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Alex Strachan
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Biogeographer. Digital nomad. Climate campaigner. Bourdainophile. Image maker at ©alexstrachan.net. Working on unfinished busyness. "I regret that I had but one Twitter account to sacrifice for my principles." On a Bluesky day, you can see forever.
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For the record, this image — taken in #Kenya's Maasai Mara Nat. Reserve some 9 yrs ago — has not been Photoshopped or AI-ed in any way. This is just as it was.
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Fascism never has had a keen grasp of irony. They're too busy beating people up and killing them (when they get their own way with impunity).
Everyone else — not so much. "Funny" how that works.
Curious cat: "Is that for me?" (regardless of contents)
Best of luck. You're on the right side of this - but then you knew that already.
Would it be uncouth of me to point out that "church and family" may well be at the head of the pedo line?
Wouldn't put it past them. The scandals pointed in that direction appear to be endless.
My media outlet was bought out by NY asset strippers. Not just my old paper, either, but the entire chain.
Hard to tell what's worse — being owned by NY asset strippers, or by manchild billionaires and gamer stoners.
Either way, it tends to end with the same result.
Some people are still clutching their pearls over #TheExorcist — which was probably Billy Friedkin's intention all along.
Still can't get over the fact that Britain banned #AClockworkOrange, until fairly recently.
Would Clockwork Orange belong in that aisle, I wonder? Inquiring minds need to know. 🤔
Schemer is hopeless, is he not?
The damage these aging Dems ... if only they knew how much of Trumpism is on them.
Here it is, your daily balm of calm.
@marymcnamara.bsky.social
Happy World Wombat Day! Sound on to listen to the very soothing munching noises of this chonky wombat...
Isn't it time he had another bucket of KFC?
Looks not unlike the Washington Cascades in Wash. State, in the lee of Mt. Rainier. Unspoiled wilderness — well, unspoiled for now — in the US's Pacific Northwest.
Rolling mists off the Pacific, coupled with rain off the Coastal Mountains. Gorgeous light.
I guess you could also describe that as foot-in-mouth disease.
Speaking of Darwin, it would be remiss of me not to mention - if only in passing - 'Creation: Darwin, His Daughter & Human Evolution' by Randal Keynes (2009, Riverhead Books) based on Darwin's memoirs about his beloved daughter Annie, who died at age 10.
Poignant, moving, enlightening, and readable.
Am re-reading Lt.-Col. John Henry Patterson's The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (1907) his firsthand account of dealing with (not very well, I might add) a pair of marauding lions who killed & devoured 135 'Indian and African artisans and labourers' (Patterson, 1925) in 1898.
Victorian writing is kinda cool.
Am re-reading Lt.-Col. John Henry Patterson's The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (1907) his firsthand account of dealing with (not very well, I might add) a pair of marauding lions who killed & devoured 135 'Indian and African artisans and labourers' (Patterson, 1925) in 1898.
Victorian writing is kinda cool.
Am re-reading Lt.-Col. John Henry Patterson's The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (1907) his firsthand account of dealing with (not very well, I might add) a pair of marauding lions who killed & devoured 135 'Indian and African artisans and labourers' (Patterson, 1925) in 1898.
Victorian writing is kinda cool.
"Vichy Twitter." I like that. I'm sorry, but I think I'm going to have to steal it.
I think I know that super stoned store clerk. The '5 movies for 5 days for $5' rings a bell, too. A faint bell, mind. The memory isn't what it used to be — not with all that stoner smoke, anyhow.
A late, dear friend of mine ran a respected video store for many years in my home town (a production city, in Nowhere, Hollywood North).
He would often get well-known actors in his store, researching roles. Personal anecdotes, too. Interesting — and instructive — to see how people are in real life.