Proud to have successfully refinished, cleaned, and replaced the power cord of this clock made in the late 1930s! It's so gorgeous, I'm glad it will be around for more years!
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Proud to have successfully refinished, cleaned, and replaced the power cord of this clock made in the late 1930s! It's so gorgeous, I'm glad it will be around for more years!
In the end, Death comes to us all. I'm just really tired of waiting for it to come to certain people. Get on with it, DEATH!
I'd swap the first two...
Home sweet home
If you just keep making yourself more like a villain, eventually you can take over for the villain! One again, it's politics as sport instead of government as service
It looks like a money fetishizing middle schooler got hold of a can of gold spray paint.
Remember, "Old orders pass." ( from The Fifth Season, by N. K. Jemisin.)
Saw a tiger bee fly today on the patio umbrella. I'd guess it was over an inch long. Acc to a Google search, they parasitize carpenter bee eggs. So cool! How have I never noticed one before?
Do it lady!
Trumps plan to change census would violate the US Constitution, which calls for an enumeration of all "Persons" not all Citizens, and leaves the process up to Congress, not some hack King-wannabee.
I absolutely love Tim Minchin's song writing. I'm at his mercy whether her asks for my laughter or my tears. youtu.be/BQDDbesNPJ4?...
Beats supporting tech billionaires peeling an addictive alternative!
Why did Earth, Wind, and Fire not include Water?
It sure seems that way...
Philosophy of Love. Also the setting of the greatest insult ever aimed at me ("You read too much Descartes" Nope! Just a science major! )
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You dont have to tell us everything. Please don't tell us everything@
Anyone who did this should be left alone in a room with all those girls' families to do with a they wish. And then whatever is left should be thrown into the hyena pen at a local zoo.
Let's clarify what it would mean for a person (Trump, for instance) to be on the Epstein list. It would mean that he paid a guy to bring him underage girls, and then he raped them. And he did this repeatedly.
It's a feel-good story!
Just in time for Bastille Day?
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I've posted before about UWMilwaukee's theater department and their exceptional stage shows available at prices on par with movie tickets ($13!). The new season is up and it looks to be great! GO SEE THEM!
Wait, what? Oh shit...
Is this dumb people, or is it people who've been double-talked by so many corporations that they no longer trust what they see?
Nice to see not everyone has forgotten these traitors
Remembering what the French did to Vichy journalists and editors, as a treat en.nuremberg.media/hronotop/202...
Not much of a gotcha. I suppose they hope it would hurt him with African American voters. Hmm. Maybe.
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Greenville's third best zoo in North America's 4th best country.
Isn't he, though? What's the gotcha here?
I'm obsessed, of late, with the free streaming service Tubi. Ever wondered where the century of filmed stories went? Here is your answer: Laurel & Hardy, Earth vs the Flying Saucers, Gidget, Chico and the Man, All That Jazz, Night of the Comet, Koyaanisqatsi, Night Shift, Aquaman, on & on! So good!
It's prolly just whatever meat they have on hand. Whatever is sitting around the warehouse.
More people seem interested in building community today than at any time in the past 30 years
Temporal disguise counseling and other assistance may be available free of charge. Discretion guaranteed. Signed, TheFishmonger <3 of 3>
wearing a hat with a large (~8”) feather stuck into the hatband. Please join me on the bench, and provide the pass phrase “Do you ever see waterspouts on the lake?” to indicate you're responding to this notice. <2 of 3>
Attention Time Travelers: I will have been waiting for you from 10:15am to 11:15am CDT on Tuesday,June 17, 2025 (local reckoning). I’ll have been between the Milwaukee Art Museum and Lake Michigan, sitting on the concrete bench nearest the LOVE sculpture, and <1 of 2>
Still waiting for the good guys with the guns to start fighting of these driving bands of criminals...
The "Free RPG Weekend bundle" is live! My contribution is "Gaerta's Herbal Companions" - a pet shop that sells semi-awakened plants! Includes the hedge witch Gaerta & her sentient shrub companion (Twig) + detailed location map, awakening mechanic & plot hooks. #ttrpg #free itch.io/b/3091/free-...
How am I supposed to tell real life from Ai when nature keeps making up shit like this?
The "Free RPG Weekend bundle" is live! My contribution is "Gaerta's Herbal Companions" - a pet shop that sells semi-awakened plants! Includes the hedge witch Gaerta & her sentient shrub companion (Twig) + detailed location map, awakening mechanic & plot hooks. #ttrpg #free itch.io/b/3091/free-...
Ever wonder if time- travelers exist? Check out my new 8 page zine for a proposed experiment! It's free at the-fishmonger.itch.io/making-contact
Plus, you seem to live in the real world, while this guy is living in some imaginary land where "AI" agents produce reliable infomation.
damn.
12-2, Let's go! #mke, #nokings
Mine has a ghost hunting kit you can check out@
Rapid response protest this Tuesday, organized by Milwaukee PSL
And a justified one. As far as our ability to be intuitively rational is concerned
Self distrust
If you don't stand by your values, I don't want you to govern. I don't want you to get things done.
I've got like 150 issues of national geographic I just pulled out of my basement. I'm clearing stuff out and want to get rid of them. Do you think anyone could get some benefit from these? Or should I just recycle them?
Why do old pickup trucks mean US Independence Day?
For a second, I thought you had an infestation of tribbles!
He's a Russian asset. Look into his trip to Russia on the 4th of July 2018.
I mean, they can't be the secret police if they're not secret.
Oh god. We have every kind of bad leader that Octavia Butler lists, all rolled into one -coward, fool, thief, liar, and tyrant. It bodes poorly for us. (Page from Parable of the Talents)
Oh wait, what about arsenic and old lace? Auuugh! Which one do I drop?
My five favorite black& white movies? Well, as a first pass: Casablanca (1942) The Thin Man (1934) Stranger Than Paradise (1984) The Philadelphia Story (1940) Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
If I hadn't held this in my hands, I'd never have believed it was a real magazine.
I just put up a free single page zine of the US Declaration of Independence. Just the text. No graphics, no commentary. It's up at: the-fishmonger.itch.io/declaration-...
My favorite quote: "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security"
Interesting. I didn't realize there was such diversity among the baptist churches. Thanks!
Racism shortens Black people’s lives. I see no reason we should “stop” talking about it
A baptist church is quoting a catholic pope? A man they think is going to "hell" for "believing wrong"? That seems odd.
I just want to point out that Warren's test showed she did have native American ancestry. www.factcheck.org/2018/10/the-...
Didn't Microsoft just put a Mount Pleasant data center on hold? Feels like the playing field is shifting and Port Washington didn't get the memo.
And if I can't see what I'm paying for I may as well cancel, right? And if they'll make it nearly impossible to cancel, why am I doing business with them at all?
The app worked fine, except it wouldn't display the eNewspaper, the only place I could see national news. I have a 4-generation old Android phone. Could be that.
What a poisonous little rat.
I want to support journalism, but its hard when they're either run by evil corporations or evil individuals!
I decided to cancel my local paper (MIlwaukee Journal Sentinel) because they couldn't get their cell app to actually show me their eNewspaper. It took six tries (six!) on their phone system to finally reach a person who could cancel my subscription. Arrrrgh!
Great show! It's hilarious and captivating and has actually brought tears to my eyes a few times!
I believe it because last time I was 10 minutes past meter expiry when I got to my car I had a ticket.
Kinda shitty that Lilly is charging over $1000 a month for Mounjaro and they can't be assed to provide a needle disposal process for their needles. Seems like they ought to be required to accept the needles back.
Shakespeare Quote of the Day: "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly" - Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII
These god-damned mother fucker's are going to kill us all!
I adore that you can check out a ghost hunting kit from the Hales Corner public library! It has: EMF reader, UV flashlight, digital voice recorder, head lamp, & digital temp gauge with laser targeting. Plus, of course, a copy of "Ghost Hunting for Beginners". A perfect way to spend a rainy day!
This is the greater problem, right? It's equally plausible that a newspaper did this with AI or that somebody used AI to make it look like somebody did this. So what do we do to decide?
Voting as political engagement only works for functional political systems. If your political system is broken, louder means are necessary
Sure, but it took a whole... time... to go up that much
We could counter balance it by removing the stadium tax, which is explicitly about bribing the rich to keep their playthings (pro sports teams) in the area.
The Baltimore Orioles are back in Milwaukee just in time for Mothers' Day!
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
Pope Sourdough Cracker My Wife Made IV
She probably has an all gender bathroom in her home, FFS!
Are you suggesting they get out the pope chair with the hole in it?
"Other people invented everything that I claim to have invented. " - Thomas Edison and Elon Musk
Weird that they didn't show a picture of the queen
Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea? 139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea. A 🧵
There's a good breakfast place in a nearby city whose famous dish is the "garbage plate". Sells like hotcakes...
I kept a notebook by the boombox that summer, and ran to write down lyrics every time they played it. I still have most of it memorized.
Note: all nationalities listed are ethnic origins. Everyone discussed was raised in the United States.
3) German Grandpa is actually half-Pommeranian! Which maybe helps to explain how he ended up marrying a Polish woman! Her siblings had 3 or 4 Pommeranian dogs, but she had a Pommeranian husband.
2) The reason my Norwegian Grandma thought one side of the family was weird? They were Finnish, not Norwegian! Descended from slash-and-burn farmers kicked out of Finland to Norway by the Swedish King! We're Forest Finns!
My top three genealogy discoveries about my ancestors: 1) The story where Great Grandma told Grandpa that he was adopted? True! And his birth father was Jewish! Sadly, I've found records of many cousins being murdered by the nazis. Happily, I found other cousins scattered around the world. [1of3]
Just realized that our President's name is "DonT". As in DON'T. It was right there on the label people!
Happy "Fascist Ending Day"(April 30th)! If you're a fascist, consider not being one, or alternatively, consider celebrating as Hitler did on this day in 1945.
let’s all watch the video again