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Chimbly

Chimbly

@chimbly.bsky.social

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Vermont Liberal, Aspiring Minimalist Philosophy, Applied Mathematics ANTIFA Maximus Vegetarian since 1978, ~99% Vegan 🇨🇭🇩🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 Currently having a lover’s quarrel with the world

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Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 8d

Chimbly @ “No Kings”
Montpelier, Vermont

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 8h

“Being an artist…comes only to the patient, who are there as though eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly still and wide.” ~ R. M. Rilke

A bumblebee´s Paradise

YouTube video by Tor-Arne Moen

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 11h

Wicker man for the wicked man

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 22h

If and when the day comes, I would gladly pay for the honor of helping to flatten his gaudy ballroom. I’d cheerfully jackhammer his hideous Mar-a-Lago patio and I would lovingly help to restore Jacqueline‘s beautiful rose garden. JFK implored us to ask what we can do for our country. I can do this.

Extreme Makeover: Authoritarian Edition

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 1d

And more roadkill, presumably.

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for sharing. Could someone verify if this variety is “Ferncliff Illusion”? I’d love to put some in next year.

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 1d

Amen brother

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful homage to a beautiful soul. Well done.

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. I’m nearly awestruck that the vast spectrum of all known human deficiencies, coupled with his own novel maladies, have somehow been integrated into just one walking toxic malignancy of a human being.

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 1d

Same profound sense of loss, sadness, fury and frustration here. It would be easier to accept if it were just this one imbecilic degenerate and not the third of our population that cheer him on. These truly are the times that try our souls.

Pleasure to meet you. Love your feed curation 👍

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 1d

Symbol of our national disgrace
Symbol of our disrespect, apathy and cowardice

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 1d

Ten months in, is everyone as proud and astonished as I am watching our impregnable institutions hold the line for our democratic republic?

So yea, let’s all just place our faith in our institutions.

At this rate we’ll be under full martial law by 2027.

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 1d

“Slovenian brothel chic” ~ Charlie Sykes

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m working ... my ass off on the Christmas stuff, that you know, who gives a fuck about the Christmas stuff and decorations? But I need to do it, right?” ~ Melania Trump

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 1d

John Steinbeck and David Foster Wallace, to name just two, simultaneously pull me in opposite directions. They force me to bear in mind Mary Midgley’s observation (“Wickedness”) that only in dime-store novels and children’s stories, do the characters conveniently wear either white or black hats.

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, and thus far we’re failing the test miserably.

“This is a character test for our country.”

David Ignatius
“Washington Week with the Atlantic”
October 24, 2025

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 2d

Not only evangelicals. Whilst enduring their pre-cana bullshit (I’ve an Italian MIL), a Catholic priest told us that without his god in our everyday lives our marriage would be certain to fail. That was forty-four godless and happily married years ago…and counting.

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 2d

Our Dahlia 'Procyon'. Beautiful whilst it lasted.

“As it is with a play, so it is with life - what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is.”

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, “Letters From A Stoic,” 65 CE

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 2d

"Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction...no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow."

Kurt Vonnegut.

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 2d

Going on 48 years here. Second best decision I ever made.

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 2d

Psychopath

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 2d

Looks delicious!

We had what my Italian mother-in-law calls “peasant food” for dinner. Squash, onions, carrots and cauliflower from our garden. Store bought polenta corn, mushrooms and smoked tofu.

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 2d

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince”

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 2d

Puts me in mind of the old WW2 film, “King Rat.”

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 2d

Understood. Best to be safe. A friend down in Randolph was advised to have her water tested when she got pregnant. ”Not necessary,” she said, “We have the most wonderful spring!” They insisted. The results indicated massive E. coli contamination. Dead mouse in her spring box 😖

Chimbly @chimbly.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine a poor man dying to defend the right of a rich man to enslave an even poorer man.