Choosing Colours
@choosingcolours.bsky.social
Working a desk, fixing a house, petting a cat. Photos mostly with a splash of observation.
Pencil shavings on metal and paper.
January 17, 2026 at 5:19 AM
Pencil shavings on metal and paper.
And thus the American people sleep walked into authoritarianism. They still have a chance to get out and dwindling by the day.
January 7, 2026 at 6:35 PM
And thus the American people sleep walked into authoritarianism. They still have a chance to get out and dwindling by the day.
"If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered: ‘To fight against Fascism,’ and if you had asked me what I was fighting for, I should have answered: ‘Common decency.’" - George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
October 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
"If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered: ‘To fight against Fascism,’ and if you had asked me what I was fighting for, I should have answered: ‘Common decency.’" - George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
"Georges Kopp, on his periodical tours of inspection, was quite frank with us. ‘This is not a war,’ he used to say, ‘it is a comic opera with an occasional death.’"
- George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
- George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
October 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"Georges Kopp, on his periodical tours of inspection, was quite frank with us. ‘This is not a war,’ he used to say, ‘it is a comic opera with an occasional death.’"
- George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
- George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
Peter O’Toole Talks About Overcoming Nerves | The Dick Cavett Show
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September 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
We live in a surveillance state, and outside any other arguments that is a very clear correlation to an authoritarian regime. Technology plays no role in this, it certainly changes the tools but the greed and paranoia behind it all always stays the same.
July 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
We live in a surveillance state, and outside any other arguments that is a very clear correlation to an authoritarian regime. Technology plays no role in this, it certainly changes the tools but the greed and paranoia behind it all always stays the same.
Crude oil is just fossilised uterine lining
May 29, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Crude oil is just fossilised uterine lining
And after 30 years I finally managed to see the 3D image in a magic eye. Thanks @lgr-yt.bsky.social
May 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
And after 30 years I finally managed to see the 3D image in a magic eye. Thanks @lgr-yt.bsky.social
For a public health system with doctor shortages and waiting lists. An exchange for those relocating to another city and trying to find a doctor. Join the exchange and trade doctors with someone else moving in the other direction. Doctor waiting lists are a penalty on mobile workers.
April 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
For a public health system with doctor shortages and waiting lists. An exchange for those relocating to another city and trying to find a doctor. Join the exchange and trade doctors with someone else moving in the other direction. Doctor waiting lists are a penalty on mobile workers.
Waking up in a half empty apartment building to the distant sounds of conjugation seeping through the walls.
March 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Waking up in a half empty apartment building to the distant sounds of conjugation seeping through the walls.
Tue. Feb. 18
White House executive order on control of agencies and regulatory bodies is issued. Akin to communist take overs in post war Europe. Control the internal state apparatus. Judges already partially replaced. Law enforcement to follow. Suppress and purge all opposition.
White House executive order on control of agencies and regulatory bodies is issued. Akin to communist take overs in post war Europe. Control the internal state apparatus. Judges already partially replaced. Law enforcement to follow. Suppress and purge all opposition.
February 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Tue. Feb. 18
White House executive order on control of agencies and regulatory bodies is issued. Akin to communist take overs in post war Europe. Control the internal state apparatus. Judges already partially replaced. Law enforcement to follow. Suppress and purge all opposition.
White House executive order on control of agencies and regulatory bodies is issued. Akin to communist take overs in post war Europe. Control the internal state apparatus. Judges already partially replaced. Law enforcement to follow. Suppress and purge all opposition.
The Mystery of the Doughy Thumbprint
The murderer has left a floury clue in these cookies baked for you.
You'd have to get an expert from the baking university to come down and help identify it. And suspend your disbelief.
The murderer has left a floury clue in these cookies baked for you.
You'd have to get an expert from the baking university to come down and help identify it. And suspend your disbelief.
December 1, 2024 at 10:36 PM
The Mystery of the Doughy Thumbprint
The murderer has left a floury clue in these cookies baked for you.
You'd have to get an expert from the baking university to come down and help identify it. And suspend your disbelief.
The murderer has left a floury clue in these cookies baked for you.
You'd have to get an expert from the baking university to come down and help identify it. And suspend your disbelief.
Amazon announced a new direct compensation model for its warehouse employees. Effective immediately, customers can sponsor an employee's break ahead of their order being packaged. Options will include: $0 mandatory breaks only, $10 five minute break, $15 ten minute break, $20 fifteen minute break
November 9, 2023 at 9:48 AM
Amazon announced a new direct compensation model for its warehouse employees. Effective immediately, customers can sponsor an employee's break ahead of their order being packaged. Options will include: $0 mandatory breaks only, $10 five minute break, $15 ten minute break, $20 fifteen minute break
Sunlit black velvet purrr
October 27, 2023 at 10:17 AM
Sunlit black velvet purrr
The smell of cigarette smoke on the cold air of the picket line, how can something be so disgusting and yet so tempting at the same time.
October 26, 2023 at 1:49 AM
The smell of cigarette smoke on the cold air of the picket line, how can something be so disgusting and yet so tempting at the same time.
Real grass, fake donut.
October 26, 2023 at 1:40 AM
Real grass, fake donut.
Live your dreams! Be an apple juice!
October 25, 2023 at 12:32 PM
Live your dreams! Be an apple juice!
General Ehh, in command of the Meh armies at the battle of Ugh.
October 25, 2023 at 12:30 PM
General Ehh, in command of the Meh armies at the battle of Ugh.