@garycurmudgeon.bsky.social
Folksinging aging hippy, plays badly on guitar, banjo, ukulele and mandolin. Vietnam-era Navy vet. Involved in some cultural non-profits. Lived overseas for a few years. Love my honey, cats, music, genealogy, travel, food. Antifa, hate injustice, woke AF
He claims that they fled Castro. In actuality, his family fled right-wing dictator Fulgencio Batista. They left Cuba a couple years before Castro came to power. F-in' hypocrite.
18.02.2026 21:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What a rube!
18.02.2026 21:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My dad at the helm of a Higgins boat somewhere in the vicinity of Tacloban, Leyte in the Philippines in 1945.
18.02.2026 20:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The air pump at the gas station accepts credit cards. 60 years ago, the gas station attendant would pump the gas, check and inflate the tires, check the oil, wash the windshield and give you a roadmap free with a fill up of $0.30/gallon gas. They say that we're in a service economy. I call bullshit.
18.02.2026 14:22 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0My dad was a decorated WWII combat veteran. Destroyers in the Atlantic then an LCVP landing craft coxswain in the Pacific. He would be terribly disappointed if I were anything other than Antifa.
17.02.2026 23:44 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Little Marco is the other Florida political creep.
17.02.2026 15:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We can speak any damned language we want to. We can stand or kneel for the national anthem. We can pray or not in school. It's funny that right-wingers who blow so much hot air about "liberty" and "freedom" can't wrap their heads around what living in a *free country* means.
11.02.2026 15:56 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0George Washington warned about the danger of political parties in his farewell address.
11.02.2026 13:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And we have oil here. We have most of a continent full of amazing resources. The difference is their oil money doesn't go almost exclusively to the 0.1%.
10.02.2026 14:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So sick of brainwashed MAGAs screaming USA, USA, and we're # 1, we're # 1.
Really? At what? Shooting kids in schools, murders in the streets, the # of fascist religious cults, or government corruption?
The US has become a fascist shithole thanks to MAGAs and their clueless criminal cult leader.
Russia hasn't been communist for over 35 years. Russia is run by kleptocratic fascist oligarchs, just like we are.
10.02.2026 14:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This shitshow will continue after a word from our sponsor:
09.02.2026 14:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Waiting for perp-walks, public trials, and serious prison time. In the US they're too busy grabbing and locking up hotel maids, roofers, gardeners and their families, for nothing more than a misdemeanor paperwork issue, while billionaire child molesters are, at most, mildly inconvenienced.
07.02.2026 17:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0* Not even a complete list "so far." This is only a sampling.
07.02.2026 14:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I let the batter stand for an hour covered to activate the gluten.
06.02.2026 21:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It took three weeks to get that approval.
06.02.2026 15:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I worked at a company where the engineering change system required 23 signatures on a paper form circulated sequentially to a dozen different departments including reliability, testing, marketing and maintenance to change the color of the tote bag given to the product installation training classes.
06.02.2026 15:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'm an engineer AND an MBA. The knee jerk solution to a management problem is to design another F'in' form with more signatures.
06.02.2026 14:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I'm an engineer, and everything is NOT an engineering problem. Don't even try to make everything MY problem.
I'm also involved in several cultural non-profits, which is almost entirely herding cats, not engineering.
The immortal bard nailed the immigration question 400 years ago.
06.02.2026 14:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We're even mugging other countries to feed our addiction. The first step to overcoming addiction is to admit you have a problem.
06.02.2026 13:34 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0You can impress the few friends you haven't antagonized in the short term, in the long term, when the savings run out, you wind up living under a bridge, and that's nothing to be bragging about. Our oil-based economy is classic addictive behavior.
06.02.2026 13:34 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0You don't produce oil and gas. You extract it from a finite reserve. It's living high while burning through your inheritance. It's using your children's college fund to feed your cocaine addiction and build a gun collection, while ignoring the possibility of getting an income (renewable energy.)
06.02.2026 13:33 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0The chain of command matters. Our focus changed from search and rescue, maintaining buoys and lighthouses to the "war on terror. " Counter smuggling was always in the mission, but the administration is using the Navy to blow up fishermen.
05.02.2026 19:00 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0For what it's worth, the USCG was shuffled from the Department of Transportation to the Department of Homeland Security. That's when I bailed from the Coast Guard Auxiliary.
05.02.2026 18:53 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0He's all over the next page and all the ones after that as well.
03.02.2026 23:44 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0