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Tim Mocarski
@timmocarski.bsky.social
1/2 of Wattle & Daub. Making tens of dollars in folk music on all the streaming places and wattledaubmusic.com

Ask me why I’m the luckiest guy on the planet.
"Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you are"

Frank Sinatra

#quoteoftheday #DoNotHideWhoYouAre
December 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
@billybragg.bsky.social gets it! Woody would be proud.

youtu.be/liRd9pjSBDA
BILLY BRAGG - PUT CHRIST BACK INTO CHRISTMAS
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
youtu.be
December 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
"You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#quoteoftheday #Integrity #NotThroughMe #Resist
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
After a great bit by @desilydic.bsky.social and Troy Iwata last night, @michaelkosta.bsky.social and the @thedailyshow.com
writers have to resort to ageist bullshit about the convicted felon. There's other things to say about the tangerine wankmaggot. #DoBetter #StopPissingMeOff
December 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The convicted felon doesn't care about drugs coming into the country anymore than Bush cared about WMDs. It's always been about the oil. Then and now. Is THIS what you voted for?

#AmericanEmpire

www.reuters.com/world/americ...
US seizes sanctioned oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, Trump says
The U.S. has seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, a move that sent oil prices higher and sharply escalated tensions between Washington a...
www.reuters.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
"All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification."

Learned Hand

#quoteoftheday #Debate #Dissidence #Question #Resist
December 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
@desilydic.bsky.social and Troy Iwata won it best tonight on @thedailyshow.com. That was a master class on wordplay.

#GreatComedy
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
"Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them."

John Milton

#quoteoftheday #Anarchy #Tyranny #NoOneIsAboveTheLaw #Resist
December 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."

James Thurber

#quoteoftheday #Art #Writing #Repect #Humor
December 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference."

Harry Chapin

#quoteoftheday #Act #DoGood #MakeADifference #SpeakUp #Activism
December 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow."

Woody Guthrie

#quoteoftheday #Change #NewIdeas #Resist
December 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Always nice to get airplay.
A big thanks! This morning Ken Cartwright played a couple of our songs on his show on KYAC FM in Oregon and it was simulcast on KMUZ Media. We sure do appreciate the support. He played "Patch of Blue" and this one, which features our friend John Derado

youtu.be/z363s9mNB0E?...
If I Were a Tree
YouTube video by Wattle & Daub - Topic
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."

Aldous Huxley

#quoteoftheday #Propaganda #MindControl #Resist
December 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
thehill.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The convicted felon wants to get rid of dark people who come here, make a life, contribute, and are naturalized citizens.

Is THIS what you voted for?

apnews.com/article/soma...
Trump targets Minnesota's Somali community with harsh words and policies
President Donald Trump and his top officials have recently criticized Minnesota's Somali community, drawing attention to immigrants from the war-torn East African country.
apnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Buy stuff, don't stream.
According to that Spotify Wrapped thing, Washington, Illinois was our most streamed song in 2025, and we now have some Washington, Illinois merch available at 20% off this week.
#spotifywrapped #Folk #FolkOn #Music

Go here:
wattle--daub-merch.myspreadshop.com/all
December 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
"The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#quoteoftheday #Service #Nobility #DoGoodWithoutReward
December 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth."

William Faulkner

#quoteoftheday #Truth #Compassion #DoTheRightThing #Resist
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility."

Dalton Trumbo

#quoteoftheday #Democracy #YourResponsibility #DoTheWork
December 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Always nice to get some airplay.
Oh how nice to have Norm Mast of The Back Porch play one of our songs on @wvpe.bsky.social . He and fellow host Al Kniola are two of the good guys. We appreciate their support.

#Folk #FolkOn #FolkMusic

open.spotify.com/track/7hsDlA...
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda
open.spotify.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men."

Black Elk

#quoteoftheday #Peace #TheSoulofMan #AncientWisdom
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Always nice to get some airplay.
Thanks WBRS FM (@brandeisuniversity.bsky.social) and Michael Kane for playing some of our music on "Off the Beaten Path." It is always nice to get some airplay, and we sure do appreciate it.
This was one of them off our most recent album, "Patch of Blue."
youtu.be/pr9hYAzxvN4?...
Winds of 1933
YouTube video by Wattle & Daub - Topic
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

C. S. Lewis

#quoteoftheday #Education #goodteaching #pushbackthefrontiersofignorance
November 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Mini Review - Death by Lightning (Netflix)

The 4 episode series about James Garfield and the guy who shot him, a poignant telling of a mostly ignored time in history, Great film making stuff. Well worth the time and lessons.

Grade A.
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#quoteoftheday #Progress #StartWithOneSmallStep
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM