Mattch

@mooter55.bsky.social

Irrelevant liberal bohemian *Music*Nature*Democracy* 💙🇺🇸 I may like your political posts but I do not follow anyone who is here chiefly for politics. Music & Art please…thanks

Someone on this app said one of the biggest things that AI will steal from is our collective sense of wonder and I’ve never stopped thinking about it. Photos like this shouldn’t have to come with a caveat because nature is deliriously gorgeous and … wondrous.

NE Ohio Regional Sewer District@neorsd.org · 6mo ago

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock. straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

vertical image of a still retention basin and sunlit sky. the sky is split starkly down the middle, clear on the left, gray clouds on the right, sun at the center. the cloud line is reflected perfectly on the basin surface below the horizon.

photo by Lindsay Schiel NEORSD

Here’s an old stump that threw out suckers, creating a bowl that holds rainwater. Deers love it & Ole does too. He smells them on the bark so he has to leave his scent too. Pretty comical!

Ole drinking …Then leaves his scent where the deer left there’sHe was really into marking the watering hole!Might as well get right in it! “Ole was here!”

Then we took the dogs to Seppiessa for a short walk by the cove. It opens up into a big pond, and by the tide line, you can tell they’ve opened it @ the barrier beach to flush it out, get some fresh saline in for the clams, oysters, & crabs.

Looking south up Tiah’s cove.Daisy & Ole
Black & White pic of my B&W dogs

We both went early to fill-up today…It’s “cheap” gas Sunday, where all winter the year-rounders get a deal. Next Sunday is the last one 😏

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The war in Iran has already cost $22.8 billion. For $22.8 billion, we could: • Provide Medicaid to 6.8 million kids • Build 2.6 million public housing units • Fund Head Start for 1.3 million • Hire 240,000 teachers • Cancel $20,000 in student debt for 1 million borrowers

Nathan Cavanaugh, DOGE staffer w/ no expertise in federal grants, was in charge of cutting funds at the National Endowment for the Humanities using a flawed ChatGPT keyword search. Not reading the grants. Not evaluating the work. Just scanning for keywords & cutting funds. #ProudBlue 📹: 404 Media