Random Dude

Did my part to put some chlorine in the cesspool that is the Florida political environment.

My least favorite day of the year, for 11 years now. I wish I had been a better man, good enough for her to want to continue to live. Our 20+ years together should have only been the beginning.

Went away for a few days and my 18 year old cat has been attached since I got home. He was my wife's baby and has been stuck with me for half his life.

Happy gotcha day to my baby boy. Six years was a long time ago, but seems like yesterday

Just when you think they couldn't get any worse, the racism and fascism gets turned up to eleven

Six years and some things don't change. Happy birthday to my best friend

The Temu Boba and puppet movie was even worse than I expected. Sad to see such a terrible end to something I enjoyed so much as a child and young adult.

I hope that when the AI bubble inevitably bursts, the tech bros currently profiting from it are the only ones that suffer consequences. That won't be the case, but it's still my wish.

Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

Nice walk with the pup tonight. A sliver of the moon hanging over a sunset at the cemetery.

Starting to wonder if China is going to see how much we've depleted our munitions supply and decide to kick off festivities in Taiwan.

Nobody is going to resign, nobody is going to invoke the 25th amendment, we don’t have the votes to impeach him. Find Candidates you can support and insist on election security from people already in office.

Happy D B Cooper day to all who celebrate

Make it all make sense

Let’s check in on the warzone in Portland.

Fortunately there's only 3 more years of rapidly escalating fascism before there's a peaceful exchange of power

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. -G B Shaw

Opposing political violence requires that we condemn Charlie Kirk’s death. Opposing political violence also requires that we condemn Charlie Kirk’s life. Charlie Kirk spent his life encouraging his allies on the far-right to think violence was legitimate and concerns about it were fake.

SCOTUS: We stopped Affirmative Action to ban targeting based on race, but we allow legacy admissions, white Afrikaaner "refugees," targeting of Latinos, over-policing Black communities, & bans on Afghan refugees and South Korean workers—because its okay to target based on race to help white people.

You know Hollywood is out of ideas when Idiocracy is getting a prequel. Wait..... what?

This is valuable information, unlike every other periodic table I've seen.

@bsky.app I realize I live in a town with a high LGBTQ population, but could you stop putting naked dudes in my feed?

Needed to disconnect and spend a day on the water. It's ok to take a break from the fight for what's right to preserve your sanity.

Hate that my new home town is assisting in this atrocity.

Spending my day off setting up a stage on the water. I've had worse workplace views

Happy Easter to all who celebrate

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world around him; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man” -G.B Shaw

I know many people find comfort in organized religion, but how can anyone actually believe in an all knowing and all powerful diety with the way the world is today?

Thank you for speaking truth to power through love, Rev Mariann Edgar Budde. The kind, just people of this world see you and appreciate you.

“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power." George Bernard Shaw

There used to be a debate about whether reading actually improved people as people or it was just another way to pass the time. I feel like the 21st century decline of reading and simultaneous rise in ~waves hand at all that~ provides a pretty clear answer.

I don't think there's any point in being Irish if you don't know that the world is going to break your heart eventually. -Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I'm not an alarmist by nature, but I believe the actions of the next administration will have catastrophic consequences that will last the rest of my life. It's hard to be positive with that particular sword of Damocles hanging over us all.

For some reason addiction to drugs led to a war on drugs but addiction to money hasn't led to a war on billionaires, despite their societal harm being objectively higher.

Best wishes to you and yours from me and my best friend on the planet.

This is getting ridiculous. It may be time to find a new island to call home