mari

Landscape Architect. Urbanite. Star Gazing Dot Connector.

[@PawsnTails4TX 🇺🇸🇺🇸🐾🐾 @PawsnTails4TX]

💔🐾DANI #A657342
Very long stay, arrived 6/5
🚨High risk TB☠️ 8/24. For length of stay
4 yrs. 50lbs
Loves people & treats 🦴🧀🍖
‼️HW status ⁉️ unknown
Please #PLEDGE #FOSTER #ADOPT
Harris County Pets
612 Canino
Houston #TX

[mari @mcmari8]

@qwert555551ip cruelty for clicks so staged

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?"

Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:

"A few things spring to mind.

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.

For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.

So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.

I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.

But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.

And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.

Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.

Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.

And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.

Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.

He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.

He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.

That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.

There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.

After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.

He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.

In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:

'My God… what… have… I… created?

If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."

[mari @mcmari8]

@_taysmyoxygen1d He’s got minutes.
Please help https://t.co/tw2YLWz4IE first urgent then call
Call 214 670 6800
[email protected]/[email protected]

[mari @mcmari8]

@_taysmyoxygen1d He’s no 1 on the list snd will be euthanised now if you csn foster him for a short time please call snd email the Shelter urgently.

[mari @mcmari8]

From my neighborhood: https://t.co/dOnUX1Krw3

[mari @mcmari8]

@PawsnTails4TX I network Harris County dogs I’ll share her. Is she on anywhere else tik tok next door Reddit for fosters?

[@PawsnTails4TX 🇺🇸🇺🇸🐾🐾 @PawsnTails4TX]

🆘🐾🚑BLUEBELL #A635118
Still waiting
‼️URGENT MEDICAL
Found stray 4/1
🚨High risk TB☠️5/9
2yrs
🏥Very ill 😪HW+ coughing and struggling to breathe
PLEASE #PLEDGE #FOSTER #ADOPT
Harris County Pets
612 Canino
Houston #TX
☎️282-999-3191
Out of state adoptions available

[mari @mcmari8]

@Iza_2021 @SEALMacsgirl Can you confirm she’s out of danger now. I’ve been actively looking for her. Please give me an update. I’m not really set up on X . But I’ll check back.

[Pranav @yay_pranav]

A deeper aspect of you is always silently listening no matter what the voice inside your head says.

You start to heal your anxiety when you realize:

“You are not the tiring voice inside your head, but the one who silently listens to the voice”.

[mari @mcmari8]

@PatriziaMorris I just got my emails back [email protected] couldn’t deliver them.

[mari @mcmari8]

@PatriziaMorris I sent a message to the mayor.!I was upset when I saw a cute lively healthy young dog called Orion was killed. He was so hopeful and wanted to live. How long did you want them to postpone the date?

[mari @mcmari8]

@BearyHappy04 @BARC_Houston Do rescue charities overlook the healthy ones to take on the sicker dogs or more difficult cases ? I don’t know how we think ourselves as animal lovers. Other day I saw a dog in the kennels for all his 4 years on this earth. It’s so difficult and heartbreaking.

[mari @mcmari8]

@BearyHappy04 @BARC_Houston Oh no that is tragic. What a sweet healthy friendly boy. Need to do something about those kill lists. Time to get the word out to remove them. People should stop breeding animals without a license.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Saint-Malo, Brittany, has one of the highest tides in Europe, with water that can rise 13 m over.

These houses (here seen during storm Ciara), are built as a sea wall and 4 layer glass on the front windows.

[📹 Easy Ride]

[Marc Pieterse (⧖) @marcpieterse.bsky.social @PieterseMarc]

The lazy scumbag is twice as big as that poor donkey 💔👺

He is an animal abuser and does not take good care of this animals

You can see at least one looking very bad and limping 😭

Stop. Using. Animals.

#EndAnimalAg

#LiveVegan 🌱🙏✌️

[mari @mcmari8]

@Hostinger Need some human @hostinger to help sort out a problem with newly purchased #webmail hosting service. It says help 24/7 this isn’t true. I need to get this sorted or my money back.

[mari @mcmari8]

@Hostinger how can I get in touch with someone that’s human. I have a problem with the recently purchased webmail hosting service. Thanks

[mari @mcmari8]

@AdoptionsUk Why did they shoot the dog? Really retire them than shoot them.