Ted Lardner

Jeffrey leaves home, and comes back Ghislane.

X marks the spot. #maps

We all know the elections are fine. Instead we get the same shit over and over. He should be in jail for r***** women.

Great day in Cuyahoga County to head out to the Board of Elections at 1803 Superior Avenue and vote for Dr. Amy Acton for Governor and Sherrod Brown for US Senate! #DrAmyActon #SherrodBrown

The Amy Acton attack ad with her mother is I think the most evil political commercial I have ever seen. Not counting online only Nazi shit, I think it is legitimately the worst.

Phil Lesh’s fuzzed up bass on the opening track sounds like Chris Squire from Yes Fragile and Yessongs & the whole of Help on the Way here sets up on the border of that dark and stormy mood genre of prog rock.

Moose for Mary 🫎🪧(And before you ask – the supporter who sent this in assured me it wasn't AI!)

Prepped for Cologne marathon. October 4, 2026.

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Here’s the kicker: while more than 2 million Americans have lost their ACA plans and more than 20 million Americans have been enrolled in ACA plans in the past, Trump is mailing these checks to just a small number of people – less than one million.

Castlerigg Stone Circle. September 24, 2024.

“Ivana lives on in our struggle. End war.” Cologne. October 3, 2026.

Motohakone. April 25, 2026.

The old pond— Frog jumps in it Sound of the splash —Basho

As we've just had the full moon closest to the autumn equinox, known in Hookland as the Corn Maiden Moon, it seems appropriate share some of the folklore of the Heading the Corn. #FolkloreSunday

It now costs the truck drivers on average $1,200 to fill up a single tank because of the war in Iran. Mike Rogers said it's a win-win-win. Are you winning?

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

Mount Wuh. Estes Park, CO. July 31, 2023. Flattop Mountain and Gabletop Mountain make the high ridge in the left background.

My high school calculus teacher came to our event🥹 Thank you Mrs. McDonald!

Asters and boneset and honey bees.

Black-throated Green Warbler. Sept 9, 2026.

Broncos won.

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Twilight wave-hush. Lake Superior.

Sunset on water. Huron Mountains in the distance.

Moline Airport. August 29.

Mississippi River at Rock Island. August 27.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I see WHY you feel that way, but I think the reality is that the nation is currently being run by the dumbest fucking people on the planet.

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Happy birthday David Crosby. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKR3...

Why bang on about re-enchantment? #ReEnchantmentIsResistance

Surprisingly tall hollyhocks near the plaza in New Mexico.

Happy birthday Ian Anderson! #JethroTull www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_0m...

Hibiscus blooming from a deadfall snag in the Ohio-Erie Canal. Bonus turtles and duckweed.

Trump now has the worst jobs record of any President since Hoover. 3/

Steve Rattner: Over 5 million low-income Americans — including at least 1.5 million children — have lost access to food assistance due to Trump's SNAP cuts last year. Most of the hardest hit states are traditionally Republican, resulting in growing hunger crises in states like Arizona.

I have just been sent the transcript of a deposition my grandmother gave in 1977 while she was serving as an expert witness in a series of tribal rights cases and let me tell you, if nothing else this is proof that I come by it honest for every conceivable value of “it”

Ohio Spiderwort.

David Byrne, Who is the Sky? playing Harpa Concert Hall tomorrow in Reykjavik.

Isabelle Eberhardt (1877 – 1904): Swiss explorer, adventurer and author. #CelebratingWomen

Late July begins the high bloom season in the prairie garden in the upper Midwest.