What a relief!!!

Juxtaposed headlines from 2 articles - one about the $200,000,000 ballroom they will be building at the White House and the other about flood victims in TX getting zero aid money.

Signs of our times...

Today's gobsmack: none of my classmates in my university class have heard of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". Not one. 🤯🤯🤯

Here in the midlands of South Carolina, today is the equinox - the sun rose at 7:33 am and will set at 7:33 pm. So happy equinox to all, whenever yours happens to be.

Mated pair of red-tailed hawks in a tall tree behind our house.

Mated pair of red-tailed hawks in a tall tree behind our house.

Yay telephoto lens! I got some excellent shots of "our" mated pair of red-tailed hawks. They love hanging out in one of the tall trees behind our house.

She's gorgeous.

“Hi Chris, this is Jill from Newsmax-“ continues on to ask me to appear on a Super Bowl preview segment My response - “Hi Jill, thanks for reaching out, unfortunately I have a strict policy of not working with people who back autocrats and dictators, let alone those are at this very moment in the process of destroying the constitutional separation of power that makes companies like you own able to function independently, as opposed to be government propaganda, so I’m going to have to regretfully decline.”

Sometimes you just have to say “fuck you” with a flourish

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Some of your devoted people are already here with you 💞

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A mated pair of Red-tailed hawks high in a tree behind our house.

Mr & Mrs Red-tailed Hawk! Our first sight of them together this year. They love this tallest tree in the woods behind our house.

I love Kelly-Ann, and that book is wonderful!!! Enjoy!

Definition of "anticious" - wondering what our ancestors would think of this world that they worked so hard to shape but never got to see.

Today's word from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows... Particularly apt in these troubled times.

*whispers into the void* "your art will be declared degenerate, so you might as well lean into it."

Today's word from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

They were probably dumped. To be that old and not feral, they were already used to humans.

Opinion | My Home Is Messy, and I Don’t Feel Bad About It (Gift Article) The parts of my brain that make it hard for me to keep a tidy house are also responsible for much of what I love about my personality.

For whoever needs to see this today! You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/01/o...

Helpful!

Meanwhile, over in the Metaverse, people are finding that they now follow various members & accounts in the new administration, w/o their knowledge or consent. Cheeky, to say the least, to assume that if I followed the last president that I want to follow this one. Or his VP, or his wife, etc, etc.

It *was* fun!

Ranky Tanky on stage - a SC Gullah band.

Live music tonight... Ranky Tanky at the Newberry Opera House.

I love this so much

She looks so much like my Lily!

Not mention that he has expressed, more than once, both the willingness and the desire to use the military against American citizens.

School starts tomorrow! This term I'm taking collage and mixed media (U of SC). You're saying What? An old person taking college classes? Why yes, in SC if you are over 60 you can take classes at any state school for no tuition. This is my 6th academic year.

Wow. That is fucked up.

Gee, what a surprise. 🙄

This is a great tip! Thanks!