music by and for primates

#thereasonfortheseason #XMASGOLD 4shadows.bandcamp.com/track/xmas-g...

#ICYMI #LeSangSong

bootleg dj set! #fuckit www.zverina.com/audiophile/D...

What a relief! #WallaWallaWallMap is also fun to say. www.zverina.com/2025/1117.htm #PictureoftheDay #creativenonfiction #since1997

It's fun being in a band. Our lineup is flexible, 2-6 people depending who shows up any given week, and despite having improvised thousands of songs on the spot since 2008, we almost never re-play them. #NoBrakes #NoMap #NoGoingBack #4Shadows #WYSIWYG

meeting weekly since 2008 (with a brief eviction hiatus in 2019) this was approximately our 813th jam... and we still haven't settled on a style #4Shadows #12October2025

Happy 103rd birthday, #KurtVonnegut. Wish you were here. Had to retire my overused paperbacks as they were falling apart, replaced with @libraryofamerica.bsky.social box set. Sturdy, elegant, and Sunny loves the ribbon bookmark. www.zverina.com/2025/1111.htm #PictureoftheDay #since1997

#ferries ✊ www.zverina.com/2025/1021.htm

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today's ferry ride was foggy

I've been protesting this or that injustice for 40 years. I used to do it in hopes of effecting immediate change. Now it's more to make my heart swell with solidarity. And that feeling is a prerequisite for the fight ahead. ✊

absurd times call for absurd absurdity #absurd #ity

hey #artnerds! this one is for #theselect: long form #outsider music video features extended slow motion tracking shot of #sunset from #topdeck #WAStateFerry youtu.be/Q9tZMMveydg?...

#wordcloud #gonewrong #OIP #OtherwiseIntelligentPeople www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv00...

#priorities www.yahoo.com/news/article...

if i can't do it, so can you! #underachiever #blues #otherwiseintelligentpeople #OIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaAL...

4shadows.bandcamp.com/album/iron-m... #ironmoustache #4Shadows

#screentime www.zverina.com/2025/0728.htm

#BearGulchFire smoke plume over #HoodCanal August 12 2025 #timelapse view from north shore of Great Bend www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvYh...

I've been riding these boats long enough to remember when people buried their faces in #newspapers instead of screens. 📷 March 31, 2003, en route from Fauntleroy to Vashon #WSF #ferry #vintagedigital #CanonPowerShotS200 @ferries.wsdot.wa.gov

Real Change confirmed today that two of our vendors have been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This action is a direct attack on a protected community and poses a chilling threat to the safety and well-being of all individuals experiencing homelessness and poverty.

Over the weekend, we received the sad news that two of our @realchangenews.bsky.social vendors were detained by ICE at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. Real Change is mobilizing quickly to provide assistance to the vendors and their loved ones. www.realchangenews.org/support-ice-...

anyone else receive this fucked up email from the social security administration?

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Three innocent children were taken by ICE - not for crimes, but as victims of the Trump regimes ethnic cleansing. Now they sit in a detention center, terrified and alone. No due process, no answers. Just desks still empty, teachers still waiting, classmates still asking why, & so much heartache.

☀️🔥 www.zverina.com/2025/0404.htm

feeling something, i guess #nachtybynature #night #Lichtfresserin #nightynight www.zverina.com/2025/0401.htm

i was just talking with a neighbor about how dark this winter was--"in mood," he clarified. i knew just what he meant. now the days are getting longer, a little brighter, even as metaphorical clouds gather, and i'm feeling less immobilized. www.zverina.com/2025/0402.htm

This is why the Martin Niemoller poem everyone quotes starts this way: First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist.

anyone else hitting a wall? www.zverina.com/2025/0202.htm

I don't know who needs to see this, but here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvvE... A pretty good crash course for those who might not know history and/or can't connect the dots...

In a new executive order, Trump has targeted the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients. www.everylibrary.org/statementiml...

“Put the glasses on! Put 'em on!” cinephiliabeyond.org/live-john-ca...

Anti-Racism Racism Allyship Bias DEI Diversity Diverse Confirmation Bias Equity Equitableness Feminism Gender Gender Identity Inclusion Inclusive All-Inclusive Inclusivity Injustice Intersectionality Prejudice Privilege Racial Identity Sexuality Stereotypes Pronouns Transgender Equality

#ThisAmericanLife youtu.be/kE7UwSc_Z6s?...

🪰🕸️🕷️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZDh...

happy birthday to my website 3,001 posts in 27 years so far www.zverina.com/2025/0124.htm anyone else here been blogging that long? i'd like to buy you a lollipop 🍭 any other paul violi fans in the house? let's talk about his poetry 📚 #pictureoftheday #creativenonfiction #urblog

love is the way

used book seller at flea market turned me on to Ryszard Kapuściński and i'm all in... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard...

if at first you don't succeed... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busines... next up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enablin... though arguably the power of executive orders makes a further enabling act redundant... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executi...

ferries are a great example of the perils of socialism www.zverina.com/2025/0110.htm #WAStateFerries #sunset #socialism #freefootferriesnow

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it's a paradox, but the essence of self-sufficiency is helping others

they need us more than we need them all we gotta do is do nothing lesangsong.bandcamp.com/track/careful