Selena Maranjian

"When you teach your son, you teach your son's son." ~ The Talmud

#parenting #quote #talmud

You never know another man's burden until he puts it down and you feel the ground shake. -- John Patrick Shanley (screenwriter of "Moonstruck")

#quote #empathy

:) #life #oops

Clever posts of yore:

@pourmecoffee
In Hell, everyone gets a personal electronic device that does nothing but prompt you to update Adobe and Java.

@Mike_FTW
“Beware of young, charismatic, right-wingers with a fondness for one particular book.” — All of Germany

#hell #fascist #nazi

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Clever posts of yore:

@brennadine
I have the savings account of a much younger woman.

@mariana057
Thank you for calling the incontinence hot line…
Please Hold.

#money #funny

Clever posts of yore:

@mdob11
My favorite machine at the gym is the defibrillator.

@meganamram
Note: if you're the one carrying a flaming torch you're probably not the victim

@GaryDelaney
The study of why triangular sandwiches taste better is known as trigonomnomnometry.

#math #gym #victim

Photo of breads and handwritten sign saying "please use tongues to pick up pastries. Thx"

:) #spelling

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Each one of us needs to do our part, and this is one way to do it! It will only take 5 minutes of your time to make your 5 calls.

Clever posts of yore:

@ElayneBoosler
"Romney- Corporations Are People!" Yes, I'm dating a small cap non profit, but it's not serious.

@bruceforce
I can achieve anything until I put my mind to it

@davidsonjess22
It appears that the Center for Disease has given up on Control & Prevention

#CDC

:) #email

Clever post of yore:

@Home_Halfway
RACCOON: I haven't been feeling so good lately
DOCTOR: We'll let's see. Have you been staying up all night?
RACCOON: Yes
DOCTOR: What have you been eating?
RACCOON: Garbage
DOCTOR: Well you're doing all the right things

#raccoon #raccoons #healthcare

Clever posts of yore:

@badgerstew
I told my elderly Trump-supporting neighbor that I installed 3 gender neutral bathrooms when I built my house and he was disgusted.
I honestly don't know if he'll ever figure it out.

@eliserose5
8 out of 6 people think I'm terrible at math.

#trump #math

Agree? #movies #trilogy

"Day 78 -- still no tomatoes" -- image of lush marijuana plant

:)
#gardening

"This gal is killin it with her CVS receipt" -- image of women doing rhythmic gymnastics with yards-long ribbon

:)
#funny

Clever posts of yore:

@rosiesrambles
we could be bringing back horse drawn carriages or like lace gloves and top hats but nooooo y'all gotta bring back polio

@gilbertjasono
It is kind of poetic that there is now a nuclear standoff between a literal Fat Man and Little Boy

#polio #vaccines

Clever posts of yore:

@Social_Mime
Oscillating fans are for people that want to be cool every 5-7 seconds.

@abbyhasissues
Dolly Parton wrote “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” on the same day and I’ve been “getting ready to put away laundry” for the past five or six days.

#fans #dollyparton

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Clever posts of yore:

@chimneyspotter
Babies were invented in 1893 when a lady accidentally lost an alarm clock inside a large ham

@sketchesbyboze
too old to be a plucky teen Chosen One getting a call to adventure, too young to be solving crimes in a retirement village

jagged landscape #jagged #blueskyartshow #stainedglass

jagged landscape
#jagged #blueskyartshow #stainedglass

The rocky mountains towers of Torri del Vajolet (Dolomites, 2621 m) at sunset under a beautiful alpine glow and a dark blue sky with little puffy clouds.

Torri del Vajolet, Dolomites (2621m)
Join the #BlueSkyArtShow on Saturday 9 August, the theme is #Jagged
#photography #EastCoastKin #dolomites #landscape #scape #mountain
📸©helene-cook.eu

I'm sorry.
I couldn't resist.
And yes, that sound is people groaning and slapping their foreheads all over the world.

My newest piece at @boltsmag.org is all about the democracy voucher program, the first of its kind, that just got renewed here in Seattle.

A workgroup will be convened early next year to start looking at possible improvements, especially to the independent expenditure issue.

The funny thing about rfk is that when he dies it will probably be impossible to tell whether it was murder, given how much weird shit the guy is up to.

They'll be like "we found an absolute ton of arsenic in his blood, but also he was taking arsenic pills"

Walked in to the dentist’s office and the song playing was Hurts So Good. Wtf man.

Eric Ravilious, English (1903-1942), The Brickyard, 1936, watercolor over graphite, with a small added sheet of paper, 48.7 x 56.8 cm, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England

The West's data centers suck (water and power) - High Country News From simple searches to chatGPT, the big digital buildup threatens the grid and water supplies.

AI-processing data centers require massive amounts of energy and water, and relatively low power prices, state tax incentives, and lax regulations are attracting them to the West, threatening water supplies and straining the grid.

a rare photo of my parents on their way to school -- photo of climbers ascending a steep snowy mountain - maybe Everest

:) #parents #theolddays

Every blanket is a weighted blanket if your cats are chonky enough

:) #cats #chonky

A rare photo of a McDonalds staff member collecting apple pie filling in the 1980s -- photo of guy in hazmat suit next to flowing lava

:) #the80s #mcdonalds

Clever posts of yore:

@mynameisntdave
I got robbed last night but in the best way possible: I was pickpocketed which means I didn't even have to talk to the person who robbed me.

@cpinck
Printed “Miss America” across my seatbelt and now I can’t stop waving at people.

#pageant #robbed #robbery