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This is the best tribute to Walter Koenig. Bless Straczynski for writing Bester for him. Was it really only 12 episodes?

This timeline gets stupider and stupider. Sorry for inflicting the below stupidity upon you. At least there's a good description so we don't need to hear him being stupid.

If you haven't seen this, listen up. It's today's lesson on the Constitution. Little Tommy was a former staffer for MO Senator Josh Hawley btw.

Not even sure how to vote for my county wanting to pass a 1% sales tax increase, supposedly for schools. It’s bad enough our property taxes keep increasing. The liberal in me knows I should vote yes, but damn. I think the federal government should support public schools better instead of more wars.

Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

Got out before 9am to cut down the insane amount of Wright's jimson weed falling onto my solarized thicket. I need to take up the plastic this week and get planting. Have 10 1 gallon pots of little bluestem to start. Found a tomato horn worm near to pupate and 1 wasp infested. #nativeplants

Gotta love the Irish.

Imagine all the people living life in peace.

I've never seen anything which exemplifies the current state of America better than this.

Hummers need a fight club.

Thank goodness it is finally much cooler this morning. Parts of Quincy also had a quick shower yesterday afternoon, but not at the airport where measurements are taken.

Happy birthday to my dear friend Jonathan Frakes. After all these years, it’s still an absolute joy whenever we get to work together. Love you, brother. Here’s to many more adventures ahead.

Mr. Young Hawk is still in the oak tree this morning. I moved my feeders to a different tree and only put one of each out. Poor bluejays are up in wings. He has to be hunting because he's low in the tree and can easily watch where I usually put the feeders.

The boots you lick will stomp you too. The regime is just breaking in the boots they will place on your neck. This doesn’t stop with immigrants or with ICE. It stops when there is no one left to resist. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Tax does not do what most people think. It does not fund the government. What it does do might be even more important. I wrote this infographic. I used AI to draw it under my direction until I was satisfied with the result.

Aug 8, 1986: 40 years ago, Stand By Me was released in limited theaters. #80s See my recent visit to some of the film locations from one of my all-time favorite movies here > instagram.com/p/DZYlMQJuu_U/

I've ditched many political accounts on here. My Bluesky feed is much happier now. I want to enjoy things on social media like I did 10+ years ago, before...events.

Got my Lego X-Files set ordered just now. Went to check on availability as I had it down as tomorrow. Luckily the bonus Scully's lab was still available. Really cool set, with lots of Easter eggs that only a Phile would understand. Should be a fun build. www.lego.com/en-us/produc...

The media.

As someone who often travels alone, I find this watercolor very moving.

If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

This is what his ‘24 campaign buzzword, retribution, looks like. Smearing all the ugliness that he possesses into our faces on a daily basis. When he dies, I hope there will be a celebration across the country to rival VE or VJ Day.

I don't understand how reasonable people cannot see this for what it is - idolatry. I can only conclude there are no reasonable people in GOP government nor religion any more. Reasonable religious people is an oxymoron however, so what should we expect in these times from them?

The Ferengi would be so much better at running our government than this lot of “businessmen.”

Trying to get motivated to mow more lawn. I have to do it in thirds because 7 years ago I went cheap and bought a Cub Cadet mower for my nearly 3 acres. Was fine then because I on;y did the lawn. Since giving in to nature, the former cow pasture/hay field needs mowed so I can at least walk in it.

And the nightly network news reports from DC as if everything is normal. I watched last night for the first time in a long while. NBC. It was stunningly bland about war and claims he's made.

Think about this:

I love his replies. And to anyone who judges people for how they decorate their bodies - fuck off.

He’s always done this as long as he’s been alive. Years ago he would do this in secret. Now he’s doing the exact same things publicly and disinhibited. When we chalk it up to dementia we let him off the hook and stigmatize sufferers of cognitive decline. Dementia is a variable, not an explanation.

"My god. They're really from another world." --Zefram Cochrane Happy First Contact Day!

Fuck Trump. Fuck the puppeteers behind him. Fuck the GOP, especially congressional Republicans and quisling Democrats, who enabled him. Fuck the people who voted for this, and fuck the media for never reporting on him realistically. Fuck them all, for they have truly fucked us and the world.

Another reason not to shop there.

What a spineless weasel. Churchill would take him out to the woodshed and whoop his ass.

It's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.

I would be watching #StrangerThings5pt2 right now if Netflix had any kind of promotional game. Earlier today I went on there to see if it had been released. No info whatsoever, just trailers giving no release time. People are busy, it's a holiday. How was I supposed to know the release time.