Adam Bartley

“Zahrah the Windseeker”

Autocorrect fail. Names are important.

Reading this post just as I’ve started rereading “Zarah the Windseeker” this afternoon made my day.

A republic if you can keep it.

Image description: a yard sign in my front yard with patchy grass has a black and white image of Benjamin Franklin in the center.

Text above “What have we got, a monarchy or a republic?”
Text below Franklin “A republic, if you can keep it.”

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

I am standing outside a Burlington VT bookstore, mustache curled, wearing a cap and warm vest in the cold. I am holding a copy of Nnedi Okorafors new book “DEATH OF THE AUTHOR” There is a super script above reading “The future of storytelling is here” Below that a quote from George R.R. Martin “This one has it all.”

Last of a marathon of traveling work weekends and I decided it’s time.

I am enraptured in every story I’ve read by Dr. @nnedi.bsky.social. Taken up from the place and time I was when I sat down and cracked the pages.

I’ve been looking forward to this, wanting calm to read it, but why wait?

It boggles the mind that this country that grew up on superhero movies and action flicks about saving the country from evil forces.

But dumbasses can’t recognize Lex Luther with hair plugs and some gender-affirming mastectomy surgeries barging in to take over all the computers in the government.

So Trump has ordered pronouns removed from federal employees signatures eh?

I’d like to see some malicious compliance with his pronoun obsession.

Produce all documents with no pronouns at all in them.
Proper nouns only.

Everything, every single document.

What a douche canoe.

Hey friends in the DC/MD/VA area: I’ll be giving a #poetry #reading in #ASL on Thursday January 16th! Please register and come! (Thank you.)

acw.wildapricot.org/event-5987986

Under the GOP's SAVE Act, Tribal IDs would NO LONGER be accepted as valid identification to register to vote.

This is a direct attack on the voting rights of Native American communities.

#StopTheSAVEAct social.demcast.com/s/EC9Y1x2d

ID: A quill in an inkwell is at left on a tan bandaid at right text reads “Thou art a knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats.” King Lear

Good morning Bluesky folk. In honor of the Zuck abandoning all responsibility I present the plaster I put on my finger injury Wednesday.

From a tin of “Shakespearean Insult plasters” (bandaids).

As a whole, the 12 presents mentioned in the last verse of the well-known Christmas carol would cost $49,263 this year.
(USA Today)

Having no cats, I give you this slo mo of my late Mr Maximillian (cream colored English Labrador with coffe tipped ears) snapping at a snowball and being shook to find it disappearing in his jaws.

Yay!

French onion soup to soothe my soul.

Clip shows two pots, one full of simmering beef broth and one half full of sautéing onions.

ID: meme from the show Firefly.
Capt Mal Reynolds is in two panels with a noir lighting effect for this interrogation scene.

1. May have been on the losing side.
2. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

The Interpreter’s Task (Not) Above is a screenshot of a workshop offered for 0.2 Continuing Education Units (CEUs), charging $30 for a 2-hour session.

About that workshop offering CEUs on interpreting about celebrities... I wrote a critique here.

A word Americans should know now more than ever:

Kakistocracy- a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.

Yes, there’s a word for it.

Twitter is trash and I hear things are saner over here so here we go.