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Tom Aitken
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Any pronouns — not enough cats — too many children — gets angry at meetings — intolerant of people who act against their own self interest — unrepentant weeder — pondering the abyss.
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Why?
Sign posted outside a restroom in a public park: “Smoking prohibited by 20 feet from building” “Women” and the kicker: “Restroom closed when light is on”
November 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Love this village!
Sweet old man is lounging at an outdoor coffee table, head turned toward the camera sporting a sassy smile after I asked if I could snap a pic. A loose end of twine extends from his feet some five feet to a little noose enclosing some chicken scratch. A small chicken is in the middle of the loop pecking at the tasty delights. A rooster is nervously standing by. Life is good!
October 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Oh how I wish this was an AI image….
A marmalade piebald with limbs and tail in all the wrong places. I wish I could describe it better.
October 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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This is the pile of crap we put in each bag to help seniors and families with children get through the week at our rural community food distribution in Trump’s America. This is NOT normal. I’m sure he’s delighted.
Image of a box of Selena Gomez cookies, a can of black beans a can of garbanzo beans, two packages of freeze-dried Humanitarian Daily Rations [for one person] — A food gift from the people of the United States of America,” and a single orange.
October 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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#nathanleopold wrote a thank you letter from #prison to my mother for a drawing she made for him when she was 10-years old.
“Stateville, Illinois July 3, 1935 Dear Mary, Thank you so much for the lovely picture of the canary perched on the hand. It is a very pretty picture and I am very grateful for it. I shall put it on the wall in my cell. Thanks a lot for thinking of me. I hope you are having a fine vacation. Please give my best wishes to your mother and to Katherine, and believe me. Sincerely, yours, Nate”
March 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Here’s an untimely book (perchance late) gifted to my maternal grandparents (Ferris & Wilhelmina Laune) by Rousseau van Voorhies.
Title page of the book “Which Way America — Communism - Fascism - Democracy” by Lyman Brysons, The Peoples Library, New York, 1939 Contents Page of the book “Which Way America” by Lyman Bryson listing the following chapters: Your Battle, The Russian Plan, The Italian Plan, The German Plan, The American Plan, Can We Keep It From Happening Here? To Mr. & Mrs. Laune, Who always follow the best way, musically, politically, and romantically speaking. (Signed) Rousseau van Voorhies, Sergeant at Arms, Central Civitan [Tennessee] (noted below) After the Musicale (Wilhelmina being a symphony violinist)
March 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Some student of logic,, semantics, ethics, etc. can tell me the term for this guarantee. False promise, certainly, oxymoron, maybe not, SUCKERPUNCH?
March 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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We don’t need no stinkin’ safety standards - thanks, Trump!
Persona standing on a three-step folding ladder to reach the order window on a busy food truck. Yikes!
February 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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January 29, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Unlike the rest of the fam, Jazz is still in the closet!
January 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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We have arrived!
Orange kitten and tortie kitten peer out of a airlines-approved travel bag
January 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM