Gen X Curmudgeon

Gen X Curmudgeon

@curmudgeonx.bsky.social

Looking for my people from that other place. Posting about Seattle politics and housing, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and cats. #NAFO

3,489 Followers 3,590 Following 407 Posts Joined Oct 2023
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Bury me, then rise up,
And break your heavy chains,
And water it with the tyrants' blood
The freedom you have gained.
And in the great new family,
The family of the free,
With softly spoken, kindly word
Remember also me.

My Testament, Taras Shevchenko, 1845

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2 months ago
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Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

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3 months ago

HOW DID THE NAZIS FINANCE REARMAMENT WITHOUT INFLATION?
In 1933 Hitler appointed the German wizard of finance who’d saved it in 1923, Hjalmar Schact, President of the Reichsbank, as Finance Minister. He told him to find money for rearmament but nobody could know so he had to keep the vast costs off

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3 months ago
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New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.

Russia Russia Russia

www.bbc.com/news/article...

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3 months ago
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While passenger planes fly across the skies over Europe, in Ukraine the skies are filled with Russian missiles and drones. One continent, but two different realities.

📹: posterbureau / Instagram

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3 months ago
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‘Stay Tuned For Right After Thanksgiving!’ Kash Patel Says FBI Has ‘Numerous Options to Pursue’ On Dismissed Comey Case Kash Patel warned that he wasn't quite done with the prosecution of his predecessor, James Comey, after a federal judge dismissed the perjury case against him.

Kash Patel sitting down with the Epoch Times makes me wonder what happened to the DOJ case against the Epoch Times CFO for money laundering, which was brought in 2024 before Trump took power again

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3 months ago

Plus if we are just going out to dinner or the store we can put it in full electric mode.

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3 months ago

So dumb to leave that money on the table. We have a big old BMW bus, (2018 X540e PHEV) and even with it's limited battery plugging it in at night gives us an average of 55-60 MPG from a giant SUV in city driving.

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3 months ago

Well, crap.

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3 months ago
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Reminder epstein spent thanksgiving 2017 with trump and his family. Wonder if they went up this staircase in epstein’s home

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4 months ago
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Frontline Medics: Lifeblood Campaign - Triinu Perve's Fundraiser on Donorbox Hei! My name is Trinzu, and I'm part of the Frontline Medics team. I help this team because they have helped save many lives, including those of close friends.Most of our monthly recurring expenses go...

Every euro is another kilometer closer to saving a life.
We’re at $363 of $7,000.
Help my medics @frontlinemedic9 keep moving.
🔗 donorbox.org/fm-lifeblood...

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4 months ago
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🔴 Russian strike on Kyiv killed three people.

Rescuers are still trying to reach the bodies, and 26 more people were injured, including two children aged 7 and 10.

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NEW: DHS launched a $200mln+ ad campaign, featuring, Kristi Noem, aimed at stemming illegal immigration.

We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem.

@justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social:

www.propublica.org/article/kris...

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4 months ago
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56th brigade infantry battalion needs a pickup (~€6200)

send.monobank.ua/jar/44WmspJZAj
PayPal v.titarenko@student.csn.khai.edu

P.S. I am posting the video request from this brigade again, since the Monojar link has changed. Explanation is down in the thread🫡 You can also test monojar now👀

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4 months ago
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OR maybe we need a bit of perspective.

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4 months ago
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4 months ago

Well that’s good and all. I just saw a low follower account with very clean gear who’s got time to post a dozen times a day asking for donations, and I wonder if they might be taking money that might otherwise go to wild hornets or UA24

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4 months ago

THis guy posts a lot of photos of himself in VERY CLEAN gear and asks for money nearly every day. Are we not policing these accounts on this website?

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4 months ago

Unless you're an ICE agent in a gaiter of course

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4 months ago

Well Trump is trying to run the early 2000's Putin playbook on consolidating power, so it makes sense the same memes would apply to them both

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4 months ago

huh, Reddit is also down bad today.

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4 months ago
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Don’t look away.
Horrifying footage from 🇺🇦Pokrovsk.
russians weren’t even storming — they were lying in ambush, shooting civilians like at a shooting range.
People just walking by… dropped one by one.

This isn’t war — it’s pure terror.

Source: x.com/NAFOvoyager/...

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5 months ago
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When indeed?

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5 months ago

There’s just not enough attention being paid to how unqualified, psychologically unfit, and dangerous so many of these new ICE hires potentially are.

If we had a Congress, there’d be investigations & oversight into this.

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5 months ago

⭐️𝗢𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗮 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲-𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲⭐️

TOMORROW on #ToonieTuesday we are partnering with DOKO @doko-dochky.bsky.social to support 𝗢𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗮’𝘀 𝟰𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻, specialized unit within the National Guard of Ukraine. Our efforts will focus on providing electronic warfare equipment, FPV🦅, solar🔋, and components

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5 months ago

Cope cages on refineries?!?

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5 months ago

Oh yes, very much so.

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5 months ago

very nice work!

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5 months ago

Odd they don't mention the screw worm thing, or is that not actually having any effect?

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