Jeff Pearson

photo of TV screen playing Train Dreams: beautiful blue skies and trees, with closed captioning reading, “even though it's been rolled up like a scroll and put somewhere,”

photo of TV screen playing Train Dreams: character running through a field, with closed captioning reading, “Be gentle with the rabbits.”

photo of TV screen playing Train Dreams: character running through a field, with closed captioning reading, “They don't know you're not gonna hurt them.”

A fun thing about the Train Dreams movie is the little Jesus’ Son borrowings/references/easter eggs.

YouTube video by cookiewaits Tom Waits/Cookie Monster mashup - God's Away On Business

I heard it’s Tom Waits’ birthday today!

youtu.be/U5X4N2exOsU?...

What is with Gen Alpha? They are amazing.

I was hopping a parcel yesterday and a kid on an e-scooter smashed into me. I dropped the parcel and yelled “Fuck!” The kid was very, very sorry and was ready to help me, and I guess, get yelled at. But I just said to “you’re good,” and waved him along. He was fully-padded, helmet and accountable.

it's like being followed around by a drowning hull dimly visible in deep water, something that slides across the daylight, grey-blue, purposeful, pointed and slow…

Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.

There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.

#caturday fosters

Poem - All the Aphrodisiacs
by Cathy Park Hong
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#Poem #Poetry
#BlueSkyPoetry

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53603/...

Spotify 2025 unwrapped dropped!

Oh, this poem.

From Danusha Laméris's book, Bonfire Opera: bit.ly/bonfireoperaBK

#poem #books #writing

If you see this repost with your model of positive masculinity

Kind most of all, but also Caring, empathetic, and not afraid to meet people (especially children) at their own level. But overall, a practicer of extreme curiosity

Department of Ed is trying to confuse people into switching IDR plans with this shit.

The January 6 pipe bombing suspect reportedly told FBI investigators he believed unsubstantiated theories about the 2020 presidential election being stolen from Donald Trump. The FBI has yet to declare an official motive or publicly comment on the report. trib.al/Dx4ldIY

YouTube video by 22 Minutes The White House Press Secretary gets real... | This Hour Has 22 Minutes

LMFAO! Check out the popular (in) Canada satire comedy show (similar to Saturday Night Live in its heyday…on steroids.) For some unfathomable reason this show has yanked Felon47’s political satire savvy away from Kimball and Colbert! I wonder why? (I LOVE a little sarcasm in the mornings 😜)

@bagleycartoons.bsky.social has a great new cartoon

But it is funded by postage. Not taxpayers.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Actual Soviet poster about achieving the five-year plan in four years, just in case anyone wanted to know the origins of that famous example in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Yakov Guminer, 2 + 2, plus workers' enthusiasm = 5, 1931

Every librarian I’ve had in my life be like:

Pete Hegseth’s Weak Excuses His evasive responses to Signalgate are shameful nonsense.

"Hegseth’s responses are nothing more than sniveling from a man who is supposed to be a model for an organization built on bravery and competence. The secretary had a good teacher: Trump." @radiofreetom.bsky.social on the Signalgate IG report. 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

What Children Know about Power And why we should stop comparing tyrants to children

I wrote about this a few months ago.

Let’s look to childhood, not as a symbol of adults' most base instincts, but rather as a source of inspiration for our own curiosity, compassion, playful ingenuity, and even rebelliousness.

This is just a friendly reminder that WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING (1995) is one of the great modern Christmas adjacent romantic comedies.

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

I guess there's no good guys when it comes to management.

Wind BY MIKE WHITE Not a remarkable wind. So when the bistro’s patio umbrella blew suddenly free and pitched into the middle of the road, it put a stop to the afternoon. Something white and amazing was blocking the way. A waiter in a clean apron appeared, not quite certain, shielding his eyes, wary of our rumbling engines. He knelt in the hot road, making two figures in white, one leaning over the sprawled, broken shape of the other, creaturely, great-winged, and now so carefully gathered in.

“Something white and amazing was blocking the way.” A poem by Mike White.

UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream