Velvet Sparrow
@velvetsparrow.bsky.social
Smart-ass So. CA gal. No. NV Sierras Writer/Origami artist with LOTS of chickens. Unrepentant Romantic/Rogue Snarker/Chaotic Good. AI = Block!
Eastern Sierras, Nevada
jackshenhouse.blogspot.com
Eastern Sierras, Nevada
jackshenhouse.blogspot.com
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October 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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WHEN YOU SHARE YOUR BOOK ALWAYS INCLUDE AN ORDER LINK
Can I pre-order this somewhere?
December 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
WHEN YOU SHARE YOUR BOOK ALWAYS INCLUDE AN ORDER LINK
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#ArtAdventCalendar
Dec. 17
Why use wings when you can just engage missile mode?
This downy woodpecker male was foraging among the spruce trees, and decide that for this short journey, wings were not needed!
#Birds #photography #wildlife
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Dec. 17
Why use wings when you can just engage missile mode?
This downy woodpecker male was foraging among the spruce trees, and decide that for this short journey, wings were not needed!
#Birds #photography #wildlife
🪶
December 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
#ArtAdventCalendar
Dec. 17
Why use wings when you can just engage missile mode?
This downy woodpecker male was foraging among the spruce trees, and decide that for this short journey, wings were not needed!
#Birds #photography #wildlife
🪶
Dec. 17
Why use wings when you can just engage missile mode?
This downy woodpecker male was foraging among the spruce trees, and decide that for this short journey, wings were not needed!
#Birds #photography #wildlife
🪶
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This is a photo from the Vanity Fair article. Notice how they have to arrange it so Stephen Miller is on the end, so it isn’t obvious that there is no reflection of him on the mirrored table.🧛
December 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This is a photo from the Vanity Fair article. Notice how they have to arrange it so Stephen Miller is on the end, so it isn’t obvious that there is no reflection of him on the mirrored table.🧛
Aaaaannnd...
Here's our storm front blowing in.
🌬️🌧️❄️
Here's our storm front blowing in.
🌬️🌧️❄️
December 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Aaaaannnd...
Here's our storm front blowing in.
🌬️🌧️❄️
Here's our storm front blowing in.
🌬️🌧️❄️
Spotted BAD packaging design in the wild today:
Sorry, but this straight-up says 'Garlic Pus Sauce'.
😱
Sorry, but this straight-up says 'Garlic Pus Sauce'.
😱
December 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Spotted BAD packaging design in the wild today:
Sorry, but this straight-up says 'Garlic Pus Sauce'.
😱
Sorry, but this straight-up says 'Garlic Pus Sauce'.
😱
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@mozilla.org I have been using Firefox for YEARS. Not sure what the new CEO is hoping to achieve by "AI everything now" but if the hope is to drive people like me off your browser, you will surely succeed.
December 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
@mozilla.org I have been using Firefox for YEARS. Not sure what the new CEO is hoping to achieve by "AI everything now" but if the hope is to drive people like me off your browser, you will surely succeed.
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if you’re (rightly!) pissed at Firefox for doubling down on AI nonsense, as a web developer I would humbly request that you consider trying Waterfox, Orion or Safari before you move to something based on Chromium; Google are already too powerful, don’t hand the web to them
December 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
if you’re (rightly!) pissed at Firefox for doubling down on AI nonsense, as a web developer I would humbly request that you consider trying Waterfox, Orion or Safari before you move to something based on Chromium; Google are already too powerful, don’t hand the web to them
Got a kick out of the Christmas tree at #Rise, one of our local cannabis stores.
The 'ornaments' are the bomb, but the tree being *upside-down* was the real kicker. 😁
The 'ornaments' are the bomb, but the tree being *upside-down* was the real kicker. 😁
December 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Got a kick out of the Christmas tree at #Rise, one of our local cannabis stores.
The 'ornaments' are the bomb, but the tree being *upside-down* was the real kicker. 😁
The 'ornaments' are the bomb, but the tree being *upside-down* was the real kicker. 😁
Just *the* best description of the rotting pumpkin you'll ever read.
These boots are made for walkin', and that's just what they'll do.
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over this festering pumpkin carcass of American rot crammed into an ill-fitting suit.
It’s been tweetin’ when it oughta be leadin’, a dumb orange clown shoutin’ greed as substitute.
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over this festering pumpkin carcass of American rot crammed into an ill-fitting suit.
It’s been tweetin’ when it oughta be leadin’, a dumb orange clown shoutin’ greed as substitute.
December 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Just *the* best description of the rotting pumpkin you'll ever read.
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“The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about.”
~ Rob Reiner
“The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about.”
~ Rob Reiner
December 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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“The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about.”
~ Rob Reiner
“The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about.”
~ Rob Reiner
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was decades of fake celebrity really enough that half the country couldn't see it? didn't care? reveled in the permission he gave them to be their very worst selves?
all of *gestures vaguely at the hellscape* was for this fucking guy? I'll never get over it as long as I live
all of *gestures vaguely at the hellscape* was for this fucking guy? I'll never get over it as long as I live
December 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
was decades of fake celebrity really enough that half the country couldn't see it? didn't care? reveled in the permission he gave them to be their very worst selves?
all of *gestures vaguely at the hellscape* was for this fucking guy? I'll never get over it as long as I live
all of *gestures vaguely at the hellscape* was for this fucking guy? I'll never get over it as long as I live
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this has always been the most baffling and depressing thing about the political hellscape we have lived through in the last decade
there is nothing there at all except a rapacious, all-consuming need for praise, no humanity at all, nothing but a carnival barker's ability to work the crowd
there is nothing there at all except a rapacious, all-consuming need for praise, no humanity at all, nothing but a carnival barker's ability to work the crowd
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 7:21 AM
this has always been the most baffling and depressing thing about the political hellscape we have lived through in the last decade
there is nothing there at all except a rapacious, all-consuming need for praise, no humanity at all, nothing but a carnival barker's ability to work the crowd
there is nothing there at all except a rapacious, all-consuming need for praise, no humanity at all, nothing but a carnival barker's ability to work the crowd
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They’re scared. Keep going, because they aren’t paid to stop. Their livelihoods depend on taking this on the chin every day. You owe it to your neighbors to make them feel like the worms they are.
Like there’s nowhere they can sleep.
Like there’s nowhere they can sleep.
Hennepin County dispatch got a panicked call from a Department of Homeland Security supervisor in Minneapolis requesting assistance because “we only have a few officers but we have 60-70 agitators fighting them.” Hennepin deputies didn’t witness any attacks on agents.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
ICE agents call for backup during Minneapolis traffic stop, bystanders hurl insults and snowballs
Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call for help from an agent who said 60 to 70 “agitators” were “fighting them.”
www.mprnews.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
They’re scared. Keep going, because they aren’t paid to stop. Their livelihoods depend on taking this on the chin every day. You owe it to your neighbors to make them feel like the worms they are.
Like there’s nowhere they can sleep.
Like there’s nowhere they can sleep.
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God how buckwild would it be if it happened on christmas
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
God how buckwild would it be if it happened on christmas
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Apropos to a post I'm not going to quote: no, you are not fucking obliged to battle the fucking right on fucking social media, or go to where they are. Why make yourself miserable shouting at bots (who don't care) or trolls (who get off on your misery). Make your fucking social media enjoyable, FFS.
December 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Apropos to a post I'm not going to quote: no, you are not fucking obliged to battle the fucking right on fucking social media, or go to where they are. Why make yourself miserable shouting at bots (who don't care) or trolls (who get off on your misery). Make your fucking social media enjoyable, FFS.
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There should be someone in every newsroom and interview room called the Pummeler whose role is that everytime someone says some untrue, out of touch, lying BS, their job is to beat the shit out of whoever says it. I think that’ll solve a lot of things.
December 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
There should be someone in every newsroom and interview room called the Pummeler whose role is that everytime someone says some untrue, out of touch, lying BS, their job is to beat the shit out of whoever says it. I think that’ll solve a lot of things.
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I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill
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What if I leave an upper decker in your toilet
December 16, 2025 at 3:59 AM
What if I leave an upper decker in your toilet
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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All I want for Christmas🎶
December 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
All I want for Christmas🎶
Me, bringing that Christmas joy.
December 16, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Me, bringing that Christmas joy.
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“Slop” is a perfect word to describe AI output and I default hear it in the voice of Ren Höek. SssuhLLOPPuh!!
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM
“Slop” is a perfect word to describe AI output and I default hear it in the voice of Ren Höek. SssuhLLOPPuh!!
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫