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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere, As a general rule, he can't amount to much in his totality." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick, ch.XXV)

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

In the midst of so much that is terrifying, independent bookstores and wonderful authors are giving me life, and some peace of mind.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Pete Hegseth displays his sophisticated understanding of the current international conflict: "It takes money to kill bad guys." thehill.com/policy/defen...

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Are you having trouble keeping your eels to yourself? The Prior of Hardham understands. In 1400 he accused locals of diverting water from the his stream & stealing his fish. The stream had been good for 4,000 eels per year. But now the Prior complained that he could only get 200! 🗃️🧪

Meme. Colored drawing of medieval-looking people fishing in a stream with nets and wicker traps. It's a busy scene, and the people look somewhat happy and also industrious. All of the figures are muscled and would look quite dangerous if they came upon you in a dark alley with their nets and spears and all. Right now they're only fishing for fish. If they became fishers of men, they'd make for an excellent mob of muggers. *

The ladies have leaves in their hats, which adds a festive air to the event. It's clearly a fishing party. They all have colorful shirts, but the men are wearing brown shirts only. Apparently, fishing (like so many other things in life, it seems) is only manly if you wear the right uniform. Likely they are also saying condescending things to each other, and comparing the size of their eels. Boys will be boys, etc.

You can't see any fish or eels, but they're there. Judging you for your sins.

Meme text reads:
"TFW your revenue stream
is dammed complicated"

* Not muggers like the mugger of Mugger-Ghaut, however. Though that would explain why they're all in the water.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I hate everything Kristi Noem stands for, but Trump firing her with a social media post while she is giving a speech is gratuitous cruelty on his part.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

"If an enemy is rich, they are greedy; if he is poor, they crave glory. To robbery, butchery, and rape they give the name of 'government'. They make a desert and call it peace." (Tacitus on Roman invaders; but if the shoe fits...) www.youtube.com/watch?v=5avU...

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U.S. Strike on Iran Imminent? Military Buildup Signals Possible War

YouTube video by CBN News

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The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Born 19 Jan 1943, #JanisJoplin. In 1967, Joplin rose to fame following an appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival, where she was the lead singer of Big Brother & the Holding Company. After releasing 2 albums with the band, she left Big Brother to continue as a solo artist. She died in 1970, aged 27.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Join the U.S. armed forces! You will never know whether your commander-in-chief is sane; you will have to take wild guesses about the legality of your orders; you will be used as political pawns; and then on retirement you can fight the VA for basic health care. 🇺🇸 www.npr.org/2025/12/02/n...

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White House defends strikes on boat survivors, but it's unclear where the buck stops

In the face of charges that these strikes amount to execution without trial, the White House is sending a confusing message about who exactly gave each order to use deadly force.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Many hands make light work, as my (ruining things) mother used to say.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Right-wing efforts to dismiss yesterday's world-wide rallies are pretty 'sad' this morning. I've seen: 1. There weren't that many people. 2. There were a lot of people but they were all old-looking. 3. And anyway Trump in an AI video drops sewage on them from a plane so har har; Murica!

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

They are going to make a horrid mess out of the Super Bowl, aren’t they?

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

"The single garment of destiny to which we are all tied"

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The Washington Post sweating to beatify Charlie Kirk this morning, with fawning essays by George Will and Marc Thiessen. Will actually compares Kirk to Socrates. Anyone needing an emetic? Gift link: wapo.st/4gfHvDm

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Opinion | William F. Buckley Jr. would recognize Charlie Kirk as a kindred spirit

Kirk was killed at the start of what was to have been a Buckley-like college tour.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

It is very consoling to me that the Minnesota State Fair has a large competition for 'crop art', art made from agricultural seeds, and that this gorgeous thing is one of the entries:

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Beautifully written article, asking some deep questions about ways we think about dangerous physical challenges.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The US small-business retail site Etsy has already got hundreds of "fun" items featuring Trump's newest concentration camp; this one, from a spelling-challenged entrepreneur, uses a hateful phrase for black people that I often heard growing up in the segregated south:

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Trump and Noem, cackling about their new concentration camp in Florida, tap in to a long racist tradition of "alligator-bait" rhetoric & practice in the US. jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/question/201... They are monsters.

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Nyebodnye @nyebodnye.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

In more news, anything that can kill you is now allowed, and anyone who can stop you getting killed is fired.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Everybody please follow this hilarious account from Heard Island, now newly a target of Trump's laughable tariffs and only occupied by penguins. bsky.app/profile/hear...

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

In case you'd like to send thanks to Senator Cory Booker for his extraordinary effort yesterday and into today, here's the place: www.booker.senate.gov/contact/writ...

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Contact Cory | U.S. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I worked a 3-hour shift at my smallish town's Trans Visibility Day event yesterday. I was on Safety Team, and we were told to walk around & try to address any troublesome "guests". I saw only beauty, mutual love, support, and joy. So much joy. Also great tacos! Trump/Hegseth: Leave them alone.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

How soon will Musk's band of evil little serpents start announcing their book contracts?

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

My payment into Social Security (US) started age 16. I was so very proud to be part of a program where the government had planned a retirement program for us. I've paid into it continuously since. It is the best idea ever. You work, you pay in, you retire with some safety. DOGE is killing it.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Once upon a time, billionaires built libraries - literally thousands of them are thanks to Andrew Carnegie - dedicated to "the improvement of mankind". Now another couple of billionaires, who are sick in their souls, want to destroy them, for the opposite effect. dp.la/exhibitions/...

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Carnegie Libraries

The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Scary thought I had this morning: U.S. Republicans know that mid-term elections have them vulnerable. In the face of that, they are cheering on Musk & minions as they wreck the government and inflict suffering on all of us. How will they behave AFTER mid-terms, when they have nothing to fear?

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Curious what the Trumpskies have against the Department of Education? One clue to almost all U.S. politicsI have found reliable: Always look for the racism! www.josh-cowen.com/book

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Book | Josh Cowen

The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers, by Josh Cowen, is a deep investigation of education privatization.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Why are they longing for a subserviently grateful Zelenskiy, and raging at his refusal to play that game? Because they themselves are grovelling mewling puking bully-cowards, and his courage shames them to their rotten little cores.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Vivek Ramaswamy just discovered physical education and school playgrounds. Given enough time, these brilliant tech bros will also discover how fun it is to eat paste in class. And then: Musk will invent & patent the spitball. (thanks to Jim Wright for the Xitter quote).

The Xitter post reads: "Get cell phones out of the classroom. Start physical education in kindergarten. Bring back the presidential fitness test. The best way to save on health costs in the long run is to foster a healthier population in the first place. It's going to be up to the states to step up and get it done."

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Ever wished for an almost-infallible "Stephen Miller wrote this" detector tool? It's his rhetorical triples. He can't resist them! - dangerous, demeaning and immoral - deny, discredit and undermine - unlawful, corrosive and pernicious (All from Trump's DEI EO of Jan 21)

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Just attended a fantastic talk by a faculty member/scientist who works creating robotics for many types of disability therapies. Her recent NSF grant is now in limbo, because "DEI" shutdown. She showed solid evidence of massive life improvements. The U.S. is sprinting backwards into hell.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

President Jasmine Crockett. I hope I said it first! Of course many voters in the US would be too stupid and racist to vote for her, but she would be awesome.https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5122727-jasmine-crockett-criticizes-trump-thug/

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Even though I tolerated a lot of boiled-down Marxism/Socialism during the good old days, I've love to be a fly on the wall for a good old-fashioned Marxist argument about what's happening now.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

There are many things to lament today, but I am taking joy in the fact that I just consulted detailed reviews of "Baby Girl" on (a) Reddit (b) The Evening Standard (UK) and (c) www.slugmag.com/arts/film/fi... I am now going to enjoy watching this film with all these smart people. Hail internet! ~?

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Film Review: Babygirl - SLUG Magazine

It would be very easy to dismiss Babygirl as another tawdry affair movie, and frankly, if it had been made by a man, it very likely would be.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

If you were writing a character: skinny pimply white male prep-school product, former camp counselor, who gave himself a nickname yearning for larger testicles, and then stole data from central government servers wearing the world's worst haircut, your editor might express some reservations.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

If a man is asked, “Are you a rapist/sexual assaulter”, & he answers”I am not a perfect person”, we know:

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

People of Greenland: If Donald Trump is offering to "protect and cherish" you, please start running for the exits as fast as possible while rummaging in your pockets for that pepper spray you thought you'd never need.

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Citizen, Interrupted @nywonk.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

"Democracy Dies in Darkness". Turns out it wasn't a slogan. It was a mission statement.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Until I checked the Washington Post’s live vote tally for speaker, I did not know Jim Jordan was a candidate. Guess hope springs eternal, no matter how weed-choked the garden.

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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

A long, harrowing and important read. Take your time.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

"We work hard and play hard" seems to have been adopted as the standard politician-rapist excuse. "Play".

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

"From 2017 to 2020, ...Gaetz made tens of thousands of dollars in payments to women that the Committee determined were likely in connection with sexual activity and/or drug use,"...totaling more than $90,000 to 12 different women."https://www.cbsnews.com/news/matt-gaetz-ethics-report-released/

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

My dad was a postal worker on the railway mail after he completed his Navy service in the Pacific theater of WWII. Not everybody was hiring guys who had not finished high school at that time. USPS is so much more than just another mailbox.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Wow! Such beauty and mystery. Hope these lands can stay pristine.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

My reaction on reading about the proposed Guilfoyle ambassadorship to Greece was "Of course. Of course he wants to grotesquely insult one of our staunchest allies." How to avoid Trump-fatalism?

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Even the radical conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court probably never dreamed they'd one day have this much power over others' personal and private choices. They sound drunk on this power. apnews.com/live/supreme...

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Supreme Court live updates: Majority of justices appear likely to uphold state ban on transgender care

The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case involving Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people under age 18.

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evebrowning.bsky.social @evebrowning.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Now he is banning food photos on X. What a peevish little crank.

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