sgazzetti

@sgazzetti.bsky.social

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Never broken a bone. Mercator’s projection deplorer, Grice’s maxims supporter. Anti- (from Latin, ‘against,’ in case anyone’s confused) fascist army vet in The Land of Enchantment. Bokononist. Protect trans kids! 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇦🇷 🇸🇮 🇵🇱 🇧🇬 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇸 🌶️

An entitled gray male tabby cat snoozes and loses on a beige carpet. He is unemployed.
A Google Maps screenshot of the cul-de-sac in early stages of construction.
The back-azimuth shot of the previous view, with tiny volcano on the horizon, officious “ROAD CLOSED” sign in left foreground, and Carol’s cul-de-sac denoted with obnoxious red arrow.
A desert landscape with crumbly dark volcano shoulder at left. In the distance the Sandía Ridge fades into heat haze. Midway between is a shitty red circle showing the location of Carol Sturka’s fictional neighborhood in Vince Gilligan’s TV show Pluribus.
A view looking straight down at three spiky fuchsia blossoms atop a tiny cactus growing in sterile tan sandy soil
A skyscape inky dark at top shading to pale blue toward the horizon. Prominent in the sky are a very bright Venus, a brilliant Mercury, and the distant dot of Jupiter. The moon should be a tiny waxing crescent (just a day past new) but appears here as a bright orb with an especially gilded right-hand edge.
A landscape study in limited hues: sky with a subdued ridge of low mountains (the Manzano range in central New Mexico). You could paint it all with a good white pigment (like Permalba) and some Prussian blue, with a smudge of phthlalo blue. Dabs of black and peach might help.
A skyscape of clear blue, below which an anvil-shaped storm cloud grows upward, mushroomlike, with Rio Grande cottonwood tops at the lower edge.
A photo of a kitchen counter with not two, not three, but FOUR separate containers of Old Bay foregroundind a bowl of popo sally. Each is unique in its packaging and/or size. No one can explain it.
A screenshot of landscape photo post. I took the pic from the passenger seat of a desert cliff in the Bandelier tuff near Los Alamos NM. The post has 69 likes.
An amber moon begins to heave itself free of a darkling ridge, with scraps of lighting city in the foreground. The moon does not appear to be blue, but it technically is.
A landscape featuring a great pink cloud looming from behind a dark purple ridge — the Sandía — with leafy green trees in the foreground. The sky is fading toward old denim in the east. It’s what New Mexico looks like most of the time.
A typical news split screen, with Iran negotiator talking head at left, landscape view of the Strait of Hormuz on right. The strait has half a dozen beleaguered ships bobbing on it and a happy goat prancing unfocused in the foreground. GOAT!
A screenshot of a skeet from @levostregc reading: Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teache artes and humanityes The skeep has 69 likes. Mine is the 69th one.
An overhead shot of an entitled gray male tabby cat reposing on his side atop beige carpeting. Below him is his cylindrical rage pillow. In front of him is a laptop computer. Just above the laptop are a few foam-rubber crumbs he has recently mined from the interior of the La-Z Boy recliner just out of frame.
A screenshot of Mr. Bea Arthur’s post reading “Driving my Cyber-Truck to Fiji, wish me luck.” The post had 68 likes until I came along.
An extraordinarily ramshackle real-life version of the cartoon towing platform known for obscure reasons as ‘Tow Mater’ in the Pixar film series “Cars.” The thing is a rusty wreck, brimming with eldritch menace. It is on unregulated public display in Española, NM.
Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, tenth edition
A pair of tree-trunk sections where two major limbs intersect and a minor limb diverges. Each section, inverted, gives the impression, a lá pareidolia but for dicks, of a nude male human torso with a dick. Fortunately the ’dicks’ are anatomically proportional, so it’s all relatively good.
Door of a vending machine that sells cheese steaks. And on the door these words appear: “CAUTION HOT & DELICIOUS”
A screenshot of a picture of an alligator (real) sitting on an inflatable alligator floatie floating in a brackish pool. The post has 69 ‘likes.’
A parent clothing donation bin, red with white lettering, flanked by its small child clothing donation bin, also red.
You ain’t lived till you’ve seen Edwin Booth play the Dane
A view of Mount Rainier, a stratovolcano in western Washington state, US. It rises in a snow-covered cone with the blue waters of Puget Sound in the foreground. One day it will kill millions; not a threat, just a geological certainty.
The yurt sits on the meadow of a green valley floor, with evergreens in the middle distance and snow capped mountains beyond.
Interior view of a yurt, which is not, contrary to my bride’s expectations, constructed of yak hide. It is eminently civilized, with lavish queen bed, partitioned bathroom, and string light illumination. Not pictured: full kitchen, outdoor shower, sauna.
A view down Main Street of Anytown, USA, except the place is called ‘Brigham City.’ There is an ornate arch-like sign spanning the street. And on the sign these words appear: “WELCOME TO BRIGHAM Gateway to the World’s Greatest Wild Bird Refuge.”
A loony mass of stripey red sandstone on the right. US Route 191 curves languidly off to the left. The scene is in southeastern Utah.
A view of the Wasatch Range from the west. The peaks are snow dusted on the first of May. The sky is nearly cloudless.
An entitled gray male tabby cat sitting on a sofa. He is photographed from above; his gaze rests below the camera. His front paws are daintily crossed and he is blepping. A shallow depth of field renders his eyes in focus and the blep as blurry.
Grapefruit-sized orb of stainless steel, CNC-machined to within a handful of microns and micro-degrees to form, along with hundreds of its brethren + carbon-fiber struts etc, the supporting matrix of the ngVLA’s new dishes. It weighs 4.42 kilograms, which feels like more than it sounds.
A desert landscape. Khaki ancient lake bed at c. 6600 ft ASL, denim mountains in the distance. On the left, a circular white radio-telescope dish. It is 25 meters in diameter, but is dwarfed by its austere surroundings. On the right is a similar dish, but its unpainted, chemically-etched surface and octagonal shape somehow allow it to make its counterpart look dated, even frumpy.
Desert landscape with shiny futuristic octagonal dish backed by New Mexico’s signature cloudless cerulean sky. The chemical etching process of the aluminium panels gives the dish a mottled, vaguely steampunk appearance.
A desert landscape with distant mountain backstop. Looming in the upper left is 3/4 of one of the 25-meter dishes of the Very Large Array of the National Science Foundation. Stretching from right to left at the bottom of the frame, across the San Agustín plain, are at least seven more of the Array’s 27 dishes. The furthest is smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. That is an illusion thanks to ‘perspective.’ The furthest dish is actually 25 meters across.
A photo of the crowd from behind, showing a flag-bearing patriot wearing a backpack holding a chihuahua. An orange sign on the rucksack reads FUCK I.C.E. The chihuahua looks they would happily bite a fascist, just like me.
Two spires of yucca blossoms with cloudless blue sky.
A bird’s eye view of a spatchcocked chicken done in the Peruvian manner.
My colonoscopy appointment reminder next to a satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz or maybe my impacted colon who can say ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
An entitled gray male tabby cat perches casually on the back of an armchair while pretending he’s not interested in any Fancy Feast this morning.
A raven in silhouette perches on a dead tree limb
An archaic heating-and-cooling device in the corner of a southwestern-style cafe in Abiquiú, NM. The machine is marked “REZNOR”
Pinks, blues, oranges, and grays weave a glowing skyscape over the Sandía range.
An automated weather alert reading “Campus W advisory, gust up to 40 M Beach throughout the day, be cognizant of downed trees and flying debris, se something Saturday something be safe.” The transcript is labeled “low confidence.”
A cast concrete garden sculpture of the face of an imagined being whose placidity could only derive from a lack of internet access
A photo of a snow-covered terminal at the Albany airport during Winter Storm Fern
An entitled gray male tabby cat perching on the back of a sofa in the rising sun. You can feel the intensity of his fervent wish through his riveting gaze.
A merry-go-round circus lion making an awkward face
A closeup of the face of an entitled male gray tabby cat (grumpy) snuggled in a green La-Z-Boy recliner that was found put out for oversized trash pickup and dragged home for cats to sleep on
A a mustard-colored T-shirt bearing the legend “I AM A CONDUIT FOR NONSENSE” with a black-and-white drawing of a capybara riding a goose. The photo was taken at a Lego convention in Albuquerque
A playbill for the famous tragedy “Ham”
A sunrise gradient fading to golden-orange at bottom, meeting the horizon, a wrinkled black ridge. A sliver of silver moon floats in battleship gray.
An excerpt from a story in The Week, in which Howard Stern is quoted as saying to Donald Trump regarding foreign accents, “one day the accent is cute and the next day you’re married to Dracula’s sister.”
A stars-n-stripes themed bingo card titled “my 2026 bing card. The entries are: Drone strikes Stone, Parker Gromit gets milkshake ducked FDR exhumed to face trial Spy magazine reboot Kickstarter Weird A.I. Yankovic “Stop attacking pedophiles” GOP campaign slogan Seth Meyer dies in suspicious sweater fire Crystal Pepsi/Zima collab EO: using word ‘Epstein’ = treason Pizza renamed ‘Freedom Pie’ Chik-Fi-La bars Jewish patrons Guillermo sent to CECOT ESPACIO LIBRE (WOKE) ‘Adolph’ tops boy baby name lists Kentucky reconsiders bourbon Kid Rock crashes Super Bowl halftime show Ghislaine Maxwell awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom Trump abolishes Friday (and TGIFriday’s) Lapel pin arms race Pumpkin spice Porta-Potties Melania joins GOOP Hogan’s Heroes reboot MAGA holds house Netflix raises monthly subscription fee Racist Angry Birds
Screencap of the most famous video in the history of the world right now: an obviously coked-up Trump grooving on his bff (ALLEGEDLY) Jeffrey Epstein, with a sad mustachioed man clearly not making the pedophile after-party grade.
An entitled gray male tabby cat perches on the back of a colorful armchair, his left front leg dangling jauntily as he waits to be served his Christmas gravy
Two river otters on a tan disc floating on turquoise water.
An entitled male gray tabby cat contemplates his crimes, with a Christmas tree in the background.
Lionel Barrymore as Mr. Potter, the quintessential proponent of capitalism-cum-fascism, in Frank Capra’s “It’s A Wonderful Life,” hating on immigrants before it was cool (again).
A nail-clipping moon in a clear December sky that ranges from cool blue down to peach at the black horizon, interrupted by a small lava vent bump.
A view from above of the bedroom floor littered with a wristwatch, a bookmark, a chapstick, a pair of glasses, and a tub of petroleum jelly. On the windowsill rests a TV remote. Hanging off the edge of the nightstand is a MagSafe phone charger. Not seen (obscured beneath nightstand): nail file.