T.J. Mitchell

@workingstiff.bsky.social

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NYT bestselling coauthor of the Jessie Teska mysteries #FIRSTCUT & #AFTERSHOCK, & the medical examiner memoir #WORKINGSTIFF. Wife & creative partner Dr Judy Melinek does autopsies. I am careful with her. Books & columns: https://drworkingstiff.com/books

A peach and two apricot-plumb thingies on a rotating microwave dish, waiting to be heated for 44 seconds in the hopes that doing so will kill any microscopic eggs of the parasitic bug cyclospora, which used to be monitored & managed by public health authorities everywhere in the United States but is now, under the Republican federal government corporate deregulation regime, causing hospital-grade cases of the explosive shits across the land for thousands of Americans who enjoy eating fruits & vegetables that haven't been cooked.
A small brown dog showing sitting in a blue basket on the back of a cargo bike, parked on a San Francisco sidewalk. A Pride flag is attached to the back of the basket, behind him.
The rear end of a cargo bicycle parked on a sidewalk in San Francisco. I has a Pride flag attached to a carry-basket on the rear rack, and a one-pound loaf of Boudin Bakery sourdough bread peeking up out of the street-side pannier like a baguette in a French film.
Dardanelles 1916 by Padraic Fallon Last night in stomped Our Connaught Ranger, Private Patrick Carty On his way: Fully accoutred now, a ramp Of belts and bandoliers, a bayonet Wags at his side with no wound yet, the heavy Haversack sits high: Filling the back kitchen, squinting Down from the roofbeams, shyly Shaking hands all round the family, smiling; Me he picks up and by God kisses me. Up there under The brown-white plaster an unknown soldier's face Is weeping. Do I remember more? The urchin daughters Bold for once and peeping Washed and ribboned through the door to wave Him off on the Mail, the 4.15, and away Where muted now in a long sand he lies, if not Entirely melted into The steadfast bony glare of Asia Minor.
Middle aged geek man proudly showing off a bunch of cables connecting his electric bike to his electric car, to charge the bike's depleted battery off the car's fullish one
A man with a bit of a scowl, holding a bottle of wine that has a mug shot photo on its label of another man bearing a similar expression. The two men look very much alike.
A man smirking in front of San Francisco's Seal Rocks, holding up in his hand a long, wrinkly, yellow citron.