Reminder that LOCAL ELECTIONS MATTER.
When ICE comes to your district to buy a warehouse to turn into a concentration camp, commissioners and city council members can make it difficult. Refusal to allow utilities, zoning rules, etc.
Vote on behalf of every human in danger of being detained.
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Sinead was poet and priestess; fierce and fragile; warrior and artist; one of the greatest voices of our time and yet ever-humble. This video, and the story behind it, is one of the most beautiful tributes Iโve seen to her ๐ค
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This is exquisite โฆ haunting and heart-breaking. Thank-you for sharing.
If the Riceโs whale dwindles and dies off after a long tenure on Earth, it will mean the government had โvoted to knowingly eradicate every member of an entire whale species from our planetโ, said Dan Snyder, director of the Environmental Enforcement Project.
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The image consists of two main visual elements presented in a scrapbook-like layout against a white background: Portrait: A framed, slightly tilted photograph of author Barbara Kingsolver. She is a woman with wavy, chin-length salt-and-pepper hair, wearing round tortoiseshell glasses and a dark top. She is looking directly at the camera with a sweet and gentle smile. Book Cover: Overlaid on the bottom right corner of the portrait is the book cover for her novel, Demon Copperhead. The cover features a vibrant, dark blue background with a pattern of bright orange and yellow floral or leaf-like shapes. The title and author's name are printed in large, bold, yellow and white sans-serif text.
Best-selling novelist, essayist, and poet Barbara Kingsolver was born #OTD in 1955.
Her works include ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ช๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2023) for the novel ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ.
#booksky #litsky
Iโm halfway through Pigs In Heaven and itโs a delight. I always learn so much from Barbara Kingsolverโs writing, and from the depth of thought and research she brings to her work.
The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" โ all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it.
This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.
โLet those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. Not a peace pursued by force, but through dialogue. Not with the desire to dominate the other, but to encounter them.โ โ Pope Leo XIV
Bittersweet night seeing my 18yo fast asleep in the back seat on the way home from Admitted Students Day at college, and remembering all the years of glancing at her sleeping as I drove โฆ from baby to little girl to the halcyon days of latency and now a young woman, ready to step out into the world.
Oh I love this! ๐ป
Just wait until these eyesore monstrosities want to come to your neighborhood. Goodbye trees. Expect to hear a constant, electrical humming, warmer temperatures and higher energy bills. Fight like hell to keep data centers out of your area.
The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating โheat islands,โ warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Itโs No Kings Day and we are GOING OUT TODAY. Before you do eat a real breakfast. Not a granola bar over the sink ๐ Youโre about to make history and you need fuel. Wear comfortable shoes. Give yourself extra time to get there, especially if youโre heading to St. Paul. Check your
Future generations wonโt believe these trees existed.
They will read about 1,500-year-old cedars and 2,000-year-old redwoods and think we made them upโlike dragons or griffins.
But right now, we have the chance to make sure the story ends differently. Donโt let the last ancients become myths.
Yes to that! Itโs a breath of fresh air over here ๐ฉต
And of course heโs right! Because the world would not be in the mess weโre currently in if more people aspired to read more books.
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I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere
Our little old lady came for an early cuddle this morning, and is now fast asleep. I havenโt the heart to move her, so no making the bed this morning, then ๐ฅน๐ป
#Caturday
#UULent
#care
My mind was still exploding over Pratchett being banned when I got to the piece about AI selection. That tracks. Anyone who would turn to AI for this either does not know or care how frequently AI vomits out complete hallucinations, and is clearly not a reader themselves. Which explains everything ๐
โI come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief โฆ For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.โ ~ #WendellBerry
#UULent
#grace
#Pilanesberg
#SouthAfrica
#AfricanSunset
#giraffe
โIt is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.โ ~ #MayaAngelou
#UULent
#justice
#ConstitutionalCourt
#SouthAfrica
โFor resistance to succeed โฆ people must find themselves in places that are not their homes, and among groups who were not previously their friends. Protest can be organized through social media, but nothing is real that does not end on the streets.โ~ Timothy Snyder
#UULent
#protest
#Detroit
โThe revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.โ ~ #SteveBiko
#UULent
#liberation
โThe weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.โ
~ Criss Jami
#UULent
#disruption
#GatheringStorm
#BeardedVulture
#Clarens
#SouthAfrica
Beautiful, Greg! So crisp and pretty against the blue sky ๐ฉต
