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Just here to talk to old friends and make new ones. Photography, word play, LGBTQ rights, music, woodworking.
Well folks, it happened sooner than we expected and before I could make it to her side. My mother died this morning of complications stemming from Alzheimer’s. She was 7 days shy of her 85th birthday. I am sad, but happy to know that her pain and suffering is at an end. Hug someone you love today.
December 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Well folks, it happened sooner than we expected and before I could make it to her side. My mother died this morning of complications stemming from Alzheimer’s. She was 7 days shy of her 85th birthday. I am sad, but happy to know that her pain and suffering is at an end. Hug someone you love today.
I’ve talked about this a few times here. My mother’s body has reached the last few days of her long battle with Alzheimer’s. She, the mother I knew, has been gone from that body for a while now.
December 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I’ve talked about this a few times here. My mother’s body has reached the last few days of her long battle with Alzheimer’s. She, the mother I knew, has been gone from that body for a while now.
My kid attends this university. He was not there, but a friend filmed it from his dorm window. Fucking hell.
How all universities should respond to kidnappings on campus: "They aimed weapons at witnesses that included staff and students while many more students watched from their windows. These tactics, with the implicit threat of violence, are unacceptable, dangerous, and profoundly disturbing."
Augsburg University officials: ICE agents pointed weapons at students, staff during confrontation
Augsburg University officials say ICE agents pointed weapons at students and staff while conducting an operation on the Minneapolis campus targeting an undergraduate student on Saturday, the universit...
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December 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
My kid attends this university. He was not there, but a friend filmed it from his dorm window. Fucking hell.
Grading exams. Student’s spell check transformed dummy variable to gummy bear and now I am dead.
December 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Grading exams. Student’s spell check transformed dummy variable to gummy bear and now I am dead.
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Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
It’s fascinating to me. A suggested friend pops up in FB. I don’t recognize the name but I immediately recognize the girl, two years ahead of me in highschool 45 years ago, that I had a crush on. But I don’t recognize people in the street that I saw last month.
December 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
It’s fascinating to me. A suggested friend pops up in FB. I don’t recognize the name but I immediately recognize the girl, two years ahead of me in highschool 45 years ago, that I had a crush on. But I don’t recognize people in the street that I saw last month.
I needed to use a word to refer to the action used by, say, an 18th century writer wielding a quill pen to remove the excess ink. Total blank. Maybe there’s an object with the same name.
Blank. So I went to fold laundry. Suddenly I shout “it’s a blotting blotter!” Gf: what are you cussing about?
Blank. So I went to fold laundry. Suddenly I shout “it’s a blotting blotter!” Gf: what are you cussing about?
November 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I needed to use a word to refer to the action used by, say, an 18th century writer wielding a quill pen to remove the excess ink. Total blank. Maybe there’s an object with the same name.
Blank. So I went to fold laundry. Suddenly I shout “it’s a blotting blotter!” Gf: what are you cussing about?
Blank. So I went to fold laundry. Suddenly I shout “it’s a blotting blotter!” Gf: what are you cussing about?
Years ago I did a survey for a group of progressive business leaders who wanted to invest in beautification of their small town. The majority of residents, it turned out, were opposed because they simply didn’t want outsiders moving in.
Only a genuine idiot or a nasty piece of work could think that making one’s country less welcoming and hospitable so fewer people want to come and live there constitutes an achievement worth bragging about.
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Years ago I did a survey for a group of progressive business leaders who wanted to invest in beautification of their small town. The majority of residents, it turned out, were opposed because they simply didn’t want outsiders moving in.
In a dream last night, I was presented with a very lifelike marzipan human foot. I was told I must eat it, but I could not take a bite.
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
In a dream last night, I was presented with a very lifelike marzipan human foot. I was told I must eat it, but I could not take a bite.
This is not hoarding.
This is capitalism trying the convince you to buy new stuff, the latest stuff, you need all the shiny things and bells and whistles! Why? To be more productive so that you can buy more stuff! You can’t be happy without the new stuff!
This is capitalism trying the convince you to buy new stuff, the latest stuff, you need all the shiny things and bells and whistles! Why? To be more productive so that you can buy more stuff! You can’t be happy without the new stuff!
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This is not hoarding.
This is capitalism trying the convince you to buy new stuff, the latest stuff, you need all the shiny things and bells and whistles! Why? To be more productive so that you can buy more stuff! You can’t be happy without the new stuff!
This is capitalism trying the convince you to buy new stuff, the latest stuff, you need all the shiny things and bells and whistles! Why? To be more productive so that you can buy more stuff! You can’t be happy without the new stuff!
Sometimes, one must simply put on one’s Boogie Shoes.
November 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Sometimes, one must simply put on one’s Boogie Shoes.
Foggy morning. “Torrential downpours” expected later today.
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Foggy morning. “Torrential downpours” expected later today.
🎶They came upon a midnight clear
With glorious raids untold.
🎶Masked men with guns and camouflage,
Who their own souls had sold.
🎶 Hunt them down and throw them out
For Trump our savior-king.
🎶Fox News in solemn tones did say
“Hosannas to him sing”
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...
With glorious raids untold.
🎶Masked men with guns and camouflage,
Who their own souls had sold.
🎶 Hunt them down and throw them out
For Trump our savior-king.
🎶Fox News in solemn tones did say
“Hosannas to him sing”
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🎶They came upon a midnight clear
With glorious raids untold.
🎶Masked men with guns and camouflage,
Who their own souls had sold.
🎶 Hunt them down and throw them out
For Trump our savior-king.
🎶Fox News in solemn tones did say
“Hosannas to him sing”
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...
With glorious raids untold.
🎶Masked men with guns and camouflage,
Who their own souls had sold.
🎶 Hunt them down and throw them out
For Trump our savior-king.
🎶Fox News in solemn tones did say
“Hosannas to him sing”
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...
Of the remainder:
30% believe THEIR billionaires will enhance democracy thru the buying of elections.
10% believe they will soon become billionaires themselves and should be allowed to buy a few politicians like the other billionaires.
7% believe billionaires do not actually exist.
30% believe THEIR billionaires will enhance democracy thru the buying of elections.
10% believe they will soon become billionaires themselves and should be allowed to buy a few politicians like the other billionaires.
7% believe billionaires do not actually exist.
53% of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to American democracy.
Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United.
The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.
Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United.
The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.
November 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Of the remainder:
30% believe THEIR billionaires will enhance democracy thru the buying of elections.
10% believe they will soon become billionaires themselves and should be allowed to buy a few politicians like the other billionaires.
7% believe billionaires do not actually exist.
30% believe THEIR billionaires will enhance democracy thru the buying of elections.
10% believe they will soon become billionaires themselves and should be allowed to buy a few politicians like the other billionaires.
7% believe billionaires do not actually exist.
I’m writing a pro-vaccine novel titled “Atlas Drugged.” It will be published under my nom de plume, Payned Gland.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I’m writing a pro-vaccine novel titled “Atlas Drugged.” It will be published under my nom de plume, Payned Gland.
Cold weather means preparing a place for the approx 100 outdoor potted plants in the house. Then bringing them in. Here are a few. There are another 3 dozen or so that live inside year round.
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Cold weather means preparing a place for the approx 100 outdoor potted plants in the house. Then bringing them in. Here are a few. There are another 3 dozen or so that live inside year round.
This dahlia choose a bad time to bloom. 28 degrees F tonight.
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This dahlia choose a bad time to bloom. 28 degrees F tonight.
Hard freeze here tonight. Fortunately, all my lemons were ready to pick.
November 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Hard freeze here tonight. Fortunately, all my lemons were ready to pick.
I’m listening to this album right now and it is marvelous.
Joshua Hedley's new album 'All Hat' is a tribute to Western swing; the Nashville musician says the authenticity argument in country is "bullshit."
Watch Hedley’s full interview below in this week’s Nashville Now, which also includes a sitdown with fellow country traditionalist, Jamey Johnson ↓
Watch Hedley’s full interview below in this week’s Nashville Now, which also includes a sitdown with fellow country traditionalist, Jamey Johnson ↓
Is Authenticity in Country Music a 'Load of Bullshit'? Joshua Hedley Says Yep
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November 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I’m listening to this album right now and it is marvelous.
I believe this is Tremella fuciformis, also called snow fungus. Edible. Cultivated in Asia as food and medicine.
October 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I believe this is Tremella fuciformis, also called snow fungus. Edible. Cultivated in Asia as food and medicine.
When I said “I can’t make you right,” it came out all wrong.
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
When I said “I can’t make you right,” it came out all wrong.
Sometimes, I think back to the heady days of early twitter and ask myself “is bluesky really as boring as it seems or is it me? Have I lost my sense of adventure and exploration?”
October 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Sometimes, I think back to the heady days of early twitter and ask myself “is bluesky really as boring as it seems or is it me? Have I lost my sense of adventure and exploration?”
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More for the Radicalised Into Madness By Going On The Internet file.
Used to be a fan of Róisín Murphy’s music, but then again her audience was mainly gay men my age; we made her. So you can imagine how horrible it is to see her turn on us. As she is Irish I want to apologise to British LGBTQ ppl & say that her views are extremely isolated in Ireland. Keep strong.
October 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
More for the Radicalised Into Madness By Going On The Internet file.
I wish I could zoom in on the flower
With the eyes of a bee.
Better yet would be to rub my fuzzy legs
In its infinite petals.
With the eyes of a bee.
Better yet would be to rub my fuzzy legs
In its infinite petals.
October 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I wish I could zoom in on the flower
With the eyes of a bee.
Better yet would be to rub my fuzzy legs
In its infinite petals.
With the eyes of a bee.
Better yet would be to rub my fuzzy legs
In its infinite petals.