Bob Alberti

I confess almost complete ignorance about Mayor Kaohly Her but I am aware that she's non-white and female, so that automatically raises my skepticism when I hear stories that she's behaving in ways that suggest she should step down. Is she, or is there a lot of bigotry at play? I don't know.

Today's office

One month in Setúbal and Lisbon. This is my life now, this is what I do.

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It doesn't matter if this administration is corrupt if nobody is convicted of corruption. It doesn't matter if Trump makes a billion dollars off self-dealing if he's never impeached and prosecuted for it. Laws ONLY have meaning when there is enforcement for EVERYONE, even -especially- the powerful.

Watching over the Sado Estuary from my post atop Castelo do Felipe

I've always thought it weird that on my first trip to England I got this close to the Queen Mother. Her car actually brushed my leg pushing thru the crowd. There are British people go their whole lives and don't get this close to a royal, and here I am in England for less than a week.

Here’s an outrageous story about how Jacob Frey’s administration treats an immigrant they claim not to discriminate against, effectively doing the administration’s bidding & then dummying up for the media. www.startribune.com/immigration-...

How to be a piece of shit as an organization: Panera Bread 1) Pester me with "Where have you been!?*" marketing emails 2) When I try to unsubscribe, pretend an error happened and don't. Repeat regularly. *Answer: I moved overseas.

Chaka Khan was already such a legend that Prince wrote her name into a song in *1979*! Here she is still making magic almost 50 years later.

I mean, how hard can it be to find Mitch McConnell? Wherever he is, whatever condition he's in, he's not gonna be running.

Today is Bastille Day, something to think about as you read more stories of citizens murdered with impunity by government agents.

This is SUPPOSED to be a democracy. The nation's leaders work for US. And when they, or their flunkies, are murdering citizens in the streets, they MUST be removed from power. Instead the President embezzles BILLIONS and Congress shrugs. So, each citizen, what are YOU gonna do about these murders?

Spent the day buying and eating fresh fish, fruits, and vegetables and walking along the seashore. When the asteroid hits it will be my fault for building up all this Murphy's Law potential energy...

Your moment of Zen

Done and done! --in Setûbal, Portugal

Went for a walk in Parque do Bonfim (at 107F a walk in the park is no walk in the park) and returned to Meliã Hotel Setúbal to find they'd left us a treat!

Olá, Setúbal! #PassOutNow

Adeus, Estados Unidos!

My mother turns 90 today, which is strange because I'm only in my mid-Thirties. I suspect time travel. Anyway, Happy Birthday Mom!

Final big checkbox checked! ✅

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons meme.

Everyone remembers the campaign promise to refill the swamp.

Let the National Park Service know what you think of Trump's "Triumphal Arch" thru June 15. parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm...

When worlds collide! I'm an enormous fan of @doctorow.pluralistic.net whose insights and fiction are spot-on. AND I'm an even BIGGER fan of @naomikritzer.bsky.social whose science fiction is matched only by her excellent blogs. Fan-worlds collide as Doctorow reviews Kritzer's must-read "Obstetrix"

The Bicentennial was a chance for the Right to beat its chest for the first time since the one-two humiliations of Vietnam and Nixon. Doubt me? Listen to Charlie Daniels' "In America." This year the Right is having a hard time pretending to be proud of a nation they are actively destroying.

Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr

During a layover in O'Hare airport in 1987 I sat and taught myself how to use my father's 35mm camera. About the time I finished figuring that out, Jesse Jackson walked by. So my first 35mm photo was of Jackson

As a huge fan of Tim Minchin, I was lucky enough to catch "Upright" a few years ago in which Supergirl's lead, Milly Alcock, co-stars. With "Supergirl" on the horizon, I'd like to encourage everybody to check out "Upright" a great introduction to Milly Alcock. www.youtube.com/watch?v=In1Y...

Billy Lutheran #MakeaFilmDirectorMinnesotan

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Michael Goipher #MakeaFilmDirectorMinnesotan

Jucy Lucy Tchernak #MakeaFilmDirectorMinnesotan

Today I learned that flatworms are not affected by Ivermectin, which explains why this flatworm is promoting its use against the hated enemies of flatworms, roundworms. #TheMoreYouKnow

I wish I believed this, but what I think is actually the case is that the mass media successfully shaped the narrative and persuaded millions of American citizens to vote for a criminal cretin because the American people are THAT stressed and gullible, and the mass media is THAT powerful.

Orthodox observers of Alberti Day extend all the way to Alaska! Join us! The rituals are quite painf.. painless!

Less than one month...

Watching Ep. 5 of Spider Noir and a cop is hurled across a room to the sound of the Wilhelm Scream. The scene ends and I see a car advertisement with John Krasinski, and a stunt motorcyclist in the scene falls... to the sound of the Wilhelm Scream. Maybe there IS such a thing as too much Wilhelm?

Dr. Patricia Bath overcame sexism, racism & poverty and saved the sight of millions of people. She invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment, 1986; it was patented in 1988. She co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness, 1976. She died #OTD in 2019. #WomenInSTEM

I didn't realize the 'Freedom 250' concert stood for providing a weekend off for 250 bands.

Derek Chauvin's convictions: State: * 2nd-degree murder * 3rd-degree murder * 2nd-degree manslaughter Federal: * unreasonable force resulting in death of George Floyd * unreasonable force during the 2017 arrest of a 14 year old * tax fraud and tax evasion MNGOP: "Let's honor this poor victim!"

Retirement

Timeline cleanse