This is a thread about Music. 🧵 The music I like. The music that formed me. I am no expert. I like what I like, and I'd like to share it with you. It's somewhat eclectic. The music I enjoy consumes me and demands my attention, which is why I work and write in silence. I'll add to it over time.

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped to improve billions of lives — and keep us from getting lost. n.pr/3YVSGJK

The end is nigh.

You know the context or you should. Read the thread. And be furious.

ICE: Abolish them now, detain them right away, prosecute them later and let the civil suits begin.

"What you are seeing is this systemic, hourly, violation of the law. Trump is making up his own law. People who are playing by the rules are being put into detention." - Senator Chris Murphy.

I was going to start a GoFundMe to make it through the winter, but it would be cheaper to buy tickets to the Virgin Isles and put me up in a hotel. However, no one would fund that.

After scrolling the feed this morning, I have decided to reject your reality and substitute my own. It seems to be working for those currently in charge.

Why is my heating (electric) bill so high?

Connecticut is doing it's part, (they better after all my complaints). Contact your representatives and tell them no more funding for DHS and ICE, and to run on an abolish ICE platform. 🧵 follows

He is doing his job.

I don't have a cute or fluffy timeline cleanse to share, but maybe this will help.

Within my lifetime.

I know this will cost me followers but... I don't follow sports. There I said it. I haven't followed sports since Mickey Mantle cross checked Joe Namath under the basket in the ninth inning during the third quarter of the last lap.

It's not just the individual memory that has increased in price it's the Solid State hard drives, and the video cards. Last year this time I priced a new desktop at $1,630. And figured I would wait for a sale. That same configuration, between tariffs and now memory costs is $2,969.00

Ugh! Snow in the driveway. The only benefit to it is it bothers one of my neighbors that I don't shovel/have plowed (an inch of show) and just drive through it. What? It's just going to melt.

A cartoon by Joseph Mirachi, from 1974. #NewYorkerCartoons

An important and socially relevant thread.😆

Here's the message: Trump is terrorizing our communities with a campaign of inhumane un-American ICE brutality - and he's paying for it by raising health premiums on 20 million Americans. Effective because it's 💯 true.

I have wished people gone from the public sphere, but never before have I wished someone dead. I am uncertain what that says about me or if things have gotten that bad.

Authors, what are 5 random things from your WIP? "The Janitor" 🍓 Strawberry Plants ⚰️ Null Space Pods 👨‍🦳 A white haired Janitor 🚀 An Interstellar Freighter 👩‍💻 Sandy (Stand Alone Neural Network Device) #anwriting #writing #writingcommunity

We have sunk so low in the eyes of the world due to the felon in the white house. It sickens me.

I went to CBP this week - joined by hundreds of loyal Americans - to tell the true story of America. That our nation's foundational strength is our commitment to immigration. And that Trump is telling us we should fear our immigrant neighbors, simply to hide his corruption.

Senator Murphy is stepping up.

Everyday you hear about an ICE atrocity committed against US citizens . Where are all those "don't tread on me" second amendment, government overreach gun toting advocates? Was that all cowardly bluster or is it that ICE is hurting the citizens they don't like?

While you are waiting to buy all the fabulous new books coming out this season, might I suggest you click over to Perseid Prophecies and peruse my short story, THE GOOD STUFF, about what can happen when you perform an act of kindness. It's free and, except for me, loaded with talented writers.

Duh!

Josh Johnson. My new favorite comedian. He is hysterical, thoughtful and thought provoking. He takes his time and makes every bit land.

In The Old Man's Legacy, he follows a road sign that advertises "Gas next exit."

This clip feels relevant after the events of this week.

The sound I just made getting up from my chair would make a buffalo weep in sympathy. New year, new aches, new sounds. pro tip: don't grow old.

For the Old Man's Legacy, I went to a dealer and looked at various RV's to decide which type he should use for his road trip. They are much nicer and more comfortable than they used to be.

This is why I voted for Senator Murphy. A clear, concise analysis of the current situation.

From the opening chapter of Carter's World MECH, you discover why you never go near the ocean.

In the Carter's World stories, it's not so much a sporting event as a personal obsession. Jason is a runner. He runs to think, and he runs for the high. After losing both legs and is fitted with mechanical prosthetics, he can no longer obtain the euphoria of a runner's high.

Trust me, I am seething with rage and fury.

I maintain a thread I add to each time the administration makes a stupid policy or rescinds a proven healthcare practice titled "They are trying to kill us." But now that a fascist ICE agent just shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, Minnesota, it proves they are no longer trying but succeeding.

I sat down to write and work on my WIP, but opened social media for a look see. Fuck! What the hell!! The rage of a thousand supernovas burns in my chest over what these fascists are doing to my country. I try not to assault my followers with it but it is there and I fear one day it may explode.

When you spend a trillion dollars on a hammer everything looks like a nail.

All you Halo fans out there, CE3 is back with more shenanigans using Halo Custom Edition Maps and some new techniques for making machinima. Give them a watch, you won't be disappointed.

Devon, in my WIP, is retired, and grows strawberries in specialized greenhouses at his home on the planet of Sedona. His neighbor is looking after them while he helps his friend of 45 years with a vexing problem on the Merchant's Promise, an interstellar Null Space freighter.

Am I not too old to get and ear ache or have I restarted my childhood?

I spoke to a friend who (shock) asked what I was writing since we last talked. 📘 A short about a retiree who shows an act of kindness⤵️ 📘 A novella about a retiree who sleeps thru an apocalypse 📘 A short about a retiree asked to come back as a janitor on a space freighter "I am sensing a theme."

Bluesky grammar nerds, please help me here. The sentence I want to write is: Three weeks later, he noticed an anomaly on the rear view screen. But autocorrect is telling it should be "rearview screen." Opinions?

Wasn't twenty fucking years and trillions of dollars of war enough? Congress MUST act and Act now!

Watch this video fullscreen.

What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?

Now that I've gotten older I've come to realize that some of the pearls of wisdom I was handed are just pebbles painted white.