@williamrknecht.bsky.social
Married, retired cognitive/behavioral research psychologist now restoring 127 acres of OK prairie. I post shareable links to NYT, The Atlantic. Love blues music, antique tractors, trees & plants supporting wildlife. Hate Trump.
Living in America now is kind of like having a gangrenous leg, with that leg being the Republican Party. Somehow you know it should be amputated or you're going to die.
So... Bluesky has a new feature... "Go Live"
I asked a friend about it. His reply was "Braaaaaaains!!!!"
Power to the People!
Don't trust anybody over 30! ...Oooops!
We must be living inside the Unterton Window, then, given that only Republican ideas are OK to discuss.
Or, so they say...
Well, I reckon if DOGE made Elon richer, then it's all good, eh?
(or not...)
Preach it, Brother !
On a reasonable hunch that gas prices will go loony, I filled up the truck plus a 5-gallon can for the JD "Gator" UTV. It was $3.97 here in Central OK, a dollar more than usual.
So, you and I are paying for our Peace President's War. And, one guess who's profiting? Big oil companies.
Of course, it this particular case, losing an eye might be a small price to pay for...
Needs a counterweight, to keep from tipping over. Tank turrets are built that way.
It's what keeps our skin looking like we were 20 years younger than we actually are, correct? 👍
Like the Swedish say, "We grow too soon oldt, and too late schmardt." This is particularly true of politicians.
Yikes... I hadn't seen this, but you're the 2nd who told me about it.
Jeso Cristo, talk about hating America now...
I need a vet for my pet rotifers. Can you recommend one?
I admit that I don't fully understand Bluesky's algorithm for what we see vs not. But, that's a problem endemic to all social media now.
I vet first, then Follow if they look clean.
What? Do you mean those "losers" and "suckers" Trump talks about when he says he doesn't understand why they volunteered to serve, and "What's in it for them?"
Can't argue with that.
Talk about a "soft target"... Giant unarmored tanks full of flammable liquids...
Of my 2.5K Followers, I reckon that at least 1K of them featured plump-lipped, big-breasted babes. I'm not kidding about that.
That would be one for the books. I can't even begin to imagine the hatred something like that would engender. Talk about playing football with a hornet's nest...
Do you want us to have your body cremated and then ashes tossed into a tornado? Or would you rather they be dumped into a flood, or just scattered in a wildfire?
If American democracy somehow survives, historians will have a field day writing about Trump & Co's corruption.
Nice to hear you're a dog mom. All ours are rescues & we've had up to 4 at a time. Two now.
Repeat {
If (something goes right) TAKECREDIT
else (LIE && FINDSOMEONETOBLAME)
} Until THROWNOUTOFOFFICE
The other day I committed a crime so unspeakable that I cannot speak of it. But, it was OK. It only cost me a measly million bucks to buy a pardon from Trump.
Who cares about a measly million anyway? A lot of millions are measly these days, ever since JFK Jr. went anti-vax.
I know. That's why you'd never date a risky bastard like me.
(Disclaimer, I'm 75, happily married, and purely joking around here! Given the state of the world, if we don't joke around sometimes, we'll all go crazy)
Makes you wonder if the SCOTUS conservatives will ever feel any remorse if American democracy finally dies on account of their actions.
I'm a psychologist who spent his first 10 years in community mental health. So, I learned that there are sick people who do destructive things & never feel sorry.
Good for you. And, like me, you have a relatively modest number of Followers. Can you imagine the work involved in vetting a million?
Of course, the point is that "They don't."
From CNN: "Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei had a fractured foot and facial lacerations on the first day of the war."
Way to go, Trump ! You injured this guy AND killed his Dad. He'll be sure to love America now, for the rest of his entire life! You're our QB. Toss that hornet's nest!
I have a question.
How does anyone on Bluesky get hundreds of thousands of Followers by carefully checking each one to see if they seem legitimate? That's what I do, and it takes an enormous amount of time. So much so, that it's hard to imagine anyone spending the time it'd take to vet 100Ks...
