FabulaRasa

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Fellow and Fan of the American Academy of Pediatrics, UBI endorser, Seattleite, antifascist, dog & cat lover, Antifascist, gardener, reader, public transit fan

Clip from nyt article reads “Command and Control Across the state, officers directed obscenities, insults and threats at students just before or after using physical force, records and video footage show. “Stop crying like a little girl,” a school police officer in San Antonio ordered a seventh-grade boy who had gotten in trouble for being disruptive. “Boy, I will hurt you,” an officer in Houston told a high school student who talked back to him. “Get your fucking hands up before I shoot you!” an officer in Galveston shouted while pointing her gun at a 17-year-old she had cornered in a yard. The teen had run off campus after he was caught with a vape.”
Car decal in shape of U.S. flag reads “one nation: Corrections, dispatch, EMS, nurse, firefighter, police, military
President Biden chatting with a fellow passenger on a commuter plane
Movie poster for “Breaking the Waves” showing Emily watson’s face. Review quote at the bottom says, “One of the best films ever” -The Face
Search menu bar query: “how do I remove copilot from word?” This leads to (an AI) Copilot Search, which gives an “AI generated answer.” This answer is unactionable.
Picture of a table filled with empty beer cans and a handgun, captioned “how can someone have all this, and be unhappy”
Cute Black Cat, with a pile of books. (Earthsea trilogy, Love’s Work, Eugene Ely, Old Path White Cloud, The Radical Fund, Caste, Autocracy, Inc., White Tiger, Democracy Rising, The Underground Railroad, Goedel Escher Bach)
...these thefts were the predictable result of a public policy decision to embed middlemen throughout our welfare system. Like many frauds...across the country & the welfare state, the Minnesota day care schemes all occurred in programs where a private provider acts as a middleman..."
Hand-written sign held abovehead by a demonstrator in an anti-ICE march, reads “I am here for the kids. That’s it. That’s the sign.”
Demonstrator stands in front a peaceful crowd, holding a sign quoting MLK “Somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press.” Her t-shirt reads “I love you, but you’re breaking my heart.”
Sign:”I am here for the kids. That’s it. That’s the sign.”
Large outdoor crowd listening to a speaker at Seattle Central College. Many signs decrying ICE, Trump, and Fascism in general.
Text: The real secret? Consistency and technique. Wash your hands. Wash them correctly. Do it often. Get your kiddos into this habit while they’re very young. It’s one of the simplest, most effective things you can do to protect yourself and the people around you.
Tree branch with bright pink thick starfish-armed flower-like structures growing in a mulitistemmed cluster, each topped with a shiny black bulbous “head.” Maybe they look more like stubby magenta-armed, black-headed cartoon octopi?
Orange Labor Day flowers bloom next to mushrooms sprouting from a tree stump
Close up of a cone on an evergreen magnolia tree, from which protrude small, bright pink almond-shaped appendages. Christmas lights shine on the tree in the background
Stewartia Mondelpha in the Arboretum. Slanting fall light showcases its cinnamon orange peeling and mottled bark against an evergreen background.
Numerous tannish-orange mushroom clusters sprouting along a moss-covered log on a stream bank
5 5 gallon translucent water storage container and 5 stacked 5 gallon opaque water storage containers in a basement utility room
Scene from season 2 of Andor where untrained troops fire on a crowd, provoking panic, which is seized upon as an excuse for slaughter of civilians by the Fascist regime
Yard sign in beautifully foliated urban front yard reads “the past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” -George Orwell, ‘1984’
Fancy / Professional graffiti artwork as paint job on cyber truck parked on urban residential street (pre-tagged!)
Chaos at CDC’s vaccine meeting. One member resigns. Some scientific materials not vetted by agency experts. American Academy of Pediatrics boycotts. “It’s going great.”
Sleeping black cat curled around a spherical stuffed animal that has a beak and an enraged facial expression