Surround yourself with the kind of people who help turtles cross the road.

Truman the Cat has similar vibes and sets an equally good example.

As beautiful as this is, moving your furniture in there would suck.

I can’t think of better self-care.

Congrats to Iron Maiden, Billy Idol; Phil Collins and Joy Division/New Order on their official inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

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“Fail with honor rather than succeed with fraud.”

Nap accomplished - both of us.

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

Arthur C. Clarke

We have always been a society that has revered the rich. I’ve never quite understood that, but that’s who we are.

Trump and Musk are a symptom of that.

Beautiful.

My cats have a litter box that connects to WiFi and comes with an app. I don’t use that feature. It also has a button that lights up on it to tell me if there’s a cat in it.

I will have them secured behind a huge iron door which can only be accessed by answering a list of questions about literature, and since none of them can read, they’ll be safe.

Yes. Hello.

My generic brand donut shop coffee does not have that effect on me, but it does make me want to get up and ride off into the dim lights of my bathroom.

This is why when I hear about a book being banned, I buy it for my personal library. I will preserve these books and someday have a foundation where they will be available to be read. That’s my legacy - a foundation where books can be read and literacy can be taught.

If you have not yet watched #Brockmire, please get on it. It’s hilarious yet thought-provoking. It’s also frighteningly relatable for me.

Read In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson about the rise of Hitler in the 1930s. There are so many parallels to hard happening today in the US.

You’re absolutely correct.

People love to put labels on and trash things that they don’t like. We live in a society that seems to thrive on negativity and “punching down”.

I’m trying to change that with my own attitude.

Yep. You can call these assholes out without getting your post deleted.

E-M-P-A-T-H-Y

Spread it around!

I wonder what they’d find if they looked at this creep’s internet search history. Actually, I don’t wonder because I can guess.

I, too, worry about Captain Hoodie defecting to the dark side.

Here. This is much more fun and fitting internet handle for me than “Marlowe’

Not afraid to speak my mind and call out fools when I see fit.

I’m at a video game competition/conference with one of the kids. It is amazing. Lots of “weirdos” (in the best way) just being themselves. This is the America I want to live in. I want people to be able to not fit in and find their own way.

I’ve gone back to Internet forums. Everything is better there than in standard social media.

Gtfo troll. Go hang with the impotent right wing Trump cult on X.

A man who was beaten on Jan 6th and whose mother had a bag of shit thrown at her in her own yard is getting an order of protection for his family’s safety.

Those orders aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. Almost every time they’re only enforced after they’ve been violated.