Chris Pickel

This is evil. Not just horrible, not just racist, evil.

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

On Being an American @joycewhitevance.bsky.social #USA #uspoli #Trump joycevance.substack.com/p/on-being-a...

Getting my stuff ready for my first craft fair. 18 guitars, and over 35 different leather products. All hand made by yours truly.

I keep thinking of when I was proud to be an American. I love my country. The sad thing is that now that feeling of pride has been replaced with sadness and embarrassment. We used to be decent. Not always right, but at least trying to be. Now I just see the cruelty.

First Dolly and now Tim Curry. As if things weren’t already bleak enough.

Well she’s gonna be famous as hell.

Squirrel knocks broom down then pretends to be a victim. Original post

Tsushima apparently missed me while I was on vacation.

Woke up late and saw the news. Popcorn for breakfast it is!

OMG 🤣🤣🤣

G’nite all!

Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

🤤 yes please.

I began compiling a list of leather goods I have made in preparation for a festival that I will have a booth at with my father this fall. I’m shocked at how many different things I’ve learned to make over the last year. This isn’t even a full list!

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

WATCH: “I’m proud of you. I love you.” Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social embraces his brother @keshaunpearson.bsky.social as Troopers arrest him for refusing to leave the balcony in a show of nonviolent resistance after Speaker Sexton cleared it

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

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Great essay, worth reading. We are "ruled" by sociopaths. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The opening drum riff at the beginning of “Peaches En Regalia”.

What he says…

“No one can tell what goes on between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just . . . come out the other side. Or you don’t.” - Stephen King, The Stand

Cartoon by Michael de Adder

Hey all, while the world burns and America sinks deeper into a moral hell if its own making, I’ve been making coasters!

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

Colbert and Talarico ended up talking at length about Freedom of Religion in the interview that Brendan Carr censored. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

‘Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace’

It’s starting to take shape.

Progress.

Spent the evening double stitching these shoulder straps for my leather overnight backpack and watching Full Metal Alchemist with the family. An evening well spent.

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Went to a patient’s house today that I haven’t been to for a little while and their little doggie flipped shit when she saw me. She came flying up to me from nowhere and immediately presented her belly for scratchies. This has been the highlight of my day.

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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

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IMO, one of the hardest songs (ever) to cover Wonderful job here

Looks like Tsushima missed her Dad this weekend.

Burying myself in leatherwork, guitar building, and books on ancient history in an attempt to forget the fact that the land I love is being run by a man that fucked children.