Susie M

heh heh heeehheeeehhhhh

It's pretty disgusting that women are forced to publicly disclose being sexually assaulted or raped in order to be taken seriously by their peers.

“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Still slowly being reclaimed by both tree and tarmac

where does it hurt?

a drawing i made

me too - worst bit is the 'on hold' music garbage, and after any such call I literally have to go and lie down to restore some kind of normality to my thinking/unthinking processes

By Federico Patellani (1911 - 1977).

It's simple. Just announce the war is over every morning before the stock market opens. Then right after it closes double down with threats of an even bigger, longer war.

Just do this every day forever. The war and the market siloed off in two alternating realities that never meet.

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?

My brain is half dead now, having tried to take in almost 2 hours of online phone help of one sort or another about - ha ha ha - communication technical issues. Grey matter all screaming, exploding, wilted all over the place. Ick.

So do you, for your stuff!!

@skot.bsky.social thank you (not just for today)for liking and boosting my weird stuff

Thanks. I seem them as a statement of 'take it or leave it, I'm just talking, not lecturing'

Getting carried away with sailors is a bit of a theme with me. IYKYK. #collage

miraculous mirages at the North Pole...

[a sly sarcastic mock-innocent comment about the rise in popularity of "Dubai" chocolate and the current state of things]

I weep for you,' the Walrus said:
I deeply sympathize.'
With sobs and tears he sorted out
Those of the largest size,
Holding his pocket-handkerchief
Before his streaming eyes.

i'm using firefox on an oldish macbook - there's always some kind of upgrade to firefox which then takes them a while to de-bug, I think.. perhaps with all systems (tech not my language really)

yes, seemed to happen yesterday and I got annoyed and departed - thought it might be a glitch/my clumsyness, but if we're both experience it...

[whe you die, will you be happy to have written 'the best take-down' about something?]

[would it be a nobler occupation to talk-up someone whose talent others may be blind to?]

[of course, other people love it when you're vicious, and applaud far less those more generous of spirit]

That's where he carries his IMMENSE CHARISMA MACHINE, that he plugs into every night.

I'm not sure I'd choose a holiday in Scotland.

“Dreaming” (1942) by Helen Lundeberg

If you don't buy and wear a Böhm Hüte, you won't get to kiss the girl in the final reel. That's the law in filmworld.

a large hand gently pulling aside a blue fabric to reveal a dramatic contrast between a daytime desert landscape on the left and a celestial, starry night scene on the right

Helen Lundeberg, “The Veil,” 1947

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miraculous mirages at the North Pole...

Have you enjoyed a cup of your Elephant Tea this morning?

They sold it to Charmian on the basis that it was a vehicle with deeply historical connections, having once belonged to the mother of Pericles, and thus the birthplace of Greek democracy. She just had to have it.

A suit of velvety darkness