Uncle Milburn / OldGeek™ @admin@wonkodon.com

They really want to “ride Donald Trump.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that . . .

https://www.theonion.com/new-law-requires-snap-recipients-to-balance-food-on-nos-1851278899

(satire) New Law Requires SNAP Recipients To Balance Food On Nose Until Receiving Command To Eat It.

Also you know you are dealing with someone who has test-kitchen brain when the recipe calls for unsalted butter, but then they have you adding kosher salt later. Just use salted butter like a normal person, recipe writers

#WildlifeWednesday

Angry bird 😀- the face Red-winged Blackbirds make when they use a more intense, slightly higher pitched call as an alarm or to chase off intruders …

https://pixels.com/featured/red-winged-blackbird-did-not-inhale-2-ez-lorenz.html

#Washington #PNW #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Wildlife #Funny #Humor #Photography #Prints #HomeDecor #WallArt #Gifts #fedigiftshop #MastoArt #FediArt #Puzzle #GreetingCard

I'm a sucker for weird and esoteric tags, like these word squares someone has been writing in our neighborhood lately. Each square is a type of acrostic that can be read horizontally or vertically. For example:

T R U S T
R A N C H
U N D E R
S C E N E
T H R E E

#SFGraffiti #WordSquare #Tagger #SanFrancisco #acrostic

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#cats #catsofmastodon #purrsday

Tonight in 1975 — SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE debuted on NBC.

BiII Murray replaced Chevy Chase in 1976. "Live" was added to the title in '77. #SNL

"canine vaccine hesitancy" is a polite way of saying "rabies deniers."

#GreatAlbums1960s - #DionneWarwick – Make Way for Dionne Warwick (1964). Though she was often tagged as R&B/ soul, Warwick was a true pop singer – bridging torch balladry with urbane cool in ways that felt traditional and modern at once. This LP contains several of the Bacharach-David hits that were her (and their) signatures, including “A House is Not a Home,” “People” and a definitive “Walk on By.” Easy listening in the best sense, Warwick’s music is a warm hug on a fuzzy sofa. #GreatPopAlbums

william stafford

Here was a man who was known
as an Oregon poet.

He never wasted words, either.
He wrote a poem

Every day, rain or shine, and so
he had some

rain poems and some shine poems
and if people

came to him saying, sir, give us a book
he would turn

and rummage in desk drawers
or grope

along shelves in the kitchen.
Pretty soon

there was their book, bright as
Sunday morning

but sharp, too, like bottle glass.
He'd hand

it to them carefully, carefully.
And it was

their hint. After that they'd have to
look out for themselves,

and that, I guess, was his Oregon
message.

The fog of war is bad, ya'll and the fake videos are getting better. If you see something ... intense, upsetting, something that gives you and emotional reaction and either solidifies your views or makes you question them... hit pause.

I don't care how media savvy you are.

Especially if it's something that confirms your worst fears. Especially that one.

Hit pause. Check the sources. Check them direct from the source site, don't trust thumbnails, or watermarks.

I love living in this world of color. Larches and changing leaves, North Cascades WA on the hike to Blue Lake

#photography #wa #NorthCascades #larches

#cats #catsofmastodon

Here's a short video from Latvia showing why you shouldn't treat railway lines as a playground.

#MetroTrains

UNDERDOG debuted today in 1964. 💥

Wally Cox voiced the crime-fighting canine w/ Norma MacMillan as Sweet Polly and Allen Swift as Simon Bar-Sinister.

Produced by Total Television (not Jay Ward) but animated by the same studio. TTV + Ward cartoons were often mingled in reruns.

My grown daughter today:

"Being an adult is whispering 'f&ck this' while doing it anyway."

She has arrived.