"Pops" Father & widower; service-connected 100% disabled Marine Stage IV Cancer Doomslayer. Baker, embroiderer, engineer, mechanic, trapper, hunter, writer. #Veteran for Black Lives. Wall of Vets. Veterans For Peace. Humanist. Also, just a dash of ADHD!
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“Imagine living like that! Here is a human being with absolutely no sense of optimism, no faith in his own future!” “Yet he manages to survive not through an inherent craving for life but through a stubborn refusal of death.” Excerpt From Armor John Steakley
Happy May Day! No happiness to President Grover Cleveland who set the “no dirty socialists in my country!” bullshit we still got today.
US MARINES DEPLOYED ON US SOIL IS WRONG BAD AND WRONG WRONG, BAD, NOT GOOD ESPECIALLY A INFANTRY UNIT NOT PUBLIC AFFAIRS NOT PMO/MPs INFANTRY. WRONG AND BAD Signed, A retired USMC Sergeant with stage 4 cancer
I F’N THINK THERE SHOULD BE ZERO MILITARY DEPLOYED STATESIDE Period.
I will not suffer fools for this. #BrightonBullshit
I said my whole ass government name & title at him & his stupid phone, adding “you’re a goddamn racist piece of shit” I’m in a good headspace and calm when I say if you talk out the side of your neck any garbage like “go back to your country” you’re gonna reap what you sow, bitch.
I joined then this neighbor had previously said I should take my “black ass back to Roxbury” since “you people bring all these goddamn rats here” Mr Shouty whips his phone around to film me-which the other neighbor then pointed out “what is the point? You’re not just wrong you’re wrong & racist!”
Upstairs neighbor decided to attack the turkeys. Other neighbor says hey, don’t. It escalated between them immediately and I walked out to.. “…dirty fuckin renter! You don’t even own your property! Go back to your country!” ..screamed the dude upstairs across the street our other neighbor.
wait what do the marines have to be given such high praise today?
October 11, 1994 I saw Nine Inch Nails at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Got into a wicked pit. August 29, 2025 31 years later I’m in Boston singing “Head Like A Hole” with my 18 year old in the balcony. Am so blessed to be in this life 🤲🏼
Holy cow Allston Christmas is real
Actually, there are words rosyjski kawałek gówna pieprzeni Rosjanie oh and kurwa lol
Doing a bit too much. Fixed a Prius; got too involved in fixing it up last week and lost a few days getting it ready for inspection. Made dinners in crockpot. Baked a batch of brownies. Forgot to take my adhd meds all week ha. Did an embroider on new smock, slowly coming back to all this life ✌🏼
Patriarch Kirill is a Russian gangster-turned-orthodox leader who lends authority to the Russian state. Patriarch Kirill has a personal fortune in the billions, and rocks Cartier watches & other things his PR edit out. No holiness here. Just Cash & Carry.
Two uniformed, EMS, and now supervisor on scene in D14 Brighton @stacos.bsky.social someone’s up the hill by Hobart needing a lot of peeps
Came here hoping to see ol LBJ’s nugget of racial wisdom and my stars, here it is ✌🏼
There’s no need for toys! Just get a box! No, not that box. Not that one. Nope, skip that one. No, another one. No, one more. Ok! Now that they’ve agreed this is THE BOX, proceed to wonder out loud as a human just what is a cat thought for boxes? Mika lounges; Sylvia likes to shout from inside it!
Da mayor is in Oak Square
about 1997 or so, Mr. Show seemed to think we’d claim it
Mariah & Selena (in the back) Divas ✌🏼also male but who cares
oh lort yes!!
There’s Strong. Then there’s Uni Strong™! 🤟🏻
got that bad case of Noascital 🍑
Thank you so much for keeping this vocal and out there!
All the news fit to paywall 😡
“My” turkeys came running to me this morning from four houses down. The impatient gobbles, close enough we can touch each other, and those purrs/clicks! Then they hop on fence and go full drumming at hens across street. All fluffed up and strutting. But around me they’re just big huggable birds ✌🏼
kmfdm sucks
Been watching this “manosphere” grow into beyond toxicity for two decades. Lotta coulda/woulda/shoulda types got “manly” by dipping toes in the Chud pool being tough online & social media. Those dudes want the dentures of manliness with no follow up questions. No bite to their talk. All weak.
I’ll drop some $$ on ice cream, heck I love me some ice cream but I’ve never wanted to shank someone over ice cream-and I was in juvi for almost a year can confirm nobody got shanked over ice cream then 😂
What is “American culture”? I have ideas, but what has been displayed my entire lived life may prompt a negative answer. What culture is there even to champion?
dude, it tacitly lays out he’s in the shadow a of a giant Trump. Not a single test voter looked at this flyer beforehand, gotta say that
run up here and catch some hands, Karen 🤜🏻
Thank you for writing this so I could drop in and read it. Sometimes just reading words never spoken hits like a scream. 🤲🏼
I’ve got two-TWO-Jakes who visit my house multiple times a day. Two days ago a mama brought all her poults-7!-and these two Jake’s just puffed up and chased them all off. Then strutted back to my yard. Dangit why yall gotta be inhospitable ✌🏼
Weak, pathetic, afraid “manly men” foh
Foster homes, juvenile detention, homeless. Military, marriage, divorce, my suicide. Addiction, pain, children. Racism, death threats from family & “friends”, isolation. Suicides; father, uncles, wife, then partner. Cancer. I still choose kindness and will until well past my last breath. ✌🏼
yeehaw fuck the law ✌🏼
No energy drinks back then. You got Josta in ‘95 and you were HAPPY ✌🏼
You are What you do When it counts 👐
Yo it’s 9:15 and only now am I hearing some weak fireworks. Not much to celebrate according to Boston
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USMC budget FY26 $57.2B 3 Divisions 3 Air Wings 1 Reserve Division/Wing ~200,000 personnel & Geneva Conventions ——————— ICE budget FY26 $76.1B $45B in “Detention construction” ~20,000 personnel Habeus Corpus means what the president says it means
Now, praytell, what did the John Brown Society have to say on the matter?
Later afternoon appointment in the Longwood Medical Area at Beth Israel, decided that I'm not going to drive to any more appointments if I can. Geared up, hopped on bike, made it to LMA in 10 minutes. TEN. All while pacing a BMW for a good chunk. Damn feel good! ✌️
i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan
The arrogance of expecting, no, demanding some sort of social media to be on your phone, or any of these social media apps, is bonkers. On your phone, and provide that to The State? with zero guidelines for what you "can" have? and if you refrain from SM, does that mean you're flagged now?
The sheer number of ad-buys, with that smarmy mofo at the end of "Your City Your Future" PAC, is a bit infuriating. YT wont let you skip on big screen, so I've seen that ad no less than a dozen times a day. Bike lanes. That's what caused the 4th worst traffic in the US. Bike lanes. Dummies.
I’m stuck over here with this flock of mockingbirds 😂 (this is 3am)
Oncology yesterday, first of the last appointments. Everything is in green except some liver functions, and those are heading the right way as well. CEA after a month no chemo shows even less than nothing it background noise✌🏼🤟🏻 Stage IV Refuted
Bless this man and all who stand the line against ICE 👐
There are three turkeys now that visit my house every day: 2 hens and 1 Tom. One I call “Mariah” is very enamored with me & it’s adorable. She flutters into yard making those purr clicks & will come right up to me. Yesterday morning, a feather was at my steps. 🤲🏼
CBRN I’d guess ✌🏼
What a badass.
just dump that bag o' fucks on the floor
what the, and I want to be concise here, “the fuck?”
Ceterum censeo “ICE” esse delendam Ceterum censeo “ICE” esse delendam Ceterum censeo “ICE” esse delendam Ceterum censeo “ICE” esse delendam Ceterum censeo “ICE” esse delendam Ceterum censeo “ICE” esse delendam Ceterum censeo “ICE” esse delendam Ceterum censeo “ICE” esse delendam
US MARINES DEPLOYED ON US SOIL IS WRONG BAD AND WRONG WRONG, BAD, NOT GOOD ESPECIALLY A INFANTRY UNIT NOT PUBLIC AFFAIRS NOT PMO/MPs INFANTRY. WRONG AND BAD Signed, A retired USMC Sergeant with stage 4 cancer
My goodness, a deer right by the Charles River What a wonderful sight to see 🤲🏼
Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
Cesar Chavez was grand marshal of the 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (LGBTQIA+). "How could you demand equality for your own people while tolerating discrimination against anyone else because of who they are?” he asked the 200,000 attendees. #pridemonth
just moved to this neighborhood from Roxbury. Had a neighbor stop and ask what I was repairing (I was putting in LED lights). Real nosy crew over here. ✌️
I want to call her Mariah, but I can’t tell em apart to be fair
Oh I did get the video of the turkey yesterday morning doing her jump-up @universalhub.com ✌🏼
ICE crossed a line in LA
Yup, she's claimed it
In the decade I've been here, I've never seen this let alone see it on my own car @universalhub.com
A handwaving and a smile. That is par for the course in the current state of things.
Which, in civilian life, I only hear the opposite of. Always wanting the benefits without the strings that will be attached. Heck, even Mr. President himself said, time and again, he doesn't take responsibility. Maybe I just have a completely different expectation of "leadership"
One of the few axioms I picked up in the Corps was driven into my head from my first NCO school to my last: You can delegate authority, but never responsibility.
your screenname and what you do is dope af dude ✌️
akin to the youtube button going to 2x, it does and has felt like careening into the future & not looking back, much of it ✌️ context has been in shorter and shorter supply
Suicide and veterans still remain a constant struggle. There are many, many reasons. If you're not sure, talk. Out loud, say something, share your doubts about this life. Scream. Shout. Also....reality. The blinders go on and never come off. Be good to others. It's free.
www.vlm.cem.va.gov/CHERISSEMARI... My wife, Cpl. Arroyo, went to a VA hospital in mental crisis, & was turned away for lack of resources. The PACT Act passed 5 years later, which was the impetus for my own service-connected cancer to be rated 100%. Life from every death Death from every life 👐
I am not smart, matter of fact I'm a bit more challenged because of the chemo. I've been thinking, & now out loud: how is #Boston going to be come September 2 when everyone's plan to rent to international students doesn't happen? It's going to be a bitter fall, in more ways than one.
For the sake of our conscience, for the sake of our souls To never more suffer peace without end Or will be pass silent into the great night? When all of our sins will lie with the dust For the sake of our conscience, for the sake of our souls To never more suffer peace without end 🇵🇸
Do you see their pain and look blindly away? Do you hear their voices? Do you hear their screams? And do you not suffer? Do you know no shame? All those around you would banish you away I hope that their cries haunt you till the end All of your sins you can't wash away 🇺🇸
Apologies to the waiting area hepatology at Lahey Burlington yesterday. Stuck sitting below a TV blaring silly morning "news" when an ad for Kristi Noem played. I said a lot of f-bombs, and for that I apologize. I should have been more specific about who could fuck off into the sun.
Sunday Brunch with the 🐦& 🦃. The turkeys were already at the fence before sunrise and I had nothing to put out. Figured out quick nothing but grocery store @7am would work, so I got ready and went on over to store on bike!
Met the daybreak a bit too hyped, I got things done, though. The feeling of being able to wake up, hop on a bike, and get some errands done, this...this is new. This is exciting af! 61 miles I've biked already!! Be The Good, do for others, remember your #humanity ✌️
not trying to skip the line, but I already did a year of chemotherapy. disconnected at 1245 yesterday. every heartbeat is life now, no more dying to live ✌️
This is my first sunrise without cancer. 👐
YO!!!!!!! CONGRATSSS!!!!!!!!!!! ALL THE BLESSINGS ✌️
I came home to my wonderful children, and they greeted me with memes and balloons and hugs and tears. I am more than just blessed. I have life to live and give. Thank you #Lahey, #BIDMC, every single person from the night staff, to the parking lot dudes, every little action counted.
I went to #BIDMC for my last treatment yesterday. I brought with me several cheesecakes I had made as a thank-you to the doctors, nurses, and staff on the 9th floor chemo ward.
Foundation One tumor molecular profiling: HRD signature - HRDsig 🚫 Microsatellite status - MS-Stable Tumor Mutational Burden - 5 Muts/Mb KRAS G12D NRAS wildtype APC L1511fs*2 ERBB3 V104L FBXW7 V475fs*6, S426L PIK3CA C420R TP53 C238G 3 Disease relevant genes w/no alterations: BRAF, ERBB2, NRAS
C8D1, the last of my chemotherapies, began May 15, 2025. I am currently (at time of writing) 29 hours away from completing my last chemotherapy, while sitting at home on a slow drip. I hope providing some of this data may help others-any Science types may use it
Now on adjuvant mFOLFOX planned for 8 cycles, to complete 6 months total of chemotherapy (including initial 4 cycles of FOLFIRINOX prior to liver metastatectomy). Most recent restaging scans on 3/18/2025 after 4 cycles showed NO evidence of recurrence or new metastases.
Received FOLFIRINOX x 4 cycles (9/2024 - 10/2024). Then underwent L hepatectomy to remove solitary liver metastasis on 11/27/2024; surgical pathology showed expected metastatic colorectal adenocarcinoma with negative margins.
-4/18/2025: C6D1 mFOLFOX (delayed by 2 weeks due to COVID infection) this was the worst, lowest, most painful point. hit me right when my white blood cells were being made. farUV broke the week before, too. I wasn't finished
-3/18/2025: CT torso with no evidence of disease recurrence or new metastases; similar to slightly increased moderate intrahepatic bile duct dilatation with apparent stricture at the hepatic hilum possibly related to prior surgery; stable 2-6 mm pulmonary nodules.
-1/27/2025: Rising LFTs since stent biliary stent placement. Stent not seen on abdominal XR suggesting stent outmigrated per ERCP team. -1/13/2025: ERCP showed two short focal strictures in the presumed hilum and R main hepatic duct, s/p dilation and stent placement.
-11/27/2024: Robotic converted to open L hepatectomy for liver metastasis -1/3/2025: Given rising LFTs in cholestatic pattern, obtained MRCP which showed new biliary stricture in the R hepatic duct at the hilum with diffuse R intrahepatic biliary dilatation.
