"Our imagination is rich, abundant, and full of wonders; but our existence is poor, insipid, and destitute of charms."

Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...

The supermarket that I shop at employs mentally challenged. They are greeters, baggers, and perform other functions. They are normally pleasant and happy to have a purpose. I like shopping there, it's a reminder that there's room in this world for all of us.

My 70 y/o sister is moving in with her 50 y/o daughter. I’m 90% certain it will end tragically, however I took the time to hand stitch this lovely housewarming gift… (Pattern by sodastitchdesign on Etsy) #crossstitch #fiberart

“[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.” Rachel Carson, who died on this day in 1964

1985 8”x8” Oil on cradled wood panel Available on my website.

My son is 11,autistic, and obsessed with Minecraft. I manage a team of 4 Database Engineers. At some point I started to talk to them like how the parenting courses told me to communicate with my son and the team morale and overall performance has shot up so much we got an award

I think it's only fair that, if the USA is going to insist on affecting all of us every single day, the rest of us should get a vote in their elections.

"The modern village offers connection and the comfort of belonging, but reneges on its promise by asking identity and politics to carry the weight of meaning, friendship, and faith—burdens they cannot bear. It offers constant contact without real companionship and then monetizes our loneliness."

I’m trying to re-home a poodle that barks A LOT. If anyone’s interested I’ll hop over my neighbor’s fence and get it for you.

Handing out the Epstein files at CPAC. From @thegoodliars.bsky.social

Young planets forming deep in the universe - WISPIT 2, a young star surrounded by a disk of gas and dust, in which at least two planets are forming. The video combines images taken at various wavelengths and times, as captured by the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy at ESO.

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting #Spring It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

It’s hard for reporters to see what’s happening up close in the Iran war. theconversation.com/pete-hegseth... #news #journalism #IranWar

The Weary Death / Tired, Pavel Karlovich Wenig, 1915 #TheVictorianBookoftheDead #AlfredHitchcockDay

Trump is the best example of what the American Empire is at its core.

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The US–Iran war of 2026 is rooted in 47 years of deep mistrust. Decades of hostile rhetoric, failed diplomacy and strategic miscalculation pushed both sides toward conflict.

2026, man www.newscientist.com/article/2517...

It actually doesn't matter whether this war is unpopular or not if you have a party that clearly has no intention of getting re-elected through democratic means.

Not much as changed since the 70s

1/ In last night’s #SOTU address, President Trump said he inherited a stagnant economy with record inflation that he has turned around in the last year. In fact, the evidence tells a different story. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don... -A 🧵-

It's U.S. foreign policy that the whole world must serve up our data to the AI giants that are now an arm of the U.S. government. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

The White Shadow is a kind of forgotten, underrated precursor to later MTM "realistic" shows like Hill Street Blues & St. Elsewhere (the character of Warren from Shadow was a character on Elsewhere too). Good stuff, is it streaming anywhere?

That's a good one.

People don't talk with their hands they way they used to.

Going to be kind of hard to deny they are banging now.

Anyone who champions 'western civilisation' is a white supremacist because you're claiming that it has global supremacy and racially it represents whites.

Not that she wouldn't be capable but you'd have no chance as an extremely left wing woman in the current political climate.

The next by donation workshop I’m offering starts on March 18th Our current individual support structures are insufficient for negotiating an era of complex and compounding crises, and well- designed community and peer support groups are profoundly necessary at this time.

Trolling in the Victorian era. Interestingly some of the characters are still familiar. One card addressed to seditionists ends, "You are the two faced villain, though not very bold, Who would barter your country for might or for gold.”

Our friend the Apennine Yellow-bellied Toad lives in southern Italy! They only lay a few eggs at a time but are believed to breed several times a year! They also have heart-shaped pupils! A great toad for Valentine's Day! (photo by Giacomo Gola)

#FridayThe13th #ThursdayThe12th #JasonVoorhees

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

The biggest problem with Trump is that he feels very insecure about his wealth compared to Bezos, Musk etc. and his only option to compete is corruption.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. --- Nelson Mandela

granular, practical, well organized info here: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

When this Epstein stuff is active I am struck by how normal this was culturally in 1960 & 70’s How negotiating a sea of adult men, teachers, clergy Daddies, and Funny Uncles was an actual minefield girls had to learn to negotiate or be destroyed by

That's the size of a city. But to what degree can the panels be recycled?

If Joseph Goebbels and a rectal polyp had a kid.

Jenn Budd worked as a Border Patrol agent from 1995 to 2001. Since then, she has become an outspoken immigrants' rights activist. "The management of the Border Patrol has been corrupt for many generations," says Budd.

Gentle reminder that the world is insane right now and you're a grown-ass adult: there is no reason you can't just buy yourself an ice cream cake!

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