René Volpi on Substack A romantic evening for a couple of hummingbirds seeking shelter. 🌹

And now for something completely adorable
substack.com/@renegvolpi/...

Emergency Announcement YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

youtube.com/watch?v=U1kP...
It’s time to take action

If you are in Bakersfield Ca tomorrow swing on by 6pm - 8pm

I lived in Kevin McCarthy’s district. In 16 years he didn’t hold a single town hall. A couple of times he held a fundraiser and called it a town hall.

Democracy doesn’t exist in the United States: Chris Hedges Marc Lamont Hill speaks with the former war correspondent about liberal democracy and Trump’s second term.

Here it is. Not more circus. What’s actually been going on.
aje.io/tzame1

Sound familiar? 🤔 In Peru, a democratically elected leader dismantled institutions, silenced critics, and rewrote the rules to hold onto power. Corruption doesn’t announce itself—it creeps in while pe... TikTok video by RepresentUs

She knows some stuff about coups
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2ahyGac/

Now this is interesting
youtube.com/watch?v=MYoA...

Not being able to control what I see is the biggest problem with facebook. I’d leave; Problem is it’s the only platform that has people I know from real life. TikTok fills my need for random strangers.

This one has some serious clues
youtube.com/watch?v=ol4X...

The Naive Ignorant on Substack Yesterday, the Danish Prime minister posted this photo on her social media. There, you see the leaders of the 4 Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) dining together. Not at a huge state...

Flat hierarchy
substack.com/@thenaiveign...

It’s MLK day anyway. Lots of other stuff to do.

53 times, tops.

I’m disillusioned. I relied on Facebook for connection to people I know. Zuck devolved it into a loop of tabloid quizzes. Twitter left us a couple of years ago. Instagram is pointless. TikTok is cool but going away. Bluesky has potential. So far just Trump bashing reruns, no solutions.

I dated a cat lady who had a list of things she wanted me to be so she didn’t have to die alone with just her cats.
One thing was not be allergic to cats.

Lack of sufficient income has played a major role in the ones that got away. Not just the conservative women who do expect a man to be the breadwinner. Enlightened liberal women who expect income parody. Witty and charming alone hasn’t worked for me.

I don’t know what legal action would work to bring down death by violence in the USA. Other civilized countries control firearms a lot more than we do. It works there.

Lots of things make mine whine. Soulful women with that ‘Come hither’ look are among them.

Red Foxx also liked to curse on stage.

Following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Hitler established a Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda headed by Joseph Goebbels. The Ministry's aim was to ensure that the Nazi message was successfully communicated through art, music, theater, films, books, radio, education & press.

Pedophile says what?

When you are not a winner caring can easily slide into sympathy then pity. Which is still caring, but you are infantilized or become an untouchable, lest your being a loser might be infectious.
Which is sad but very human.

As time progresses the appointments go from absurd/ironic to vaguely aware of what the department does finally to someone from the motor pool who signed a loyalty oath to Trump. Not to the country or constitution.

Person to person I am happy when someone tells me who they are.
In the macro view those who very from the binary norm are just a few percent of the population. Only a few percent of that cohort are affected negatively by standardized labeling. Expectations not the label itself. Be kind with expecta

More penis analogies. Arnold Palmer would be so proud.

Do they still call this cyberspace? It’s hard to take myself or others seriously in a place that doesn’t exist.

If not a whole essay, how about just a few sentences?

Like the crush of pig butchers wanting follow backs.

I’m here today to whine and complain about all the whining and complaining I’m seeing on BlueSky. Or is it Bluesky?
What I liked about Twitter pre-Musk was all the journalists and journalist-bloggers and people with hands on roles in the issues of the day. Where are they?

Over/under cooked and/or seasoned is the 4am gourmet experience. Fucked up the way you remember from non-sober times needs a few cigarette butts mixed in

Better than last time? At my age I’m luck I was able to get it up at all last time. Next time… forgetaboutit