HalfofUTAB
@pelecanus.bsky.social
Retiring cynic, amateur naturalist, wannabe artist, covid long hauler, trying to live my best life in far west Chicagoland
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Best 3 minutes you will spend on the internet today.
October 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Best 3 minutes you will spend on the internet today.
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The blackness u can see stretching from the beyond skyline out to the horizon is of course the antifa hoarde
October 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The blackness u can see stretching from the beyond skyline out to the horizon is of course the antifa hoarde
This residential neighborhood in southern Indiana has bunches of fairy rings of what appear to be Chlorophylum molybdates (spore print green)
#fungifriends
#fungifriends
October 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This residential neighborhood in southern Indiana has bunches of fairy rings of what appear to be Chlorophylum molybdates (spore print green)
#fungifriends
#fungifriends
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The American experiment itself is Antifa, and is organization comprised of every true American who honors the Constitution. Membership is our birthright.
September 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The American experiment itself is Antifa, and is organization comprised of every true American who honors the Constitution. Membership is our birthright.
Autumn is coming, whether or not we are ready
September 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Autumn is coming, whether or not we are ready
Note: sending me a screaming text 3 hours after the Kimmel news broke demanding money for some unclear use puts you on my block list permanently.
Cause if your first reaction to this assault on free speech is to start a fundraiser, you're doing it wrong
Cause if your first reaction to this assault on free speech is to start a fundraiser, you're doing it wrong
September 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Note: sending me a screaming text 3 hours after the Kimmel news broke demanding money for some unclear use puts you on my block list permanently.
Cause if your first reaction to this assault on free speech is to start a fundraiser, you're doing it wrong
Cause if your first reaction to this assault on free speech is to start a fundraiser, you're doing it wrong
My state senator!
September 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
My state senator!
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"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?"
Unashamed to say this made me cry.
Unashamed to say this made me cry.
Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
September 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?"
Unashamed to say this made me cry.
Unashamed to say this made me cry.
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Watching the Twin Towers collapse on 9/11, I remember thinking, "It was mostly air." Somehow it had never occurred to me that the inside of a building — even an enormous one — was mostly air. Having the same feeling now as I watch the Constitution collapse: Turns out... it was just air.
September 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Watching the Twin Towers collapse on 9/11, I remember thinking, "It was mostly air." Somehow it had never occurred to me that the inside of a building — even an enormous one — was mostly air. Having the same feeling now as I watch the Constitution collapse: Turns out... it was just air.
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Not all those who wander are lost
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
August 30, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Not all those who wander are lost
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
August 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
August 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
And yet he's still hounding us for donations so he can fight for us 🙄
Hakeem Jeffries, standing in front of a wall: “These so-called ‘military death squads’ and ‘Trump Tribunals’ are just a distraction from <BANG BANG BANG>
Jeffries on Trump planning a military crackdown in Chicago: "We should continue to support local law enforcement and not simply allow Donald Trump to play games with the lives of the American people as part of his effort to manufacture a crisis and create a distraction because he's deeply unpopular"
August 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
And yet he's still hounding us for donations so he can fight for us 🙄
Just enjoying the last days of summer on the Fox River in Illinois
August 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Just enjoying the last days of summer on the Fox River in Illinois
Herons live in slow mo.
There's no hurry. We'll get there when we need to. In the meantime enjoy being here, right here.
#HeroneerTipOfTheDay
There's no hurry. We'll get there when we need to. In the meantime enjoy being here, right here.
#HeroneerTipOfTheDay
Interlude. I painted this to wash away the summer heat. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper
August 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Kankakee swamp mallow in bloom (Iliamna remota)
#nativeplants
#nativeplants
July 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Kankakee swamp mallow in bloom (Iliamna remota)
#nativeplants
#nativeplants
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I'm with Emily Dickinson:
"'Hope' is the thing with feathers—
That perches in the soul—
And sings the tune without the words—
And never stops—at all...."
Thank you for listening for that tune with us, Andrea.
"'Hope' is the thing with feathers—
That perches in the soul—
And sings the tune without the words—
And never stops—at all...."
Thank you for listening for that tune with us, Andrea.
I depend on your analysis to keep from losing hope entirely
July 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I'm with Emily Dickinson:
"'Hope' is the thing with feathers—
That perches in the soul—
And sings the tune without the words—
And never stops—at all...."
Thank you for listening for that tune with us, Andrea.
"'Hope' is the thing with feathers—
That perches in the soul—
And sings the tune without the words—
And never stops—at all...."
Thank you for listening for that tune with us, Andrea.
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Warnock: If I'm honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, are we reading the same book?
The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….
The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….
June 30, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Warnock: If I'm honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, are we reading the same book?
The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….
The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….
I spent my morning watching the 3 recently hatched piping plover chicks scamper about Montrose Beach alongside parents Imani and Sea Rocket! What a great start to the day, and another great chapter for the endangered birds.
STORY in @blockclubchi.bsky.social: blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/22/3...
STORY in @blockclubchi.bsky.social: blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/22/3...
June 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
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Not sure they understand the lyrics to Fortunate Son.
I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played.
CINEMATIC
CINEMATIC
June 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Not sure they understand the lyrics to Fortunate Son.