Barrie Abalard she/her

Officer having anxiety attack took ambulance sent for man dying from police shooting, report says A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the fir...

WHAT. THA. FACK. #policestate
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Thanks for the cartoon. Just found out my last company replaced every writer with AI. (Former tech writer and online help designer/ programmer when we lived in Massachusetts.)

A photo of Mount Denali in Alaska, covered in snow, with evergreens in front of it, and a lake at the bottom of the photo. Sunny and pretty clear sky

#Myphoto, taken July 2004, at Byers Lake near Talkeetna, Alaska, where we had a rustic public use cabin for two nights. Mount #Denali: The High One (translation). We three were so fortunate to see the mountain more than once during our two weeks. It's often clouded over. #nofilter

A humanoid cartoon character is listening to a boom box, thinking: Their rage brings me joy.

A lot of my favorite music is like this.

Cartoon character Maxine (an older woman) says, I'd quit my job, but then what would I use to crush my soul?

One of the edgier #Maxines out there.

DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive, report says | TechCrunch A whistleblower is accusing a former DOGE member of stealing a large number of Americans’ personal data while he was working at the Social Security Administration, with the plan of using it at his new...

Scummiest of scumbags #ElonMusk and his band of #DOGE #criminals and #thieves
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I nearly spit out my vodka and lime over, gee, Russia, nah, they wouldn't mess with us. 😆

2 years ago today
Butt even Bigglier!

“It will guarantee the midterms. If you don’t get it, big trouble..."

So Trump has just said outloud and with no plausible deniability that the conversations he has been involved with see the SAVE Act's benefit as voter suppression.

The only sister I still talk to just lost her job.

She's never had a pot to piss in. #latestagecapitalism

F this country.

FUCK WAR. FUCK TRUMP

Country Joe & the Fish - VietNam Song - Live Woodstock 1969 - Full HD Video YouTube video by Dima T

"GIMME AN F..."
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Yep. A perennial post for me. Makes sense.

'Country' Joe McDonald, '60s rock star, proud protest counterculture icon, dies at 84 “Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that became an anthem for protesters and a highlight of ...

"WHAT'S THAT SPELL?
WHAT'S THAT SPELL?
WHAT'S THAT SPELL?"
"1-2-3, what're we fightin for?
Don't ask me I don't give a damn
Next stop is Viet Nam" 😩 [plus ca change...]
#CountryJoeMcDonald
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Text from unknown source: is there anything more capitalist than an peanut with a top hat, cane, and monocle selling you other peanuts to eat

#latestagecapitalism #capitalismsucks

Tease for a gardening column I read:
"A sharp #knife is never enough."
I'm thinking this could apply in multiple circumstances.
🔪🗡️

Black-headed duck with a scowling look on its visage

I love this duck. #currentmood
DARK DUCK
Photo by Leslie O'Rourke
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"Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television." -- Gore Vidal

(about to pass up the sex part, because I've got so many f'n emotional shitestorms happening, I cannot deal with a new relationship--or, in this case of the offer, two new relationships. I feel stupid but it's right) #LBTQ

A colorful graphic with the text "Happy International Women's Day." The background features wavy, abstract lines in pink and purple tones.

Happy International Women’s Day! Today we honor the generations of women activists, trailblazers, and leaders who have made America stronger and more equal.

Sixties-ish image of a woman with a certain type of knowing look, perhaps revenge, who is letting a man embrace her. But she holds a stiletto, ready for plunging into his back, unbeknownst to him. Payback perhaps

Someone please post this when I die. If not sooner. Her expression. My feelings. #payback

#owllove

🫂✔️ Damn skippy. though, between the world and my hellish personal life, I have so many white ones now, who TF knows. But to you, 💙

Sunshine YouTube video by Jonathan Coulton - Topic

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic 🎼
#MusicChallenge 🎶

Day 7) A song about Death
(If you don't know #JonathanCoulton #JoCo and especially his fantastic #SolidState album, please listen to the lyrics on "Sunshine." Then check out more of his stuff.) #resist
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People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Share it. I'd love to have some tiny part in taking down the Zuck Suck and #Meta #pervertglasses
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BlackRock Fund Limits Withdrawals As Redemptions Rattle Private Credit Shares of the world's largest asset manager fell 6.7% on the New York Stock Exchange.

This is not a good sign, think of a bank run, Blackrock doesn't have the available cash to redeem stocks.

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It’s probably too late for this.

But it would be beyond meaningful to see my dad recognized at the “In Memoriam” part of the Oscars.

He died in June.
He worked for decades in the movie business, marketing movies. Big movies. Like Star Wars.

I can’t express how much it would have meant to him.

1am parenting: still up talking with my 16 year old about Sasquatch and farts. If a teenager wants to talk you cancel everything and cherish every moment

ICE detain U.S. Army veteran—a 50 year old woman with major health issues.

20 plus armed agents stormed this residential neighborhood to arrest her at gunpoint.

Her crime? Kate just took part in a peaceful protest—evidently her 5 foot tall stature intimidated these agents.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

WTF garbage is this? We don't need any more (we have plenty, WaPo!) religious fundies in the so-called halls of power.