LorenTripp

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
~ Arthur Ashe

Strange Fruit

Cartoon: a lynching tree. The ground beneath it is all churned up from a now-departed crowd. Four pairs of Black feet hang from the branches. They are labeled 'liberty, justice, equality, truth'. It should be self-evident what this means. We're seeing the pillars of any democracy destroyed real-time in America... Which has a checkered history with those virtues to begin with.

Mood

Mid homework crisis (THANKS, ADHD!) naturally I went to the Garden Museum. In a 1,000 year old church with a cheerful cafe, it holds the tomb of Adm William Bligh, who facilitated the slave trade. It’s not all grim- there’s fun British garden history & lovely art #garden #museum #botanical

Liz Cheney didn't write letter urging Democratic Party to fight Trump's 'authoritarian machine' A Facebook user claimed credit for the post and shared it in a group titled: "Liz Cheney/Adam Kinzinger Against Trump."

She did not write this, but it’s still a good plan!
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Didn't Elon Musk identify as autistic?

Royal Standard is near a police stable and sometimes we get the benefit of a training parade! #horses #police#mountedpolice

Spring in my back yard and Greenwich park. #camelias #spring #oldtrees #greenwich

Cartoon: VP JD Vance plants an American flag on a frozen, shore whilst a large Viking looks on, bemused. The VP is saying "In the name of his excellency Donald Trump, I claim this green land..." This refers to Vance's recent trip to Greenland, which Trump intends to annex.

Mood

Beautiful day in Greenwich! #beautiful #lovely #trees #sunnyday #greenwich #london

This is what adhd feels like

I hate it very much

Abe Sapien: Is that a monkey? Hellboy: He's got a gun! Monkey: Fires gun Blam Blam sound effects

The Holy Trinity (of comic panels)

Comic panel. Hellboy and Batman are leaping down into a group of Nazis. One Nazi says, "We must stop you." Hellboy is responding, "Good luck!"

What's better than Batman or Hellboy punching Nazis? Batman and Hellboy teaming up to punch Nazis together. This Nazi Punch of the Day comes from the 2010 "Hellboy: Masks and Monsters."

#NaziPunching #NPotD

Dick, Annie, and her dog, Sandy, stand in the center, with headshots of three other characters on each side.

Today in random stuff from my collection, this Dick Tracy & Little Orphan Annie print by Joe Staton. From when Annie showed up in the Dick Tracy strip a few years ago while Joe was the artist.

Cars don't belong in cities, says Top Gear's James May TV star has idea for Hammersmith bridge - and calls anti-cycling council ‘tw*ts’

“People get very complacent driving cars, because it’s easy, and you are very protected and you’re very isolated inside your car.

It’s easy to forget that there’s a huge amount of energy inside a car, even when it’s only going 20 or 30mph."

I just deactivated my old Twitter/X account and can delete it (so they say) in a month. Adorably, the X archive I downloaded all makes reference to to Twitter, not X, because I guess changing words on a computer is hard! De-Musking feels good! #X #Twitter #cleanse

English spring in London. Local flavor, local color, elephant (but not castle) and Prosecco as a harbinger of spring at a boutique in Blackheath #spring #england #prosecco #elephant

Picturesque decay in Hastings. #rust #peelingpaint #sculpture #angels #churcharchitecture #streetphotography

Today my class was fortunate to have the run of Great Dixter as guests of Fergus the Mad Plantsman. Lutyens added to the Tudor original and the garden is glorious even now. #garden #daffodils #England #flowers #GreatDixter

On Sunday I put in a market order & sold some Tesla stock I had forgotten about. It has been satisfying to see its plunge. Meanwhile my Games Workshop stock is going gangbusters! I’m loving Fidelity’s ominous graphics. #Schadenfreude #warhammer

Daffs in Royal Standard #flowers #daffdils #spring

My suggestion to Europe is to let not one single solitary thing slide. Apply the law, unlike the United States did. We just pointed and yelled, but did fucking nothing about it. And now look at this shit.

#Trump #America #PoliticalCartoon

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#Canada #InternationalWomensDay

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I forgot that I had some #tesla shares, and I just sold them. Losing money never felt so good! #swasticar #america #freedom

#Lions and #architecture in central #London

“Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them.” The extraordinary will take care of itself. William Martin,The Parent's Tao Te Ching

William Martin,The Parent's Tao Te Ching

“We should measure the prosperity of the nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty; the prevalence of health; the efficiency of the public schools; and the number of people who can, do read worthwhile books.”
~ W.E.B. Dubois

This has been the thinking for decades…

Blackheath and environs