The strength of a nation is judged by how it treats the most vulnerable (paraphrase) 1/2

Happy #Caturday Minou’s a busy girl checking out Dr Doolittle’s new clinic & getting started on her travel documents, clinic passes the comfort test

Was someone really expecting Tesla/Musk to live up to standards set for the health and safety of the environment and people?!?

I'll be glad when my brain quits waking me at up 3am to let me know it's time to strategize our ongoing game of "Packing Tetris"

GD crazyassed grifting M-Fers 🤬

The shipping container is in the driveway and we're packing/loading our household "stuff" the big news is; the house is SOLD closing is in a couple of weeks. So packing/loading, get international health certificates for Jagger & Minou. 🙏❤️🤔😱

Suddenly our move feels very real, got arrival time confirmation for the shipping container for our household "goods" 😧🙏

I couldn't breathe because I was laughing so hard. That bird's an asshole! 😂😂😂😂😂 Best with volume up.

Started packing the kitchen tonight, while applying principles of Swedish Death Cleaning in the process to reduce the load... never realized how emotionally attached I am to my back-up crepe pan.

Need to find more of these beauties for my camera before our move.

My how the world has changed...

I'm probably one nerve away from buying a dozen lemon decals and painting my 'new' (less than 15,000miles) SUV that is sitting at the dealership service department (again) for the 4th time to have the transmission repaired/replaced in 6 weeks time.

Poverty may be a choice, but it isn’t made by the poor.

Strictly for those times when you're taking yourself too seriously

After watching Rachel Maddow's episode last night about ICE's use of regular commercial airlines to move kidnapped children from Minneapolis to Texas I'm glad I don't fly US carriers

WOW love the texture in his work, (I'd be lucky if my work resembled the canvas under the artist's feet) 😍

In wartime, truth is often the first casualty. Journalism serves the public only when it resists becoming an amplifier for power and instead centers verified facts and the human cost of conflict. Reporting the voices of victims keeps war from being reduced to slogans.

Major score yesterday at a new grocery store here in town; "Fox's Glacier Mints" they were a favourite of my Dad's easily 60yrs since I had one, perfect for keeping the throat in shape on walks with all the pollen in the air.

Attempted to read some of the 'news' this morning on the current regime going from 1 story to the next... 3rd story 1st paragraph in my brain started screaming "They're all nucking futs!!!"

I really don't care what it will do to me and the fact it is only Tuesday, I'm making Tiramisu for dessert. (pictures to follow)

WOW!

So the Russia is helping Iran target 'americans' and Trump is helping Putin make money/sell oil.

In honour of WW lll Tom Lehrer was way before his time and sadly gone too soon. #WW3

Well, I'm not sure what to say concerning this news.

Military Industrial Complex meets Immigration Industrial Complex

Having lived in the us for a long time I'm glad I'm spending my golden years in the true north...

Love his Serpentine series.

Today, ICE in Savannah Ga. (02/16/26)

Wilde predictions

Harald Sohlberg Summer Night Oslo, 1899

It's about CONTROL and shaming is control of the victim and the narrative.

Yet again, as I glare at my husband when he asks at 5:15pm what we're having for dinner he realizes by the look on my face that it's my "birthday", YUP "dead man walking" 🤨 (happens every couple of years)

I really needed 'something' today and here it is!

Morning Whippet Power Walk soundtrack a little John Mayall & the BluesBreakers (Greene, McVie, Fleetwood, & of course...) this should get things back on track 😘

Full court press on revisionist history via library/museum funding. (no big surprise)

Time to take a break, I've let life get the better of me; feeling overwhelmed by it all. If there was ever a day to 'cheat' on my life this is it. Back to living clean tomorrow.

This applies today also 👇

An update to a previous post concerning a possible ethnic cleansing campaign in Springfield Ohio

😧(shaking my head)

Last night’s rain helped the resurrection fern (Pleopeltis polypodioides) despite our low temperatures make a comeback (Morning Whippet Power Walk) #epiphytes

No big surprise here

"THIS"

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Despite protests in small towns and cities across the US, the Trump administration is pushing ahead with the purchase of warehouses it plans to convert into immigration jails in what could be the largest expansion of such detention capacity in US history...

Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio? (Timothy Snyder 'substack') Do you recall "they're eating the dogs and cat"? Next up for ice Springfield Ohio's Haitian community

Timothy Snyder's @timothysnyder.bsky.social substack on JRR Tolkien and his dragons was a much needed commentary for me this afternoon, hope you also find it of interest;

Oh joys "snow flurries" in coastal Georgia (the state not the country) with record setting temperatures for the next 5 days, getting back into the groove I suppose 😉