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Joyce Alonge

@joycealonge.bsky.social

Retired teacher striving to live “the good life”on my .4 acre ‘homestead’ in zone 6. Lifelong Democrat.

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Fun fact for today

08.08.2025 22:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Siamese Cats!

19.07.2025 17:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What a lovely still life. I can only imagine how beautiful your garden must be.🥰

19.07.2025 16:50 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Rhododendron in full bloom

04.07.2025 16:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes BUT now he’s mad at Elton Tusk so he has to destroy him. Fits with his MO

02.07.2025 12:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So… Catch 22!!!

22.06.2025 19:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Picture of an open cookbook, a bowl with Irish soda bread dough and hand spreading flour on counter for kneading the dough. Also pictured is a stainless steel short martini glass with a margarita waiting to be drunk! YAY It’s Saturday

Picture of an open cookbook, a bowl with Irish soda bread dough and hand spreading flour on counter for kneading the dough. Also pictured is a stainless steel short martini glass with a margarita waiting to be drunk! YAY It’s Saturday

21.06.2025 17:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

…a couch fucking idiot!

21.06.2025 00:02 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Make that 3 countries! Mao’s cultural revolution of 1950 - first they shut down universities and sent the professors into the rice paddies. I visited China on a cultural exchange in 1998 and they were just beginning to rebuild academic departments in the university almost 50 years after Mao.

01.06.2025 06:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Art of Suppressing Information...

27.05.2025 21:53 — 👍 70    🔁 56    💬 2    📌 1

Two new bird songs identified today through Merlin - Tennessee Warbler Scarlet Tanager.

17.05.2025 15:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“If I had a hammer I’d hammer in the morning-I’d hammer in the evening all over the world - about justice , freedom, I’d hammer ‘bout love between my brothers and sisters all over the world” - Pete Seeger

06.05.2025 15:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

‘I am Groot!’

06.05.2025 14:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Classic 5th grader move! Or is that giving it too much credit!!!

19.04.2025 21:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Keeping in mind muscle weighs way more than fat soooo….it takes a LOT of fat to catch up!!!!

19.04.2025 20:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

LOL - most countries in Europe have narrow streets!

06.04.2025 17:57 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
HANDS OFF EDUCATION: "Teachers are PISSED" —AFT President, Randi Weingarten, IN-STUDIO!
YouTube video by The Dangerous Ones HANDS OFF EDUCATION: "Teachers are PISSED" —AFT President, Randi Weingarten, IN-STUDIO!

WOW.

Dismantling the Department of Education will have GENERATIONAL impacts on our kids and workforce.

Repost if you stand with TEACHERS and STUDENTS!

#HandsOffEducation

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Remember?

01.04.2025 19:22 — 👍 294    🔁 126    💬 12    📌 10

No JoJo tell me what you really think!! 😊

12.03.2025 17:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Medicare was established for retirees- every employee has had Medicare insurance premiums AUTOMATICALLY deducted from their paychecks. Working people paid for it!

11.03.2025 18:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Are you paying ATTENTION, yet?! 🤚

10.03.2025 22:01 — 👍 8321    🔁 2368    💬 129    📌 77

We’re not all Irish here! Italian here, and standing in solidarity!

06.03.2025 16:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As a retired teacher - we tried until ‘Baby Bush’ passed ‘No child left behind in 1993which tied our hands. We teachers called it ‘No teacher left standing’! Amiright

05.03.2025 19:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

02.03.2025 16:55 — 👍 54284    🔁 37191    💬 2038    📌 3086
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Remember.

28.02.2025 21:34 — 👍 6911    🔁 2207    💬 65    📌 58
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Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

28.02.2025 20:44 — 👍 80537    🔁 34416    💬 1181    📌 1671

You are not alone!

24.02.2025 03:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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