A house just outside a small town, with a display of inflatable Easter bunnies and a flag of the United States. In the background are a tractor and a pickup.
Religion is weird.
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'traffic to news sites has cratered'
That may be because we no longer trust news sites to accurately report news. Years of sane-washing Trump and MAGA has eroded our trust; newspapers like NYT & WaPo have proven unreliable.
Don't nobody trust those assholes no more, is what I'm trying to say.
There was a period after WW2 when photojournalism and what we now call street photography were often indistinguishable. Niépce had such a wonderful eye for ordinary people engaged in ordinary life.
Who knew "planning" would turn out to be woke? I mean, clearly diplomacy is for pussies, but I'd no idea "exit strategy" was a lib scam.
Personally, I find it troubling that Pete Hegseth has taken out almost as many US military commanders as Iranian military commanders.
The war with Iran is stupid on a galactic scale, but making it more stupid by removing the most senior military officers in our OWN ARMY seems a bit rash.
I have a 13-year-old Prius. Routinely gets around 40mpg.
Brother, it's good to see your face again.
It rained all day & was too cold to go outside barefooted. But I did it anyway, because it's April goddamnit, & what's the point of April if you can be barefooted on grass?
Yeah, that's...that's wrong. Or...genius?
This is fear-mongering. The lede is about a woman injured when struck by an unlocked Movcan V60, but the photo is of an ordinary ebike. The article then mentions a study on ebike injury rates without noting the study was about injuries to cyclists.
This is designed to scare more than educate.
That's a happy dog.
If you see this, post a picture of you in glasses.
Oh lawdy. 2-3 years ago I found a box of old eyeglasses in a garage. For some perverse reason, I shot 25 selfies of me wearing different men's & women's glasses. I was foolish enough to write about it.
gregfallis.com/2023/12/05/b...
A balding gentleman half-jogging half-walking in a section of the skywalk during the lunch hour.
So here's me, noodling along in the skywalk, when I hear this 'thud thud thud' coming up behind me. I pluck my little #ricohgr3x from my pocket & wait a moment. This guy comes trundling along.
Good on him, doing the work. It's not easy.
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Trump walks out like the doddering, vicious old fool he so obviously is. He slouches out, a cross between a corpse and a sullen teenager, a half dead thing made youthful by its bitter jealousies. He wears his insecurities like he wears his clothes: badly and ostentatiously. His face is darkened by the ugly thoughts which motivate him. He grips the lectern and rotates through the four stock expressions he seems capable of, none of them bearing any connection to his words, all of them motivated by vanity, or egotism, or mendaciousness, or bile.
This description of Trump is one of the best I've seen, from @iandunt.bsky.social :
You don't vote FOR the lesser of two evils; you vote FOR the people who will suffer under the rule of the greater of two evils.
When 'do no harm' is impossible, you opt for 'do the least amount of harm.'
just shoot the bastards
Linear time is fascist.
Well, it was RIGHT THERE.
Hegseth firing experienced white guys during 'major combat operations'? I guess he's planning to do something stupid in Iran & is getting rid of staff who'd object to it.
Five bucks says Hegseth is one of those "I never read prologues or epilogues' booktok fuckwits.
There'll be an epilogue here.
And a wanker.
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A black-and-white photograph taken during the March 28 No Kings protest in Des Moines, Iowa. In the background is the state capitol building. In the foreground, a sign reading, "We have a Constitution."
We have a Constitution.
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I thought about watching it, but the cat needed attention.
They may crawl right back onto the path, of course. But moving them off makes them safer. It's also safer for cyclists trying to dodge the little guys.
A cartoon. Trump on a bike with a stick: NATO sucks Trump puts stick in front wheel: invades Iran Trump lies in the grass, after falling off his bike: why is Europe doing this to me!
This is a good one. Via @newsthump.com, I think
I'm seeing more of these small, stubby e-trikes locally, and every person I've talked to loves them.
You did.
Where I live, this is the time of year that reptiles seem to seek out the warmth of bike paths during certain parts of the day. I've moved turtles and snakes off of bike paths.
Look, writing is work. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's torture. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's...well, torture. Sometimes it's rewarding, and sometimes it's struggling to find the right word that means 'torture'.
Often you're just sitting alone in a room putting words in a row. It's work.
A lot of hypocrisy, yes...but also a weirdly deep kindness that sometimes extends to immigrants if/when they become seen as part of the community. But even that's often tainted with hypocrisy, because the immigrants are sort of seen as 'pets.' They're loved in the same way as folks love their pets.
That's a great film. I was discussing it with somebody here a few months ago.
Broad Street (the main drag of a small town). The town center is a block long, of which most of the shops are closed or empty. There's a building on which the letter 'C' and an arrow pointing to Broad Street has been painted.
Small towns, the best and worst of the US. Polite & friendly on the surface, suspicious & anxious below. I love to visit them, but wouldn't want to live in one.
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