TJ

@talsup.bsky.social

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Retired engineer, Resistance, no DMs

A happy pitbull/chihuahua/dachshund mix smiles at the camera, wishing everyone good night.
Smiling black lab mix puppy, ready to chase a ball.
Chet, a pit/chihuahua/dachshund mix sits up to say “hi!”
Handsome basset/pit mix waits for some cookies.
Snoozy basset/pit mix lounges on a comfy cushion after dinner.
A quilt I made showing a 50’s living room with a TV with rabbit ears. The TV is showing Sputnik.
Chet, a pitbull/chihuahua mix, smiles at the camera.
A little garden with tomatoes, beans and sweet peas. Herbs are growing at the back.
A green anole suns himself on a post in front of a philodendron. He looks like he’s got spring fever and female anoles on his mind.
Happy orange mutt eyes the raspberries in case there’s an anole to chase.
A dwarf sunflower, the first of the year, is full grown and sunny in my small garden.
Our lovely brown and white freckled basset hound Elly waits on the grass to play.
Black lab mix lies on the kitchen floor waiting patiently for me to finish cleaning so I can give him a cookie.
Chet, our new rescue, is a peanut butter colored long dog who looks like a corgi crossed with a chihuahua.
A stork appears to have dropped a nine month old baby wearing pink overalls, cap and shoes into the waiting arms a young man in a tee shirt with muscular, outstretched arms. It’s a sunny day with a tree in the background.
Chet sleeping, an orange corgi/beagle mix with his healing scars showing.
Chet, our scarred ex-bait dog, a pitbull/chihuahua mix, at Petsmart, learning how to be a happy member of our family. He’s very loved.
My beagle Orson and my basset hound Elly wait patiently for their walk in the cold weather. Orson wears a blue lined raincoat and Rosie wears a pink one.
Crowd gathering at Clear Lake near NASA for No Kings 3
Crowd gathering with signs in Clear Lake Texas, hoping to flip our state back to compassion and the rule of law.
The rally filling up quickly at 10 this morning.
A crowd of 3,500 or so freedom loving Americans demonstrating together. All ages, all ready for change.
A long orange dog with white markings lies on the carpet by our front door, chewing on his stuffed rhino. He looks happy and focused.
Patient basset/lab/boxer mix with a really sweet face waits for me to finish cleaning the kitchen and pet him.
A small green anole on a philodendron frond in our backyard.
Tank, a tricolor basset hound/pit bull mix, sleeps curled up in a tight ball on his grey blanket.
Book cover for Looking for Rachel Wallace showing a lone man jogging into a wet night.
A beautiful black lab mix with asymmetrical white markings and really sweet eyes rests in the kitchen watching his dinner being prepared.
A tricolor basset hound/pit bull mix looks up lovingly from an oriental carpet.
My dog Tank hiding from Santa under a blanket. Tank is a tricolor pit bull/basset hound mix. He’s lying on a red carpet under a white blanket.
Chris Smither with a guitar in front of a mike, wearing a cowboy shirt and looking great with shining golden brown long hair.
Book cover of Robert B. Parker’s mystery Looking for Rachel Wallace
My two dogs, Tank and Seamus. Tank is a basset/pit mix and Seamus is lab/basset/boxer. They’re on the way to the beach and are very excited.
A photo of the Marx Brothers without stage makeup. From left to right, Chico, Harpo, Groucho and Zeppo.
A boy in a blue hoodie and black shorts, hand feeds wild raccoons at the East beach in Galveston. This is dangerous and I don’t recommend it, because it’s not good for the raccoons and they could have rabies.
The cover of Mary Roach’s book Packing for Mars showing a black star field with an astronaut in a spacesuit carrying a suitcase.
Movie poster of Now, Voyager from 1942 showing a very glamorous Bette Davis and an inset of Bette Davis and Paul Henreid in an embrace.
A little girl in a white blouse and black shorts feeds the feral raccoons at the East beach in Galveston at the sea wall.
The album cover from Fairport Convention’s album Liege and Leaf.
Female grackle stands on black railing in front of a blue cinder block wall, lit by the sunset.
Tank, a basset hound/pit bull mix, looks up at the camera, knowing he gets a cookie as soon as take the photo. He’s tricolor and very handsome.
The cover of Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia McLachland, showing Sarah and the children in a field of yellow wheat.
A photograph from the movie The Best Times of our Lives showing Harold Russell, Dana Andrews and Fredric March in the nose gun turret of a B52.
The 1985 cover of Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game
Female grackle on a black railing in front of a blue wall, lit by the sunset.
Evening sky in background, grackles in a tree in the foreground.
Handmade sign from No Kings day declaring that “I’m expected to shield my students from bullets, expect me to shield them from you, too.”
Nice photo of Abbott and Costello in the early 50’s.
A group of axolotls in Houston yesterday #NoKingsHouston
People in costume as pink and blue axolotls dancing in the street at Houston’s No Kings rally.
Two young female protesters—first with a sign that has a photo from Hamilton showing a king and reading, “When push comes to shove, I will send a full battalion to show you my love.” The second reads, “ power to the people #NoKings #NoTanks”
Girl with black hair, black baseball cap and grey tank top holds handmade sign that says, “Warning! Dangerous Antifa terrorists spotted sharing snacks and empathy!” From Houston No More Kings rally Oct 18, 2025
Woman in a black tank top carrying a sign the reads, “Jail to the Chief” at Houston No More Kings Rally!
Beautiful marble angel on a grave at the old Catholic cemetery in Galveston, TX.
Jar of Savoie’s commercial roux. Makes great gumbo!
Two happy dogs riding in the back seat of our old Ridgeline. One is a tricolor basset hound/ pit bull mix, the other is a black lab mix with a white blaze.
Old Catholic Cemetery in Galveston TX, with gravestones rising above a sea of wildflowers
A sunlit female grackle rests on a black railing in front of a blue wall.
Aerial view of Tangier Island in Chesapeake Bay showing the downtown area and a canal with boats.
A green anole on a rolled philodendron leaf suns himself by our pool.