Mr Toodles says...
@mrtoodlessays.bsky.social
My rescue, Toodles, took over my account. Oh well, we can share; I'm about pets, art, computer graphics, physics and current events. He's all about cuddles and treats.
Just FYI. I'm a graphics/game dev working on multimedia ebooks, writer, & ex physicist.
Just FYI. I'm a graphics/game dev working on multimedia ebooks, writer, & ex physicist.
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Reminded of the Chinese curse "may you live in interesting times" which meant war, upheaval, etc. times. AND here we are. I still believe in our flawed democracy, but I really don't want to wait decades to get back to being where we were before the cliff edge drop. #3e #democracy #facism #racism
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I fear today we no longer have a democratic republic. We have the appearance of a democracy. Proof? Look at the issues that have +50% public support that Congress won’t act on. When big corporations and wealthy donors want something, Congress jumps.
December 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I fear today we no longer have a democratic republic. We have the appearance of a democracy. Proof? Look at the issues that have +50% public support that Congress won’t act on. When big corporations and wealthy donors want something, Congress jumps.
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WSDOT has now reopened 90 roads impacted by the historic flooding in our state.
There are a lot of people out there working extremely hard to get our roads open, in challenging conditions and during the holidays. I appreciate their work.
There are a lot of people out there working extremely hard to get our roads open, in challenging conditions and during the holidays. I appreciate their work.
December 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
WSDOT has now reopened 90 roads impacted by the historic flooding in our state.
There are a lot of people out there working extremely hard to get our roads open, in challenging conditions and during the holidays. I appreciate their work.
There are a lot of people out there working extremely hard to get our roads open, in challenging conditions and during the holidays. I appreciate their work.
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‘Sheltered in Stormy Sennen’ third in the Cornish Series, original oil on gesso board, 36x28 cm. DM for prices #art #oilongesso #sea #cornwall #sennencove #whitesandbay #skies #storm #artforsale
December 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
‘Sheltered in Stormy Sennen’ third in the Cornish Series, original oil on gesso board, 36x28 cm. DM for prices #art #oilongesso #sea #cornwall #sennencove #whitesandbay #skies #storm #artforsale
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Out of towners talk all this shit and meanwhile in the real America, we can’t even get our elected officials to do things that we expressly elected them to do
December 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Out of towners talk all this shit and meanwhile in the real America, we can’t even get our elected officials to do things that we expressly elected them to do
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🇨🇦Political control over ancient sites sparks alarm in Ontario.
This effectively moves the power to protect or destroy historical sites from scientific experts to political decision-makers.
#Onpoli
#Cdnpoli
#CanadaSky🇨🇦
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This effectively moves the power to protect or destroy historical sites from scientific experts to political decision-makers.
#Onpoli
#Cdnpoli
#CanadaSky🇨🇦
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario breaks new ground by letting politicians decide when history will be protected | CBC News
In Ontario, where ancient Indigenous burial grounds and village sites lie beneath rapidly expanding suburbs, the government has granted itself powers to bypass archaeological protections, raising fear...
www.cbc.ca
December 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🇨🇦Political control over ancient sites sparks alarm in Ontario.
This effectively moves the power to protect or destroy historical sites from scientific experts to political decision-makers.
#Onpoli
#Cdnpoli
#CanadaSky🇨🇦
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This effectively moves the power to protect or destroy historical sites from scientific experts to political decision-makers.
#Onpoli
#Cdnpoli
#CanadaSky🇨🇦
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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A quick view of comet 24P/Schaumasse in the vicinity of spiral galaxy Messier 100, from Christmas night, despite the light rain. The comet appears trailed, as it has moved a couple arcminutes in the span of the 40 minutes the data were acquired. More in ALT. #cometWatch #astrophotography #astronomy
December 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
A quick view of comet 24P/Schaumasse in the vicinity of spiral galaxy Messier 100, from Christmas night, despite the light rain. The comet appears trailed, as it has moved a couple arcminutes in the span of the 40 minutes the data were acquired. More in ALT. #cometWatch #astrophotography #astronomy
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Never the same view twice at the beach.
Aldwick, West Sussex.
26/12/2025
Aldwick, West Sussex.
26/12/2025
December 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Never the same view twice at the beach.
Aldwick, West Sussex.
26/12/2025
Aldwick, West Sussex.
26/12/2025
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I wrote this a year ago and it hit a nerve. It is still relevant today:
Each time I have sat down to write something I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...
Each time I have sat down to write something I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...
We Are on Our Own
From Marc | Our institutions are not going to save us. Only we can do that.
www.democracydocket.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I wrote this a year ago and it hit a nerve. It is still relevant today:
Each time I have sat down to write something I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...
Each time I have sat down to write something I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...
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A slow motion Christmas sea angel 👼🪽taken by Jamie with some of our dive-collected specimens from the Gulf of California #zooplankton #oceanography 🌊
December 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A slow motion Christmas sea angel 👼🪽taken by Jamie with some of our dive-collected specimens from the Gulf of California #zooplankton #oceanography 🌊
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MELIA is sleeping her days away in the shelter. She didn't get her Christmas wish. But we can make her New Years a great one. Shes a great dog just needs the right home. 💝
💻[email protected]
🏠Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
💻[email protected]
🏠Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
December 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
MELIA is sleeping her days away in the shelter. She didn't get her Christmas wish. But we can make her New Years a great one. Shes a great dog just needs the right home. 💝
💻[email protected]
🏠Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
💻[email protected]
🏠Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
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Approaching Sellafield. 10 February 2025. #railway #photography
December 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Approaching Sellafield. 10 February 2025. #railway #photography
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Sketched in a riverside garden in Hemingford Abbots, Cambs, a collection of garden objects with a creative display of plants (see alt text for more description). Watercolour and Indian ink done on the spot with no later reworking.
#art #watercolour #Cambridgeshire #pleinair
#art #watercolour #Cambridgeshire #pleinair
December 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Sketched in a riverside garden in Hemingford Abbots, Cambs, a collection of garden objects with a creative display of plants (see alt text for more description). Watercolour and Indian ink done on the spot with no later reworking.
#art #watercolour #Cambridgeshire #pleinair
#art #watercolour #Cambridgeshire #pleinair
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Been a while since, I have taken the picture of the moon.
#EastCoastKin
#EastCoastKin
December 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Been a while since, I have taken the picture of the moon.
#EastCoastKin
#EastCoastKin
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Staring up at the aurora shimmering above. So beautiful.
December 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Staring up at the aurora shimmering above. So beautiful.
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Webb: Dwarf stars in a glittering sky www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
This star cluster, known as Westerlund 2, resides in a stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29, located 20 000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Carina (the Keel).
This star cluster, known as Westerlund 2, resides in a stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29, located 20 000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Carina (the Keel).
December 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Webb: Dwarf stars in a glittering sky www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
This star cluster, known as Westerlund 2, resides in a stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29, located 20 000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Carina (the Keel).
This star cluster, known as Westerlund 2, resides in a stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29, located 20 000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Carina (the Keel).
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merry abstract Xmas.
if you celebrate or not it’s a good day to wish all beings well, with peace and beauty always.
🤍🕊️
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#ArtistsOnBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #AbstractArt #AbstractExpressionism #Painter #Art #Artist #WomensArtBlueSky #AbstractArtist #BlueSkyArt #OregonArtist #Oregon
if you celebrate or not it’s a good day to wish all beings well, with peace and beauty always.
🤍🕊️
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#ArtistsOnBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #AbstractArt #AbstractExpressionism #Painter #Art #Artist #WomensArtBlueSky #AbstractArtist #BlueSkyArt #OregonArtist #Oregon
December 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
merry abstract Xmas.
if you celebrate or not it’s a good day to wish all beings well, with peace and beauty always.
🤍🕊️
.
#ArtistsOnBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #AbstractArt #AbstractExpressionism #Painter #Art #Artist #WomensArtBlueSky #AbstractArtist #BlueSkyArt #OregonArtist #Oregon
if you celebrate or not it’s a good day to wish all beings well, with peace and beauty always.
🤍🕊️
.
#ArtistsOnBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #AbstractArt #AbstractExpressionism #Painter #Art #Artist #WomensArtBlueSky #AbstractArtist #BlueSkyArt #OregonArtist #Oregon
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Unicorn, Fox Fur and Christmas Tree apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...
A star forming region cataloged as NGC 2264, this beautiful but complex arrangement of interstellar gas and dust is about 2,700 light-years distant in the faint but fanciful constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn.
A star forming region cataloged as NGC 2264, this beautiful but complex arrangement of interstellar gas and dust is about 2,700 light-years distant in the faint but fanciful constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn.
December 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Unicorn, Fox Fur and Christmas Tree apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...
A star forming region cataloged as NGC 2264, this beautiful but complex arrangement of interstellar gas and dust is about 2,700 light-years distant in the faint but fanciful constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn.
A star forming region cataloged as NGC 2264, this beautiful but complex arrangement of interstellar gas and dust is about 2,700 light-years distant in the faint but fanciful constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn.
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Some friends got handmade Grinch cards this holiday.
Take that, Hallmark and American Greetings.
#MerryChristmas
Take that, Hallmark and American Greetings.
#MerryChristmas
December 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Some friends got handmade Grinch cards this holiday.
Take that, Hallmark and American Greetings.
#MerryChristmas
Take that, Hallmark and American Greetings.
#MerryChristmas
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Sol 1723: Left Mastcam-Z Camera, taken at 16:58:31.989 (local mean solar time), image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
December 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Sol 1723: Left Mastcam-Z Camera, taken at 16:58:31.989 (local mean solar time), image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
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Another stunner from Carrizo Plain on Nov 12 of this year. #Sunset #Photography
December 25, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Another stunner from Carrizo Plain on Nov 12 of this year. #Sunset #Photography
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According to British intelligence, Russia’s losses since the beginning of the war have exceeded 400,000 killed and wounded.
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December 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
According to British intelligence, Russia’s losses since the beginning of the war have exceeded 400,000 killed and wounded.
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