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sheena-mck.bsky.social
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved
This statistic might be even worse now…. ☹️
Mural showing headstone with sleeping bag below. Gravestone says “148 PEOPLE REGISTERED AS HOMELESS IN NORTHERN IRELAND DIED WHILE WAITING FOR SOCIAL HOUSING BETWEEN OCT 2017/ AUG 2018” There is man on the right looking at his phone
November 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
johnlaroe.bsky.social
View of the #small village of #Ainhoa (pop 665), #France, from the side of Mount Errebi.
September 2025
#BlueSkyArtShow #landscape #aLittleBitCountry
Photo: A small Basque village in a broad valley as seen from a mountainside. The village appears as a cluster of red roofed, white walled buildings in the center of the frame, surrounded by neatly tended green fields bordered with round-topped trees. In the village's center, the tower of a church is visible (Eglise de Notre-Dame de l'Assomption). The untamed foliage of the mountainside dominates the photograph's foreground. The mountains on the other side of the valley define the horizon. The sky is hazy with a bit of blue breaking through on the right. September 2025 Looking down from Mount Errebi in the Pyrénées onto Ainhoa, France. TG-6: ƒ/4, 1/400, 7.31mm, ISO100
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
johnlaroe.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow #Small
johnlaroe.bsky.social LaRoeBoat @johnlaroe.bsky.social · Feb 15
The World is Large (& we are small)
Travelers emerge from The Siq (very narrow gorge) in …
#Petra, #Jordan
April 2012
#BlueSkyArtShow #Monochrome
#MonoClassic
#travel #photography
Photo: Travelers emerge from The Siq, a very narrow gorge that is pretty much the only entrance to an ancient city built in the 4th Century by the Nabateans, nomadic Arabs who controlled the caravan routes of the Middle East. Per Wikipedia: "Unlike slot canyons such as Antelope Canyon in the American Southwest, which are directly shaped by water, the Siq is a natural geological fault split apart by tectonic forces; only later was it worn smooth by water." Petra, Jordan April 2012 D5100: ƒ/4.2, 1/200, 26mm, ISO125
November 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
johnlaroe.bsky.social
Atten: #Missouri
November 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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talos-xliv.bsky.social
This is obviously a state of macro scale (as opposed to quantum) superposition where Halligan's grand jury simultaneously DID and DID NOT vote on the indictment. A "Schrödinger's grand jury", if you will. Something tells me Nachmanoff is gonna open the box to collapse the DOJ waveform.😉
November 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
johnlaroe.bsky.social
gif that pops up when I type my name
animated characters cling to a raft caught in a torrent of water at the mention of "LaRoeBoat"
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message.

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November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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slotkin.senate.gov
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.

The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.

Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
johnlaroe.bsky.social
@jjbjjbjjb.bsky.social
Don't think twice. It's alright.
November 20, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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missingthept.bsky.social
I'm watching the newest Ken Burns documentary and was surprised to learn that one of the primary reasons the Americans overthrew British rule was that they wanted to drive on the right side of the road, as the Bible stipulates.
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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anodynesix.bsky.social
"This is not the first time that US or US-trained forces have murdered innocent civilians in cold blood. What makes these murders stand out is the callousness with which pressure was exerted on grieving families to keep quiet."
harmscommitted.com Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 5d
"2- and 3-year-olds."

"At least a dozen civilians—eight children, three women, and an elderly man—were killed in weekend bombings that local sources claimed were the latest of nearly 100 US airstrikes in" Somalia.

"[A]lmost no coverage in the US corporate media."
#USA #Somalia #Media #Military
At Least 12 Somali Civilians—Including 8 Children—Killed in Suspected US Airstrikes
The US has carried out nearly 100 strikes in Somalia this year alone, with scant coverage by the corporate media.
www.commondreams.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 AM
johnlaroe.bsky.social
Found But Never Claimed
… spotted at the foot of the fence from whence it fell, a sign in an unofficial dog park behind an abandoned high school in …
#KansasCity, #Missouri
August 2025
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved #Phonetography
Cellphone Photo: A seemingly handmade sign with the text "Cat FOUND!!!" above and the text "Male No Collar Tan w/ Black & Gray: -NOT NICE! Found by Dumpster (May be scared) Not House Broken Rewards Accepted" below a picture of a snarling opossum. In small text at the bottom the sign is copyrighted as follows: ©2017 Nich Mhery Is-www.nightofmystery.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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tylerfromtheinternet.com
I have a question. How the hell are the 30 year olds being open Nazis and dyed in the wool racists in group texts just "kids" but the children who were raped suddenly "young women."
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
johnlaroe.bsky.social
Looking Back and Reflecting
November 1012
"Lake" Hudson, #Granville, #Ohio
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved
Photo: In the foreground, the stern of a small, white, decaying, open boat (pulled up on the shore) has been reinforced to support a small outboard motor. But there is no motor, just dead leaves collecting in its bottom. Beyond the boat, the still waters of a pond reflect, upside down, the bare limbs of the trees on the opposite shore; but the shore and the trees themselves are out of frame. D5100: ƒ/10, 1/400, 55mm, ISO200 November 1012 "Lake" Hudson, Granville, Ohio
November 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
johnlaroe.bsky.social
Big Raccoon
A sculpture by Bordalo II, in his "Trash Animals" series.
Bordalo would have us rethink our wasteful commercialism In the meantime, he creates art from what we discard.
April 2023
#Belém, #Lisbon, #Portugal
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved #UrbanGaze
Photo: A three-story sculpture seemingly bursting from one end of a building constructed from discarded items: automobile bumpers and tires, plastic waste, twisted metal fencing, etc. This is "Big Raccoon" by Bordalo II, in his "Trash Animals" series. A man and a young girl wearing casual shorts walk left to right on the sidewalk in front of the sculpture. A jitney has just entered the camera frame in the lower right hand quadrant. April 2023 Belém, Lisbon, Portugal OM-1: ƒ/7.1, 1/400, 12mm, ISO200
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
johnlaroe.bsky.social
Oops. #WeekUforUnloved ( in the #AlphabetChallenge ).
Mea Culpa.
johnlaroe.bsky.social LaRoeBoat @johnlaroe.bsky.social · 5d
Still Life with #Unwanted Charging Cables
on 17 November 2025
in #KansasCity, #Missouri
for the #AlphabetChallenge
Photo: A plastic tub in a drawer, filled with cables: Mostly USB Types A (and maybe 3.0) on the receiving end (with the exception of one that's built to mate with an automobile cigarette lighter doohickey) with delivery ends of types Mini, Micro, Type C and who knows what else. They are black and white, with brass or steel hardware. Tangled beyond redemption. The tub's lid is red but the tub itself is translucent.
November 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
johnlaroe.bsky.social
Still Life with #Unwanted Charging Cables
on 17 November 2025
in #KansasCity, #Missouri
for the #AlphabetChallenge
Photo: A plastic tub in a drawer, filled with cables: Mostly USB Types A (and maybe 3.0) on the receiving end (with the exception of one that's built to mate with an automobile cigarette lighter doohickey) with delivery ends of types Mini, Micro, Type C and who knows what else. They are black and white, with brass or steel hardware. Tangled beyond redemption. The tub's lid is red but the tub itself is translucent.
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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dbeecher.bsky.social
Presumably for Australia the marsupials entry takes up the whole first half of the volume
drdragases.bsky.social Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 7d
The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
November 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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chadtopaz.bsky.social
Toni Morrison said that "the function of freedom is to free someone else." That's it—that's the skeet.
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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tatyana2707.bsky.social
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. #BobDylan

#blackandwhite
#photography
#bright
#BlueSkyArtShow
November 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
johnlaroe.bsky.social
Ascension of the Photographer
… from the chapel in …
Hospital de los Venerables
Seville, Spain
April 2023
#BlueSkyArtShow #Bright
( #podium *&* #lectern alert )
Photo: a photographer (who is not me) aims his camera, with telephoto lens, into the dazzling ceiling of the chapel in Hospital de los Venerables. He wears a blue shirt. The camera's strap and a pair of wrap-around sunglasses dangle around his throat. He sits in a red-cushioned pew, Framed religious paintings hang on the walls around him. In the background are a podium *and* a lectern. One wall is white. Another seems to be covered in enough gold leaf to make Donald Trump blush (if that were possible). Light appears to burst through a wall behind him. It is *everywhere*. Surely the moment is nigh! April 2023 Hospital de los Venerables Seville, Spain OM-1: ƒ/8, 1.6s, 18mm, ISO800
November 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
johnlaroe.bsky.social
Northwoods Lodge
The brightest of lights shine in the darkest of nights.
September 2020
Gunflint Lake, Superior National Forest, #Minnesota
#BlueSkyArtShow #Bright
#NightPhotography #BoundaryWaters
Photo: Exterior lights of a lodge on Gunflint Lake illuminate its walls and light from a gabbled upstairs window illuminates a part of its roof. Interior lights illuminate its first-floor restaurant. Water around the Boundary Waters outfitter's dock reflects that illumination. The ghost of a modern voyageur, in red jacket and blue jeans, uses a flashlight to navigate the path between the lodge and the lake. September 2020 Gunflint Lake, Superior National Forest, Minnesota D5600: ƒ/5.3, ¼, 48mm, ISO6400
November 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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helenkennedy.bsky.social
ICE vs the clergy
Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska A masked ICE agent sprays David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. Sept 19 2025 Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times. Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church in chicago being hit in the head with a pepper ball Sept 19 at the Broadview ICE facility An unidentified federal agent fires a chemical weapon into Rev. Jorge Bautista's face during a protest outside of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Thursday Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: David Bacon
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Clyburn calls out Bessent for trying to take credit on a project in his district initiated by Biden.
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM