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The most horrifying part in their "consolidated reply": they agree that they could in fact cause permanent eye damage to people using medium-sized telescopes. WILD.

#NoKings sign, Little Rock, AR

#LittleRock #USPol

Amazing

https://bsky.app/profile/jentaub.bsky.social/post/3mi5puxdfzs2r

#NoKings #Michigan #SesameStreet

Lol! I am like that!

Small purchase on a small device, big purchase on a big device

When I was a teenager in the '90s, my boyfriend at the time gave me his old skateboard.

The trucks and wheels were fine, but the deck was heavily used and the design had been scraped off most of the bottom, so I took some paint markers and decorated it by painting a black and white checkerboard background with a large stormtrooper head in the foreground because Star Wars and ska were two of my favorite things at the time.

I was mostly just a poser and barely rode it and it remained in the back of my car for several years until I was at a sporting goods store and saw a kid doing tricks on a demo deck and I told him he was really good and he said "Thanks! I have to practice here because I don’t have a skateboard."

At that moment, I remembered my backseat skateboard and told him he could have it, but warned him that the "graphic" was kind of nerdy so he was more than welcome to draw/paint over it.

I went out to my car and grabbed the skateboard and brought it to the front of the store where the kid was waiting and he flipped it over and said "Whoa! Star Wars and ska?!? These are two of my favorite things!"

I’m so glad that skateboard finally found the right owner.

My eldest and I just came up with a limerick based on the names we gave our two Mastodon plushies (you can see them in my profile picture):

Fruity and Tooty:

The Mastodons Tooty and Fruity
Treat their tooting like it's a duty
But they eat too much fruit
And instead of their snoot
The toots come out of their booty