Snarky Optimist
@snarkyoptimist.bsky.social
Trying to be half the person my dog believes me to be. It's a work in progress. Expert at most Olympic events every four years because I do my own research. Dogs/beach/sports/health/politics/Oxford comma. Californian by birth and beliefs.
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“Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.”
- Coach John Wooden
"I don't know how to explain to you why you should care about other people."
- Lauren Morrill
If you don't get it, you won't like it here.
- Coach John Wooden
"I don't know how to explain to you why you should care about other people."
- Lauren Morrill
If you don't get it, you won't like it here.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Pritzker gets it.
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
August 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Pritzker gets it.
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Lucy Bronze, played the entire match with a fractured tibia.
Joey Barton, played his entire career with a fractured ego.
Joey Barton, played his entire career with a fractured ego.
July 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Lucy Bronze, played the entire match with a fractured tibia.
Joey Barton, played his entire career with a fractured ego.
Joey Barton, played his entire career with a fractured ego.
When your hospital closes down because the federal tax dollars that kept it open are redirected to billionaires, private health insurance won’t save you. You can’t get care someplace that doesn’t exist.
What they do to one of us, they do to all of us.
What they do to one of us, they do to all of us.
July 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
When your hospital closes down because the federal tax dollars that kept it open are redirected to billionaires, private health insurance won’t save you. You can’t get care someplace that doesn’t exist.
What they do to one of us, they do to all of us.
What they do to one of us, they do to all of us.
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Truth-tellers, not rioters. Protect these two men at all costs.
“You feel tough with your assault rifles and your sticks. You should be standing here with us. You’re on the wrong side of history.”
“John Lewis said make good trouble… that means make trouble on behalf of democracy.”
“You feel tough with your assault rifles and your sticks. You should be standing here with us. You’re on the wrong side of history.”
“John Lewis said make good trouble… that means make trouble on behalf of democracy.”
June 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Truth-tellers, not rioters. Protect these two men at all costs.
“You feel tough with your assault rifles and your sticks. You should be standing here with us. You’re on the wrong side of history.”
“John Lewis said make good trouble… that means make trouble on behalf of democracy.”
“You feel tough with your assault rifles and your sticks. You should be standing here with us. You’re on the wrong side of history.”
“John Lewis said make good trouble… that means make trouble on behalf of democracy.”
James Madison first proposed the amendments that became the Bill of Rights to Congress on this date.
George Orwell’s 1984 was published on this date.
It’s a good day to side with Madison and resolve to make 1984 fiction once again.
George Orwell’s 1984 was published on this date.
It’s a good day to side with Madison and resolve to make 1984 fiction once again.
June 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
James Madison first proposed the amendments that became the Bill of Rights to Congress on this date.
George Orwell’s 1984 was published on this date.
It’s a good day to side with Madison and resolve to make 1984 fiction once again.
George Orwell’s 1984 was published on this date.
It’s a good day to side with Madison and resolve to make 1984 fiction once again.
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The anguish of gay Americans who were called “sexual psychopaths” in Congress and fired from their jobs fueled the first public demonstrations for gay rights in the nation. The fight for dignity continued through the AIDS epidemic and the battle for marriage equality.
Gay history was made in D.C. At times, it was dispiriting — but also uplifting.
D.C. is the place for monuments to the thinkers, warriors and leaders who shook and shaped the country. Memorials of LGBTQ history may be less well known, but are key to understanding the place of g...
www.washingtonpost.com
June 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The anguish of gay Americans who were called “sexual psychopaths” in Congress and fired from their jobs fueled the first public demonstrations for gay rights in the nation. The fight for dignity continued through the AIDS epidemic and the battle for marriage equality.
Life moves. You have to move with it.
June 1, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Life moves. You have to move with it.
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Prof McBride, USNA 1974, PhD Johns Hopkins, went on to say, “Your acquiescence was a repudiation of the Naval Academy’s historic mission. You may take some solace that the removal of these books was a lawful order. However, such an interpretation runs contrary to larger Constitutional issues ..
April 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Prof McBride, USNA 1974, PhD Johns Hopkins, went on to say, “Your acquiescence was a repudiation of the Naval Academy’s historic mission. You may take some solace that the removal of these books was a lawful order. However, such an interpretation runs contrary to larger Constitutional issues ..
English majors can do anything they put their minds to, because they know how to read, and comprehend, and learn.
Added benefit, the facists don't want people to read. So we're subversive without actively trying to be so.
Added benefit, the facists don't want people to read. So we're subversive without actively trying to be so.
Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment?
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
April 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
English majors can do anything they put their minds to, because they know how to read, and comprehend, and learn.
Added benefit, the facists don't want people to read. So we're subversive without actively trying to be so.
Added benefit, the facists don't want people to read. So we're subversive without actively trying to be so.
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"We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time. And this is just the start. Coups are like concrete. When they stop moving, they set. It is already later than we think... We are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism." @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
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April 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time. And this is just the start. Coups are like concrete. When they stop moving, they set. It is already later than we think... We are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism." @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
So the USDA has cancelled $1B in local food purchasing because spending our federal tax dollars on healthy food for school kids from small farmers is bad. Right, right.
March 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
So the USDA has cancelled $1B in local food purchasing because spending our federal tax dollars on healthy food for school kids from small farmers is bad. Right, right.
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old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Decent Americans are deeply ashamed of the betrayal being perpetrated in our name. I am ashamed and can only offer my meager apology, but I do apologise. We are a disgrace.
Fear, exasperation, even tears in Europe (and mass expressions of solidarity with Ukraine) after the heated Trump-Vance-Zelensky meeting.
Gift link: wapo.st/3ETfWkH
Gift link: wapo.st/3ETfWkH
Tears and shock in Ukraine and Europe after heated Zelensky-Trump meeting
“I’m just crying because of what I hear,” one Ukrainian lawmaker said of the meeting, echoing the dismayed reactions of others in Europe.
wapo.st
February 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Decent Americans are deeply ashamed of the betrayal being perpetrated in our name. I am ashamed and can only offer my meager apology, but I do apologise. We are a disgrace.
It took the Nazis 53 days to dismantle a constitutional Republic.
It's day 31.
It's day 31.
February 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
It took the Nazis 53 days to dismantle a constitutional Republic.
It's day 31.
It's day 31.
Can we learn from history?
Too many of us have ignored it in favor of lies.
Too many of us have ignored it in favor of lies.
The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
February 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Can we learn from history?
Too many of us have ignored it in favor of lies.
Too many of us have ignored it in favor of lies.
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If Google is going to go along with renaming the Gulf of Mexico I think we need to rename them.
January 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
If Google is going to go along with renaming the Gulf of Mexico I think we need to rename them.
Elliott Richardson and William Ruckelshaus stood on principle. Where are their heirs apparent?
“Whether ours shall continue to be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people [to decide].
- Archibald Cox
“Whether ours shall continue to be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people [to decide].
- Archibald Cox
January 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Elliott Richardson and William Ruckelshaus stood on principle. Where are their heirs apparent?
“Whether ours shall continue to be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people [to decide].
- Archibald Cox
“Whether ours shall continue to be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people [to decide].
- Archibald Cox
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
- The Tempest, William Shakespeare
- The Tempest, William Shakespeare
January 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
- The Tempest, William Shakespeare
- The Tempest, William Shakespeare
So Elon Musk is intersex? Someone needs to tell him there’s only two genders.
January 24, 2025 at 4:51 AM
So Elon Musk is intersex? Someone needs to tell him there’s only two genders.
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The goal is to overwhelm us so we give up. Don't do that!
January 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The goal is to overwhelm us so we give up. Don't do that!
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Remember, it’s not okay to talk about gun control after a mass shooting because that’s ’politicizing it.’
But it IS okay for conservatives to lie about a climate change catastrophe as it’s happening and blame it on ‘DEI.’
Hey, I don’t make up these rules. They do.
But it IS okay for conservatives to lie about a climate change catastrophe as it’s happening and blame it on ‘DEI.’
Hey, I don’t make up these rules. They do.
January 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Remember, it’s not okay to talk about gun control after a mass shooting because that’s ’politicizing it.’
But it IS okay for conservatives to lie about a climate change catastrophe as it’s happening and blame it on ‘DEI.’
Hey, I don’t make up these rules. They do.
But it IS okay for conservatives to lie about a climate change catastrophe as it’s happening and blame it on ‘DEI.’
Hey, I don’t make up these rules. They do.
A cleansing bonfire in LA County got pre-authorization today, but try getting approval for prescriptions for asthma medications for your patients. Good luck.
Read the room already, United Healthcare.
Read the room already, United Healthcare.
January 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A cleansing bonfire in LA County got pre-authorization today, but try getting approval for prescriptions for asthma medications for your patients. Good luck.
Read the room already, United Healthcare.
Read the room already, United Healthcare.
Here's hoping Canada annexes us. We'd be a great province.
Another masterful water drop from Canadian aerial firefighters in California.
Thank you, Canada!
Thank you, Canada!
January 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Here's hoping Canada annexes us. We'd be a great province.