@thatdale
retired educator, author, composer, director, burner blogs: dalelyles.com, Lichtenbergianism.com books: "Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy" and "A Young Person's Guide to Lichtenbergianism," available at your favored book vendor
Can someone explain to me how buying lobster and crab on the taxpayer dime is not exponentially worse than buying soda with your SNAP benefits?
And I'm still seeing polls that 40% of the people support the war in Iran.
We are so fucked.
Everyone just waiting for the other oversized shoe to drop.
"Fewer than 100 days out, host cities haven’t received promised funding, and fears about ICE’s presence are widespread," writes @repnellie.bsky.social.
Kind of like St. Paul, only different? Actually, now that I think about it, not that different...
You know, I think I could have planned this don't-you-dare-call-it-a war better. Probably because I ran a community theatre for 27 years. "Are you smarter than a Fox News anchor?"
A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”
This is from 1975.
The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.
Now feels like a good time to remember that Big Oil is the reason why we're still hooked on dirty, dangerous fossil fuels.
The industry's lies have essentially stolen a generation’s worth of time that we could have used to transition to cleaner, safer energy sources.
It’s time for accountability.
We've always been at war with EastAsia.
Just in case you were wondering: www.tickcounter.com/countdown/16...
2 years, 9 months, 10 days.
I remember teachers were given professional development on how differently people living in poverty deal with a capitalist society. The point was that without middle class living conditions or even middle class friends, poor people have no chance to understand "money." That is the problem, not EBT.
This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
Hey, little MAGAts, did y'all know that the 10 Commandments are part of sHaRiA LaW KENNETH? Y'all are iNViTiNg sHaRiA LaW into our schools!!!!
No.
I would like to point out that this [[[Republican Administration]]] and its [[[Republican President]]] think that bombing one's own citizens is something that a nation might consider doing if it helped their propaganda purposes.
Probably early as 3rd grade; the idea that billions of people on earth were "going to hell" because they had never heard of Jesus gave the lie to the "omnipotent, all-knowing, all-loving" God thing. Everything just fell apart after that.
The page numbers in some of my posts are from my book, "Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy," bit.ly/3d4KddH
Know what you’re putting off and why. (Use kanban…) (p. 22) #TaskAvoidance
Moar Bares!
Remember, it's not hypocrisy if you never had a moral compass to begin with.
A parody of a recruitment poster: In the center, a large line drawing of a white feather, referencing the movement during WWI of British women giving white feathers to men of fighting age who were not in the Army; the reference is to cowardice. At the top in big red letters, "Enlist!" At the bottom, also in red letters: "Don't be a coward! Be a man! Enlist in the armed forces and go fight in Iran to defend our Freedom!"
I got to watch a rough runthrough of Southern Arc Dance's performance of my "Ten Little Waltzes," and that was fun. World premiere March 28/29.
Tickets: (Peter Rabbit & Friends) 30982.danceticketing.com/r/events/
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/dalelyles/se...
The trick is to be your own #Audience, not your own Critic. There is a difference. (p. 103)
Isn't that fun? It's like, maybe I do belong here after all, you know?
Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday
