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@HistoryBoyle

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Husband, dad, history fella, CLE & Boro fan, stage 4 cancer pt, Lord of Sealand. Author of “Toledo’s War,” publishing May ‘23 w/ UT Press. Semper P. WW8MLL

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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
4 years
@DanCrenshawTX You are a United States Congressman. And you just cut a video pretending to go to war against other Americans. Knock it off, do the hard work of governing, and we'll all respect it a lot more than this.
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This is Joe. I died yesterday. Thank you all so much for your friendship & laughs over the years. I still love you. Please hug your families today & look for obit info here soon. Thanks 2 @bigwagz8 for taking care of this 4 me.
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
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@senrobportman I’ve voted for you twice. I will do everything in my power to support damn near ANYONE who runs against you now.
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
2 years
My classroom door this morning. Thanks, @Reflog_18
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@imanshumpert Best job any of us will ever have!
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
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Five years ago, we pranked Miss Michigan into unwittingly being the “I”. It remains one of the greatest days of my life. @Reflog_18 #BeatTTUN @OhioStateFB
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
3 years
@JDVance1 I strongly encourage you to withdraw from the Senate race, delete this Tweet, and think about the path that brought you to this.
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
4 years
You’ll have plenty of time in the hospital with covid when you’re ... IN THE HOSPITAL WITH COVID!
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Governor DeWine addresses the state re: Covid.
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2 years
The precise moment you sigh, knowing how boring the next 90 minutes are gonna be.
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
4 years
@Klee_FilmReview Old Murph in “Interstellar” when she says “Because my dad promised me.”
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
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My grandpa had a Gump-like ability to show up at some moments in history. One was in 1958 when he wanted to see the launching of a new ship, EDMUND FITZGERALD. Here are a few of his pictures from that, the ship's first, on the anniversary of her last. #EdmundFitzgerald
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
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@JDVance1 Read a book, dip.
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
4 years
Folks, I have tumors in both lungs, radiation fibrosis all over the top of my left lung, and asthma. I just went for a 3-mile walk in a cloth mask on a hot humid morning. You can do this! #InThisTogetherOhio
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
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This is what I'm sending home with my ContempHistory students tomorrow for COVID Break. I encourage all of you to do the same. We've living through history, & historians & your descendants will thank you for doing this.
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
9 years
@RobertDowneyJr & @ChrisEvans - Thank you SO much for making us welcome today!! http://t.co/7s9Ix17JAx
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Who’s the hippest cat getting brain MRI at the cancer center today? This one. Who forgot his normal glasses in the car and also feels kinda like a tool? Also this one. @ThanksCancer
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
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I will NOT turn this furnace on before November. It’s a matter of honor.
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@Reflog_18 My son thought I was kidding about stopping the car and making him walk home if he ever said he was a Ravens fan. OF COURSE he then said “I’m a Ravens fan!” I stopped the car, made him get out, drove off a bit before I let him back in, after recanting his apostasy. He was 7.
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
6 years
@JerryFalwellJr @realDonaldTrump Wow, so you’ve cheated on your wife a bunch, had kids by 3 women, bragged about sexual assault, walked in on half-naked kids, mocked the disabled, failed at generosity, lied about nearly everything, settled with DoJ for racism, and belittled anyone who’s different? Good for you!
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
3 years
Folks, I got some cancer in m'brains. Working this week with amazing docs @ClevelandClinic to form a plan. Not looking forward to HIGH POWERED BEAMS OF ENERGY RADIATING THRU M'BRAINS, but who would? Appreciate all your +thoughts & prayers, amigos.
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
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@HurdOnTheHill I take these very seriously. I also take executive misconduct very seriously. I used to think you did, too.
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
8 years
Got pic from set of CW today!!! Can't say enough how awesome Chris Evans is! Built 'forever memories.' So grateful!!
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
4 years
@springsteen @juliettekayyem Thank you, Bruce. Thank you for everything. Thank you for giving some of us light in the darkness.
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@ChrisEvans You bring a humanity to Cap that inspires us to reach higher. Thank you so much! ❤️, the Boyles!
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
7 years
This is my 7th Christmas since diagnosis. I had no reason to believe I’d see this many more, and each one is more special than the last. God bless you all!!!
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@davereaboi Thank you for admitting it. At least you’re honest.
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@RudyGiuliani I really enjoy how you admit stuff in attempting to deny it.
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
1 year
Listen, I can’t even put together a high-level, coordinated effort to get them to bring their Chromebooks, ma’am.
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CNN's Elle Reeve: "It seems like you think there’s some high-level, coordinated effort to make more children trans and gay. Moms for Liberty: "Yep." Reeve: Who's doing that? MFL: Teachers unions, Biden, money. Reeve: "Why would they want more children to be gay and trans?"
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It was a long day at the Clinic. More tumors in that bald head than expected. Gamma team was phenomenal. I’m good & sore, & not looking forward to another month of roid moods but so grateful to be here - in every sense of here!!! Thanks for all your positive vibes & prayers.
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
5 years
Most unlikely e-mails I could receive: 1. Ohio #HTOY . . 72. Non-roster invitee from the @Indians 73. MENSA initiation 74. Guaranteed life insurance . Seriously, THANK YOU, @Gilder_Lehrman !! I am humbled; truly unworthy of this. I’ll try to live up to it!
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@JustinTX_20 I have stage IV cancer. I think Trumpism is the greatest internal threat to democracy in American history, and I don’t wish cancer on *him* or his base. C’mon, man.
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@ron_fournier Please, Mr. President, run other people out of business, not me!
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@nytpolitics @peterbakernyt I’m old enough to remember when “making up a fact” was just stated as “lied.”
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Our finest hour. We stood with Miss Michigan for a picture, & when my friend Mike counted to three, we threw up the OH_O and made her the I. She was sooooo pissed and we laughed soooo hard.
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
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My daughter with the President of the United States. What a country.
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
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Kind of a crazy special day: Working with my daughter, who’s subbing at Waite today. #TPSProud
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
7 years
My man Alan picked up the @Indians media guide for me in Goodyear. I had NO idea how much stuff was in these! Totally incredible!
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@Browns I’m so sorry, social media person. It’ll get better. Some day.
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@bennyjohnson @laurenboebert Your approval of what she did, and more importantly, when she did it, really tells a story.
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@vinceguerrieri @Reflog_18 My daughter made my birthday cupcakes. Win.
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
3 years
GREAT meetings with the rad onc team today. Ready to do my part and let them do theirs to kick some cancer up and down the street!
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
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I stopped a dispute between two kids in the hall without saying a word or lifting a finger, just using the power of my posture & a disapproving look, and my friends, I feel the lightning of Old Man Power coursing through my veins. ⚡️ ⚡️⚡️
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
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Twenty years ago, these young folks got married.
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7 years
Tonight was a memory I hope my son will hold onto forever. Thanks, @Indians , for what you're giving all of us.
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Today is my 7th cancerversary. When I was diagnosed, I’d have been pretty happy if you’d told me I’d get 3 quality years. Seven was too much to believe. Not trying to be greedy, Lord, but 7 more sounds awful fine to me!!!
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@KiDCuDi you hanging out in BG today?
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How bad I want a @Browns win vs how bad I want a @Reflog_18 parade
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@pooleyjd @liamstack Needs training wheels.
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#tpsproud just outside the set of Captain America (no pix allowed on set 😢) http://t.co/G5dmYsYmU2
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@GennHutchison The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
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It’s about damn time.
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My kids, for at least the 10th straight year, helped me clean out my classroom and got lunch as a reward. This year, they had to do EVERYTHING due to my condition. I’m the luckiest dad in the world.
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
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Mr. Boyle is not on cancer treatments right now.
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I think the religious guy on the E 9th Plaza is on to something @Reflog_18
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3 years
I’m late to the party, but Ted Lasso is so damned good.
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
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@MattWalshBlog As a cancer patient, I just want to thank Matt, and those I know who follow him. You've made it a lot easier to figure out who to cut out of my life.
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
4 years
Speaking for at-risk people, there is nothing political about wearing a mask.
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All you want in life if for your kids to do better than you. Last night, @s0meguynamedjoe got to march at the Big House with the @BGSUFMB10 . I’m just thrilled he’s getting experiences like this doing what he loves. #AyZiggy
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@theresagavarone @Rob_McColley Your timing and motive on this couldn't be more transparent, and it's disgusting. Even if a person is anti-abortion, I would hope they'd see through this ridiculous veneer to see how you're actively subverting democracy.
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When the @Browns win, we have victory Monday in my class and everyone gets an XC point. I always announce with a siren. Stuck in hospital another night but Victory Monday is not stopped by such trivial things as almost dying!
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
3 years
Is it baseball season yet?
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@MeghanMcCain I’m in the midst of St 4 renal cell. Your dad was an inspiration to me. Keep fighting this fight in the open. Sunlight’s the best disinfectant.
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@bubbleIPL @evanmcmurry I’d bet doing so “reflects the values of the community we serve.”
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Two years ago today, @EllieB_v and I met @JoeBiden . It was well before he decided to run for President. We loved, & still love, his passion for fighting cancer. This election wasn’t just a tactical vote against a threat to our democracy, but an enthusiastic vote for a good person
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This bothers me deeply. My goal has always been for students to choose to love this country, after critically thinking about its course. But that’s not enough for people like him, who view my job as indoctrination - and thus betray everything the country ought to stand for.
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President Trump: "Our children are taught in school to hate their own country."
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@ThanksCancer My absolute favorite when i was diagnosed with stage iv was “Oh, you’ll do well! We had a friend with that and he had seven good months!” That was almost 12 years ago. But 2011 me never would have believed I’d be here. And that well-wish knocked me on my butt.
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I met #MichaelStanley at an American Cancer Society event about 3 summers ago. He fought the fight not just for himself, but for others, and I am so grateful for how he used his Cleveland Legend status to make the world a better place. Hard die the heroes.
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I see people’s “Top Accomplishments of 2021” and I’m jealous. I only had one: Staying alive. Due to my health, it required being right nearly 100% of the time. It is f***ing exhausting. It is without pleasures many of you get to enjoy without thinking twice.
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2 years
I’m @ClevelandClinic getting m’brains examined. 🤞 for no cancer up there in the front office!
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It’s so nice to have a doctors appointment that doesn’t end in bad news once in a while. Neutral is just fine.
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My dad taught me how to be a Christian, husband, a father, and an @Indians , @browns , and @Cavs fan. He died last night, and I’m shook to my core.
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@GovMikeDeWine I respect so much of what you’ve done in this term, but this statement is an embarrassment.
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In 2020, I found out my continued survival of cancer was quite inconvenient for a number of folk I went to church with. This thread is one way of understanding their perspective.
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THE DIE-ERS Some years ago, when the White Christian President was still the President of the United States, he caught Covid, and he said a perfect thing.
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So, my school was REALLY pretty this morning.
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@theresagavarone Hilarious you’re pretending that the YES side isn’t getting out of state money. But that’s exactly the dishonesty I’ve come to expect from your party.
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@MST3K got this at @HomeDepot today. Clerk was confused why I asked for a sharpie to do this!
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@GovMikeDeWine Respectfully, if persuasion worked, it would’ve worked by now.
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Today was School Spirit Day in the gamma knife machine. Tomorrow will be Pajama Day. Then Inside Out Day, crazy socks day, and Formal Friday
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I had a tumor chopped out of my lip today, and let me tell YOU, the human body knows when it’s the last hour before the next pain pill. My gosh!!!! Thankful for modern medicine because this would be rough without it!
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Teaching in East Toledo has been 1 of the greatest gifts of my life. Being honored by the ETFC tonight, in this community, just humbling. I’ll try to earn it every day.
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
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It was such an honor for this @BGSU Falcon to talk about Toledo's War this afternoon @UToledo . Thanks so much to everyone who came out to hear the stories of a handful of UT alumni who exemplified what it means to be a Toledoan, and a Rocket - then, and now.
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Last night’s sunset was OK.
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3 years
I hugged my mom on Mother’s Day today and I will never, ever take that for granted again.
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
3 years
Man, is it good to be in Huron tonight!
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Y'ALL. I am grading in my "Toledo Tomorrow" projects that my Toledo history course did. They had to imagine the city they want in 30 years. And the kids are all right. I want their visions to come true. The kids are better than we are.
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A cordial letter from the headmistress of a Welsh primary school asking the cdr of a US engineering bn to ask his men to stop leaving condoms (“Some unused, some not”) around her schoolyard, as the pupils were using them as balloons.
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Browns tickets going cheaper than high school games. #GPODAWUND @Reflog_18
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My youngest, interviewed by @13abc this morning on digging out from the Blizzard of ‘21!
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@CityofCleveland @CLEpolice You issued this at 7:55?! I am one of the most pro-police people you will ever meet, but this is absolutely absurd, shameful, and I think I kinda get why people don't respect orders now.
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
2 years
Tore through @MichaelMann & @MegGardiner1 ‘s “Heat 2” the past three nights. I forgot how much I cared about these characters from the time I met them - at a Tampa cineplex over Xmas break 1995. Well worth your time.
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Commitments for COVID 19: 1. Make one retail purchase each day at a local shop 2. Keep getting my local coffee every day 3. Tell one story about a local shop I love 4. 1 meal each week from/at local restaurant And I promise you, if I could afford to do more, I would.
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I just did the math - had 86% attendance among my classes today. I have absolutely nothing to complain about. Very, very happy with kids getting online and getting the work in.
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First day of 34th grade.
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@IBrokenBricksI @Sifill_LDF For a group of folks who claim to hate intersectionality, their ideology seems to value the intersection of a very specific form of masculinity with literally everything else!
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Joe Boyle🇺🇸🇮🇪
3 years
I’m awful proud of this human.
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A school shooting 1,270 miles away from her Bowling Green home lit a fire under Ellie Boyle that is still burning.
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Let’s go. Close it out tonight, @indians !
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