Helpful advice on showingβand sharingβsome light with young men:
tim.blog/2025/10/24/a...
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Helpful advice on showingβand sharingβsome light with young men:
tim.blog/2025/10/24/a...
A great day at the plaza in Watsonville, CA. Many hilarious signs (mine is a contender) and the marvel of famed labor activist Dolores Huerta, who addressed the crowd with vigor and a strong, persuasive voice. Dolores is 95. Heroes are made of this.
#NoKings
Pathetic. When will they put "no reading" implants in people's brains?
SB 13 is a bill thatΒ removes local control from public schools across Texas and gives politicians (not parents) the power to decide what books are or are not available to students.
action.everylibrary.org/texas_school...
The media is largely ignoring the trauma of millions. Here's why.
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
Watering the Friday soil (well, our own) with a standardβbut delicious!βManhattan. Four Roses Small Batch Select bourbon, Dolin vermouth, Peychaud and Angostura bitters, brandied cherry, lemon twist. Standard she may be, but ahhhhhhh....
#cocktails
Mr. President. Stop breaking the law.Β  
The shutdown does not give you the right to fire thousands of hard working federal employees.
Instead of giving huge tax breaks to your billionaire friends, show some respect for the struggling working families of our country.
Nah, it can't be that bad, could it? Oh, wait...
youtu.be/I1dW-nZqhew?...
Five years after the hardcore CZU fire, Butano State Park still is heavily scarred, with burnt trees and stumps everywhere, but yet beautiful in a haunting way. That's me a week ago in front of a big redwood that had fallen across a trail, looking recently sawed. #ClimateChange #fire #redwoods
06.10.2025 18:18 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tonightβs sweet relief: a Sazerac w/ Russellβs 6-year rye, St. George absinthe, Peychaudβs bitters, simple syrup, lemon wedge, splash of (non traditional) soda water. A small anodyne for the news. #cocktails
04.10.2025 02:32 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A real blow: she was a big, big soul
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
The pseudo tough guy putting on a performative prance. Astonishing that this idiocy is supposed to represent a proud military. Many a generalβand many a regular soldierβmust be cringing.
30.09.2025 23:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0EveryLibrary's Executive Director, John Chrastka, discusses why he believes in libraries. #libraries #AABB
  www.everylibrary.org/i_believe_in... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
A toast to democracy; it wobbles, but I think (hope!) it will remain upright. This is a Square Mile, with Old Forester 1920 bourbon (yum), Grey Whale gin (semi-local) and Dolin Vermouth. InterestingβI did like the bourbon/gin combo more than I imagined, though not sure I'd do it a lot.
#cocktails
Sign the petition to support H.R.5527 and stop Trump's book bans in schools on military bases in the US and abroad.
action.everylibrary.org/rtrdodea via 
βͺ@everylibrary.bsky.socialβ¬
Freedom of Speech For Sale
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More good times with the friendly picnickers in the Trumpista administration
Oh yesβwhen I speak it's all roses and birdsong. (At least, after five cocktails.)
18.09.2025 22:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0CBS parent company Paramount canceled Colbert to win approval from Trump's FCC to merge with Skydance.
Now ABC parent company Disney suspends Kimmel as it seeks DOJ approval to buy Fubo β and its affiliate Nexstar seeks FCC approval to buy Tegna.
See how this works?
You will have to have a rag to sop up the irony dripping off this, but her stuff is always good:
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
#Kimmel #MAGAHypocrisy
Our country (big, frustrated sigh) feels so effed-up now, with no succor in sight. I feel powerless to make structural change, so I made a Friday night cocktail: A Man o' War, with Old Forester 1920 (a fave), Dolin vermouth, Gran Marnier, lemon juice, twist, brandied cherry. Breathe... #cocktails
13.09.2025 00:53 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This eve's Jumpin' Jehoshaphat: a basic gin and tonic with a bit of jump: Grey Whale gin (kind of local), Liber tonic syrup, fizzy water, Meyer and Orange bitters, lemon wedge. Spirited (since it's been a lovely warm day). #cocktails
06.09.2025 00:56 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0These just arrived today, so tonight is glory! 
Besides supporting sustainability, sending kids to Chocolate University overseas to learn about cooperative cacao-bean growing practices with farmers, and partnering with good folks globally, Askinosie chocolate is fabulous! #chocolate #Askinosie
We house-sat on Bequia for about a month some years ago and enjoyed it, and a short stay on St. Vincent. We saw the turtle guy as well and wondered if the program was fully beneficial for the animals, but in our superficial considering, it seemed to be.
03.09.2025 23:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Before the Trump administration outlaws sunflowers, and has them picked up by ICE, here are the ones waving with obvious gaiety along my driveway:
#flowers
The story behind this Mark Twain postcard, sent to one of his "friends," is full of betrayal and mystery. I've read a lot about Twain's colorful life, but this was a new one on me. Can't afford the auction price though.
auctions.potterauctions.com/_TWAIN__Mark...
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29.08.2025 14:14 β π 14524 π 4107 π¬ 220 π 173Tonight's volcano of joy: A Boulevardier a la Banane (yeah, quite a monicker): WhistlePig Rye, Gran Classico (so much better than Campari), Cocchi vermouth, 99 Bananas liqueur (99 proof!), orange twist. Love the banana boost. #cocktails
30.08.2025 00:41 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Some lovely writing here...
The Solace of Open Spaces www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/09/t...
I am re-reading Orwell's 1984 right now, and the parallels between Big Brother's doublespeak, doublethink and the full range of authoritarian control and that of the Trump administration are stark. Ugly times. Let's not sleepwalk.
A Dangerous Liaison
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Always good stuff! The piece today on publishing industry changes since 2015 is fascinating:
janefriedman.com/how-publishi...
Iβve lived across from acres of strawberries for 25 years. The workers toil, bent over, in heat and cold. Not criminals, but Satan, er, Trump is arresting and deporting them. The country-harming idiocy of that matches many of this administrationβs fool decisions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/o...