Bill Trippe
@billtrippe.bsky.social
Husband, dad, brother, uncle—and now grandpa!
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 24, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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Carney says if middle powers like Canada don't act together, "they're not at the table, they're on the menu."
"When we only negotiate bilaterally w a hegemon we negotiate from weakness. We accept what's offered...this is not sovereignty. It's the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination..."
Full speech and convo w Carney www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIEH...
January 20, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Carney says if middle powers like Canada don't act together, "they're not at the table, they're on the menu."
I have been digitizing some slides from the 1980s. This one and a few others had water damage, likely made worse by hot temperatures from attic storage. I asked Gemini to create alt-text for it. It did note that it was a seascape. I didn’t offer any hints. The alt-text is kind of lovely.
January 19, 2026 at 9:48 PM
I have been digitizing some slides from the 1980s. This one and a few others had water damage, likely made worse by hot temperatures from attic storage. I asked Gemini to create alt-text for it. It did note that it was a seascape. I didn’t offer any hints. The alt-text is kind of lovely.
As, well, creepy as this whole thing is, it helped me understand a very weird corner of Trump’s appeal.
@Gideon___Jacobs on MAGA's image machine, "a classic example of soteriology and messianism taken too literally, an absence of the simultaneity of metaphor, people living in story rather than with stories." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/trump-elon-musk-image-patel-maga-reality/
January 19, 2026 at 9:30 PM
As, well, creepy as this whole thing is, it helped me understand a very weird corner of Trump’s appeal.
Very useful post from a literary magazine. Have others done this?
January 17, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Very useful post from a literary magazine. Have others done this?
Re-reading Karen Russell’s “The Antidote.” For all of its brilliance, depth, and breadth, it is simply a joy to read.
January 17, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Re-reading Karen Russell’s “The Antidote.” For all of its brilliance, depth, and breadth, it is simply a joy to read.
When Jim Cramer weighs in, the jokes write themselves
January 14, 2026 at 3:03 PM
When Jim Cramer weighs in, the jokes write themselves
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Americans don’t want Canada, Venezuela, or Greenland.
They want to be able to afford groceries and have lower health care costs.
They want to be able to afford groceries and have lower health care costs.
January 13, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Americans don’t want Canada, Venezuela, or Greenland.
They want to be able to afford groceries and have lower health care costs.
They want to be able to afford groceries and have lower health care costs.
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“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that as soon as I finished an interview speaking on Venezuela, I was arrested," the 22-year-old preschool teacher told Zeteo.
www.jezebel.com/woman-arrest...
www.jezebel.com/woman-arrest...
Woman Arrested After Live TV Interview for Exercising First Amendment Rights
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that as soon as I finished an interview speaking on Venezuela, I was arrested," the 22-year-old preschool teacher told Zeteo.
www.jezebel.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:10 PM
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that as soon as I finished an interview speaking on Venezuela, I was arrested," the 22-year-old preschool teacher told Zeteo.
www.jezebel.com/woman-arrest...
www.jezebel.com/woman-arrest...
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Zohran Mamdani's best ad yet.
January 2, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Zohran Mamdani's best ad yet.
Am I the only one who thinks one of the questioners in Jack Smith’s testimony sounds like Tom Bodett?
Weirdest episode of “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” I ever heard.
tombodett.bsky.social
Weirdest episode of “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” I ever heard.
tombodett.bsky.social
Tom Bodett (@tombodett.bsky.social)
Biology: 67% lumber 33% nonsense
Biography: Woodworker, Professional Talker.
tombodett.bsky.social
January 1, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Am I the only one who thinks one of the questioners in Jack Smith’s testimony sounds like Tom Bodett?
Weirdest episode of “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” I ever heard.
tombodett.bsky.social
Weirdest episode of “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” I ever heard.
tombodett.bsky.social
I end a great year of reading with these words:
“Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.”
Not a bad year
“Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.”
Not a bad year
January 1, 2026 at 1:27 AM
I end a great year of reading with these words:
“Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.”
Not a bad year
“Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.”
Not a bad year
I’ve been experimenting with using ChatGPT for alt text. In this example I only provided the location and year
“Softly lit portrait of a young person standing outdoors at sunset at Thumpertown Beach in Eastham, Massachusetts, circa 1983. The subject is shown from the shoulders up…
“Softly lit portrait of a young person standing outdoors at sunset at Thumpertown Beach in Eastham, Massachusetts, circa 1983. The subject is shown from the shoulders up…
December 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I’ve been experimenting with using ChatGPT for alt text. In this example I only provided the location and year
“Softly lit portrait of a young person standing outdoors at sunset at Thumpertown Beach in Eastham, Massachusetts, circa 1983. The subject is shown from the shoulders up…
“Softly lit portrait of a young person standing outdoors at sunset at Thumpertown Beach in Eastham, Massachusetts, circa 1983. The subject is shown from the shoulders up…
This is breathtaking
December 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This is breathtaking
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The ceiling of Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran (1611)
December 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The ceiling of Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran (1611)
December 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Short Poem of the Day 📝
Never to be Spoken
I will give you everything
The moon and all its stars
If you stand beside me in the sun
Just as you are
PrttyBrd
Never to be Spoken
I will give you everything
The moon and all its stars
If you stand beside me in the sun
Just as you are
PrttyBrd
December 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Short Poem of the Day 📝
Never to be Spoken
I will give you everything
The moon and all its stars
If you stand beside me in the sun
Just as you are
PrttyBrd
Never to be Spoken
I will give you everything
The moon and all its stars
If you stand beside me in the sun
Just as you are
PrttyBrd
December 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
No, we are not making America great again.
Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave U.S. behind
‘A large part of what we loved about the United States is no longer there’
www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/r...
Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave U.S. behind
‘A large part of what we loved about the United States is no longer there’
www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/r...
Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave U.S. behind
“A large part of what we loved about the United States is no longer there”: Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave the U.S. behind.
www.statnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
No, we are not making America great again.
Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave U.S. behind
‘A large part of what we loved about the United States is no longer there’
www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/r...
Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave U.S. behind
‘A large part of what we loved about the United States is no longer there’
www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/r...
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We’ve launched a new page on Salt’s design and typography — the craft behind every book we make. From bus timetables to Cromer, it’s been quite a journey in type.
Take a look: www.saltpublishing.com/pages/design...
#BookDesign #Typography #IndiePublishing #SaltPublishing
Take a look: www.saltpublishing.com/pages/design...
#BookDesign #Typography #IndiePublishing #SaltPublishing
Design and Typography at Salt
Chris Hamilton-EmeryDesigner, Salt Design as the Soul of Salt Design has always been at the heart of Salt’s publishing identity. From the outset, we’ve always understood typography to be both form and...
www.saltpublishing.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
We’ve launched a new page on Salt’s design and typography — the craft behind every book we make. From bus timetables to Cromer, it’s been quite a journey in type.
Take a look: www.saltpublishing.com/pages/design...
#BookDesign #Typography #IndiePublishing #SaltPublishing
Take a look: www.saltpublishing.com/pages/design...
#BookDesign #Typography #IndiePublishing #SaltPublishing
I’ve been reading more or less two novels (or short story collections) for every nonfiction. I just read an absolutely beautiful book: Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
The final chapters are perfectly done.
The final chapters are perfectly done.
November 28, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I’ve been reading more or less two novels (or short story collections) for every nonfiction. I just read an absolutely beautiful book: Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
The final chapters are perfectly done.
The final chapters are perfectly done.
This young woman grew up in my hometown and by all accounts has done every right thing.
It’s unfathomable that people are treated in this inhumane way.
It’s unfathomable that people are treated in this inhumane way.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This young woman grew up in my hometown and by all accounts has done every right thing.
It’s unfathomable that people are treated in this inhumane way.
It’s unfathomable that people are treated in this inhumane way.
Before we give Marjorie Taylor Greene a pass, this is her harassing 18-year-old David Hogg while he was in DC lobbying for gun control.
It was a little more than a year after 14 children and three staff were slaughtered at (oh the irony) Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.
youtu.be/GM05FwyhHPA?...
It was a little more than a year after 14 children and three staff were slaughtered at (oh the irony) Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.
youtu.be/GM05FwyhHPA?...
Marjorie Greene Confronts David Hogg
YouTube video by Marjorie Taylor Greene
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Before we give Marjorie Taylor Greene a pass, this is her harassing 18-year-old David Hogg while he was in DC lobbying for gun control.
It was a little more than a year after 14 children and three staff were slaughtered at (oh the irony) Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.
youtu.be/GM05FwyhHPA?...
It was a little more than a year after 14 children and three staff were slaughtered at (oh the irony) Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.
youtu.be/GM05FwyhHPA?...