An old locomotive engineer drinking deeply from the boulevardier of broken dreams, if not drinking really good coffee. Remember the miraculous absurdly of being alive. “It’s a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal”.https://bsky.app/profile/danawroe.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/danawroe.bsky.social/post/3ml5wnciuuc2oThis is Joseph Denman. He was made famous as the Commander of the HMS Wanderer, a ship in the Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron, a detachment focused on the utter destruction of the West African slave trade. Denman apparently had an evangelical zeal for the abolition of slavery, and waged an 106 May 2026 05:08 +0000at://did:plc:46kbd5cnoefjb2f66dynmp62/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5wnciuuc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/danawroe.bsky.social/post/3mljdxob2uk2hTo all romantics, wounded and disillusioned out there, all the people who have had relationships, sexual and otherwise, that ended…for some reason now long forgotten, yet still remember their former friends and lovers with fondness, I have an answer now I’m old. We love to fall in love, don’t we?10 May 2026 18:05 +0000at://did:plc:46kbd5cnoefjb2f66dynmp62/app.bsky.feed.post/3mljdxob2uk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/danawroe.bsky.social/post/3mloh4i6ook2lAn old Japanese-American truck farmer from Hawaii, when asked by a reporter which side he wanted to win the war; the U.S.A. or Japan, replied: “When your mother and father are fighting, you don’t want anyone to win, you just want them to stop fighting.”12 May 2026 18:45 +0000at://did:plc:46kbd5cnoefjb2f66dynmp62/app.bsky.feed.post/3mloh4i6ook2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/danawroe.bsky.social/post/3mloh4i6ook2lAn old Japanese-American truck farmer from Hawaii, when asked by a reporter which side he wanted to win the war; the U.S.A. or Japan, replied: “When your mother and father are fighting, you don’t want anyone to win, you just want them to stop fighting.”12 May 2026 18:45 +0000at://did:plc:46kbd5cnoefjb2f66dynmp62/app.bsky.feed.post/3mloh4i6ook2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/danawroe.bsky.social/post/3mljdxob2uk2hTo all romantics, wounded and disillusioned out there, all the people who have had relationships, sexual and otherwise, that ended…for some reason now long forgotten, yet still remember their former friends and lovers with fondness, I have an answer now I’m old. We love to fall in love, don’t we?10 May 2026 18:05 +0000at://did:plc:46kbd5cnoefjb2f66dynmp62/app.bsky.feed.post/3mljdxob2uk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/danawroe.bsky.social/post/3mleblgex6223For the rest of its existence, I will be referring to our current, nameless, since there is no Chief Justice worthy of mention, Supreme Court as the Roger B. Taney Supreme Court. If you know, you know. That is all.08 May 2026 17:39 +0000at://did:plc:46kbd5cnoefjb2f66dynmp62/app.bsky.feed.post/3mleblgex6223https://bsky.app/profile/danawroe.bsky.social/post/3ml5wnciuuc2oThis is Joseph Denman. He was made famous as the Commander of the HMS Wanderer, a ship in the Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron, a detachment focused on the utter destruction of the West African slave trade. Denman apparently had an evangelical zeal for the abolition of slavery, and waged an 106 May 2026 05:08 +0000at://did:plc:46kbd5cnoefjb2f66dynmp62/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5wnciuuc2o