John Teets
@suenitos.bsky.social
Elderqueer (he/him) out since the '70s. Former Chicago newspaper guy, from copy boy to editorial board via points between. Friend of facts, foe of fascists. At home in Key West, missing my late husband after 38 years together. 🌈
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." – Aldous Huxley
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December 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." – Aldous Huxley
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Oh, anoles — I do love the little buggers. Buggery is their job, not in the British sense (ahem) but like ratters. They catch bugs. They're celebrated in this bronze and stained glass piece in my kitchen window. I got it decades ago at an arts program benefit because if you like it, why not?
December 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Oh, anoles — I do love the little buggers. Buggery is their job, not in the British sense (ahem) but like ratters. They catch bugs. They're celebrated in this bronze and stained glass piece in my kitchen window. I got it decades ago at an arts program benefit because if you like it, why not?
It was of course director Ken Russell's interpretation, but you can't watch the scene in "Women in Love" when Alan Bates and Oliver Reed wrestle nude in the firelight without thinking, Hmm, ya s'pose this is drawn from experience? It's a faithful depiction of what Lawrence wrote.
December 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
It was of course director Ken Russell's interpretation, but you can't watch the scene in "Women in Love" when Alan Bates and Oliver Reed wrestle nude in the firelight without thinking, Hmm, ya s'pose this is drawn from experience? It's a faithful depiction of what Lawrence wrote.
"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." — G. B. Shaw
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December 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." — G. B. Shaw
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Monochrome Monday:
Ring the bells that still can ring.
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Ring the bells that still can ring.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Monochrome Monday:
Ring the bells that still can ring.
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Ring the bells that still can ring.
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"People should learn how to just be there, doing nothing.... It's not so easy to just be. If you can be happy, relaxed and smiling when you're not doing something, you're quite strong. Doing nothing brings about quality of being, so doing nothing is actually something." — Thich Nhat Hanh
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December 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
"People should learn how to just be there, doing nothing.... It's not so easy to just be. If you can be happy, relaxed and smiling when you're not doing something, you're quite strong. Doing nothing brings about quality of being, so doing nothing is actually something." — Thich Nhat Hanh
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Meanwhile, away from the world's woes....
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December 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Meanwhile, away from the world's woes....
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“Every President will face difficult decisions; whether to intentionally commit a federal crime should not be one of them.” – U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan
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December 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
“Every President will face difficult decisions; whether to intentionally commit a federal crime should not be one of them.” – U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan
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Pigeon in the sapodilla tree.
Hawk dives in.
Gentle rain of leaves and feathers.
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Hawk dives in.
Gentle rain of leaves and feathers.
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December 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Pigeon in the sapodilla tree.
Hawk dives in.
Gentle rain of leaves and feathers.
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Hawk dives in.
Gentle rain of leaves and feathers.
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"In primal Fascism everybody is educated to become a hero, and the ultimate Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death." — Umberto Eco
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December 6, 2025 at 1:51 AM
"In primal Fascism everybody is educated to become a hero, and the ultimate Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death." — Umberto Eco
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A certified selenophile, I took in the last full face of 2025 with quiet wonder. The Moon of the Long Night: Somehow it feels like a fitting metaphor for the entire year.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
A certified selenophile, I took in the last full face of 2025 with quiet wonder. The Moon of the Long Night: Somehow it feels like a fitting metaphor for the entire year.
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"For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face." — Dejan Stojanovic
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December 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
"For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face." — Dejan Stojanovic
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#tbt: Throwing back to the late 1700s clock we brought with us, very carefully, to Key West. When it stood in our Tennessee hallway, Robert's godmother, an #antiques dealer and collector, always tottered over to it and made a little bow: "Good to see you again, Mr. Willard."
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
"The old saying is that figures will not lie, but a new saying is 'liars will figure.' It is our duty to prevent the liar from figuring — from perverting the truth in the interest of some theory he wishes to establish." — Commissioner Carroll D. Wright, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1889
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December 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
"The old saying is that figures will not lie, but a new saying is 'liars will figure.' It is our duty to prevent the liar from figuring — from perverting the truth in the interest of some theory he wishes to establish." — Commissioner Carroll D. Wright, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1889
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We had no luck with hydrangeas here, so we put in some dombeyas as a tropical substitute. They bloom just fine, I guess, and it's not their fault, but mostly they remind me how much I miss hydrangeas.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM
We had no luck with hydrangeas here, so we put in some dombeyas as a tropical substitute. They bloom just fine, I guess, and it's not their fault, but mostly they remind me how much I miss hydrangeas.
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It'd be great to see a Somali debate Trump on this, but to assure a fair exchange they need to be evenly matched, so if you know a Somali with 34 felony convictions could you call me?
December 3, 2025 at 3:23 AM
It'd be great to see a Somali debate Trump on this, but to assure a fair exchange they need to be evenly matched, so if you know a Somali with 34 felony convictions could you call me?
"The epoch-making discovery of modern dictatorships is the invention of the loud lie, based on the psychologically correct assumption that people will believe a shout when they doubt speech.” — Joseph Roth (1894-1939)
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December 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"The epoch-making discovery of modern dictatorships is the invention of the loud lie, based on the psychologically correct assumption that people will believe a shout when they doubt speech.” — Joseph Roth (1894-1939)
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Dendrobium blossoms are here and gone while a phalaenopsis is just getting its shoes on for a marathon, but they trade longevity for an unrivaled blast of intensity.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Dendrobium blossoms are here and gone while a phalaenopsis is just getting its shoes on for a marathon, but they trade longevity for an unrivaled blast of intensity.
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"If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won." — Louisa May Alcott
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December 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
"If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won." — Louisa May Alcott
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"Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor' – infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people." – Wendell Phillips (1811-1884)
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December 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
"Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor' – infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people." – Wendell Phillips (1811-1884)
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I often think of Nuremberg as the first of the Nazi war crimes trials, but it wasn't. Days earlier, the captain and four junior officers of the German submarine U-852 faced a tribunal in Hamburg for the machine gun and grenade murders...
November 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I often think of Nuremberg as the first of the Nazi war crimes trials, but it wasn't. Days earlier, the captain and four junior officers of the German submarine U-852 faced a tribunal in Hamburg for the machine gun and grenade murders...
Today's the official end of hurricane season, and for the first time since 2015, none made landfall in Key West, Florida or anywhere in the United States. Storms don't respect calendars, but things look good enough for Taz to rejoice.
November 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Today's the official end of hurricane season, and for the first time since 2015, none made landfall in Key West, Florida or anywhere in the United States. Storms don't respect calendars, but things look good enough for Taz to rejoice.
“For each new morning with its light. For rest and shelter of the night. For health and food, for love and friends. For everything Thy goodness sends.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For family, friends and those passed on, with gratitude we lift this song." — Nita Henley Johnston
"For family, friends and those passed on, with gratitude we lift this song." — Nita Henley Johnston
November 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
“For each new morning with its light. For rest and shelter of the night. For health and food, for love and friends. For everything Thy goodness sends.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For family, friends and those passed on, with gratitude we lift this song." — Nita Henley Johnston
"For family, friends and those passed on, with gratitude we lift this song." — Nita Henley Johnston
Back from their vast combat training range over the Gulf, the biggest Top Gun school in the country, these warbirds are roaring home to our naval air station. You can hear them coming a mile away, but they're usually gone before I can get a shot. And then some days you get lucky. 📷
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Back from their vast combat training range over the Gulf, the biggest Top Gun school in the country, these warbirds are roaring home to our naval air station. You can hear them coming a mile away, but they're usually gone before I can get a shot. And then some days you get lucky. 📷
“I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable Asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.” — George Washington, letter to F.A. Van der Kamp, 1788
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November 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
“I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable Asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.” — George Washington, letter to F.A. Van der Kamp, 1788
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