Mel C

Matt has a long string of failed influencer attempts behind him (cosmetics, fashion, travel). It’s nothing to do w extremism and everything to do w/ kissing Elon’s arse for clout. ie He recently & v. publicly bought a new Tesla, posts endlessly about it.

Here to represent old folk, we wore Landlubber giant flares in the early 70’s with Earth shoes, which are lower at the heel than the front. Dragging 4 inches of detached dirty hem strips around behind you was definitely a good thing. A hideous thing, but a good thing.

What’s not going to change tho, is the segment of our rural population that’s convinced Asheville is Sodom and Gomorrah, Charlotte is Chicago, all country folk are wise and noble, and all dems must necessarily be yankee transplants.

This is right.

It was always going to go this way, will continue to go this way.

My subsistence farmer grandparents would’ve parted w some precious “cash money” to buy this obvs ailing girl an aspirin, but she’d have had to walk to town for it.

Purple and white five spots

Bluebells

Orange aquilega

Green Luna moth on an iris leaf

Current events antidote

Hubby and I have a daily check in about what songs are stuck in our heads. Now it’s Elvira for us both bc I read this post out loud to share the pain, ty 😬

We were house divided, but UNC/State. UNC Still gives me hives.

My favorite is that they’ve nailed her UNC mom/alumnus attire.

She’s overdone it a smidge, to great effect. I’d have pegged her as a UNC mom though, with a kid living in the DKE house.

I’m sort of interested to find out in a few months time if it really is fine, and if not, how she squares it then.

NCGOP are all busy moaning about ppl who lost everything in the aftermath of Helene whilst holding up millions in state aid and ignoring how many rely on SNAP, Medicaid and food banks. Hate it, but maybe stuff like this is how we get a real course correction in this state.

Maybe the rw “influencers” - Elon bootlicking FEMA bashing Trump pushing twats who’ve made their names on fake WNC disaster porn and rumor disinfo, need to step into the breach. Matt VanSwol (busy crowing about his new Tesla) and ex-Beast employee Shawn Hendrix would do nicely.

NCGOP is trying hard to out-bonkers you guys, we got our one guy trying to hold back ALL the crazy.

Dem governor (he’s great), but Trump for president. We do this election after election, people just won’t learn 🤷‍♀️

Blessed with loads of these little upstarts

Oh! I don’t mean you! I mean the ding dong who presumed she overstayed her visa bc they read North America as the US and probably thinks Africa is a country. Sorry for the misunderstanding!

Here we are in 2025 and people don’t know the difference between America and North America, it’s mind boggling.

4 months in North America.

I don’t think you can take out of the equation though, the families/voters that were long-time dems back into the mists of time while also being conservative, who got shoved to the other side by the success of the culture wars. A perceived challenge to the “old ways” hasn’t flown with them.

Waiting for Liberal Democracy in the American South Our country’s constitutional order is withering before us. In the states of the former Confederacy, democracy never fully flourished.

My view is that the American South never fully took to liberal democracy. And I think we have to reckon with that to face the moment we’re now in. I wrote about it for @thebulwark.bsky.social

www.thebulwark.com/p/liberal-de...

Am reading this in my back garden in NC and feeling every word of it, we’re absolutely steeped in it daily. People refer to it as “NC values” with a mix of pride and defensiveness and shotgun waving.

lol not a chance

That she named her first Tesla “Malady” made me snort

The worst bit of Connections is when you barely scrape through and it tells you whew, look at the dumbass who got lucky today!!

“Please email me some comprehension or your fired” is where we are.

Great horned owl tests positive for bird flu in Cary Read what to do if you see a group of dead or sick birds.

A great horned owl found dead in Cary tested positive for bird flu after a resident reported seeing multiple bird carcasses by their pond.

www.newsobserver.com/news/local/c...

I remember him from the bad place as sommat unhinged w/ obvious anger mgt issues. Whatever, but he needs to pay somebody to clean up his search results.

There are a lot of ppl who haven’t yet done the no-field-workers + healthcamps-to-grow-food math. Everybody gotta start thinking like a criminal.