Wendy MsGator
@wtgator
This world is trying my patience. Fighting battles all over again that I thought were won. Living on Awabakal land, never ceded. Also Steam gamer, avid reader of detective novels and lover of cartoons and wine (but not in that order). Dog servant.
I'm absolutely dreading the coming Australian summer. The effects of global warming and a concurrent El Nino effect will boost temperatures and increase bushfire risks here. Australia is trialing a nationwide early warning system on Monday.
Just browsing the Library of Congress (as one does on a freezing Sunday afternoon) and found this gem. recording of the departure of Titanic and captures of from the rescue ship Carpathia. www.loc.gov/item/mp73125...
Thank you to @theguardian.com for this fabulous insight from Fiona Katauskas. Trump really is an incessant bore.
Good morning from Australia. ☕🙂 Is the American Satan dead yet (with apologies to Satan)?
Partner just asked me to make him an account on X. He's a social media ingenue. I point blank refused. It was toxic when I left to come here. It's even worse now.
And this is why tourism to the USA is cratering. I'm Australian, I have an American life partner here who would love to visit family back home, I said NFW. My anti-Trump posts guarantee I would be stopped at the border. Donald Trump is a whiny, self serving asshole. And fuck ICE. Oh & fuck FIFA.
I'm 68 years old. I've lived through the 70s 80s & 90s. I had a daughter in 1993. I lost her father in 1998. I fought hard for rights for women, for workers. I marched. I voted. I did everything I could to make a fairer world. For all, but later, for my daughter. Look at this shitshow now.
My partner and I have a Yowie each in lieu of Easter eggs today. Yowies are cool. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yowie
How many US servicemen are dead on your watch now? Fifteen? That's 15 families who have lost loved ones. And let's talk about the jet downed in Iran. What is that pilot going to go through if/when captured by the IRGC?
Stolen shamelessly from r/antitrump on reddit. Every NATO leader pictured flipping the bird to Donald Trump. Yes, it is AI but it's an AI that I LOVE.
“O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.” - Robert Burns, Ode to a Louse
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The world makes me sad. And sometimes very, very ANGRY. It did not have to be this way.
I just can't think of anything worth saying about the insanity of the war against Iran. The stupidity of it all beggars me. And now Trump wants to attack Karg Island "just for fun". Where is that fucking 25th Amendment?
Hitler was a decorated corporal in the German Army in WWI with an Iron Cross, First and Second Class. He did not have bone spurs. Hitler > Trump. Suck on that, MAGAts.
He's going to bankrupt the USA. At what point will people say STOP? And DO something an=bout stopping him. #TrumpIsInsane
War in Iran: US president says ‘it’s always been about a four-week process so - as strong as it is, it’s a big country, it’ll take four weeks - or less’ War in Ukraine: President repeatedly promised during campaign that he would end war in Ukraine in one day And people keep dying.
Andrew arrested in the UK. Trump still President of USA. Get ya act together, Murrica. It's a shame that Donald Trump has not been arrested for his part in the Epstein trafficking saga.
#1001Albums #GatorMusick Dare! - The Human League (1991) As much as I want to hate this - I don't. It's brilliant synth-pop music. So much electronica, so little time. Don't You Want Me is still a song that I will pump up on the radio.
#1001Albums #GatorMusick #9 The Sonics - Here Are The Sonics Fabulously aggressive music from 1965. It's like the Beatles but with actual balls. Thundering guitars and insane raw vocals. There is NOTHING refined about this music. Loved it.
#1001Albums #GatorMusick #8 Thelonious Monk - Brillant Corners (1957) Talk about getting out of my comfort zone ... I immediately felt like I should be dragging on a cigarette in a smoke filled jazz basement many decades ago. It was a not unpleasant feeling.
#1001Albums #Gatormusick #7 in my list Joni Mitchell was definitely around in my teen years. I didn't care for her then and I care even less now. I know that she is a brilliant singer/songwriter but gods almighty - I cannot stand folk music. It's like fingernails on a blackboard to me.
#1001Albums #GatorMusick #6 Blood Sweat & Tears Pink Floyd did it so much better. The incessant psychedelia and such is just jarring to me now.