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Spotted at a pottery shop in Galena, IL. Sadly, the store was closed. I'll have to go back some time.

Spotted at a pottery shop in Galena, IL. Sadly, the store was closed. I'll have to go back some time.

I spent the weekend in Galena, IL and came across this store on Main Street. I emailed a different shot to Rebecca, our @editrix on Friday...

I spent the weekend in Galena, IL and came across this store on Main Street. I emailed a different shot to Rebecca, our @editrix on Friday but had to go back to take another picture Saturday because my wife pointed out that I'd missed an important detail on the 3rd floor.

We will know that AI has approached something close to human thought when it can be easily distracted by squirrels in the trees outside...

We will know that AI has approached something close to human thought when it can be easily distracted by squirrels in the trees outside their office window.

Wife and I were driving through northwestern Illinois en route to Galena for a weekend getaway. We were surprised to see several acres of...

Wife and I were driving through northwestern Illinois en route to Galena for a weekend getaway. We were surprised to see several acres of land along the way dedicated to solar farms where they used to grow corn. This is solid MAGA country and the district of congress critter and Hitler lover Mary Miller. I thought these people are anti-eco-woke. But I guess not so much when it benefits them and not those blacks, browns and dirty hippie libruls.

Today would be my dad’s 102nd birthday. An OG Antifa, he was deemed unfit for combat due to having had polio in the 30s so spent the...

Today would be my dad’s 102nd birthday. An OG Antifa, he was deemed unfit for combat due to having had polio in the 30s so spent the duration of WWII training bomber crews at the Army Air Corps flight school in Liberal, KS. When I was a kid he was an Eisenhower/Dirksen Republican who switched to Democrat when Nixon (who he referred to as “that crook”) ran against JFK.
He would be appalled at what the repubs have become since then.
Happy b-day dad, wherever you are. Still miss you every day.

Today is Pączki day. My grandson works at an Italian bakery here in Chicago. But every year they suspend making cannoli, zeppole,...

Today is Pączki day. My grandson works at an Italian bakery here in Chicago. But every year they suspend making cannoli, zeppole, biscotti, et.al. and devote a few days to making only their version of this Polish treat. They make them a little differently from traditional pączki. Rather than piping the filling into the donut, they split it in 2 and add the fillings sandwich style. They make about 10 different fillings.

This one is pastry cream and chocolate buttercream.

My wife started working on this quilt almost 3 yrs ago during the lockdown and finished it last week. Based on a count in a representative...

My wife started working on this quilt almost 3 yrs ago during the lockdown and finished it last week. Based on a count in a representative area, I estimate it has somewhere around 240,000 individual stitches. All by hand. She's been sewing for many years, but this is her first full-sized quilt.

As an atheist, I wish there were more Christians like Jimmy Carter. He lived his many years striving to make this a better world. If there...

As an atheist, I wish there were more Christians like Jimmy Carter. He lived his many years striving to make this a better world. If there were a just god, he would deserve another go ‘round.

I just learned that a little girl in my neighborhood has lost her battle with stage 4 kidney cancer. I don't know the family but there...

I just learned that a little girl in my neighborhood has lost her battle with stage 4 kidney cancer. I don't know the family but there have been posters and orange ribbons all over the area for several months. She was in 3rd grade, I believe.

If I may.....
Fuck cancer.

#575prompt No. 77- sirenA hot summer night.Crickets and frogs emerge tosing their siren songs. #haiku #writingcommunity @aethelshane

#575prompt No. 77- siren

A hot summer night.
Crickets and frogs emerge to
sing their siren songs.

#haiku #writingcommunity
@aethelshane

Marge 3 names would have to buy some class before she could be considered low class.

Marge 3 names would have to buy some class before she could be considered low class.

#Caturday #catsofmastodon African sand cats are suspicious of your motivations

#Caturday #catsofmastodon

African sand cats are suspicious of your motivations

There's been so much speculation over the giant Chinese balloon floating over the US. But no one, in my opinion, has asked the most...

There's been so much speculation over the giant Chinese balloon floating over the US. But no one, in my opinion, has asked the most important question: Why didn't Israel shoot it down over the Pacific with their giant space lasers? I mean, c'mon. Whose side are they on?

#JewishSpaceLasers #ChineseBalloon

#575prompt # 74 - gatesWhy do the Q-nuts think Bill Gates is some kind of Master of Puppets?@aethelshane #hauku#writingcommuity #Metalica

#575prompt # 74 - gates

Why do the Q-nuts
think Bill Gates is some kind of
Master of Puppets?

@aethelshane
#hauku
#writingcommuity
#Metalica

I'm spending the day cleaning up in my studio. Something I should do more often than every few years....Two initial observations:1 - Why...

I'm spending the day cleaning up in my studio. Something I should do more often than every few years....

Two initial observations:

1 - Why am I saving all these little bits and bobs of stuff when I could have thrown them out the last time I had them in my hands?

2 - Why have I not found any of the things I've been looking for recently?

My wife just got a check from the Equifax breach class action suit. It was for $5.27 US. I said she should go out and spend it on...

My wife just got a check from the Equifax breach class action suit. It was for $5.27 US. I said she should go out and spend it on something moderately adequate.

I made a big pot of beef broth this morning, and while washing my hands after handling the meat, I caught sight in my peripheral vision of...

I made a big pot of beef broth this morning, and while washing my hands after handling the meat, I caught sight in my peripheral vision of the item in the first image. My crazy brain immediatly translated it to the second image.

Why doesn't Congress have a penalty box forinsurrectionists?@aethelshane #haiku#575prompt#writingcommuity

Why doesn't Congress
have a penalty box for
insurrectionists?

@aethelshane
#haiku
#575prompt
#writingcommuity

McGonigal came out. But I’m sure it’s all just coincidental. 🧵

McGonigal came out.

But I’m sure it’s all just coincidental. 🧵

@mollyjongfast Remember way back in the olden times of 2016 when Rudy Giuliani was all hot and bothered about Anthony Weiner’s laptop? ...

@mollyjongfast

Remember way back in the olden times of 2016 when Rudy Giuliani was all hot and bothered about Anthony Weiner’s laptop? And how he said his “contacts” in the New York FBI were “looking into” it? And James Comey said he’d be opening an investigation of same just days before the election? And how the orange menace assumed the presidency by the slimmest of Electoral College votes?

Yeah, I kind of forgot about that too until all this news about Charles 🧵