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Happenstance writer. Word tinkerer. Still figuring it all out. Or in. Or.

[Andy Signore @andysignore]

This #SkyscraperLive is wild!!! Alex is unreal

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

This is brilliant.
♥️ 🎶🎻

[sefdavis🤨 @sefdavis]

@Rainmaker1973 Mindful

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

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[sefdavis🤨 @sefdavis]

@KittyCatEmpire Puppy piranhas!!😹

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Rest in peace, Patricia Routledge 🙏🏻

In memory of her, I encourage everyone to read these words of hers from February last year.

Whether young or old, you're bound to get something out of it.

*****

"I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn’t live up to my mother’s hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude.

My life didn’t quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily — on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions — but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn’t quite found.

At 50, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with — Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people’s living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks. It healed something in me.

At 60, I began learning Italian — not for work, but so I could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul.

At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage — something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being.

At 80, I took up watercolour painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible.

Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I’m learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter — though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever.

I’m writing this to tell you something simple:

Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter — if you let yourself bloom again.

Let these years ahead be your TREASURE YEARS.

You don’t need to be famous. You don’t need to be flawless.

You only need to show up — fully — for the life that is still yours.

With love and gentleness,

Patricia Routledge

*****

Once more, rest in peace. 🤍

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The story of how Trump sells access to the White House - to benefit himself and his family financially and to benefit his political operation - is shocking and sordid.

No President has ever monetized access like Trump has.

1/ It's a story you need to know.

[Ben Stephens @stephens_ben]

Everyone's rightly sharing the Padilla handcuffing footage, but can we pause for a second and read this quote from Noem's presser?

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

Trump is sending 2,000 National Guard troops into LA County — not to meet an unmet need, but to manufacture a crisis.

He’s hoping for chaos so he can justify more crackdowns, more fear, more control.

Stay calm. Never use violence. Stay peaceful.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

This is so wrong. All to feed the ego of a mad tyrant who never had the balls to serve. This is not what we do in America. This is so fucking wrong. Makes me so sad. And so angry.👇

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Musk’s interview went great: Reporter: What is your thought on the ban of foreign students, you were one of those kids, right? Musk: “I think we want to stick to talking about spaceships.” Reporter: I was told that any topic is good. Musk: “Well no.”

[JustTheFacts! ⚓️ 🇺🇸🦅 @JustTheFacts_68]

According to Grok, they were granted P-1 refugee status, which makes them eligible for government benefits.

Where’s the MAGA outrage?

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Imagine if Obama had been flying around in a gift from Qatar.

I realize the "what if President XYZ did it" imaginings are played out, but sometimes the utter lack of standards from MAGA world can still be astounding.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING UPDATE:
TRUMP IS KEEPING THE PLANE.

While Trump will initially use the Qatar gifted plan as Air Force One, it will be transferred to the Trump library by January 2029.

This is now officially the biggest illegal bribe in U.S. history.

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

Trump must seek Congress’ consent to take this $300 million gift from Qatar. The Constitution is perfectly clear: no present “of any kind whatever” from a foreign state without Congressional permission. A gift you use for four years and then deposit in your library is still a gift (and a grift).

[Emily A. The Spirit of Jezebel @emzorbit]

ICE raids at:

- a deli previously owned by a former Obama official
- a restaurant owned by Norah O’Donnel’s spouse
- a restaurant owned by Chef Jose Andres

Funny, they’re not raiding Trump golf courses and resorts.

[Do the right thing @mkwlbert2552]

@hemantmehta @CEOofAFN Is the Pope "woke"? Perhaps you should define what "woke" is. While you're at it, define what DEI is. Then, wonder why it is that you can't seem to live and let live.

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.