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Lapsed painter, occasional photographer, compulsive writer. [bridged from https://mas.to/@farbel on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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#WritersCoffeeClub 24: What in your writing 'dates' you? Probably everything. I'm almost 67. I've been reading science fiction for almost 60 years, beginning with 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Everything I've read has informed my writing.

When the South African president says: "I'm sorry I don't have a plane to give you," and Trump says: "I'd take it." There isn't an exchange more illustrative of the present moment.

@bobbylefebre on instagram

A post on my LiveJournal about safety in Mexico https://i.livejournal.com/1657026.html?utm_source=nc&ila_campaign=notifications&ila_location=top_menu_bell&ila_context=like

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJDawxFxQ9k/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

I love #AmberRuffin https://youtu.be/6B5JNc3mOYM?si=TqRFpwJqZFqOfoni #HIGNFYUS

#conservatism #wileecoyote

It is easy to live in the world if you see everything as a zero sum game of black and white or good and evil. That is why so many lazy people do. Critical thinking and nuance are hard.

I get that SCROTUS has pronounced Trump immune, but can we start throwing everyone aiding and abetting his crimes in jail, please?

https://youtu.be/6ZHWIYHlXOs?si=O1HBw02YSRhzJbdY #BruceSpringsteen #Trump

https://youtu.be/g7z-VV-vepI?si=EKK5VDiw5QXFhNML #TonyLevin #BassGuitar #Prog

I would wager that most people who object to the protection of intellectual property don't have any of their own.

#SilentSunday

I listen to a broad spectrum of music. Anyone interested in browsing videos spotlighting bits of that spectrum can go to my ancient livejournal. I still post there, almost exclusively music videos. http://i.livejournal.com #musicvideos #livejournal

https://youtu.be/MU4sjE39l-Y?si=DqFslcXrWRJaotJq #TheHappyFits #MusicVideo #Cello

Our system is broken. Our system was broken before Trump. He and his cronies are just stepping on the shattered pieces, crunching them into dust. For all their flaws, Democrats at least try to make things better. The Republican's latest epithet, DEI, is an example. Ask any Republican voter what […]

A decapitated dolphin is found on a Carolina beach, and they don't immediately bring RFK Jr. in for questioning?

#tariffs #taxes #china

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/us/politics/pete-buttigieg-iowa-democrats.html #buttigieg2028speculation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ivQwwgW4OY&ab_channel=Ren #Ren #MusicVideo

In the old days, the roller coaster would climb to the top of the first hil, click click click click, and then plummet. Newfangled coasters start slow and then are propelled at hjigh speed to the top, whence begins the hair-raising ride. Welcome to the newfangled stock market. "Only" 30% […]

#4chan #hacked, moderators doxed. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIygAMfxucr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Excited to be part of the RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show at the Saatchi Gallery, London where I will be showing 6 of my New Forest panoramas. The exhibition runs from 13th June to 27th July and is free to enter. #photography #newforest #rhs #saatchi

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/opinion/kennedy-ultraprocessed-food-dyes.html A broken clock may be right twice a day, but for the next twelve hours, it's wrong.

I don't understand reflexive cop-hatred. It's childish. I understand concern with police tactics, the desire for oversight, the just condemnation of criminal cops, incompetent cops, etc. But, hating cops because they are cops ... the ones who storm schools when there's an active-shooter, who […]

India and Pakistan agree to a ceasefire. Trump and Rubio try to take credit. India immediately fact-checks their lies. The United States government is a joke.

#WritersCoffeeClub 10: Recommend a poet or prosaist local to your city or region. I live now in Oaxaca, Mexico, and, although I do speak fair Spanish, I'm not yet good enough to do any serious reading. I spent most of my adult life in Tucson, Arizona. Linda Ronstadt is from Tucson. Does she […]

Rep. Bob Menendez, who intervened when ICE put their hands on two female colleagues, is speaking outside the ICE facility in Newark, where Mayor Baraka was arrested. #NewJersey #uspol

China doesn't needs us, Donald, you moron. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/chinas-exports-to-u-s-sink-offset-by-trade-with-other-economies-as-trumps-tariffs-hit-global-trade?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Hey, Miller, you Nazi pig. You saying there is an invasion doesn't make it true.

#cartoon #JonAdams

The Cleaner. Comments? #TheCleaner

Trump: "Who are the most racist White people we can bring to the US as 'refugees'? Elon: "Ooh! Ooh! I know!"

Fuck Laura Loomer with a cholla cactus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/magazine/bill-gates-foundation-closing-2045.html What being a billionaire should look like. I don't begrudge this man one penny. #BillGates

The new pope made a point of speaking Spanish to his second home of Peru, but didn't make a single reference to the US. I'm not a fan of organized religion, and definitely not of the Catholic Church, but this man will directly influence the consciences and actions of 1.4 billion people, so I am […]

So we have a US Pope. Woop de fucking do.

Wanna bet Trump says the World Cup is rigged after we get our asses handed to us?

In a sane world, The US ambassadors to India and Pakistan would be working overtime to ease tensions. Too bad we don't have ambassadors to either country yet. #pakistan #india