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My rescue, Toodles, took over my account. Oh well, we can share; I'm about pets, art, computer graphics, physics and current events. He's all about cuddles and treats. Just FYI. I'm a graphics/game dev working on multimedia ebooks, writer, & ex physicist.
Trumpβs getting blocked in court, and MAGAβs losing its grip on the culture. Two stories this week that show how the tide is turning. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/week-big-p...
01.11.2025 21:04 β π 748 π 108 π¬ 35 π 4 www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
"... It isn't ICE. It isn't CBP. It's a Frankenstein force, stitched together from multiple agencies but loyal to none. Its purpose is to create a community response designed for social media clicks, rather than to keep communities safe..."
This is fascism
Purge continues: 20-year veteran FBI leader fired for having worked Trump cases: news4sanantonio.com/news/local/s...
01.11.2025 14:02 β π 279 π 134 π¬ 21 π 4'Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits.' Tennyson was a great fan of William Webbe who painted this exquisite picture in 1856. Though Webbe is included in Percy Bate's early study of the Pre Raphaelite movement,Β he remains a mysterious figure.
01.11.2025 21:06 β π 327 π 61 π¬ 6 π 2taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-gro...
01.11.2025 18:03 β π 4918 π 1654 π¬ 118 π 52On this day 225 years ago, John Adams moved into the still-not-quite-complete White House, becoming the first president to occupy it. His blessing was carved into the State Dining Room mantel in 1945: "May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof.β
01.11.2025 16:46 β π 5934 π 1497 π¬ 460 π 192Deep time in heaven and on Earth. White Rocks, Skull Valley, Utah May 16, 2020
Peak - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2j2Q8hs
01.11.2025 22:00 β π 98 π 14 π¬ 0 π 0From MeidasTouch Legal AF: The Convicted FElon DOJ is now deleting court documents on J6 terrorists who have been in trouble with law repeatedly. The DOJ was caught when a judge noticed a document missing on a J6'er, who wanted to bomb Obama's home & was convicted for it. I bet these are ICE now.
01.11.2025 17:15 β π 2022 π 800 π¬ 61 π 35etching, aquatint - sea of spherical white dandelions on spiky green stems in a vast field with deep blue night sky
Phil Greenwood
Welsh artist
Dream Clocks
SamhainπΏ
A documentary film explores the real-world consequences of tech companiesβ digital practices and widespread concerns over harmful algorithms.
02.11.2025 01:00 β π 39 π 20 π¬ 2 π 0FUN FACT: Drugs do not need to be advertised on TV and Congress could end this practice, which isnβt permitted in most countries.
01.11.2025 14:49 β π 65 π 9 π¬ 4 π 1Having been in the industry for most of my professional career I can tell you (many know) that the majority of that profit goes to sales and marketing and not R&D as they love to proclaim.
01.11.2025 14:31 β π 67 π 12 π¬ 7 π 0I had emergency surgery in Germany. Included 10 days in the hospital, physical therapy, MRIs, private room, delicious gourmet level meals, all for $18K. I was completely cured. My American insurance company was delighted. They said the same surgery would have cost $80K-$100K in the US.
01.11.2025 18:25 β π 18 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Paxlovid from Pfizer costs $15 to make and now retails for $1500.
Insane
The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americansβ face never ceases to stun me.
Heβs illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefitsβ¦
β¦while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
01.11.2025 17:15 β π 10755 π 4180 π¬ 487 π 223The thing about Johnson not swearing in Grijalva is thatβs it a test for 2026.
If you think they will accept an outcome they donβt like, they will just Grijalva it.
So whatβs the plan when the GOP says βwe ainβt leaving, fuck you, make us.β
Because that IS what they are going to say.
Shoud we be worried that Mark Zuckerberg built a multimillion dollar bunker in Hawaii. That Tr*mp is fortifying the White House bunker. And that several Tr*mp regime members moved onto military bases?
01.11.2025 07:21 β π 1166 π 449 π¬ 195 π 58The basic argument from the pollsters, an attendee told CNN, "healthcare is the right fight in this moment... people still feel more pain and impact of higher healthcare costs than impact from the shutdown." 5/
31.10.2025 16:02 β π 34 π 3 π¬ 2 π 0www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
31.10.2025 17:57 β π 2796 π 980 π¬ 103 π 47BREAKING: A Source close to the White House has told the NYPost:
βMaduro is ending and a free and prosperous Venezuela is dawning. Within days, Maduro will exist only in the past tense and in historyβs judgment."
I didn't vote for a new war, did you?
For the Celts, the night of November 1st marked the boundary to winter and thus to the dark season. The boundary to the otherworld was also considered particularly permeable on that night. They believed that the fairy mounds could open and the fairies could appear to people.
01.11.2025 03:48 β π 104 π 12 π¬ 0 π 2open.substack.com/pub/kellysca...
The fact of the matter is that helping people costs money and that is just not popular with corporations that, for all practical purposes, own a vast number of congresspersons.
Get money out of politics and we can move onward and upward
#EndCitizensUnited
A systematic review of 511 studies showed that immunisation against COVID-19, RSV, and influenza was safe and effective in people of all ages.
01.11.2025 03:03 β π 1094 π 313 π¬ 15 π 11The group chat pings around school drop-off and dismissal time. βAll quiet at [Elementary School X],β one message says, or βsmooth sailing at [Middle School Y].β Neighbors are on heightened alert because a federal government helicopter has been doing laps over our communitiesβ¦
31.10.2025 14:15 β π 2583 π 955 π¬ 116 π 32Meiselas: Right now, this idea of the bully has been glorified, and we have to disabuse people of that notion and say, βNah, thatβs weakness.β Stop blaming your problems marginalized groups.
We have to proudly support communities that have been under attackββcause theyβre human beings, dammit.
FBI: "We didn't zip tie children."
REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old."
FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."