Gilbone 🦅🐕🦴
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Gilbone 🦅🐕🦴
@Gilbone62
Retired. Philly sports fan. Dog father. Former fixer. Lefty. Navy Vet. ⚓️ ##FlyEaglesFly #rescuedogs
Kimberton. เข้าร่วม Temmuz 2025
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Gilbone 🦅🐕🦴 รีทวีตแล้ว

I am officially leaving X.
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The toxicity here is unbearable and MAGA is in shambles with $4.10 gas prices. We’ve done our job.
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Gilbone 🦅🐕🦴 รีทวีตแล้ว
Gilbone 🦅🐕🦴 รีทวีตแล้ว

This is Ocho. Ocho lives in my bathroom and hangs out on my orchid plant.
Every day I soak a Q-Tip in water and put it down for him wherever he is (on the plant or behind the toilet or on the vanity) and he comes running over and gets a drink.
Was my first reaction to smash him? Nope.
To flush him down the toilet? Nope.
To “burn it to the ground”? Nope.
He’s literally a fraction of my size. I could easily kill him, but I choose to be kind.
He deserves to be on this earth as much as I do.
In fact, he contributes way more to the natural order of life on earth than I do.
It’s so easy to choose kindness.
I encourage everyone to take a moment and make sure the language you use when it comes to spiders, insects, rodents, etc. is kind and not fearful or disgusted.
None of these beings are "pests" or threatening.
They are here to provide a value to the ecosystem.
Let them be.
Help them if you can.
Be kind.
It’s so simple.

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Gilbone 🦅🐕🦴 รีทวีตแล้ว

The woman behind me in line paid for my groceries with a hundred-dollar bill, and I didn’t even realize I was crying until she asked if I had eaten that day.
I told her I was fine.
I wasn’t.
It was a Wednesday in March. I had been sitting in my car in the Walmart parking lot for twenty minutes, trying to decide what I could afford. Bread or milk. Eggs or cheese. Tampons or deodorant.
I had $23.47 in my account and three days until payday. My daughter needed poster board for a school project. My son had outgrown his only pair of jeans. The check engine light had been on for weeks.
I went inside anyway. I got the poster board, the cheapest jeans I could find, a loaf of bread, peanut butter, and milk.
At checkout, I watched the total climb.
$19.
$26.
$31.
I knew it wouldn’t work.
It didn’t.
Declined.
I asked the cashier to take off the jeans. Then the peanut butter. Finally, the total dropped low enough for my card to go through.
I grabbed my bags and rushed out to my car, where I sat and cried—not because of what I had to put back, but because I was exhausted from trying to make numbers work that never did.
Then someone knocked on my window.
It was the woman from behind me in line. She handed me a bag filled with everything I had put back—and more.
“I’ve been you,” she said gently. “Have you eaten today?”
That’s when I really broke down. Because I hadn’t.
She squeezed my hand and said, “It gets better. But today, let someone help.” Then she left before I could even thank her.
That moment stayed with me.
Eight years later, life looks different. My kids are older. I’m more stable. But I never forgot what it felt like to choose between basic needs and dignity.
Now, when I see someone struggling in line, I don’t look away.
Last month, I paid for a young mom’s groceries. She cried just like I did. I told her what that woman told me:
“It gets better. But today, let someone help.”
Kindness doesn’t need names.
It just needs someone willing to see.

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Gilbone 🦅🐕🦴 รีทวีตแล้ว
Gilbone 🦅🐕🦴 รีทวีตแล้ว

Fuck Trump
Fuck JD Vance
Fuck Pete Hegseth
Fuck Stephen Miller
Fuck Mike Johnson
Fuck Marko Rubio
Fuck Pam Bondi
Fuck Karoline Leavitt
Fuck Jared Kushner
Fuck Lindsey Graham
Fuck this entire administration and every single MAGA supporter who’s still riding with this fucking administration! 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

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How am I ever supposed to take the NBA HOF seriously now????
NBACentral@TheDunkCentral
BREAKING: Doc Rivers has made the Hall of Fame, per @ShamsCharania
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Gilbone 🦅🐕🦴 รีทวีตแล้ว
Gilbone 🦅🐕🦴 รีทวีตแล้ว

Got a letter from the HOA yesterday
Actual letter
In an envelope
With a stamp
In 2026
The letter said my trash can was visible from the street for too long on collection day
The fine is $50
I checked my Ring camera
The truck came at 7:03am
I brought the can in at 7:14am
11 minutes
$50
That's $4.55 per minute of trash can visibility
My therapist charges $250 an hour
That's $4.17 per minute
My trash can sitting in a driveway is now more expensive per minute than therapy
I looked at the letter again
It was signed by the HOA president
Her name is Karen
Of course it is
I know this woman
She lives four houses down
She still has Christmas lights up
It's March
I know because I drive past them twice a day
And because that's what I do
I checked the HOA bylaws
All 47 pages
Section 4.2 says all exterior fixtures and lighting must be seasonal and removed within 30 days of the applicable holiday
Her lights have been up for 97 days
I went to the HOA meeting
Tuesday night
7pm
In a church basement
Folding chairs
Fruit platter that nobody touched
Seven people showed up
Four of them were on the board
The other three were there to complain
I was there to read
My wife came with me
She didn't want to
But she said "if I don't come you'll end up on the news"
I brought my legal pad
Karen called the meeting to order
She talked about community standards
She talked about property values
She talked about the importance of curb appeal
From a woman whose Christmas lights are still blinking in March
I raised my hand
She said "we'll take questions at the end"
I said "it's not a question. It's a point of order."
She looked at me
I opened my legal pad
I said "Section 4.2 requires seasonal decorations to be removed within 30 days. Your Christmas lights have been up for 97 days. You fined me $50 for 11 minutes of trash can visibility on collection day while you've been in violation for over three months."
The room was quiet
One of the other three complainers said "he's right"
The board members looked at each other
Karen said "that's a separate issue"
I said "it's the same bylaws"
She said "we'll review it"
I said "I already did. Page 12. Happy to share my highlights."
My wife looked at the ceiling
Some things never change
Karen said "I think we should move on"
I said "agreed. I'll move on when the Christmas lights do."
Nobody laughed
I wasn't joking
I paid the $50
Because it's $50 and I'm not going to die on that hill
But if the rules apply to me they apply to everyone
So I filed a formal complaint about the lights
With photos
Timestamped
Funny how surveillance works both ways
The fine for seasonal decoration violations is $75 per occurrence
She's been in violation for 67 days past the 30-day grace period
I'll let her do the math
Or I'll do it for her
Because that's what I do
Make common sense common again
Plz fix. Thx.
Sent from my iPhone
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Gilbone 🦅🐕🦴 รีทวีตแล้ว

Born in 1832, Jonathan the tortoise turned 193 today. Yes… 193. This dude is literally the oldest land animal alive. He survived 2 world wars, outlived 40 U.S. presidents, 8 British monarchs, and probably watched more drama on Earth than all of us combined.
He can’t see and smell anymore, but he still recognizes his caretakers just by voice and touch like a wise old gangster. Think about this: Jonathan was alive before the lightbulb existed… and there is a high chance he might still be here AFTER some of us are gone. Happy birthday legend... keep confusing time, history, and all of us… and may you live many more years!

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