One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

A zebra finch - and his reflection - at Boolcoomatta Reserve.

Tate Modern, London - Oct' 2023

A silent, inter-faith march near the ICE detention center in Portland, Oregon. The marchers held flowers. 💐

"The Trump administration will launch a program to find out how much money an artificial intelligence algorithm could save the federal government by denying care to Medicare patients... "It will affect patients in AZ, OH, OK, NJ, TX, and WA starting January 1..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Here's a Youtube link of Violet Affleck's full speech about COVID and clean air at the United Nations:

You just need NYS to approve this @iconyc.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

September 27, 2025

"The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth." -Albert Einstein

the dopes on X are screeching about bad bunny being a “foreigner” because they don’t know puerto rico is part of this country and nothing is more illustrative of this moment in history

Almost 7pm, half an hour after sunset and one of the young yard bunnies is having a late dinner or maybe dessert. Desert cottontail #mammals

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

Elizabeth Snelling Dahlia 2024 acrylic on canvas 19" x 16"

Among the Ruins. Bandelier National Monument. #NewMexico

A beautiful read to balance out things. substack.com/@tracychrest...

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night: Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at? **pause** Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

nightFall from a moving train

It's odd that Republicans can do the mental gymnastics to link Tylenol to autism, but not link gun deaths to guns.

Camilla Göbl-Wahl. Viena. 1871-1965. Recogida de ciruelas. 1925

History is like science and free speech. It doesn't exist for you to agree or disagree with it, it exists for you to listen to it.

you won't believe what's saving rural towns HINT: IT'S SOCIALISM. SOCIALISM IS SAVING RURAL TOWNS. AND THEY LOVE IT. THEY CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THE SOCIALISM. A SIGNIFICANT PERCENTAGE OF THEM VOTED FOR SOCIALISM. getpocket.com/explore/item...

Do we say a man is sane when he calls in the military to fight a war when there is no war? If such a man is not sane, do we have a solution to stop the madness if he’s in the White House?

Three weeks from right now, millions of Americans will gather again to say NO KINGS. As Trump wields government power to censor free speech and threaten political opponents, we need to make October 18 a historic day of resistance. Please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

I got sent this last night by @nochorus.bsky.social and it was the first thing I listened to this morning and I laughed and laughed, thanks Kaleb Horton, you madman, only you could have made this wonderful object.

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Paul Klee, Dancing Under the Empire of Fear, 1938

Theodor Kittelsen, 'I Came to the Secret Springs and Lakes Where Moose Slake Their Thirst', crayon on paper, 1900

Silence during meditation = good. Silence during fascism = very bad.

"Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields." -Jack Kerouac

"We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share." -Maya Angelou

Bodes Galaxy (M81) and Cigar Galaxy (M82) - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2pEnRoU

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From my days in Spokane.

Don't regret that you didn't speak up. www.opb.org/article/2025...

Frijoles Canyon. Bandelier National Monument. #NewMexico

Shocked and saddened to hear the news of Kaleb’s untimely passing. Always loved his writing and his photographs of “old” California. Sent me a kind note about our album “Grapevine” one time. Godspeed, Kaleb

Weekend plans

Kaleb would've loved this: Trending topics from a minute ago.

RIP Kaleb Horton youtu.be/16-SlJRCcZw?...

Go find something Kaleb Horton wrote and read it. Then show a friend. The world will be better for it

This is the Kaleb Horton piece that deserved to make him the defining voice of today. He was an poet, a comic, and a cultural anthropologist who understood America on a soul-deep level. It's his 2016 road trip to the Constitution Party's election convention in Utah. web.archive.org/web/20160918...

Some important info on Kaleb Horton and his writing for MTV: as I learned, he'd reupped the Merle piece on his site earlier this year, but otherwise his 2016-2017 work there was scrubbed and long unavailable. Happily, I was able to find a Wayback link with them all. Share, read, and remember.

RIP Kaleb Horton. Among other things, he wrote hands down one of the best pieces of true crime reporting. www.vox.com/the-highligh...

One of the best pieces by Kaleb Horton ever is no longer easily available, because of course MTV wouldn't maintain actual good music writing done for its site once. Thankfully I found it again via some digging: his 2016 memorial to Merle Haggard on his passing. Link here, screencaps to follow.

Here’s Kaleb Horton on John Prine. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...