John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Thank you. Definitely not easy, but we'll make it through. 010
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 27/03/2025We lost one of our dogs this week. It was sudden and a shock to us all. And it makes me think of the ways we deal with grief and how private it can seem despite it being such a universal emotion. If you survive any distance in this world, you will grieve. It's OK. It's a natural part of being alive. 250
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 15/03/2025This is not good. Praying they find a way to contain it. 030
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 15/03/2025There's a certain musty smell that always reminds me of the Spelunker's Cave to this day. 030
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I predicted Trump would tank the economy back in 2016. It's clear now that he was only stopped by a GOP that wasn't yet fully submissive. 030
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 12/03/2025🤣 Yep. Going to pass soon. Like a kidney stone. 120
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Didn't know you're back in SA. Foreseeable future sounds extended. Hope all is well. 020
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Oh, man. We loved going there when we lived in DC. Saw Return of the King there! Why must beauty fade? 110
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 11/03/2025My stocks are so tired from winning they just keep falling down. 120
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 11/03/2025The president of the U.S. literally did a sales pitch for one of his top donors in front of the White House today. Man, at least our super-corrupt presidents of the past tried to HIDE their corruption and give their supporters a little cover. 061
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 03/03/2025If only so many weren't afflicted with so much wool over their eyes. 010
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Blocking accounts that constantly tell me to abandon all hope. In life, there is only action or surrender. And impotent despair is surrender. 020
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 02/03/2025My life is full of people to the left of me politically, and so many of them are struggling to find joy right now. It's hard to see. And it makes me worried that opposition will wither beneath despair. 020
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Got an MMR vaccine today because doc told me that, being born in the mid-70s, I probably never got a second. Anti-vaxxers are shattering herd immunity, so it seemed prudent. 151
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Look at that typo.media.tenor.coma man and a woman in a kitchen with the words " i 'm back baby "ALT: a man and a woman in a kitchen with the words " i 'm back baby " 000
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Asteroid is like "they seem to fine handling that destruction thing just fine on their own." 151
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 24/02/2025In the end, I do believe in the American people and their distate of any overbearing authority. I don't believe in the Dems ability to wage a credible fight. And that's what concerns me. 020
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Elon so blatantly bought the president that it's hard to call it corrupt. Corruption implies some subterfuge. This thing includes sweeping flood lights and a marching band. 040
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 13/02/2025I need my Bluesky feed to have some humor. Too much gloom and doom to make the experience anything but anxiety-producing. Recommendations for more chill follows? 161
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Praying for your mom to recover fully and enjoy many another great day at the casino. 🙏 110
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Enough people have thought it that Mirriam-Webster has "idiot" as its first definition, albeit acknowledged as slang. I'd say the nimrods are winning this linguistic battle. 030
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Still working on getting this place tuned, but trying. 110
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 08/02/2025I've got things so tightened down that it's OK for me. But outside of that? It's all edge lords, crypto bros and porn bots. 110
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 08/02/2025I'm everywhere. An inescapable force of South Texas energy. 110
Reposted by John MaverickTraces of Texas @tracesoftexas.bsky.social · 12/12/2024This really puts things in perspective. Thanks to Traces of Texas reader Stan Watty for sending it in! 6615
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 12/12/2024For real. Having a teenage daughter who listens to Swift endlessly, my takeaway is she's a romantic at a level that one can see as crushingly tragic or shockingly self-absorbed. 130
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 12/12/2024I've got my Twitter account that well-managed but this account is still in the Wild West. It had the effect of making Bluesky look like more of a cesspool than Twitter, which is obviously a total usage bias. 200
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Tons. I'm still in the "early days" stage here, so I think I'm being fed very popular post, many of which are pro-murder, unfortunately. 100
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 12/12/2024I like all my friends here but the pervasive support for the killing of Brian Thompson on Bluesky--and the very little pushback of that morally abhorrent view--has made me reluctant to even log on. Tried again today and, nope, still post after post supporting murder for political reasons. Gross. 210
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Colleges are starting to send out acceptances and rejections and I forgot how stressful that is on kids. Told my daughter that no matter where she goes to college, she can achieve all her dreams. But it'll be many years before she believes me. 020
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I have already found myself hesitating to say things that I know are unorthodox to the left simply because, if I wanted a stupid argument, I can just post to Twitter. 110
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Definitely more pleasant but also definitely skewed to the left in a way that makes me worry it will be ultimately uninviting for anyone who doesn't toe the left/Democrat line. But we'll see. More of us political heretics seem to be giving it a try. 110
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 05/12/2024There's some research to suggest they are bad for our mental health. www.bbcearth.com/news/are-led...bbcearth.com 020
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Yeah, if you have to assure people you won't drink, your drinking is clearly a problem and thus your promises aren't trustworthy until you go through recovery and work seriously at sobriety. 150
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 05/12/2024My grandma used to make that for me, except she used bologna instead of bacon. Still remember fondly the way the bread, mayo, cheese and meat would stick to the roof of my mouth. 020
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 04/12/2024NFC East meetings are some of the best content on YouTube. I'm not a fan of Florida teams, but I bet you'd kill it. 000
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 03/12/2024media.tenor.coma man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a large buildingALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a large building 000
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 03/12/2024This site is full of AI-generated nature photos. The world is staggeringly beautiful, but AI lessens our appreciation of reality by making it too clean and perfect. Beauty in spite of it all is is what makes nature devine. 150
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 03/12/2024And yet it's still an adaptation of a proven story. I think an original movie would do really well if it's good. We're starved for new stories on film! But those screenplays aren't being funded above limited release or straight-to-streaming levels.fpr.new 010
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Yeah, seems odd that I keep getting served that stuff. Feels almost Twittery in the sense I disagree with it but just keep getting more of it. And I haven't even engaged with it! Weird. Following more cool folks to see if that evens out my experience. 110
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 02/12/2024I rarely see anything about Covid on Twitter but I see a lot of it here and it's almost all from the viewpoint of "the restrictions were 100% necessary in all circumstances." What's up with that? Something funky in the algorithm or is that a dominant opinion and frequent topic here? 320
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 02/12/2024In the 2000s, the academic left colonized the mainstream left & came to full power under Trump, turning a desire for protest into a movement to supplant the spirit of equality with the "laws" of equity. That alienated voters and helped revive Trump. I hope a better path is taken in the next 4 years. 020
John Maverick @johnmavericktx.bsky.social · 02/12/2024The current political climate legit leaves me without anything useful to say. 🤷♂️ 010
