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B.J. Porter

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Sailor rebooting life after 9 years at sea. Full timing in an RV instead of a sailboat is...a change, but still a shiftless drifter. Fiction & freelance writer. Liberal atheist loudmouth. He/Him. Also into hiking and learning backpacking. WHO DEY!

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NO KINGS๐Ÿ‘‘NO KINGS๐Ÿ‘‘NO KINGS๐Ÿ‘‘
NO KINGS๐Ÿ‘‘NO KINGS๐Ÿ‘‘NO KINGS๐Ÿ‘‘
NO KINGS๐Ÿ‘‘NO KINGS๐Ÿ‘‘NO KINGS๐Ÿ‘‘

Be Powerful ๐Ÿซ‚ Be Safe ๐Ÿซ‚ Be Peaceful

NO KINGS๐Ÿ‘‘NO KINGS๐Ÿ‘‘NO KINGS๐Ÿ‘‘
NO KINGS๐Ÿ‘‘NO KINGS๐Ÿ‘‘NO KINGS๐Ÿ‘‘
NO KINGS๐Ÿ‘‘NO KINGS๐Ÿ‘‘NO KINGS๐Ÿ‘‘

Of The People โ€ข By The People โ€ข For The People

The people decide what comes next ๐Ÿ—ฝ

18.10.2025 09:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 381    ๐Ÿ” 156    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Thrilled to see it. The first capitulation was so embarrasing.

16.10.2025 03:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment

Glad to see this from Brown. Let's hope other universities follow the example set by Brown and MIT. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

15.10.2025 20:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1543    ๐Ÿ” 230    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Don't do MIss Piggy dirty by dragging her down to Bondi's level.

16.10.2025 03:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

06.10.2025 19:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11738    ๐Ÿ” 3518    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 499    ๐Ÿ“Œ 194

Some are certainly praying for his health and well being.

And no doubt, some are praying he's eligible to go on a coin as quickly as possible...

06.10.2025 18:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well, a lot of people are praying for him...just not for the same thing.

04.10.2025 00:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I thought he had to be dead for that to happen. Or is that just stamps?

03.10.2025 18:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When did racist jokes suddenly become OK though?

I mean, I'm old enough to remember when they were commonplace and no one batted an eye. Then we grew up, collectively.

Now it seems it's OK to be openly racist again, all the way to the highest levels of government.

Disgusting.

03.10.2025 18:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Stephen Colbert - JD Vance Sombrero Meme

03.10.2025 03:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 265    ๐Ÿ” 117    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25

THERE IS NO SMART WAY TO END DEMOCRACY, YOU KNUCKLEHEADS.

03.10.2025 13:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah, I just checked that on my phone, and all you get in AI mode are articles about the AI blocking queries.

Change Trump to Biden, and you get an answer.

02.10.2025 21:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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RIP to Jane Goodall, who opened the world's eyes to our closest relatives. (Photo by NatGeo's Hugo Van Lawick)

01.10.2025 18:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11045    ๐Ÿ” 1970    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 211    ๐Ÿ“Œ 113
Graphic: Enrollees making above 400% of poverty will lose all financial assistance without the ACAโ€™s enhanced premium tax credits

Graphic: Enrollees making above 400% of poverty will lose all financial assistance without the ACAโ€™s enhanced premium tax credits

Your health care bill is about to explode.

The notices will start arriving next month.

A $7,000 bill could jump to $24,000.

Democrats are fighting to stop this. Republicans are fighting to guarantee your costs go up.

We need to fix this. Now.

25.09.2025 15:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1707    ๐Ÿ” 914    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 96    ๐Ÿ“Œ 73

if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp

25.09.2025 11:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6864    ๐Ÿ” 1488    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 20

We should be so lucky to have them all disappear.

23.09.2025 17:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Dear World: a quarter of us voted for him. Most of us disapprove of him. Most of us are embarrassed by him. He does not represent us.

23.09.2025 15:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5693    ๐Ÿ” 1231    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 116    ๐Ÿ“Œ 89
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Senate confirms 48 of Trump's nominees at once after changing the chamber's rules The Senate has confirmed 48 of President Donald Trumpโ€™s nominees. Republicans acted for the first time under new rules to clear a backlog of executive branch positions that had been delayed by Democra...

Senate went nuclear and it barely made the news: apnews.com/article/sena...

18.09.2025 21:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1396    ๐Ÿ” 699    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 79    ๐Ÿ“Œ 90
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Both sides are NOT the same.

14.09.2025 23:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11296    ๐Ÿ” 4099    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 235    ๐Ÿ“Œ 115

the media rush to canonize charlie kirk is legitimately maybe one of the weirdest things of this nature i have ever seen in my life

11.09.2025 18:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16256    ๐Ÿ” 2108    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 507    ๐Ÿ“Œ 225

Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.

11.09.2025 17:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38669    ๐Ÿ” 10056    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 648    ๐Ÿ“Œ 339

I'm seeing a lot of that spin on other social media outlets.

One clown keeps describing him as a free speech advocated and godly man who was just trying to turn America back to Christianity who always treated everyone woth respect.

11.09.2025 13:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's a bit early to move that stuff out of the White House gift shop for this event.

06.09.2025 02:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"We're gonna need a bigger mop. And get some Bactine."

05.09.2025 03:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I worked in an Arby's one summer back before college.

Whiskey Pete looks like he shouldn't be allowed near the meat slicer, never mind management.

05.09.2025 03:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Crushed there was never a sequel where they explained the watermelon.

04.09.2025 12:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Black and white photo of O'Day 34 sailboat off of Castle Hill Light in Newport, RI. The sailbaot is to the right, and the lighthouse is on the rocky shore in the background.

Black and white photo of O'Day 34 sailboat off of Castle Hill Light in Newport, RI. The sailbaot is to the right, and the lighthouse is on the rocky shore in the background.

Someone posted up a nice picture of me at work the other day on Facebook. Sailing off of Castle Hill Light in Newport, RI.

Photo credit unknown, as someone sent it to me in a group I'm not in.

03.09.2025 03:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I saw some at the Sachuest Wildlife Preserve in Middletown, RI. A couple of butterflies, a lot of milkweed.

It looked like there were eggs under the leaves, but a week ago seemed late for that.

03.09.2025 03:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The AI is really cheap? Apparently it's even cheaper than having someone write an article in another language to be translated with Google then tidied up by an English speaking writer.

Which I've seen. And didn't realize you could find a worse starting point until some of this AI slop.

02.09.2025 19:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I absolutely will not quote by the word for a job like that; I give an hourly rate.

What seems like a high hourly rate (the rate I target with by-the-word pricing). And it may be a little more, because I know if someone ever accepts one of those quotes, the project will annoy the shit out of me.

02.09.2025 19:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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