Business Friendly Environment

 

"You Know What This Means"

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Kissed

 

"Hull" 

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He Sees You

 

"You In The Carcosa Now"

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Hipstamatic

“I saw you in my dream.. 

you’re in Carcosa now.. with me .. 

he sees you”

~ True Detective ~

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Equinox

 

"Spring Equinox"

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Blasts

 

"Blasts"

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Do-A-Dot Markers

Inkjet Paper

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Immature Blasts

 

"Immature Blasts"

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Do-A-Dot Markers

Inkjet Paper

Oilist,

BrushStroke Pro

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Happy Spring Equinox

 

"Bedazzled Eggs"

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Forever

 

"Forever Chemicals"

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The Next Train

 

"The Next Train For Oak Grove Is Now Arriving"

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Everything Is Fine

 

"Everything Is Fine"

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No Kings Rally - Boston MA

 

“Masked thugs armed and kitted like they’re about to retake Mosul from the Islamic State prowl the streets of American cities looking for racial minorities to kidnap and send to horrific prison camps without a warrant or a whiff of due process. They shoot school teachers for following them and honking their horns to alert their neighbors. They brutally assault and murder American citizens with apparent impunity. The president and his family engage in open, lavish corruption to the tune of billions of dollars. In the span of a year, he has turned the United States—the main author and guarantor of the post-Second World War, rules-based international order—into the biggest threat to that order, destroying our system of alliances in the process and making both America and the world far less safe and less prosperous.” ~ Liberal Currents ~

  

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A Lethal Combination - Rich Fucks and Christianity

 

"Look On My Works And Despair"

“The problem isn’t whether rich people
believe stupid shit; it’s the fact that when

a rich person believes something

stupid, that belief can turn into

torment for dozens,
thousands, or millions
of people.”

~ Cory Doctorow ~

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Onward, Christian War Pigs

 

"Stormdrain Cruciform"

Our Christian War Pigs have been covering

themselves in glory in their latest

war of convenience by 

murdering 165

Iranian
Girls.

Murder and molestation of girls

is what this Christian

shithole of a country

is all about.

We Christian War Pigs are nothing

if not on brand 24/7/365. 

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They Kill and Roam

 

Go Bruce!

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It's Much Bigger Than This Thing...

 

"Just A Little White-head"

[Reworked Screen Scrape From Some Fascist Site]

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Remember this.

This little pustule,

This adjudicated rapist,

This convicted felon,

This bully,

This grotesquerie, is not the disease.

This -- thing -- is a mere symptom.

A symptom of the vast dysfunction of a shithole Christian nation.

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Meanwhile In Gridland...

 

"Gridland"

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When A Fascist Government Invades A State -

Screen Scrape - UnRetouched

When a fascist government invades a state,

how do you not call it a civil war??

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Remember This Above All About Christian Nazis

 

"Oberführer Slob Blowmann"

ReWorked ScreenScrape From Some
Piece-Of-Shit Fascist Website

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Remember this above all:

It's not about removing criminal immigrants

from this shithole country... 

It's about making people afraid,

and not only people of color,

E.V.E.R.Y.O.N.E.

Don't be afraid.

Resist.

They can only kill you once.

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When A Christian Tells You Who They Are, Believe Them

 

Onward Christian Bigots

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Masked Christian Pigs Murder a Mother

 

"RIP Renee"

- Not My Image - reworked screen grab - 

In this self-declared Christian Nation

a masked Christian Pig shot

a mother in the face and

then denied her medical attention - 

all because he knew he

could get away

with it.

She died as a result of her wounds

No doubt there will be more murders

to come at the hands of masked

Christian Pigs, because cruelty

is the point, after all... 

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Success - Whatever That Is..

 

"Small Pinch"

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Silver Efex

I was gifted MemoryGram for Christmas. It's a online thingy where you write down memories of your life for your survivors to savor after you're been reduced to ash. The MemoryGram people start you out with a helpful starter question, in my case the ironic "What makes for a successful life?" The irony comes from the fact that I've been thinking back on my life and have been feeling so much regret for how I spent my time.  First - my choice of employment - Hi-Tech - a joint I was completely unsuited to.. AND Tech has turned out to be an existential threat to the species, both in terms of dangerous unregulated software and the spreading surveillance / subjugation of the Empire's citizenry.  I used to be so critical of people who worked for Big Tobacco.  Big Tobacco has nothing on Big Tech.. Nothing..  And then there is the complete waste of time pursuing a Christian path, spending hours and hours making thousands of rosaries, going to church, reading Christian books.  This is as bad as working in Tech. Christianity is the source of so much ignorance and cruelty. They've essentially taken over the Empire now and are doing what they have done throughout the ages - block progress - step on women - step on gay people - undermine democratic principles and strive to make everyone just like them. What a horrifying mistake I made. I aided and abetted the cruelty that has now blossomed in the country.  Deep regrets like these are not for MemoryGram books though. I'm pretty sure what is wanted is some sunnier version of events. Good Bones Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I've shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I'll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that's a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.   ~ Maggie Smith ~ The other bit of irony is this: I've been writing about my life and what I think about things for twenty years.. Thousands and thousands of posts and had hardly any interest from those who will live long after I'm (finally) gone.  Perhaps they shy away for the unvarnished/raw prose.  Who knows?  Life is funny that way..  ~

Hello There, My Name Is Nausea

 

"Gas Giant"

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Nikkor 18.0-105.0mm Lens

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As predicted - the stomach virus that was brought home by a member of our pack made its way to my digestive system.  This meant 36 hours of nausea, headache, and dizziness.  Yum. I'm better now. I ate a regular breakfast this morning. This is only the beginning. I foresee that the coming year (or however long we are together with our transitioning pack) will be my sickest in recent memory..  DoubleYum. You're not gonna believe this - but the thing that got me through the seemingly-endless hours of nausea was chanting the "Om Mani Padme Hum"  mantra.  ~

A Small Taste

 

"Snow Squall In Bradley Palmer State Park"

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Plague House

 

"Plague House"

Procreate

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And so it begins... a long winter of disease in my cozy little plague house..  Son-In-Law contracted the flu. Daughter and Wife have (probably) contracted it as well.  All of the sick adults have had the flu shot as have I. Forgive me when I predict that it's only a matter of time before it makes its way to me and the children. Yay. ~

Hippage

 

"North Esker Trail - Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary - Ipswich MA"

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Yesterday was the first long-ish walk after nearly splitting my head open in Ravenswood Park. I wanted to test out my good, un-operated-on hip to see if it could take the exertion. It's been painful since the Ravenswood jaunt - enough so that I got imaging done on it to see what's what..  The "good" hip did ok mostly although the walk was not pain-free.. I can't tell (yet) whether the pain is soft-tissue based or if it's the joint itself.  The x-ray showed a good news / bad news view of the hips. On the good news side of the ledger, the hip with the titanium joint showed only mild deterioration despite being 14 years old. The bad news is the "good" hip - the un-operated-on hip - showed severe deterioration and significant narrowing in the spaces between the hip bone and the head of the femur.  So - I contacted my PCP and asked for an ortho cutter recommendation. This time around I want a minimally invasive, anterior approach to what amounts to carpentry on this broken-down body..  The anterior approach yields less trauma to the surrounding soft tissue as well as unrestricted movement post-surgery.. A minimally invasive approach should yield a lower risk of infection.. The first hip replacement I had done in 2010/2011 resulted in a galloping deep infection in the joint which necessitated a redo operation and then a year of antibiotics (seven weeks of which was at-home IV antibiotics..).  Besides dying of infection - my other concern is the cost of the procedure.. I seem to recall that the first one cost me ~ $7000.00 out of pocket.. That was 14 years ago though.. when my then-shitty medical benefits from JBAC were way better than the now-shitty Medicare benefits..  I'm sure it will be several hundred percent more expensive this time around.

 

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Rock Me On The Water

 

"Parker River Wildlife Refuge"

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One Must Have Goals

 

"Into The Woods"

Therapy is expensive.
Getting lost in the forest and
becoming the thing that
terrifies the townspeople is free.

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Fuck The Obedient

 

"Business Friendly"

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“As soon as you say the topic is civil disobedience, you are saying our problem is civil disobedience. That is not our problem…. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. And our problem is that scene in All Quiet on the Western Front where the schoolboys march off dutifully in a line to war. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world, in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.” ~ Howard Zinn ~

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A Wider Portfolio

 

"Gorgon"

(reworked internet image)
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She started out by shooting her dog and then

went on to a wider, more impactful,

portfolio of performative

cruelty

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For Everyone...

 

"Deafness Is Fun!"

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