CrankyPantsMel

Good on ya, Virginia! #FuckTrump

writing in all-caps in a blue ink with gold sparkle, reading "ver nice, fresh fill, wearingeul 20,000 leagues under the sea, where did my square memo pad go?? it has grown leggys?? walked away??" on plain lined paper

a super close up of a few letters, showing the pretty blue ink and the gold shimmer

Refill time, refill time *rings dinner bell* *fountain pens flutter out of the sky and begin to sip*

The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day: Texas harvests 23 million pounds of peaches yearly, from 4,000 to 6,000 acres in Hill and Gillespie counties, East Texas (Tyler), & North and Central Texas (Montague and Weatherford). About 72% of them are the freestone variety. Blue Bell vanilla+peaches = heaven.

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A large ginger long-haired tabby loafs on the back of a sofa. She has big sea-water green eyes and a cream-colored muzzle and chin. She’s lying on a waterproof blue couch cover, and a fireplace is visible behind her along with two teapots on a big wooden tray on a round ottoman coffee table.

Happy #Caturday from Avery!

A colourful illustrated image on a deep navy blue background with playful hand drawn lettering reading “Signs that you are HUMAN.” Surrounding the text are bright cartoon space themed characters including a pink ringed planet, a purple comet shaped character, a smiling yellow star with a pink trail, a green crescent moon with a small star beside it, a fluffy white cloud with a rainbow, and a pink planet shaped like a hand. Each sits next to phrases such as “you say the wrong things,” “you change your mind,” “you are unproductive and messy,” “you have ups and downs,” “you feel unsure at times,” and “you make mistakes.” The colours are vibrant pink, yellow, teal, purple, and white, giving the illustration a warm, playful feeling that celebrates the everyday imperfections of being human. Picture by Nikki Miles.

“Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.” Brené Brown

We say the wrong things. We change our mind. We have ups and downs.

All signs that we’re wonderfully human. 🧡

#kindness #humanness #learning

Picture by Nikki Miles

“Microdick” is now my favorite descriptive term for Shitler!

Don Enrique Esparza, the last surviving witness of the Battle of the Alamo, late in his life. He was 8 years old on the day of the battle. In Nov., 1902, the San Antonio Light newspaper published a fabulous article with his personal memories of that day. You can find it on my FB or Twitter page.

*wheezing*

Adam Driver as Jack Gladney in White Noise is great. #AdamDriver
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Wow, that’s lovely! 🧶💙

The 2 online classes I took last month on making art with multiple mediums and on bookbinding improved the quality of my mental & creative life. The instructors’ enthusiasm, playfulness, and encouragement were contagious in the best way.

This is the way.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.🧡
— Emily Dickinson

MASSIE: “Iran is not Venezuela. The Ayatollah was not a president. He was a religious leader… 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱 turned him into a martyr, expended billions, 6 🇺🇸 families must now lay to rest their sons & daughters. And for what? This administration can't even give us a straight answer.”

These #Cat #Drawings Somehow Capture Pure Chaos in Just a Few Lines - #art by ShouXin #CatArt #graphite

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And another link: mymodernmet.com/cat-drawings...

HAHAHAHA!!

I ain't got noembody
Noembody cares for me
Noembody
Noembody

I'm so sad and lonely
Won't some Lewandowski
Come take a chance with me
'Cause I ain't so bad

I remember seeing this on J6. He and scamperin’ Tom Cotton are quite a pair.

Shit, I’m over 60, fat, and female, and I’m tougher and meaner than both of them.

Look, I’m glad Kristi Noem has been fired; she should have been thrown out like the trash she is long ago. But putting idiotic MarkWayne Mullin in her place is a terrible, stupid move!

Trump proves yet again that his preferred people are the worst of the worst.

Photo of fluffed up Eurasian Dove sitting on a wooden feeder with trees in the background..

some sweetness for you
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#ArtistsOnBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #WomensArtBlueSky #Photography #PhotographersOnBlueSky #OregonCoast #Oregon #EurasianDove #trees #birds

Americans are dead. Prices are skyrocketing. The Middle East is on fire. Civil war is brewing in Iran.

And for what? A war that will leave the same hardliners in charge? A war that can't actually destroy their nuclear program?

This is incompetence. Plain and simple.

They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that

AOC: This is about actual crimes happening in front of us. This is about shredding the Constitution and plunging us into war. This is about taking crypto money and money laundering… So if you’re asking me if I’d support impeachment, I do

Kelly: "You could pick a random group of people off the street tonight here in DC and they could probably do a better job than our government is doing right now. They don't have a goal, there's no strategic plan. And what this is likely to lead to is, again, a long war with a lot of dead Americans."

Look at this beauty! 🧶💙

Oh, that’s lovely! 🥰

Concur! 💙

I just watched a clip of the Secretary of the Liquor Cabinet telling the media this morning that reporting on the 6 U.S. service members, who were killed in Trump's Iran war, is an example of the news media "trying to make Trump look bad." 🙄

scanned page of a poem: “to the young who want to die” by Gwendolyn Brooks

by Gwendolyn Brooks
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