The Martyn Warzala
@thelastcat87.bsky.social
From parts unknown, scholar, librarian, athlete, social critic…
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" - Emma Lazarus
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" - Emma Lazarus
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" - Emma Lazarus
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" - Emma Lazarus
“…the evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones…” - Shakespeare
September 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
“…the evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones…” - Shakespeare
@united-airlines.bsky.social boarding for flight 56 at CDG is a travesty
September 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
@united-airlines.bsky.social boarding for flight 56 at CDG is a travesty
Primary Schumer! He’s part of the problem and little more than a collaborator at this point
March 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Primary Schumer! He’s part of the problem and little more than a collaborator at this point
Latest Jason Isbell release is so sad, yet exceptional - like a combination of Springsteen’s tunnel of love, Tom Joad, and Nebraska - best I’ve heard in a while
March 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Latest Jason Isbell release is so sad, yet exceptional - like a combination of Springsteen’s tunnel of love, Tom Joad, and Nebraska - best I’ve heard in a while
Check out the Michael Lewis Against the Rules podcast
February 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Check out the Michael Lewis Against the Rules podcast
Looks like the algorithm is getting tuned up based on the placement of the McSweeny’s post
January 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Looks like the algorithm is getting tuned up based on the placement of the McSweeny’s post
“Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption…Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.” - Jimmy Carter
December 30, 2024 at 1:23 PM
“Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption…Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.” - Jimmy Carter
Republicans…Republicans are bad for you…
December 20, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Republicans…Republicans are bad for you…
Reposted by The Martyn Warzala
Moderate centrist Democrats are the Vichy French of obeying in advance.
December 18, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Moderate centrist Democrats are the Vichy French of obeying in advance.
Democrats never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Hang tough; you’re an essential part of our future
December 18, 2024 at 11:30 PM
Democrats never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Hang tough; you’re an essential part of our future
I’ve spent 40 years helping libraries find and acquire books - I’m pretty OK with my job…
December 14, 2024 at 11:13 PM
I’ve spent 40 years helping libraries find and acquire books - I’m pretty OK with my job…
Here’s an idea; perhaps one of the NJ police departments with their awesome SWAT team snipers could shoot one down
December 12, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Here’s an idea; perhaps one of the NJ police departments with their awesome SWAT team snipers could shoot one down
Reposted by The Martyn Warzala
"Trump won the crucial blue wall states... by 231,000 votes? So if just 116,000 voters across those three swing states – or 0.7% of the total – had switched from Trump to Harris, it is the vice-president who would have won the electoral college … and the presidency" - me for the Guardian:
Donald Trump didn’t win by a historic landslide. It’s time to nip that lie in the bud | Mehdi Hasan
In 2024, we have a new post-election lie – Trump didn’t just win, Republicans say, but he won big. He won a landslide. That’s false
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:33 PM
"Trump won the crucial blue wall states... by 231,000 votes? So if just 116,000 voters across those three swing states – or 0.7% of the total – had switched from Trump to Harris, it is the vice-president who would have won the electoral college … and the presidency" - me for the Guardian:
Here’s the answer - America just elected a rapist felon President. Marquis of Queensbury rules are no longer in play.
December 4, 2024 at 3:06 AM
Here’s the answer - America just elected a rapist felon President. Marquis of Queensbury rules are no longer in play.
Two bald eagles in Bound Brook while cycling on the D&R Canal today. A bit of natural beauty on a windy autumn day.
November 24, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Two bald eagles in Bound Brook while cycling on the D&R Canal today. A bit of natural beauty on a windy autumn day.
Must be nice to live where there’s real public health care and not a future full of medical charlatans like us in the US
November 20, 2024 at 4:11 AM
Must be nice to live where there’s real public health care and not a future full of medical charlatans like us in the US
Recommended viewing kenburns.com/films/leonar...
Leonardo da Vinci - Ken Burns
This film will tell the story of Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, best known as Leonardo da Vinci, a fifteenth century Italian polymath of soaring imagination and profound intellect, who left behind ar...
kenburns.com
November 19, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Recommended viewing kenburns.com/films/leonar...
I’m interested, what are you reading?
November 18, 2024 at 2:13 AM
I’m interested, what are you reading?
Watching the CFL Championship makes me think of the differences in Canadian Football, as compared to American football as described by the late John Candy on Second City TV. “…in Canada, we punt on 3rd down, just to be safe…”
November 18, 2024 at 1:40 AM
Watching the CFL Championship makes me think of the differences in Canadian Football, as compared to American football as described by the late John Candy on Second City TV. “…in Canada, we punt on 3rd down, just to be safe…”