qtp with a character that permanently altered your brain chemistry

A third installment of my “Bde Maka Ska from the Passenger Side” series.

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone

Pick a Bond [villian] from the photos you already have on your phone.

#ArtAWhirl takes over #Minneapolis this weekend. Over 1,600 @nemaamn.bsky.social member artists, galleries, and businesses participate across all of Northeast Minneapolis. Check out my studio in the Thorp Building: 1618 Central Ave NE #217 shawnmcnulty.com #artstudio #abstractart #art #blueskyart

I was at Hunt & Gather in Minneapolis, using the ambient music.

1519 W. Broadway Minneapolis, MN

Please be respectful. This is no time to be sharing videos like this:

Like many cats, Martha has a tortured relationship with W.H. Auden.

The other day, somewhere in the north metro, I saw a billboard for “HOLY TO THE LORD CONCRETE” but I wasn’t fast enough to get a photo of it.

Mmmmm … dots …

Summit and Snelling from the passenger seat yesterday.

One of my favorite episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Happy Arbor Day!

Born in fire, battered by the wreckage of colliding worlds, covered for eons in magma, wracked by volcanoes, frozen and thawed again and again, and after everything went just wrong and right enough, here it is: our home. The rarest gift in the known universe. Happy Earth Day.

Before another 4/20 passes us by, today is also the 92nd anniversary of the FBI raid on John Dillinger's hideout at the Little Bohemia Resort near Manitowish Waters, WI. My mom was at the scene just a few hours after the shootout (!) 🧵1/4

"What the fuck are you talking about???" girl is my new favorite person.

#science #photography #earthquakes Why did Ansel Adams have a crooked nose? During an aftershock of the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake, he fell onto a brick garden wall and broke his septum. He was four years old.

I wanted to say I have underwear older than J.D. Vance’s Catholicism, but … I’m afraid ALL of my underwear is older than J.D. Vance’s Catholicism.

ʟᴀᴍʙᴇʀᴛ ꜱᴛᴜᴅɪᴏꜱ, 1969

I was raised Catholic, baptized, confirmed, served as an altar boy. My dad was head honcho of the Illinois Knights of Columbus. I never thought I’d see the day that we’d have a pope who’s SOFT ON CRIME !!!

Me, in my true form:

The words of Archbishop John Ireland emblazoned in gold upon the staircase hall inside the Minnesota State Capitol: "Empires place their reliance upon sword and cannon: Republics but their trust in the citizens' respect for law. If law be not sacred, a free government will not endure." 1906

THIS IS SERIOUS❗️ Singer-Songwriters & Musicians Take Heed ‼️ Video: Singer-Songwriter Murphy Campbell from North Carolina

NYTimes: “Mr. Trump quickly assailed the organization that sued over [Trump’s White House ballroom], the National Trust for Historic Preservation, calling it ‘a Radical Left Group of Lunatics.’”

This is a dance off! Post a dance or you’re eliminated.

Spotted yesterday while pausing at a stop sign. Just stuck my phone out the window and moved on.

A lovely little hedgehog in a basket carved by an Egyptian artisan some 4,300 years ago! 🦔❤️ Detail from a wall relief in the Tomb of Mereruka at Saqqara. 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

A longtime Oscar-hater, I was happy to see 8 very good movies that overlapped thematically in interesting ways nominated for BP. These movies had so much to say to each other. But yeah, it's the Oscars which flattens every discussion into "Yes, but what was THE BEST?" racketmn.com/sorry-babies...

Marty Supreme immediately struck me as an interesting failure film nerds will watch 30 years from now and love. Sinners seemed too brilliant, and spot-on to be appreciated now at this level. One Battle seemed like an Oscar movie. I guess I sort of feel alright, like the Oscars are Oscarring.

Respond to this with an image from a movie that always cheers you up, but don't name the movie, just share an image.

WINGS (1927) — 12:00 am ET — 2h 19m (31 Days of Oscar: Oscar Goes Silent) Richard Arlen, Clara Bow, Charles Rogers; directed by William A. Wellman In this silent film, romantic rivals fly against the enemy in World War I. #TCM #TCMParty

What’s your sign?

History teachers: How are you contextualizing the U.S. war on Iran with your students? Consider covering the 1953 CIA coup overthrowing the democratically-elected Mossadegh government? Here is a good summary (with sources) from @zinnedproject.bsky.social. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ir...

Bollards save lives AND bring immense joy and happiness to the world. #WorldBollardAssociation

Actual quote, and you really can’t argue with his logic here.

Trump attacks Iran to preempt Iran’s imminent threat to America … on National Tooth Fairy Day.

Chicago has “It’s Cooler Near the Lake” — New York City has “But Still Pay the Parking Meters.”

Great piece by @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social on lost silent films, some of which don't leave behind much more of a trace than these eye-catching lobby posters!! 😍🎞️ oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/favorite-p...

Hopkins, MN, is truly a model of open government.

The bathrobe ICE news photo from Saint Paul reminds me of the Visby Window at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, depicting the Battle of Visby, Sweden in the year 1361

I’ve voted every two years in every election for over 40 years, and I don’t think I’ve ever voted anywhere that wasn’t a school or a place of worship.

Insurgency sticker at a Minneapolis light rail station

You know what it takes to get thrown out of Vegas for being too much of a cackling jackass? It’s the Official Animal of the State of Nevada!

Neben den großen Skandalen sind es auch die kleinen Dinge, die dir zeigen, dass du unter einer Diktatur lebst. Dem US-Militär wird angeordnet, ins Kino zu gehen und den Propagandafilm der Führergattin zu sehen.