Saturday Open Thread: Odds and Ends
Submitted by on the cusp on Sat, 07/26/2025 - 7:00am
Good morning, good people! How's it going in your neck of the woods?
Friday Night Photos Flower Power Edition
Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 07/25/2025 - 5:00pmHappy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.
I made my monthly pilgrimage to the Balboa Park rose garden with the macro lens last Tue. One of the nice things about a 105mm macro lens, not only is it great for macro photography, it also makes a great portrait lens. So when I didn't find very many bugs while looking up close, I stepped back a few feet and focused my attention on the roses.
Rainbow Sherbet
Some ruminations about collapse
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Fri, 07/25/2025 - 4:05pmYves Smith posted this piece on Naked Capitalism about collapse. It's by Thomas Neuburger. Smith is highly critical of this piece.
The Evening Blues - 7-25-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 07/25/2025 - 3:05pm
Open Thread - 07-25-25 - Nothing New Under the Sun
Submitted by JtC on Fri, 07/25/2025 - 8:33amI've never been a particularly religious man, but I've always been curious about how we humans fit in with the cosmos, in the grand scheme, and with nature in the small.
When I was in my teens that curiosity led me to The Bible. I started with the Old Testament and was struck by its endless begattings and wholesale brutality and genocide. To my young mind it was not much more than a chronicle of births and deaths, and wars, both personal and of a people, with an underlying essence of fear. Fear of consequences for not adhering to a belief system emanating from a singular high authority and ultimately, a system of control.
Adhering to this belief system was the way, and the only way, into the Kingdom of Heaven.
I did not buy in.
The Evening Blues - 7-24-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 07/24/2025 - 3:00pm
Open Thread - Thurs 24 July 2025 - Bernie Finally Admits It!
Submitted by Sima on Thu, 07/24/2025 - 5:00amBernie Finally Admits It!!
Lee Camp has been on a vacation break recently, but is still posting once in a while. He'll be back tomorrow to his usual schedule. But anyway, recently he posted this short clip from one of his UnRedacted shows which, I think, is pretty darn important. Bernie finally admits that the election system is rigged!
The Evening Blues - 7-23-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 07/23/2025 - 3:13pm
OT WE 23 JUL 25 ~ bye July
Submitted by QMS on Wed, 07/23/2025 - 5:48am~
Are we there yet? Seems August is just over the horizon.
Happy 54th Alison.
The Evening Blues - 7-22-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 07/22/2025 - 4:01pm
