D. W. Bassett
@danawroe.bsky.social
An old locomotive engineer drinking deeply from the boulevardier of broken dreams, if not drinking really good coffee.
Travel, write, walk barefoot on grass in sunlight, read, paint, dream, even if you’re old. Remember the miracle of being alive.
Travel, write, walk barefoot on grass in sunlight, read, paint, dream, even if you’re old. Remember the miracle of being alive.
Pinned
“Don’t rejoice in his defeat, you men!
Although the world stood up and
stopped the bastard,
The bitch that bore him is in heat
again.”
-Bertholt Brecht
Although the world stood up and
stopped the bastard,
The bitch that bore him is in heat
again.”
-Bertholt Brecht
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Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
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Gunnar Widforss (Swedish-American, 1879-1934)
"Grand Canyon Looking West from Mohave Point," 1925
Watercolor
17.5 x 13.5 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Grand Canyon Looking West from Mohave Point," 1925
Watercolor
17.5 x 13.5 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Gunnar Widforss (Swedish-American, 1879-1934)
"Grand Canyon Looking West from Mohave Point," 1925
Watercolor
17.5 x 13.5 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Grand Canyon Looking West from Mohave Point," 1925
Watercolor
17.5 x 13.5 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
As a former stray dog myself, my favorite scene from any movie:
“Hey Pop, you want a shock? - I think you’re a great guy…ahem-you hear that. Annie!?——-“I heard it, it’s about time one of you lunkheads said it!”.
Let us be kinder to one another.
“Hey Pop, you want a shock? - I think you’re a great guy…ahem-you hear that. Annie!?——-“I heard it, it’s about time one of you lunkheads said it!”.
Let us be kinder to one another.
December 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
As a former stray dog myself, my favorite scene from any movie:
“Hey Pop, you want a shock? - I think you’re a great guy…ahem-you hear that. Annie!?——-“I heard it, it’s about time one of you lunkheads said it!”.
Let us be kinder to one another.
“Hey Pop, you want a shock? - I think you’re a great guy…ahem-you hear that. Annie!?——-“I heard it, it’s about time one of you lunkheads said it!”.
Let us be kinder to one another.
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“To me, trains represent a way of escape, a means of going to a better place. Not many people write songs about buses or jets. They write songs about people escaping on trains.” - Ray Davies
📷 Tony Bock
📷 Tony Bock
December 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
“To me, trains represent a way of escape, a means of going to a better place. Not many people write songs about buses or jets. They write songs about people escaping on trains.” - Ray Davies
📷 Tony Bock
📷 Tony Bock
This is me now, sadly 😂. Aaaaand so it goes with the pitch black comedy of human life here on planet earth.
December 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is me now, sadly 😂. Aaaaand so it goes with the pitch black comedy of human life here on planet earth.
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"You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days."
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Frost 🎨 Claude Monet
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Frost 🎨 Claude Monet
December 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
"You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days."
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Frost 🎨 Claude Monet
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Frost 🎨 Claude Monet
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"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."
~ Aldous Huxley
The Tow Path at Argenteuil
🎨 Claude Monet (1875)
~ Aldous Huxley
The Tow Path at Argenteuil
🎨 Claude Monet (1875)
December 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm."
~ Aldous Huxley
The Tow Path at Argenteuil
🎨 Claude Monet (1875)
~ Aldous Huxley
The Tow Path at Argenteuil
🎨 Claude Monet (1875)
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"May you be forever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?"
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Road in Vetheuil in Winter
🎨 Claude Monet (1879)
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Road in Vetheuil in Winter
🎨 Claude Monet (1879)
December 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM
"May you be forever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?"
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Road in Vetheuil in Winter
🎨 Claude Monet (1879)
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Road in Vetheuil in Winter
🎨 Claude Monet (1879)
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'Those Winter Sundays'
by Robert Hayden
by Robert Hayden
December 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
'Those Winter Sundays'
by Robert Hayden
by Robert Hayden
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Thanks Al 🩵 @atoth99.bsky.social
@raykwong.bsky.social @schultziepie.bsky.social @mlipsitt.bsky.social @dpsl.bsky.social @annmb48.bsky.social @gigiangel.bsky.social @dailykotzn.bsky.social @judith1212.bsky.social @merlinmm.bsky.social @billthornbro.bsky.social @rebelb1ue.bsky.social
@raykwong.bsky.social @schultziepie.bsky.social @mlipsitt.bsky.social @dpsl.bsky.social @annmb48.bsky.social @gigiangel.bsky.social @dailykotzn.bsky.social @judith1212.bsky.social @merlinmm.bsky.social @billthornbro.bsky.social @rebelb1ue.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.
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Anna May Wong — Edward S. Curtis, c. 1925
December 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Anna May Wong — Edward S. Curtis, c. 1925
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John Whorf (American | 1903 - 1959). Connecticut Farm after the Snow (watercolor).
December 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
John Whorf (American | 1903 - 1959). Connecticut Farm after the Snow (watercolor).
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William Minshall Birchall (British, 1884-1941). Cargo Carrier (1922, watercolour).
December 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
William Minshall Birchall (British, 1884-1941). Cargo Carrier (1922, watercolour).
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This is an American patriot.
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is an American patriot.
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But they said cutting government jobs and axing programs would REDUCE the deficit…
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic
This rapid debt accumulation is the fastest outside of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the debt having reached $37 trillion in August.
www.pbs.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
But they said cutting government jobs and axing programs would REDUCE the deficit…
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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🎄 It’s Day 5 of our #Shropshire advent calendar, and here is a magnificent steam locomotive pulling into the snow-covered station at Hampton Loade on the Severn Valley Railway. A bitterly cold day, but the cakes and hot drinks on sale helped keep me warm! ⛄️
December 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🎄 It’s Day 5 of our #Shropshire advent calendar, and here is a magnificent steam locomotive pulling into the snow-covered station at Hampton Loade on the Severn Valley Railway. A bitterly cold day, but the cakes and hot drinks on sale helped keep me warm! ⛄️
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Can I let you in on a little secret?
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
December 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Can I let you in on a little secret?
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
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"There was something romantic about it. I don't mean romantic in a kissy sense, but in that 'Ah, I wonder where it's going? Is it travelling somewhere nice?' way." - Status Quo frontman Francis Rossi on the sound of trains in the distance
November 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"There was something romantic about it. I don't mean romantic in a kissy sense, but in that 'Ah, I wonder where it's going? Is it travelling somewhere nice?' way." - Status Quo frontman Francis Rossi on the sound of trains in the distance
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'When I was a boy, steam engines were these beasts that actually had a heartbeat which went du-du-du-du. I thought trains made that noise. It was only later I realised that was the noise they made as they went over the joins in the track!' - Ralph McTell
📷 Jack Ray
📷 Jack Ray
November 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
'When I was a boy, steam engines were these beasts that actually had a heartbeat which went du-du-du-du. I thought trains made that noise. It was only later I realised that was the noise they made as they went over the joins in the track!' - Ralph McTell
📷 Jack Ray
📷 Jack Ray
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
My last work, completed during my last furlough. “The end of the graveyard”. The crew of a “midnight goat” on the old Milwaukee road late March, 1941. Everything still brown and grey, but the first warm breeze of spring. New hire, old field hand, old engineer asleep in the sun. Lived it.
November 22, 2025 at 4:54 AM
My last work, completed during my last furlough. “The end of the graveyard”. The crew of a “midnight goat” on the old Milwaukee road late March, 1941. Everything still brown and grey, but the first warm breeze of spring. New hire, old field hand, old engineer asleep in the sun. Lived it.
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George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm, is often cited by conservatives as one of their favorite authors
He was a Democratic Socialist who volunteered to fight fascists in Spain
He was a Democratic Socialist who volunteered to fight fascists in Spain
November 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm, is often cited by conservatives as one of their favorite authors
He was a Democratic Socialist who volunteered to fight fascists in Spain
He was a Democratic Socialist who volunteered to fight fascists in Spain