Retired IT. Veteran. Music. Books. Coffee. Birds. Beach. Nature. Futurist. DMV/FL 💙 #opposition #resist #democracy #noking #nevertrump #followthemoney
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Excellent.
Excellent.
"I was aware that he entertained a cordial detestation of the ship, and believed that, should a fair chance of escape present itself, he would embrace it willingly." Herman Melville, Typee. a peep at Polynesian life (1846) #SundaySentence #Melville
Schools Theaters Concerts Malls Churches Synagogues Mosques Parks Nightclubs Offices Festivals Stores Military Bases Bars Post Offices Yoga Studios Super Bowl parades Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism, or hatred of the vulnerable – then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.” Noam Chomsky
Joni is such a treasure.
#Truth
"Categories too often become where thought goes to die." Rebecca Solnit, No Straight Road Will Take You There (2025) #SundaySentence
One of the most remarkable and impactful transformations of all human technology and civilization in history is happening right now!
Hopefully, students are taught the difference between mandate and common sense as well.
Excellent. 😆
Just now…
Was hoping to see something from you today, Marlo. Stay safe. And thanks.
Texas. Judas.
One day to the next, 2020 by UK painter Emma Haworth #WomensArt
Exceptional food photos.
Money talks...
If you're stupid, don't vote.
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Sort of a snort I came across this morning on Richard Dooling's web thing. So, a #SundaySentence God protects those he loves from worthless reading. —Johan Kaspar Lavater (1741 - 1801)
Oh my!
Me too. 🤣🤣🤣 Rock on, Fizzy.
Nicely done.
We should have the House right now. Let me say it again: we should have the House. This ain’t just a Texas problem, it’s a national problem. They’re stealing seats to keep power, and that’s how we ended up with Speaker Johnson instead of Speaker Jeffries. They can’t win fair, so they cheat.
A lovely tribute to pigeons. 🥰
Law.
A pedophile ring with presidential leverage, if you can keep it
If the world ends, the dollar is in trouble. Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future (2020)
Here’s a 🔥🔥exchange between me and Mick Mulvaney during @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's brilliant interview of Mulvaney on Al Jazeera's Head to Head. The whole episode is worth a watch, and you can find it on @aljazeera.com's YouTube channel.
"...stepping out into the caesious morning light, trying to make sense of this new city, with gables on all the doorways, and serpentine streets with peculiar names..." Andrew Bertaina, The Body is a Temporary Gathering Place (2024) #SundaySentence (Or fragment, but too good to not feature caesious)
Works for me!
#Lullaby The moon leaks milk over your floorboards; the wind disappears through a ginnel. Sleep now, she says. Your pulse is a tide retreating; in the hands that hold you, names needless as morning; you're a thumbed-warm clay...mineral, water...and what is a body, anyway. #vss365
When sunrise shatters a charm of goldfinches churn of oceanglint. My silent path pivots on light-lacquered wings. #vss365 #charm
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Ultimately, it's only about his manipulation of markets for personal profit. #plainandsimple #followthemoney #artofthesteal
There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing. Juan Crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/o...
Wind Turbine Spills: 0? US Oil Spills, gal: Keystone Pipeline: 588,000 ND: 840,000 Gulf of Mexico: 134,000,000 Kalamzoo River: 840,000 New Orleans: 7980,000 Port Sulphur: 567,000 Moonstone Beach: 840,000 Galveston: 5,082,000 Prince William Sound: 11,000,000 MA: 7,700,000 Santa Barbara: 3,360,000
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Anita Malfatti (1889-1964) celebrated Brazilian artist known for her pioneering Modernist painting in Brazil #womensart
Truly my pleasure, Carol. Just to sit with that. Visceral and pleasing on several levels.
sparrow is the poem you can't hold in your hand — she sings in the moments between here and gone #vss365 #Sparrow #poetry
How lovely. ❤️
WTAF?
Agreed. 💯
Thank you to Scotland 🏴 for showing up and taking a stand this weekend. We loved the signs, so many of them made us laugh. This weekend showed that the resistance is growing and that we have friends everywhere! Scotland the Brave!
No one in their right mind believed (or believes) a word he says.
A #SundaySentence brought to you by the word #capricious, used by Richard Flanagan, author, Gould's Book of Fish (2021). 2
The tourists had money and we need It; they only asked in return to be lied to and deceived and told that single most important thing, that they were safe, that their sense of security - national, individual, spiritual - wasn't a bad joke being played on them by some bored and capricious destiny. 1
My reading has as well. Same thing happened during the C19 plague. #orangeplague
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Bingo.
Go for it!
77 million morons. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-could-h...
pro tip: innocent people don't generally suppress the files that prove their innocence
This is what fear looks like.
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Doubtful it's "just" a cover-up. He has everything to lose.
Fascinating engagement. Similar here this morning. Wonders. Fun listening to Bach, too, while watching. Peace.
On canoeing the Allegheny River: “I’d come here in the belief that I could never really know America until I saw it from the bends and reaches of its flowing waters, from hidden spots only open to a small boat.” (92) #SundaySentence William Least Heat-Moon / River-Horse
Great writer, great book. Great #SundaySentence
Can't wait to find out what a "$600 Pop-Tart of modern science" might refer to. 😀
I thought that was "Babaloo." LOL. That'd be cool to hear Elvis sing it, right?
Exquisite #SundaySentence
Beyond the beautiful imagery of this poem, and lovely and astonishing new (to me) word "threadsuns," I thought of this photo I took earlier in the week, on a morning birding excursion in a nearby park.
King Lear: Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? Glouscester: Ay, sir. King Lear: And the creature run from the cur? There, thou mightiest behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office." #Shakespeare, "King Lear Act 4 Scene 6" #SundaySentence
holy shit lmao
"At night they learned to be young again- spilled food on the floor, laughed when they broke a capon’s hollow bones or cracked eggs in a pan into the mad hours" #TodaysPoem #poetry The Joy of Cooking School by David Cazden @dcazdn.bsky.social (2002 @rattlepoetry.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/msyfyj3a
Kind of think that we should be referring not to the "Epstein files" which sound small and containable, but the "Epstein cover up" which sounds limitless and out of control.
If releasing the Epstein list would end your presidency, then your presidency needs to end.
Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. - Carl Sagan
one of the stupid things that makes me feel alive is taking long exposure shots of night rocket launches taking off from Canaveral.
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"The two general areas of agreement nearly everywhere are that personal freedoms should be safeguarded, and that the earth's environment should be defended against further decline." Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism (1993) #SundaySentence
Heaven. (Joy.)
What form of sociopathy required them to need a court order to stop doing this?
Love this, Carol. So inspired. 🙌❤️
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Between the felon trying to wipe out the USA, baybay actually wiping out Palestine, and the felon’s other boss trying to wipe out Ukraine, I guess the war criminals club nominating peace prizes makes sense? So much suffering!!! 💔💔💔
Any theories? I usually notice a seasonal-based increase in such activity as temperatures cool moving into Autumn.
Words To Hope By Number 224
My translator tells me "thoughts & prayers" is an American political expression that means "we'd rather have a secret police force than a weather service".
Of course! Who else could've written this? #marktwain
We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.
Ok - Thanks, Kaitlin.
Well said. But curious: what platform was this taken from?