Might save a life.

submitted 2 days ago • 250 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Everything got so stupid so quickly.

submitted 2 days ago • 1181 comments

This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.

submitted 2 days ago • 840 comments

Yeah, the news is bad, but I’m an eternal optimist…sometimes.

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BREAKING: "At 1:15 PM tomorrow, President Trump will pick a country's name out of a MAGA hat and impose crippling tariffs on that country's goods for four minutes. This will happen daily until America is great again."

submitted 2 days ago • 216 comments

What. The. Actual. F**k.

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submitted 3 days ago • 235 comments

Unfair to Vader who, unlike Leon, saw the error of his ways & repented.

submitted 3 days ago • 744 comments

I see what you did there.

submitted 3 days ago • 141 comments

Re-upping today.

submitted 3 days ago • 143 comments

I hope it passes!!

submitted 4 days ago • 705 comments

Bribes. They’re known as bribes.

submitted 3 days ago • 494 comments

You know it’s windy outside when you go outside and it’s windy.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

“We have biweekly meetings.” Does this mean meetings “occurring every two weeks” or "meetings occurring twice a week”? Yes.

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

They’re schrodinger's tariffs both on and off forever and ever.

submitted 3 days ago • 126 comments

Oh, deep in my heart I know that I do believe We shall stand around and sort of disapprove mildly, someday

submitted 3 days ago • 75 comments

The stakes are just too high.

submitted 4 days ago • 352 comments

Today’s Bonus Cartoon, by Emily Flake. #NewYorkerCartoons

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

“.. we have cancelled the third engagement of ‘Hamilton’ at the Kennedy Center .. we cannot presently support an institution that has been forced by external forces to betray its mission ..” @hamiltonmusical.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 40 comments

1. The DOGE idiots do something stupid without thinking of the consequences 2. CONSEQUENCES 3. The DOGE idiots try to reverse what they just did 4. REPEAT

submitted 4 days ago • 148 comments

Hey DOGE, I found some unelected bureaucrats with bloated salaries! www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

BREAKING: House Speaker Mike Johnson's chief of staff, Hayden Haynes, was arrested on a DUI charge Tuesday night after President Trump's address to Congress, law enforcement sources say.

submitted 4 days ago • 176 comments

So much for “We the People”

submitted 4 days ago • 396 comments

I know because I’m old enough to have been there when they adopted it.

submitted 4 days ago • 210 comments

🤣🤣🤣🤣

submitted 4 days ago • 525 comments

Taking my Trump derangement syndrome to new heights. (Stay for the finale.) 🧹🫧💚🇺🇸 #NewVideo #DefyDemocracy #Parody

submitted 4 days ago • 241 comments

My God, RR’s brilliant. https://youtu.be/KpPIxcntxkE?si=FjbpI05yOkV9K5Hx

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Helpful graphic:

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

One more time for the people in the back.

submitted 5 days ago • 436 comments

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” Theodore Roosevelt

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

I’m rather disappointed that I didn’t hear about the late, great Hannibal Lecter during tRump’s speech last night.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

JUST FYI EVERYONE, IF YOU SEE A POST THAT SAYS IT LINKS TO LUIGI MANGIONE'S SEX TAPE DON'T CLICK ON IT!! THERE'S A VIRUS THAT PUTS EVERYTHING YOU TYPE IN CAPITAL LETTERS

submitted 5 days ago • 549 comments

I have a bad feeling about this…

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Noooo…

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —FDR, 1937

submitted 5 days ago • 241 comments