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Please #BoycottX Move slow and fix things. @jamestalarico.bsky.social https://jamestalarico.com/ #VOTE #NOkings

Temp 102, feels like 115
https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/airstrikes-on-minab
Grocery store produce bin of tomatoes priced at $2.19.
Black cat in a pre-dawn street, looking like a void in space. We call this one 'The Abyss' just for fun. But disapprove of free-roaming cats for the damage they do to wildlife. Cats, Felis Catus, are a domesticated animal, they are out of place in the natural landscape, and they are entirely our human responsibility to manage. #CatsIndoors
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-weapon-purchases-startups-4919d870
Great blue heron with apt tower in background
England world cup side
Banksy in Venice, 2019
Mullin, cowering before "peaceful tourists" on J6.
Wages of Fear, 1953
LOTR I p495 Sam and Frodo discuss seeing a floating log with eyes
Rep Joseph Morelle - immediate Dem response on cspan. "The rantings of an incompetent unserious person."
John Ashcroft, nose down reciting a preposterous script, bloviating about "rule of law" in support of a criminal's nomination to AG. Let the Eagle Soar! - (wretch)
Small white stone found in our bird bath. Not placed like this. Found it in the water among the other stones as we emptied it for a cleaning. Pretty well convinced it was plopped there by our wonderful gregarious Jays.
Clear, active-voice headline at wapo
Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him. LOTR p.451, Haldir to Legolas.
Lavrov next to trump in oval office.
protest march with sign in foreground "where is the media?"
Ice Stupa
putin netanyahu trump axis of evil
Two organic tomatoes packed per each clear plastic clamshell. What do we expect to come from this? The oceans choke on our idiotic refuse. Microplastics everywhere, from the Himalayas to our bloodstreams. Who wants this? What consumer demand produced this? None. Big Oil foisted this upon us all.
Yellow-crowned Night Heron predates a toad from an urban street puddle.
Tiny possum stuck inside a compost bin.
axis of evil - putin, netanyahu, trump
“He did not deserve to die. He did not deserve to be reduced to a headline of Mexican man shot and killed by ICE. He deserved to live a quiet life as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a husband, a father and a job creator for dozens of men who also wanted the American dream,” Salgado said during a news conference.
messi looks up from the grass, world cup
Turkey vulture scavenges a car-smashed possum. Quite an unusual big bird to see on the ground in an urban residential neighborhood. We moved the poor possum to a nearby grassy field. Can't abide dead critters being further obliterated and profaned by our merciless machinery. Plus the carcass draws other creatures into danger.
Kyiv Mourns 30 Killed After Russian Missile Pulverizes 64 Apartments in Ordinary High-Rise In brief: A Russian missile strike destroyed 64 apartments in a nine-story residential building in Kyiv’s Darnytskyi district during Moscow’s July 2 barrage, which killed at least 30 people across the capital and triggered international condemnation.
Eisenstein, Alexander Nevsky, 1938
democracy - use it or lose it
democracy - use it or lose it
Talarico with Willie Nelson wearing a Talarico hat.
Talarico yard sign and t-shirt.
Toad on a water meter cover in the middle of tall grass.
Bird songs as walk-in pre-concert music, from David Byrne
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/30/alleged-epstein-victim-trump-accuser Jane Doe 4 was sexually assaulted by Donald Trump, when she was between 13 and 15 years old.
Smith County Assistant District Attorney Richard Vance, collecting an award.
Peter Cushing as Van Helsing driving a stake labeled #VOTE into a vampire's heart.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2026/04/29/how-to-get-passport-with-or-without-trumps-face/89852794007/ Taylor Ardrey , Kathleen Wong USA TODAY Show Caption With the limited-edition U.S. passports featuring President Donald Trump's image rolling out this summer, some are wondering whether it'll become the default version of the travel document. The U.S. State Department confirmed to USA TODAY this week that the special passports, which will also include Trump's signature and the Declaration of Independence, are being issued in honor of America's 250th anniversary. Limited-edition Trump portrait passport to debut for Americas 250th anniversary The State Department plans a limited Trump portrait passport for Americas 250th anniversary. Here is where it will be available and when. "These passports will feature customized artwork and enhanced imagery while maintaining the same security features that make the U.S. passport the most secure documents in the world," spokesperson Tommy Pigott said. It's expected to be released in July in correlation with Trump's other anniversary-related events. Trump: President's portrait to appear in limited 250th anniversary US passports Does everyone have to get the Trump passport? Following the announcement, many people online asked whether they could opt out of the new design when renewing their passports. The anniversary passports will be available only in person at the Washington Passport Agency for American citizens applying for a new identification document, while supplies last, according to the State Department. Only a certain number of Trump passports will be available NPR reported that those who want a standard passport can get one online or at other locations outside of Washington, DC. An estimated 25,000 to 30,000 documents will be available, the outlet noted.
Hello young corvid. Blue jay - Cyanocitta cristata cristata
trump assaults a new bride at one of his shit golf brothels. #DroitDuSeigneur
Electronic Frontier Foundation's socials links - includes Bluesky, and excludes Xitter. Good to see. #BoycottX
Screech Owl silhouetted in a Pine tree.