This perfectly describes how day to day life feels lately when every bit of news feels like an assault on decency, logic, and reason.

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Owl Secrets. |JW #Halloween #owl #theowlsarenotwhattheyseem #autumn #snapshot

Halloween! |JW #Halloween #pumpkin #autumn #photo #snapshot

Halloween Market |JW #Halloween #spooky #pumpkin #snapshot

Halloween Boo. |JW

I had that dream again

Autumn Morning, Adolf Kaufmann, 1918.

a lovely nutty acorn

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It's official, and time for my annual post: HAPPY 1ST DAY OF SP🎃🎃KY SEASON!

Finally! October is here!

"These individuals are unbothered; immune to the turbulence of fact. While the rest of us chase revelation, saddled by the tangible information our five senses pipe into our brains, these dark luminaries coast along, happily certain that certainty itself is not necessary."

Here’s my Free Stuff Thread, if you want some silent movie goodness but are short on cash

An intellectual's delusion is to think that the only way to understand someone is by analyzing their words to understand the ideas behind them Often the best way to understand someone is to analyze their actions to understand the feelings behind them.

Work in progress! Happy with myself for remembering to start my Christmas crafts in the summer. #knitting #knit #colorwork

Finished this knit purse yesterday. Lined and with a zipper and inner pocket. #knit #knitting #handmade #owl

A very healthy thing to do is sit in a chair and look at a screen for 40+ hours every week

Finished this spooky hat today. #knit #knitting #hat #Halloween

This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants. This is horrifying beyond words. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Here's a thought, our society would be safer having 200 active serial killers than 4 billionaires.

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."

Freaking out the neighbors by filling their mailbox with ominous postcards* *graham crackers with stamps haphazardly affixed to them

US artist Frederick Judd Waugh was primarily a marine artist ~ even designing war-time ship camouflage ~ but he shows his versatility in this still life with bottles, aka Rum Row (1922)

Young people SHOULD “have it easier” than you did. I’m sorry you got the strap up hill both ways and paid your debts with pounds of flesh, but the reason we work for progress is to make growing up and growing old gentler, easier, kinder, freer. Struggle isn’t necessary in a healthy society.

Tomorrow the nights start getting longer.

Good morning!

I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan

All I want is a cottage in the Scottish Highlands, an Agatha Christie novel, the sound of a pouring rain, a crackling fire, a whistling kettle on the stove, a raven keeping watch, and a basket of emotional support scones.

|JW #snapshot #cat

William De Morgan

Life is precious. Spend it doing things you love.

|JW #snapshot #photo #photography #shadow #owl #moody

A natural frame |JW #snapshot #photography

Mr. Tidy Paws! By Frances Clarke Sayers with art by Zhenya Gay, 1935.

Times are hard. Have a Columbo

Three Black Cats — Carl Kahler

There’s no such thing as A.I “art.” It’s a soulless amalgamation of plagiarised data. That is the antithesis of art.

Corrupt judges let a criminal get away with treason and run for president. Propagandists masquerading as journalists lied to enough people that the criminal won. Then the criminal sold a half share in the presidency to the world's richest man, whom no one voted for. That's what happened, folks.

❤️BREAKING❤️ - Bernie Sanders before 20k People in Tucson: "They have the wealth. They have all the money in the world. They have the power. They have the media. But you know what they don’t have? We’ve got 20,000 people here in Tucson and we got 100's of millions of people all across this country."

The Trump administration announced plans to expand drilling in the Arctic, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Interior Department stated it would begin steps to open the entire 1.56 million-acre Coastal Plain of the refuge to oil and gas exploration.

I miss you David Lynch.

Sorry I missed your wedding something came up

Spring is happening. |JW

#letterboxdfriday An assortment of moods and genres lately. The Blob (1988) was 10x better than I expected. Thanks to Random Number Generator Horror Podcast #9 for bringing this, and so many other great horror films to my attention.

Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun… ~Margaret Atwood🍃

30 years ago, we did. They were called "local newspapers." Then the Telecom Act of 1996 allowed essentially unlimited corporate consolidation of media outlets and they killed off local news in the space of a single generation.

Rolf Tietgens The Candle ,1946