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joedacey.bsky.social
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@joedacey.bsky.social
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Mental health librarian, Baltimorean, and sometimes I make things

“We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.” ~Mark Vonnegut
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Can’t wait to get back to Vașington - and its hallmark-ass national mall.

I can forgive using AI here. Remarkably, the National mall has never actually been photographed.

#WashingtonDC #NationalMall #AiSlop
An AI slop generated image of Washington DC at the Istanbul Airport. The mall looks like a park from a Hallmark movie and there are nondescript Washington federal buildings abutting it in fantastical ways.
November 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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It is always fun when you stumble upon whimsy in a journal article - here a Pigeon is “on his way to X-ray”

Silly pigeon. This is a human hospital.
From a medical journal article, A large photo of a pigeon in a hospital corridor. The caption reads “A Pigeon on his way to X-ray. UK cancer hospital basement corridor, May 2023”
October 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Hey I spotted a @chriswarcraft.bsky.social jersey at #NoKings in Baltimore
Woman with a “Kluwe 5” jersey on at the #NoKings protest in Baltimore
October 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Baltimore going hard #NoKings
Sign with Noem that says “The Dog Killer with too much face filler”
October 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Loud honks of approval #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Catonsville #NoKings
A unicorn costume at a #NoKings protest Sign at a protest “Honk if you never texted war plans” Crowd at the Catonsville #NoKings protest Sign reading “There is only one king in Baltimore and his name is King Henry” with a picture of The Ravens Derrick Henry
October 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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“The Payback” by @kashana.blacksky.app
Cover for Kashana Cauley’s book “The Payback”
October 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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My fav onion article!
Onion article “COMMUNITY VOICES Somebody Should Do Something About All The Problems Why isn't anyone doing anything about all the problems? We're living in a time with supercomputers and underwater sea stations and million-dollar laboratories. And still, every day when I watch the TV news shows, I see all sorts of problems! What are the scientists doing with all that technology? Just sitting on their patoots? Just yesterday there was another plane crash. Isn't that what we have radar for? Why Heare Me Out isn't someone tak- By Edith Heare ing care of that? And then there's all those people starving. You can't tell me that we can't figure out a way to feed them. What about all those high-energy vitamin supplements I read about? And what about the dehydrated space food? Someone has got to And now I have shingles again. With the hundreds of thousands of doctors all over this world, you are telling me that not one of them can do anything about this pain? It's killing me. This is the 20th century, isn't it? We put a man on the moon and I can't find an hour of relief from the swelling? Can't someone assign a team to this problem and get something done for once? Then there's the fact that my kids never visit me. Here I sit, all alone, wondering when they'll come. We have jet planes that break the sound barrier, but Ginny can't make it from Elk Grove once a month so I can see my own flesh and blood? The Hubble sent down pictures of the galaxy, but I have yet to see my granddaughter's fourth-grade school portraits! They build a wall across China and a thousand years later I'm still putting up with my neighbor's pine trees dropping cones all over my front lawn. Isn't this a democracy? Have we stood still since Rome? I hear jabber jabbering about the discovery of new subatomic particles. What good is a quark…”
September 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Zombie deadspin working perfectly…
A screenshot of a broken-ass webpage from deadspin from the link in the above post.
September 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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9-11 at the Peale Center 5pm at the parkway 8pm at Dangerously Delicious pies in Hamden
September 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Baltimore! Joanna Rose & The Dreamboats will be in Baltimore tomorrow. 9-11 across from the farmers market. 5 in front of the Parkway on North Ave and 8 at Dangerously Delicious pies in Hamden.

Worth your time to catch them.
Pics from a house concert tonight
A red living room with the band playing New Orleans jazz The same band playing in the living room tonight. Their merch trunk with cds and t shirts.
September 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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“The answers are as simple as the questions”

-Charles Bowden “Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America”
“I can feel the roots moving across the land, gouging new channels through our eager flesh, seeking blood. The flower will bloom, the fragrance will remind us of good times. We will go willingly with a smile on our lips and love in our hearts. We will go because we do not want to learn another way to live. We would rather die. Or, perhaps, a voice will come down from the mountain, a bush will burn, new tablets of stone will heave into view like spacecraft. We could turn it all around and kill the garden. We could share food with the hungry, shelter with the people freezing in the storm. Love with the people who are crying in the rain. Take power. The answers are as simple as the questions.”
September 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Kurt Vonnegut spitting truths about how vapid our national anthem is.

From “Breakfast of Champions”
This was their national anthem, which was pure balder-dash, like so much they were expected to take seriously: O, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thru the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? * There were one quadrillion nations in the Universe, but the nation Dwayne Hoover and Kilgore Trout belonged to was the only one with a national anthem which was gibberish sprinkled with question marks. Here is what their flag looked like: [drawing of an American Flag] It was the law of their nation, a law no other nation on the planet had about its flag, which said this: "The flag shall not be dipped to any person or thing." Flag-dipping was a form of friendly and respectful sa-lute, which consisted of bringing the flag on a stick closer to the ground, then raising it up again. • The motto of Dwayne Hoover's and Kilgore Trout's nation was this, which meant in a language nobody spoke anymore, Out of Many, One: "E pluribus unum." The undippable flag was a beauty, and the anthem and the vacant motto might not have mattered much, if it weren't for this: a lot of citizens were so ignored and cheated and insulted that they thought they might be in the wrong country, or even on the wrong planet, that some terrible mistake had been made. It might have comforted them some if their anthem and their motto had mentioned fairness or brotherhood or hope or happiness, had somehow welcomed them to the society and its real estate. If they studied their paper money for clues as to what their country was all about, they found, among a lot of other baroque trash, a picture of a truncated pyramid with a radiant eye on top of it, like this: [drawing of the all-seeing-eye pyramid found on money]
July 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Excellent writing - echoes of Charles Bowden

(Both excerpts from “Blood Orchid: an Unnatural History of America”
“Imagine the problem is not physical. Imagine the problem has never been physical, that it is not biodiversity, it is not the ozone layer, it is not the greenhouse effect, the whales, the old-growth forest, the loss of jobs, the crack in the ghetto, the abortions, the tongue in the mouth, the diseases stalking everywhere as love goes on uncon-cerned. Imagine the problem is not some syndrome of our society that can be solved by commissions or laws or a redistribution of what we call wealth. Imagine that it goes deeper, right to the core of what we call our civilization and that no one outside of ourselves can effect real change, that our civilization, our governments are sick and that we are mentally ill and spiritually dead and that all our issues and crises are symptoms of this deeper sick-ness. Imagine the problem is not physical and no amount of driving, no amount of road will deal with the problem. Imagine that the problem is not that we are powerless or that we are victims but that we have lost the fire and belief and courage to act. We hear whispers of the future but we slap our hands against our ears, we catch glimpses but turn our faces swiftly aside.” “I can feel the roots moving across the land, gouging new channels through our eager flesh, seeking blood. The flower will bloom, the fragrance will remind us of good times. We will go willingly with a smile on our lips and love in our hearts. We will go because we do not want to learn another way to live. We would rather die. Or, perhaps, a voice will come down from the moun-tain, a bush will burn, new tablets of stone will heave into view like spacecraft. We could turn it all around and kill the garden. We could share food with the hungry, shelter with the people freezing in the storm. Love with the people who are crying in the rain. Take power. The answers are as simple as the questions.”
July 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Cool vibes in Baltimore #NoKings
Protest sign- “Only You can prevent tyranny” Sign “no Kings , no felons, stop ‘Jim’s “no Kings No Dictators, out with Trump” “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum”
June 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Got the COVID test hook up…
Seven boxes of 24 Covid tests each
May 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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The sound of my childhood…
A small round beige single speaker that you put under your pillow at night to listen to the radio while falling asleep. One of the great inventions of our time.
April 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Street view from 2007 has the house in question.
Google street view from 2007 showing a house on the lot. The house had burned down when street view next went by the property in 2009.
April 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Unsure which street would have been the address. Was a big vacant house on this lot that burned down in the 2000s. Heard it maybe belonged to a judge at one point.
Areas view of a lot between Overton st, s chapel Gate Ln, and Hazlett Av
April 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Ordered from @carpelibrum.bsky.social this morning and had a package waiting at my door when I returned from work!

#BookSky
A package with a red ribbon and a card addressed to “Joe” The opened package with two books showing “Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life” by Jon Lee Anderson and “Books Promiscuously Read : Reading as a way of life” by Heather Cass White
March 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Can’t wait to watch this movie by my favorite writer, Scott Auckermand

#CBBWorld #RunRonnieRun @threedomusa.bsky.social @scottaukerman.bsky.social
A promotional DVD with both “The Real Cancun” and the movie “Run Ronnie Run” The back of the DVD with Scott Auckerman credited as “Scott Auckermand”
March 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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tRuMP and MusK WOULd lOVE A shuTDOWn.
wE mUsT nOT giVe tHeM one.
Sarcastic SpongeBob picture
March 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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A sampling of what I have faxed to him tonight.
My roommate described Republicans as the mass shooter and Democrats as Uvalde cops, and I can't get it out of my head Milhouse Simpson meme stating “WHEN SHE SEES YOU'LL DO ANYTHING SHE SAYS, SHE'S BOUND TO RESPECT YOU.” Futurama zoidberg meme with him shouting “your ideas are bad and you should feel bad” Sarcastic SpongeBob meme.
March 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Zoidberg Futurama meme with him screaming “Your ideas are bad and you should feel bad”
February 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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The city advisor meme with the text. “Leaving Twitter at this juncture is a tactical error! WILL REGRET THIS!”
February 17, 2025 at 4:10 AM