Young boy reading book in a ruined bookshop in London devastated by an air raid - 1940

Hey, Mikey, Get back to work! Signed, your 340 million bosses

Yep! Hahaha! Blessings! Hahaha!

"It's interesting that if you say the Constitution creates a separation of powers systems in which there are no kings, they think you hate America.” (David Noll)

New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.

DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH The media who do this are heartless bastards

I dont care about two random incredibly rich people getting married or Cracker Barrel Abolish ICE

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?

THE SORT OF "CHRISTIAN" WHO PREYS

The word of the Lord.

Freedom OF religion, Freedom FROM religion. #politics #activism #religion

Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.

Greetings from Eugene Oregon where we stand strong against the Trump dictatorship.

Just remember, if some Rabble starts Rousing... Sit down Signs down Cameras up Pass it down the wave.

Stay peaceful anyone going to protests. Rumor is Proud Boys and Oath Keepers will be entering the protests to cause problems. Don't let them get to you. Sit down and let them be the ones standing. Make them the spectacle.

Happy Saltmarsh Day to all who celebrate! (I do.)

Still no raids on meat packing plants or poultry processing plants in red states, huh? So.. not really an immigration issue as much as a vendetta against cities that despise Trump.

You know what to do!

I nominate Francis Spufford' historical novel Golden Hill (Scribner, 2016) for a stunning last line award: "And I remember how good it was to scream. " Does anyone else have a stunning last line to nominate?

" . . . how much survives will depend on our own deliberate choices" Ross Douthat, NYT, Apr. 19, 2925. Native Camas blooming in Alton Baker Park this morning

Quoting from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkely of Oregon: The Republican budget bill will also pile on over $37 TRILLION in new debt. That's more debt created by a SINGLE BILL than created in the entire 249-year history of our country. What happened to fiscal responsibility?

At the Plantin-Moretus print museum, Antwerp.

Flying EUG

Triliums in Hendricks Park were lovely yesterday.

Just dropped my March 15th Ides of Trump postcard in the mail. West Coasters, it's not too late to put a few choice words on a postcard to our lying leader and send to the White House. It will be like nothing he's ever seen before!

@bigcrow.bsky.social Hi!

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has denounced the Trump administration's purge of Democrats from the formerly bipartisan Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Resistance #3: in honor of Oregon Democrats like Wyden, I volunteered to work with Democrats of Lane County.

Resistance#2: the magnificent mountain Denali, fully out on a perfectly clear day, July 2003.

I spent my day with grandchildren; focused on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I'm beginning a daily action campaign against Trump hate. Today, in response to Trump freeing all the January 6th haters, I am making a donation to the Southern Povery Law Center, which works to reduce the power and influence of white supremacist hate groups. Ideas?