Goth pigeon.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

It's been another exceptionally lousy day. Have a Goth pigeon. Solid black, but iridescent; L'Estat as rock dove. He seemed to know he was being photographed, and was only too happy to pose for it. 

Yeah, I know, but after the way this week has gone, I take my entertainment where I find it.

A lot of my irritation has to do with the wind, which jacks my pain levels into the stratosphere, and absolutely nothing touches it. Pain meds? Nah. Nothing.  Some of it's just the residual effects of all of yesterday's bullshit, which was exhausting, infuriating, and mostly stuff I should never have had to deal with, but people will be assholes.  Some of it's longstanding nonsense. And some of it is the fact that everything is shit, and it's the fault of the people who would call themselves "leaders," and I am enraged that they are such cowards, so venal, so unwilling to do the barest minimum of their jobs, so complicit in the evils that got us here. The work I do daily with mutual aid shows me the evils the Dems continually inflict, piled onto the murderous monstrousness of the Republicans, and they have the fucking temerity to ask US for money? Multiple times a day? While running campaigns that are pure shit? Oh, hell, no.

I'll take the Goth pigeon, thanks.

Meanwhile, all the work still has to get done: the housework, the paperwork, the sales work, everything. I also had to do a lot pf physical labor today that has made my pain levels much worse, so there's that. And the one thing that came out of the tax nonsense is that I was not losing my mind; last year, we made barely more than 50% of the previous year's sales, which tells you how bad Trump is for business [and for everything else except inflicting harm]. The problem is that everything still has to get paid, and we paid in cash, in full, and now we've got recover a lot of that if we're going to make it through the year. And we've got to maintain it, because we've also got big costs [the side exterior door, for one; the flue cleanings for another; and a set of tires for the truck for a third] immediately ahead. Those three new cuffs are up; in the next couple of days, I'll have his new bolo posted, and a couple of new pairs of earrings, too. But I have got to get us caught up on this awful year in terms of sales. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [and to whomever sent a bunch of items off it that have arrived recently, THANK YOU; there were no purchaser inserts with the items, zip, zero, nada];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need to get this year onto a better footing than the last two, and so far, it's been pretty grim.

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