Chris Mueller

Chris Mueller

@chrispmueller.bsky.social

Left leaning, avid reader, tree enthusiast, Subaru fanatic.

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People point out how religions are different without ever considering similarities. For instance every person of any faith I know believes the person who invented industrial toilet paper rolls should go to hell and wipe their ass with a brick for eternity.

There was a moment I thought the digital age would democratize publishing. I see now that it is simply burying any true signal in drifts of poorly edited texts and AI slop. I don’t know how Reagan was responsible, but I’ll give it time, it’s always Reagan.

Memorial Day Remember those who served and are gone Remember that those who still serve deserve to be deployed with dignity and respect Remember that the children you see today, some will join us in our formations and on our memorials Remember this is a covenant between those who do and don’t

Cops should use geese instead of dogs. I’ve never been able to distract a goose with a biscuit, never wanted to pet a goose, never thought “who’s a good little goose-woosey.” They just wake up and ask where the violence at? Gonna get me some.

Perhaps this should be the way forward, big names that get jilted, find their local access and keep going. Imagine Anderson Cooper, small desk, barely adequate light, and total freedom to report.

Maybe I’m tired and sick of low effort AI slop art. If you don’t put specific artistic intent into a public project then the only thing the police should be concerned about when someone shows up with a spray can is safety. Do you have a hi viz vest, a mask, other appropriate PPE? THATS IT!

I think in times like these it’s perfectly reasonable to ask any candidate to see their copy of LOTR. Any attempt to dissemble is a hard no. I don’t care if they don’t have one but can off the cuff launch into a discussion of why they don’t. Literacy is a requirement for office.

MAGA voters are replacing their candidates with even more sycophantic ones at the urging of Trump and AIPAC. It’s time to acknowledge just how terrible a large number of Americans are. We can’t just wave away consistently choosing the worst, we have to address it.

The administration just put a 6 month hold on payments for hospice in Medicare. I have no words for how deeply this offends me. When this ends, everyone who can be linked to this needs to be charged with abuse. This might even be abuse at a level The Hague would get involved with.

Guard The Leaf pointed out the way some American businesses are saying they’ll welcome Canadians back when they are done. They aren’t the ones who need to do the work. We need to admit we have a problem with white nationalists in this country.

I’ve an old F150 that I’m tearing apart to Porsche’s standard of nothing that isn’t necessary and add lightness. Old trucks have engine bay room for days. Consequently cable management wasn’t even considered. My heater hoses have an extra 6 feet of run that was unnecessary

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Box door has slots for spare change. The knobs are shaped differently so you can feel which switch you’re activating. I like the old gages that give you the data instead of a controller that may or may not tell you about something prior to catastrophic failure.

And the rust points! When you look you understand it couldn’t have been another way. So many small open channels that lead to a closed box. Like one more hole and a plug, voila, no rust. Anyway, time to bend wrenches.

I’ve an old F150 that I’m tearing apart to Porsche’s standard of nothing that isn’t necessary and add lightness. Old trucks have engine bay room for days. Consequently cable management wasn’t even considered. My heater hoses have an extra 6 feet of run that was unnecessary

The wiring goes everywhere for no reason, I can’t believe the vacuum lines getting caught in something and winding up in a ball on the fan was never an issue. The screws, and they are screws not bolts all seem to have at least one and a half times more grip length than necessary.

The brake lines are what I would describe as whimsical in their installation, I bet no two trucks left the same. The dash is nonsensical. Maintenance was never considered, but it would have been so easy to add a joint here or there. And there’s weird little convenience flairs. The glove

I would like the GAO to publish a study of where we’d be if we’d just started to cut and paste the budget from 2024 and turned out the lights in the White House. Just let ALL agencies run on autopilot.

We keep saying things like, would Fred Rogers approve? I’m at the point where I want to see Oscar the Grouch’s reaction. I want someone to read Oscar the news, and start pounding the six-second beep so that I can feel like I’m not the only one with these feelings

This administration keeps finding precedent doesn’t matter. Ok, let’s keep that same energy, let’s refile every suit that won something. Rewrite every law they overturned. Reimpose every tax they decided the rich didn’t have to pay.

Passing by a tv set to a local Fox affiliate. Stopped dead in my tracks. I am actually seeing an an ad that is encouraging people to to use their “certified” psychics for big decisions. Don’t use cheap alternatives. I could not lie with malice and outdo this.

Please consider, a shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, and our reaction is prove it. At an event, of journalists, with the US President, our reaction is prove it. Consider what that says about journalists, the president, the secret service.

Tucker is doing what he always does. He’s lying. He spent the last 2 decades saying whatever would benefit his stock portfolio. Now, it looks like there will be consequences, and he’s claiming he didn’t know. He helped inspire this, never forget there is evil behind those dull eyes.

People say, “I wish I could draw like you.” What I hear is,”I regret not having learned ways to express myself without words.” Art is practice. Choose a medium, start. Creation helps like few other things can. Show us the world you see, or want to see.

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This painting, "Sidekicks II" by Michele Poirier-Mozzone, is an oil on canvas from her Massachusetts-based "Fractured Light" series, exploring water and sunlight's effects on humans. It depicts an underwater perspective looking up.

Ok genius, walk me through this. We’re going to blockade the strait. With what vessels? It’s actually pretty hard to come up with an illegal order but this qualifies. When a ship decides not to stop what will you do? FFS even Putin must be like, “I did not have that on my bingo card.”

We should make the turkey our National animal. No sense of decorum, no gravitas. Claims things that aren’t it own, steps out into traffic without looking. Did you know they can “bark”? They can, as well as the shock gobble. Attacks people just trying to do their jobs. Perfect American

We were programmed to believe violence is the answer. Our hope for a future was taken from us as a country. Our hope for a future was taken from us personally. The US is going to get a lot worse for those who valued money over people and thought it would keep them safe.