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Book lover and publisher sales rep. Living with #Scleroderma. Out here trying my best.
Greece is burning. Spain is burning. Sicily, Wales, Türkiye, Canada, the US— the entire planet is engulfed in flames. Decades of warnings ignored. Decades of corporate denial exposed. The science was right all along: our home is on fire. We need immediate, radical climate action.
Trying to imagine the Fox News coverage if a Democratic President spent the entire weekend shoving himself into team photos for the World Cup while American soldiers were being killed overseas.
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Good morning, a collage full of nature, colour and texture for you today. 16 little photo snippets taken from a variety of my embroideries. I hope it brightens your timeline. 😉🪡🌿🌺🪻 #embroidery #thesewingsongbird
yeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets
People are making wildfire bets on prediction markets. Experts say it could lead to disaster | CNN
As the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires raged last year, people placed bets on how how many acres the fires would consume, which locations they would reach and when they would be contained.
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Be alarmed. Resist fascism. Speak up. Vote.
They say books won’t change the world. Tell that to every colonizer who burned them. To every enslaved person who was punished for reading. Literacy is resistance. Literacy is liberation. The library is a battlefield.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream After several attempts, I finally managed to photograph fireflies in the Czech woods.
Hundreds of people are expected to don flowing red dresses and recreate Kate Bush's iconic Wuthering Heights dance at a free event in south Wales this summer wp.me/p8Mk4U-1o3U
I hate how big companies just don't want anyone to own anything ever again. They'd rent food to us if they could
Once again, South Beach, Newport, Oregon. Glad this is so close! #ColorADay #OrangeSun #PNW #Beach #Photography #Sunset #eastCoastKin
“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” - OCTAVIA BUTLER, born on this day in 1947 in Pasadena, California
Things are going on in New York right that people may not understand for thousands of years
If you use Waymo driverless car services, you are aiding and abetting fascism. Waymo helps I.C.E. agents locate people to terrorize and abduct. The company willingly shares all facial recognition, license plate and GPS data with I.C.E. and other law enforcement agencies—no subpoena required.
Waymo Self-Driving Jaguar at Traffic Light
ALT: Waymo Self-Driving Jaguar at Traffic Light
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The care your doctor says you need is all that should be required to receive said care and it be covered. Period.
people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly
We have to end his power in November. It is life or death.
My daughter's beloved child is the one I hold here. The one that I held on my lap While we looked at the light of the sun when we were alive, And that I still hold, now that we are both dead. - inscription on this c. 400 BCE Greek grave marker, carved with a grandmother holding a swaddled baby
Everyone should have free healthcare, regardless of their age or ability to work.
Weather unfollowed is a danger to all Americans. NOAA faces proposed budget reductions of about $2 billion, and one proposal would eliminate NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research entirely, shutting down all research laboratories across the country.
"The moment you begin to censor the writer- and history bears this out in the ugliest of fashions -so begins a process of decay in the body politic that ultimately leads to disaster." ~Rod Serling Speech, Library of Congress (1968)
How can the President sue his own government when the president is supposed to release his tax returns? Can someone answer that..?
So we are now at the: 'throw off all pretence of democracy and do whatever it takes to maintain power'stage of fascism. The people of the USA are going to have to fight like Hungary to overcome this.