Carri Weatherwax

@carriweatherwax

U.S. Local newspaper editor who misses reporting. Politics, philosophy, memes and manners. And functional art like feldspar, Gaudi, praying mantises, Discworld...

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Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Jul 15

#TIL You can bypass AI results in a Google search if you add -AI to the query. At this point, anyway

Search for "fire ants vs red ants" has AI Overview at the top of the results

Search for "fire ants vs red ants -ai" has Home Team Pest Defense website at the top of the results

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Jul 9

True. And I support the president's decision

Scene from Dr Strangelove of Maj Kong riding the bomb

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Jul 2

Why not both? Instead of framing it as a fight between olds and news, make it a strategy. I'm all for bolder candidates in safe(ish) districts but I won't be going tea-party-crazy trying to elect them into purple seats. Both should work together for a while, til we get back on solid ground

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Jun 19

It's happened before -- but not to us

At the 2014 D-Day commemoration, Putin stands at the right, isolated from the other world leaders, as U.S. President Barack Obama and New Zealand's Governor-General Jerry Mateparae guide Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to her position for a group photo with French President Francois Hollande (AP)

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Jun 14

President Obama's last tweet

President Obama's last POTUS tweet: "Thank you for everything. My last ask is the same as my first. I'm asking you to believe -- not in my ability to create change, but in yours."

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Jun 10

I'm not a Democrat, but I am fully aligned with the Democratic Party for now. Fully. #VoteBlue

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Jun 3

"The Florsheims fit fine" is the direct opposite of "There are four lights."

A defiant Capt. Picard refusing to be gaslit under torture by Gul Madred

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· May 29

There are bootleg Power to the People concert posters out already. Make sure your money is going where it will do some good

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· May 28

Also...

Photo of a young Hillary Clinton superimposed with the words "Fate whispers to the warrior 'You cannot withstand the storm.' And the warrior whispers back 'I am the storm.'"

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· May 21

It's crazy but nothing we say or do is moving the needle. Trump's doing it all himself

Star Tek's Scottie: "She canna take any more, Captain. She's gonna blow."

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· May 21

Elizabeth Warren, 2011: "Ther is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· May 12

Great. I'm going to save $2 on a $50 fill-up and we're going to lose $20 billion a year in road project funding #InfrastructureWeek

graphic showing federal gas tax is 18.4 cents a gallon and 24.4 cents a gallon for diesel

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· May 5

At first it was "War is peace" (defense) Now that the 60 day limit is up it's "War is peace" (denial)

A scene from the "1984" movie showing the face of Big Brother on a giant screen above a crowd of people

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Apr 14

What we almost had

An old Time magazine cover shows an elegant Secretary of State Hillary Clinton going through piles of official reports and the caption "The Rise of Smart Power'

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Mar 13

Someone will love the things and make new memories with them, too. Another one of your mom's ripples in the world

Dandelion blowball with a breeze dispersing the seeds

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Mar 3

Thinking about South Korea's Parliament scaling the walls to stop their president from seizing their power

National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik climbs over the wall of the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul, on the night of December 3, following the declaration of martial law. (Image provided by the Office of the Speaker.)

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Feb 27

The real reason Hillary was called to testify about Epstein

Popular vote totals from the 2016 election: Superimposed on Hillary's face -- 65,788,583. Over Trump's face -- 62,955,363

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Feb 27

Hillary has always been a rock

Comic from Hillary Clinton's testimony in the (exhaustive and impotent) Benghazi investigation with the words: "She said, 'None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with you. You're locked up in here with me.'"

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Feb 8

Darkness has descended. #RIP Washington Post. You fought the good fight as long as you could

The Washington Post masthead atop its motto: Democracy Dies in Darkness

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Feb 2

There certainly are more aesthetic ways to be half-naked

Surrealist Dorothea Tanning's self-portrait, Birthday 1942: Woman stands in a stark hallway, hand on one of the open doors. She's wearing a purple and gold jacket open to show her breasts and stomach and a dull skirt layered with vines, with a winged lemur by her bare feet

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Jan 28

And you've always been right: It's on us, not a Great Man of History, to defend our shared freedom

Obama's final tweet as POTUS: "Thank you for everything. My last ask is the same as my first. I'm asking you to believe -- not in my ability to create change, but in yours"

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Jan 28

I watched The West Wing for grounding during the first Epstein presidency. This time around, I'm watching Lord of the Rings

The White House in gray twilight with the burning Eye of Sauron sitting atop the portico

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Jan 27

It's increasingly easier to just ignore accounts like this (and The White House). We now know for sure that they harbor an incurable poison

No interactions with Bluesky account StarryJen post that says "Nobody has to experience ICE 'brutalities' if they are not obstructing and attacking them during lawful, legal law-enforcement operations."

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Jan 23

The limits of tyranny

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Jan 17

The Republican-majority Congress could stop Trump from breaking laws and redirecting out national resources to target personal enemies. But they don't.

Snip of Omega buttboy Chip Diller in his ROTC uniform during the "Animal House" panic scene impotently yelling "Remain calm!! All is well!!"

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Jan 17

Canada, Denmark, U.S. Lutheran bishops issue joint statement supporting Greenlandic people www.elca.org/news-and-eve...

Text in green box says: Canada, Denmark, U.S. Lutheran bishops issue joint statement supporting Greenlandic people, with the logos of each organization below

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Jan 5

I wonder who's going to win the 2026 FIFA Peace Prize

AP photo of the golden statuette on the left, a circle of hands clawing at the world and, on the right, the hands of a man in a suit showing too much cuff holding a framed certificate with an embossed seal

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Dec 25

Love the ones you're with #MerryChristmas #HappyYule

A Victorian Christmas card shows a beetle and a frog dancing in the sun while behind them birds fill the air and a fly plays with a ball. Inscription says Merry Christmas. Be merry

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Dec 4

The Church of Grok is coming. Fascinating to watch the attempted techbro takeover of humanity in realtime

an X post screencap from Joe Rogan Podcast News quoting Rogan saying "Jesus was born out of a virgin mother. What's more virgin than a computer? If Jesus does return, you don't think he could return as artificial intelligence? AI could absolutely return as Jesus."

Carri Weatherwax@carriweatherwax· Nov 22