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My current listen- soundtrack to Lodge 49. Both the show and the tunes are enchanting.

Just a cowpoke riding his trusty lizard steed across the desert, headed toward the forbidden zone.

#cowboy #lizard #weirdwest #art #doodle

If you’ve known me for more than five minutes, you probably know that I am extremely passionate about true equality and social justice.

However, to emotionally and mentally cope with this new administration, I am going to make an extra effort to be silly, to experience joy, and to practice self-care. I don’t want anyone who sees those posts to mistake them for me being dismissive or not caring about our current state of affairs.

As Audre Lorde explains, joy gives us the “energy for change” to resist the oppressive structures and status quo that make us tired and apathetic; an exhaustive oppression that holds us back.  But in the face of this paralysis, joy is an act of resistance. Communities hammered down by systemic oppression wave a giant “we will not be defeated” flag by continuing to find joy in the face of it all.

Joy isn’t turning a blind eye to pain and burying our heads in the sand. Joy is recognizing that loss, sorrow, grief, and anger all have a place alongside the temptation to just cry out, “Everything is fine,” when it’s not. Joy is an invitation to resist the status quo and lean into the pursuit of justice.

Vincent Price at Edgar Allan Poe’s grave. This rare, candid photo of the actor visiting Edgar Allan Poe’s grave at the Westminster Burial Grounds was taken by Jeff Jerome, the curator of the Poe House and Museum, when Price was on tour with his one-man show Diversions and Delights, in 1977.

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One of my absolute favorite things about Hellboy is that not only does he automatically punch a Nazi every time he sees one, but he yells “Nazi” as he is punching him.

Me, for the next 4 years at least.

He orchestrated a coup. It failed.

He was a convicted felon.

He rose to power on a wave of divisive propaganda and hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric.

He promised to make things great again.

He threatened to annex his neighbors.

I’m referring, of course, to Adolf Hitler.

Day 20,440Enjoying my meta and general media blackout, and my avoidance of the news in general today. I would like to minimize my time on all meta services, given that they are going the way of Twitter. Nice that I can still broadcast here, on mastodon, Tumblr and my own page, meanwhile.

— Scottobear (@scottobear.bsky.social) 2025-01-19T17:30:58.493Z

Day 20,440

Enjoying my meta and general media blackout, and my avoidance of the news in general today. I would like to minimize my time on all meta services, given that they are going the way of Twitter.

Nice that I can still broadcast here, on mastodon, Tumblr and my own page, meanwhile.

Kingfisher seen on the Roanoke River today, about the same time we saw the heron and merganzers, and the doodle inspired by it.

— Scottobear (@scottobear.bsky.social) 2025-01-19T00:12:42.965Z

Doodle of a kingfisher by the roanoke river

#art #doodle #kingfisher #photo

Fox visitor last night! A big one. #fox #roanokeva #backyardzoo

— Scottobear (@scottobear.bsky.social) 2025-01-18T22:42:51.013Z

Fox visitor last night!

This morning on the Roanoke River, a blue heron decided to crash a little gang of merganzers.#nature #gif #heron #blueheron #merganzer #hoodedmerganzer #ducks

— Scottobear (@scottobear.bsky.social) 2025-01-18T19:43:41.032Z

This morning on the Roanoke River, a blue heron decided to crash a little gang of merganzers.

#nature #gif #heron #blueheron #merganzer #hoodedmerganzer #ducks

This is really good! Salty, savory, and corn forward. Got it from the Universal sums box, and I immediately checked to see if I could get it locally. I can, and shall.

— Scottobear (@scottobear.bsky.social) 2025-01-18T00:32:50.411Z

This is really good! Salty, savory, and corn forward.

Got it from the Universal sums box, and I immediately checked to see if I could get it locally. I can, and shall.

— Scottobear (@scottobear.bsky.social) 2025-01-17T15:52:27.531Z

Obtained, a grail figure- sleestak, shown here with Harold

#glyos #plasticvomit #bognar #sleestak #toys #landofthelost