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Grouchy old fart, enjoys books, birds, baroque music, alliteration and, of course, spiders (but then, who doesn’t?). Semi-skilled at a number of unimportant things like game-playing, computer surgery and natural history story-telling. Lazy.

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mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 2h

The traditional response to piracy on the high seas is execution. Can an entire regime be treated as pirates?
Perhaps the world’s response to the Barbary Pirates would be useful, although that regime was more interested in ransom than death.

mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 3h

My opinion?
This pernicious bullshit is both the epitome of the New York F’n Times, and the main way that the GOP has gutted the “Liberal Press” over the past 40 years.

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mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 3h

Fantasiastic!

mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 3h

“The voters are goldfish!”

mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 3h

It’s a beautiful morning - good day to see what birds are out. Maybe another Golden Eagle!

mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 4h

Over here, that’s been GOP policy since Reagan. The Democrats never seem to have realized. Perhaps Labour will.

mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 4h

You keep swallowing all that rage and hate, and this happens.
Either that, or the Tsar decided he was becoming a liability.

mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 4h

“Legacy media” = GOP-controlled media. That’s been a project since about 1980, and had largely succeeded by the 1990s.

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mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 4h

Of course - when it comes to inflicting pain, airports spare no expense.

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mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 4h

“You betrayed me!”

mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 4h

Republican rules never apply to Republicans.

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mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 6h

So many “punchable faces” in the GOP, but this individual’s smug, disdainful lying makes his one of the most.

mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 6h

It’s a death cult. It’s been that for at least a couple of decades now.

mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 6h

Good video for evidence of premeditation and etc.

mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 6h

Leftover white rice, reboiled until it’s like cream of wheat, with added ingredients from scallions to bits of meat. Filling and tasty! And great when illness makes eating tricky..

Dove @cedardove.bsky.social · 1d

For those affected by the current SNAP situation, but can't eat gluten, I'd like to throw in the very tasty option of Congee. It's a rice porridge dish that's saved me so many times when I've been short on cash, and is SO easy to make and goes a long way.

My favorite way to make in it the next post

mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 6h

Great job!
Alas, I am often forced to fall back on composting, but at least we are reducing the garbage stream.
Oh, and my best to David S.

mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 6h

You _will_ follow orders or you will join the victims!

mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, but they’re not white children; that was the Republican goal, and the GOP considers it a success. Causing and increasing death, especially of women and children of what Republicans consider Untermenschen, is a primary goal of the modern GOP.

mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 6h

What did he bring to Tesla besides the Nazi truck, Ackbar door handles, immolating cars and disdain for safety?

mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 6h

If it really represented that, those people on the right would be gleefully curbstomping the suffering person.

mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 6h

Fell’s Point has changed somewhat over the past thirty years or so. Used to be a quirky John Waters kind of place, until gentrification. I used to take my kids there for a fun day out. The nice places I liked are all gone now. Back in my day!….

mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 6h

What’s one difference between manslaughter and first degree murder?

mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 7h

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you’ve shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews,

#Books #Nature #Naturewriting
#naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky

Photos of animal traces on the cover of
Nature Program: Tracks and Trails, from the National Audubon Society

mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, that seems fair. Unless we use the Utah system.
And all ICE and ICE-adjacent employees should go to work camps where they labor 10 hours per day to restore everything the GOP has ruined.
Also, I want a pony.

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mrtoads.bsky.social @mrtoads.bsky.social · 12h

I have always loved it that the first time there’s a problem, the first man throws the first woman under the bus: “It’s her fault - she made me do it!”