Larkness
@larkabouttown.bsky.social
Poet Provocateur. Making good trouble, halfway decent verse, strong coffee, and dry martinis.
What if we stopped electing politicians and voted for public servants instead?
November 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
What if we stopped electing politicians and voted for public servants instead?
I find it interesting that the current president has sent national guard into two cities, both run by black women, both Democratic. Muriel Bowser of DC won office with 74% of the vote. Karen Bass of LA won office with 54.8% of the vote.
August 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I find it interesting that the current president has sent national guard into two cities, both run by black women, both Democratic. Muriel Bowser of DC won office with 74% of the vote. Karen Bass of LA won office with 54.8% of the vote.
Big heatwave on the East Coast on the US where I live. If you are also in an area of crazy-making heat, take extra care to be kind to fellow humans. We are all hot, uncomfortable, short on sleep. Be extra kind. Thank you. Love you.
June 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Big heatwave on the East Coast on the US where I live. If you are also in an area of crazy-making heat, take extra care to be kind to fellow humans. We are all hot, uncomfortable, short on sleep. Be extra kind. Thank you. Love you.
I cannot trust anyone who organizes their bookshelves by color. I just can't.
June 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I cannot trust anyone who organizes their bookshelves by color. I just can't.
T wants to invoke martial law. Newsom notes the goal of the National Guard call up is: "they want a spectacle" and people should be peaceful in response. That's one hell of a burden to lay on a beleaguered community that is being ripped apart by a racist, xenophobic administration.
June 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
T wants to invoke martial law. Newsom notes the goal of the National Guard call up is: "they want a spectacle" and people should be peaceful in response. That's one hell of a burden to lay on a beleaguered community that is being ripped apart by a racist, xenophobic administration.
To bring back manufacturing to the US (dubious goal, due to robotics): pay a livable wage, support unions, give OSHA real teeth, anti-discrimination in the workplace, provide worker comfort, treat disability as a serious problem.
Do not benefit the owner class on the backs of the workers.
Do not benefit the owner class on the backs of the workers.
May 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
To bring back manufacturing to the US (dubious goal, due to robotics): pay a livable wage, support unions, give OSHA real teeth, anti-discrimination in the workplace, provide worker comfort, treat disability as a serious problem.
Do not benefit the owner class on the backs of the workers.
Do not benefit the owner class on the backs of the workers.
Heavy weather coming in. I've got my battery lanterns at the ready. That should keep the lights on. Now what to do to keep the creek safely in its bed?
May 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Heavy weather coming in. I've got my battery lanterns at the ready. That should keep the lights on. Now what to do to keep the creek safely in its bed?
Dear Canada, please extradite Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Thank you.
April 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Dear Canada, please extradite Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Thank you.
The tariff exercise was the T administration "stress testing" the world. He just proved to everyone that his whims control trillions of dollars. He essentially now controls the world stock exchanges. For him, this is information even more exciting than that he could get a mob to attack the Capitol.
April 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The tariff exercise was the T administration "stress testing" the world. He just proved to everyone that his whims control trillions of dollars. He essentially now controls the world stock exchanges. For him, this is information even more exciting than that he could get a mob to attack the Capitol.
With the stock market tanking, the billionaires are getting restless. They elected him with their donations. But I bet they aren't as worried about paying bills as are farmers, small businesses, retirees, the newly doged unemployed...
Wall Street Bursts With Anger as Trump Tariffs Cause Wild Stock Market Swings (Gift Article)
Billionaire investors are in an unfamiliar position, watching and cringing as tariffs roll on and the stock market reels.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
With the stock market tanking, the billionaires are getting restless. They elected him with their donations. But I bet they aren't as worried about paying bills as are farmers, small businesses, retirees, the newly doged unemployed...
I miss the content woman who wrote quirky little observations about retired life. Now it's all worry about the future and being pissed off because the calm is shattered by that egotistical flaming arsehole. Back to the barricades! Maybe tear gas will dissolve my cataracts? Surgery is expensive.
April 8, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I miss the content woman who wrote quirky little observations about retired life. Now it's all worry about the future and being pissed off because the calm is shattered by that egotistical flaming arsehole. Back to the barricades! Maybe tear gas will dissolve my cataracts? Surgery is expensive.
Monday March 31, the DJIA closed at 42,001.76.
Tuesday, April 1 closing: 41,989.96
Wednesday, April 2 closing: 42,225.32
Thursday, April 3 closing: 40,545.93
Friday, April 4 closing: 38,314.86.
That's a 3,686.90 drop in a week. That 2,231.07 drop in one day is extra impressive. Helluva job, Donnie.
Tuesday, April 1 closing: 41,989.96
Wednesday, April 2 closing: 42,225.32
Thursday, April 3 closing: 40,545.93
Friday, April 4 closing: 38,314.86.
That's a 3,686.90 drop in a week. That 2,231.07 drop in one day is extra impressive. Helluva job, Donnie.
April 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Monday March 31, the DJIA closed at 42,001.76.
Tuesday, April 1 closing: 41,989.96
Wednesday, April 2 closing: 42,225.32
Thursday, April 3 closing: 40,545.93
Friday, April 4 closing: 38,314.86.
That's a 3,686.90 drop in a week. That 2,231.07 drop in one day is extra impressive. Helluva job, Donnie.
Tuesday, April 1 closing: 41,989.96
Wednesday, April 2 closing: 42,225.32
Thursday, April 3 closing: 40,545.93
Friday, April 4 closing: 38,314.86.
That's a 3,686.90 drop in a week. That 2,231.07 drop in one day is extra impressive. Helluva job, Donnie.
Introducing a new slang word: doged. As in "my retirement savings were doged." Or "My job as a cancer researcher was doged." Or "Trump has doged the planet." It's basically a synonym for fubar, or at least the first letter thereof.
April 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Introducing a new slang word: doged. As in "my retirement savings were doged." Or "My job as a cancer researcher was doged." Or "Trump has doged the planet." It's basically a synonym for fubar, or at least the first letter thereof.
Be braver than your fears.
April 1, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Be braver than your fears.
For every day we resist, survive and stand tall, an angel punches a nazi.
March 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
For every day we resist, survive and stand tall, an angel punches a nazi.
Snowed again last night, the snow now lingers in the shadow of the house and of the barn. Yet in the sun, crocus!
March 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Snowed again last night, the snow now lingers in the shadow of the house and of the barn. Yet in the sun, crocus!
“We were at war with a dictator,” said French center-right politician Claude Malhuret of Europe’s stand against Putin. “[N]ow we are at war with a dictator backed by a traitor.”
Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American,
March 5, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American,
March 5, 2025
March 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
“We were at war with a dictator,” said French center-right politician Claude Malhuret of Europe’s stand against Putin. “[N]ow we are at war with a dictator backed by a traitor.”
Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American,
March 5, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American,
March 5, 2025
Surely, the intent was to bully. Yet Zelenskyy held his own in a language not his own, in an obnoxiously hostile room, called out the parroting of Putin, and emerged as a man who is fighting for his country instead of selling it out.
March 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Surely, the intent was to bully. Yet Zelenskyy held his own in a language not his own, in an obnoxiously hostile room, called out the parroting of Putin, and emerged as a man who is fighting for his country instead of selling it out.
Today 2/28 is no buy day. So what do I find in my email? Amazon offering 50% off on thousands of products, doing all they can to avoid any drop in numbers for the day. I guess Bezos knows he fucked up kinda sorta. Yeah, Jeffo, you did.
February 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Today 2/28 is no buy day. So what do I find in my email? Amazon offering 50% off on thousands of products, doing all they can to avoid any drop in numbers for the day. I guess Bezos knows he fucked up kinda sorta. Yeah, Jeffo, you did.
To be absolutely fair, he never said for whom America would be great. All too many voters foolishly took the omission personally.
February 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
To be absolutely fair, he never said for whom America would be great. All too many voters foolishly took the omission personally.
Six (6!) boxes of Girl Scout thin mint cookies may not be the best purchase when in the mood for a stressed out carb fress.
February 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Six (6!) boxes of Girl Scout thin mint cookies may not be the best purchase when in the mood for a stressed out carb fress.
Paperwork has the highest bodycount of weapons that murder and maim. How did we ever conceive of such an evil system? How do we get rid of it? How do we build justice and equality, equity and respect in a land of rotting plenty? I am tired of feeding the Moloch of billionaires. (collective noun)
February 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Paperwork has the highest bodycount of weapons that murder and maim. How did we ever conceive of such an evil system? How do we get rid of it? How do we build justice and equality, equity and respect in a land of rotting plenty? I am tired of feeding the Moloch of billionaires. (collective noun)
Yeah. Staying put. Not a good day to drive due to slippery stuff falling from the sky. LOTS of slippery. Much ow!
February 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Yeah. Staying put. Not a good day to drive due to slippery stuff falling from the sky. LOTS of slippery. Much ow!
A fresh 6 or so inches of snow last night, rather more than predicted. Been a snowy winter.
Breakfasted on toast with a generous glob of raspberry jam. It tasted like early July, wandering in the hedgerows, eating raspberries right off the canes. A promise that spring and then summer will come.
Breakfasted on toast with a generous glob of raspberry jam. It tasted like early July, wandering in the hedgerows, eating raspberries right off the canes. A promise that spring and then summer will come.
February 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
A fresh 6 or so inches of snow last night, rather more than predicted. Been a snowy winter.
Breakfasted on toast with a generous glob of raspberry jam. It tasted like early July, wandering in the hedgerows, eating raspberries right off the canes. A promise that spring and then summer will come.
Breakfasted on toast with a generous glob of raspberry jam. It tasted like early July, wandering in the hedgerows, eating raspberries right off the canes. A promise that spring and then summer will come.