Marie C 🐝🦋🌻
@mariecarnes.bsky.social
Retired Making lists Springfield, Chicago
A brief biography of my great-great-great-great uncle and his second career—after his first career as an Arctic explorer 🤩👇
🧵A fascinating character: The Reverend William Scoresby (1789–1857), Vicar of St Peter’s Church, was one of the most energetic and controversial Anglican clergyman in 19th-century Bradford. The son of whaling captain, William Scoresby, he first sailed to the Arctic aged ten and later
If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item:
if you have the cash, you can pretty much get the american government to roll over, play fetch and look at you adoringly.
They are playing in our faces
South Haven, MI plastics factory fire out after 14 hours, 2 million gallons of water. No injuries www.mlive.com/news/kalamaz...
South Haven plastics factory fire out after 14 hours, 2 million gallons of water
Residents witnessed exploding propane tanks and a giant black cloud over South Haven before the fire was extinguished.
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Walk up and down the halls of any nursing home and you'll find loads of folks who never went to the doctor for 30 years... until the big thing happened. 🩺
Assistant AG for Fraud Colin McDonald: "Apparently 35% of people have never even used their Obamacare account for any health services. That is a statistical impossibility and it's because these are not real people seeking real care. These are fraudsters."
Me when they run out of crab Rangoons on the Chinese buffet
Fresh Air, Quicksilver Messenger Service youtu.be/7ejj81Y2ZlM?...
Fresh Air
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Trump has not officially canceled the $14 billion arms deal to Taiwan, but he did put it on hold. Can Trump say no to his new best friend, Xi. Trump considers selling out the fully functioning democracy of Taiwan in favor of Communist Xi. Ergo Trump is a communist.
It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.
Seriously, roll the “Why can’t we do both?” gif of the little girl talking about tacos.
I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.
I love the sound of cattle lowing. Photo thread, no lowing. 🧵🐄
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent cattle I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
"We slide among the mimsy troves, and gyre among the borogoves." ~ Kirk and Spock (Plato's Stepchildren, S03E65 1968), in the style of Lewis Carroll’s "Jabberwocky." youtu.be/Cpzn56yOjQs?...
Kirk & Spock Singing
YouTube video by GoodGirlVideosA1
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Cornucopia of groceries Paw Paw, IL — Pitsburg, OH
Left a comment on an IR reel where they "reveal" why the FBI kept secret tapes in the Blagojevich criminal case and something about Obama being in on it. Someone left me a response. Do people actually believe this or is it all about the hate?
I've decided not to put thinly sliced apples on grilled cheese sandwiches. But I might try peaches.
"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say." George RR Martin "Tyrion Lannister" And so it goes with Trump banning legitimate news sources.
@ms.now statement on its journalists being denied access to the White House grounds: