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The dome of the Pantheon.
December 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The dome of the Pantheon.
First hot shower in two months! My vacation is off to a good start.
December 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
First hot shower in two months! My vacation is off to a good start.
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“I’m looking all over, and there’s just no way we can make this any worse,” Trump said
Frustrated Trump Struggling To Find Any Infrastructure Left In Indiana To Destroy
WASHINGTON--Searching in vain for a meaningful way to retaliate after Indiana lawmakers rejected his Republican gerrymandering push, a visibly frustrated President Donald Trump was reportedly struggling Friday to find any infrastructure left in the stat...
theonion.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
“I’m looking all over, and there’s just no way we can make this any worse,” Trump said
Over half of the "supreme" court belong in jail. We need term limits and corruption laws with teeth in them, and we need to STOP letting judges and politicians (pretend to) police themselves.
December 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Over half of the "supreme" court belong in jail. We need term limits and corruption laws with teeth in them, and we need to STOP letting judges and politicians (pretend to) police themselves.
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Meet two heroes of our times.
December 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Meet two heroes of our times.
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Reminder on World AIDS Day—
I am 55, and I remember the grim death sentence of AIDS in the 80s/90s, I lost SO MANY people. Funerals almost every week. People I loved were considered disposable.
I am 55, and I remember the grim death sentence of AIDS in the 80s/90s, I lost SO MANY people. Funerals almost every week. People I loved were considered disposable.
A little reminder: when AIDS was new, and considered “the gay plague” economists Richard Posner & Tomas Philipson gave cost saving advice to the Reagan administration - let them die, because it will be cheaper and save on Medicaid and Social Security payouts.
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Reminder on World AIDS Day—
I am 55, and I remember the grim death sentence of AIDS in the 80s/90s, I lost SO MANY people. Funerals almost every week. People I loved were considered disposable.
I am 55, and I remember the grim death sentence of AIDS in the 80s/90s, I lost SO MANY people. Funerals almost every week. People I loved were considered disposable.
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How it should be. America is meant for every person of goodwill, regardless of color, religion, gender, or anything else. E Pluribus Unum.
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
How it should be. America is meant for every person of goodwill, regardless of color, religion, gender, or anything else. E Pluribus Unum.
One of the AIs in William Gibson's novel "Neuromancer" (iirc) spoke of "songs of time and distance". I always think of that when I hear songs that make me yearn for places and things that never were.
@greatdismal.bsky.social
youtu.be/MlRHxllnEnA?...
@greatdismal.bsky.social
youtu.be/MlRHxllnEnA?...
Jonathan Hultén - Where Devils Weep (official video)
YouTube video by Jonathan Hultén
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
One of the AIs in William Gibson's novel "Neuromancer" (iirc) spoke of "songs of time and distance". I always think of that when I hear songs that make me yearn for places and things that never were.
@greatdismal.bsky.social
youtu.be/MlRHxllnEnA?...
@greatdismal.bsky.social
youtu.be/MlRHxllnEnA?...
Today is the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. The ending of the speech always reminds me of the America I want to believe in.
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Today is the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. The ending of the speech always reminds me of the America I want to believe in.
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“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
— James Baldwin
— James Baldwin
November 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
— James Baldwin
— James Baldwin
This checks out.
November 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This checks out.
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“The purpose of propaganda is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
― Aldous Huxley
― Aldous Huxley
November 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
“The purpose of propaganda is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
― Aldous Huxley
― Aldous Huxley
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
(From @mluckovichajc)
(From @mluckovichajc)
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
(From @mluckovichajc)
(From @mluckovichajc)
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Bram STOKED!!!! Happy Halloween to all the ecstatic vampires out there! #grickledoodle #vampire #happy #halloween #horror #cartoon #art #funny #laughter
November 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Bram STOKED!!!! Happy Halloween to all the ecstatic vampires out there! #grickledoodle #vampire #happy #halloween #horror #cartoon #art #funny #laughter
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A lot of folks who follow my work on here don't necessarily know that I've also created animated shorts for nearly two decades. Here's a link to a selection of special HALLOWEEN cartoons I've made: youtu.be/F2VzydQoAls?... #grickledoodle #horror #animation #cartoon #art #drawing #funny
The Grickle Halloween Collection
A long play video of ALL the Halloween-themed Grickle cartoons from the past decade! PLUS a special 'intermission'! Enjoy and happy Halloween, everyone!
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
A lot of folks who follow my work on here don't necessarily know that I've also created animated shorts for nearly two decades. Here's a link to a selection of special HALLOWEEN cartoons I've made: youtu.be/F2VzydQoAls?... #grickledoodle #horror #animation #cartoon #art #drawing #funny
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Found on Reddit today:
October 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Found on Reddit today:
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"The secrets of evolution, are time and death.
There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
October 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"The secrets of evolution, are time and death.
There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Mark Twain's War Prayer: www.americanyawp.com/reader/19-am...
Mark Twain, “The War Prayer” (ca.1904-5) | The American Yawp Reader
www.americanyawp.com
October 11, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Mark Twain's War Prayer: www.americanyawp.com/reader/19-am...
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Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/
October 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/
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Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World review – a narrow view of beauty from a borderline stalker
Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World review – a narrow view of beauty from a borderline stalker
The ‘King of Vogue’ was a desperate social climber and the world on view here seems constricted and parochial. Still, his backdrops are fabulous – usually more interesting than his subjects
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World review – a narrow view of beauty from a borderline stalker
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"Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain."
-Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
-Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
October 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
"Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain."
-Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
-Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence