Tom Streeter
@crankybear.net
Too much being, not enough nothingness.
Astros fan since 1975. Recovering college professor. Digital sausage maker. Beer blogger & beer competition co-director. Curmudgeon. Animal lover currently owned by cats. Full time cautionary tale.
Astros fan since 1975. Recovering college professor. Digital sausage maker. Beer blogger & beer competition co-director. Curmudgeon. Animal lover currently owned by cats. Full time cautionary tale.
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Tom Streeter
@crankybear.net
· Nov 7
Not talking and just doing — or mindfully declining to do — will be how decent people survive this. They broke it, they bought it. Not your job to clean up their messes. Your job is to make the crack you live in be habitable as you can. There’s always an underground society. That’s us now.
Me as a Bluesky therapist
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Me as a Bluesky therapist
So this is where they’re playing. Not exactly a location where one expects to put out an international video feed. There IS a cheese company, so there’s an upside! #AskWxm
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
So this is where they’re playing. Not exactly a location where one expects to put out an international video feed. There IS a cheese company, so there’s an upside! #AskWxm
The whole video team is earning their money today. There isn’t a single circumstance working in their favor. There are no good choices, only best bad choices. This old streaming producer salutes you. #AskWxm
a woman with a bow and arrow covering her mouth
Alt: The iconic salute from “The Hunger Games.” Katniss kisses three fingers on her right hand and raises them with her palm forward and her thumb and pinky folded across it.
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The whole video team is earning their money today. There isn’t a single circumstance working in their favor. There are no good choices, only best bad choices. This old streaming producer salutes you. #AskWxm
The most carefully guarded secret on the planet? Anything about who and why the Wrexham women are playing today. I have a score app that reports live scores from the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League (Go Kwekwe United!). And the Bute Cup doesn’t exist according to to them. #AskWxm
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The most carefully guarded secret on the planet? Anything about who and why the Wrexham women are playing today. I have a score app that reports live scores from the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League (Go Kwekwe United!). And the Bute Cup doesn’t exist according to to them. #AskWxm
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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JFK was murdered on this date in 1963. In 5 years his brother and MLK, Jr would be, too. Since then one party has turned to hate and the other to focus-group slide decks in response. Since this was first published years ago my sons have grown. But the question remains.
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
JFK was murdered on this date in 1963. In 5 years his brother and MLK, Jr would be, too. Since then one party has turned to hate and the other to focus-group slide decks in response. Since this was first published years ago my sons have grown. But the question remains.
Mr. Tennant died of cancer 46 years to the day after my father died of cancer. When my dad died he was on the then-experimental drug Interferon and his agreement was the only thing that was needed for them to try it. It didn’t save him, but the docs wanted us to know after that they learned a lot.
W.Va. man dies months after his health insurance repeatedly denied cancer treatment westvirginiawatch.com/2025/11/20/w...
W.Va. man dies months after his health insurance repeatedly denied cancer treatment • West Virginia Watch
Eric Tennant’s doctors recommended histotripsy, which would potentially destroy a cancerous tumor in his liver. But by the time his insurer approved the treatment, Tennant was no longer considered a g...
westvirginiawatch.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Mr. Tennant died of cancer 46 years to the day after my father died of cancer. When my dad died he was on the then-experimental drug Interferon and his agreement was the only thing that was needed for them to try it. It didn’t save him, but the docs wanted us to know after that they learned a lot.
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy…
(Apparently I don’t save too many memes)
(Then again, this one’s so versatile)
(Apparently I don’t save too many memes)
(Then again, this one’s so versatile)
November 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy…
(Apparently I don’t save too many memes)
(Then again, this one’s so versatile)
(Apparently I don’t save too many memes)
(Then again, this one’s so versatile)
You know what happens in big tents? Circuses happen in big tents.
1. An significant number of clowns
2. Acrobats avoiding danger at all costs
3. A truly impressive amount of shit generated and surprisingly few people around to shovel it.
1. An significant number of clowns
2. Acrobats avoiding danger at all costs
3. A truly impressive amount of shit generated and surprisingly few people around to shovel it.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
You know what happens in big tents? Circuses happen in big tents.
1. An significant number of clowns
2. Acrobats avoiding danger at all costs
3. A truly impressive amount of shit generated and surprisingly few people around to shovel it.
1. An significant number of clowns
2. Acrobats avoiding danger at all costs
3. A truly impressive amount of shit generated and surprisingly few people around to shovel it.
“The Running Man.”. This season’s feel good movie.
November 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
“The Running Man.”. This season’s feel good movie.
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
November 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It’s a bit of an optical illusion with the contrast between uniform colors, but it looks like we have more players than them.
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It’s a bit of an optical illusion with the contrast between uniform colors, but it looks like we have more players than them.
Reposted by Tom Streeter
I've often thought that the best revenge for all this fashy misery would be affordable social housing, workers rights, a functional health service, sustainable energy and all the other good stuff they apparently hate. But I do keep glancing thoughtfully at lampposts.
With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I've often thought that the best revenge for all this fashy misery would be affordable social housing, workers rights, a functional health service, sustainable energy and all the other good stuff they apparently hate. But I do keep glancing thoughtfully at lampposts.
Let’s face it folks. It doesn’t matter what comes out. The people who could do something about it won’t, and they won’t until they’re more scared of doing nothing than doing something.
Get back to me when you get that part figured out. Because nothing’s changing until then.
Get back to me when you get that part figured out. Because nothing’s changing until then.
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Let’s face it folks. It doesn’t matter what comes out. The people who could do something about it won’t, and they won’t until they’re more scared of doing nothing than doing something.
Get back to me when you get that part figured out. Because nothing’s changing until then.
Get back to me when you get that part figured out. Because nothing’s changing until then.
I don’t do the Amazon-Industrial Complex so a Goodreads review is a non-starter for me, but I loved this little book. I’m pretty sure I was made aware of its existence here on Bluesky, so it seems appropriate to yell about it here. Like fables? Here’s a new one for you.
Coming up on two months out in the world, and I'm gobsmacked at how many people have read and reviewed this lil story of time travel and trickster gods. I really didn't know if Audition For The Fox would ever receive this kind of attention, and I'm just grateful as hell <3
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I don’t do the Amazon-Industrial Complex so a Goodreads review is a non-starter for me, but I loved this little book. I’m pretty sure I was made aware of its existence here on Bluesky, so it seems appropriate to yell about it here. Like fables? Here’s a new one for you.
Reposted by Tom Streeter
She smiles and says, "I will always love you."
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
She smiles and says, "I will always love you."
Reposted by Tom Streeter
girl are you the Edmund Fitzgerald because you’ve definitely gone down with 29 men
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
girl are you the Edmund Fitzgerald because you’ve definitely gone down with 29 men
And now we know why the shutdown is ending.
The Federal Aviation Administration will limit business jets and other private flights to some of the country’s largest airports to ease strains on air-traffic personnel.
FAA Limits Private Aircraft Flights at Major Airports
The restrictions will affect private jet flights at a dozen airports, including Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, and Chicago’s O’Hare, according to the National Business Aviation Association trade group.
on.wsj.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
And now we know why the shutdown is ending.
Shithole country with two shit political parties.
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Shithole country with two shit political parties.