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"Social Ride"
Kind of funny how part of this was undoing my warmup route.
#map #mywork #photog #photography #ridemap
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♲ @joyce_donahue@diaspora.glasswings.com:Ignorant Trump attacks science yet again
When the cold air that we're experiencing is the result of the North Pole not being able to hold onto its air mass because of Arctic melting, Trump looks particularly stupid. The polar air belongs at the pole! It's not rocket science. It's climate change!
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I wonder what would frighten the Trumpster enough to prefer confessing to all of his misdeeds to comitting something even more outrageous as a distraction.
♲ @jarasy@diasporasocial.net:I copied this from someone's post here and sent it to my family. My son pointed out that they forgot, "Rapes children."
[Sorry no attribution on the original post.]
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https://newsletter.freewillastrology.com/p/the-burning-timeThe Burning Time
Rob #Brezsny..."For decades, we avoided the difficult reckonings: the conversations about white supremacy that needed to happen after the civil rights movement, the economic inequality that kept growing unchecked, the civic institutions that needed reimagining, and all the truths about our genocidal and colonialist history that needed to be faced and integrated.
We suppressed the small fires. We chose comfort over confrontation, incremental reform over transformation, and politeness over justice. We let the undergrowth accumulate, including the resentments, the unaddressed grievances, and all the broken systems we kept patching instead of rebuilding.
And now the fire has come. The Trumpocalypse isn’t just one man or one administration. It’s the accumulated fuel of everything we refused to burn away when the fires were smaller and more manageable. It’s what happens when a society postpones its reckonings until they become unavoidable.
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To any thinking and caring person, the current landscape looks apocalyptic. We can reasonably conclude that our republic is being destroyed. And no other event better symbolizes the cluster-fuck of hideous atrocities than the barbaric, execution-style murder of Renee Nicole Good, mother of three, by a masked thug hired by ICE.
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What if the current American catastrophe is also cracking open what was sealed shut in our collective consciousness? What if the seeds of a genuinely multiracial democracy, an actually equitable economy, and a truly inclusive society were already here, locked tight, and this fire is what finally releases them?The version of America that carried those sealed seeds is dying. The parent tree doesn’t get to survive its own regeneration. These are all burning: the country we thought we were, the stories we told ourselves about our exceptionalism and inevitable progress, and the comfortable illusions about how democracy works. Major parts of our national identity are dying, turning to ash.
The fire hurts! America is undeniably burning. Real people are fleeing. Immigrants are terrorized. Trans people are under assault. Women’s bodily autonomy has been stripped away. The most vulnerable are bearing the worst of the decimation and devastation.
But here’s what the lodgepole pines know: The fire burns away what was choking out new growth.
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Sometimes terrible things happen because hideous bullies ans thugs seize power and cause immense harm. The Trumpocalypse is real. The cruelty is real. The evil is real.But it’s also true that human societies, like lodgepole forests, sometimes have a mysterious capacity to metabolize catastrophe into fertility. We wouldn’t be the first to take the ash of what burned and grow new life from it. Not because the fire is good, but because we are built to regenerate both individually and collectively.
The question isn’t whether we will face this fire. We are facing it. The question is: Will we let it and help it it do its work? Will we allow what needs to burn to burn—the systems that were never going to save us, the stories that were never true, and the institutions that served power instead of people?"...
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Imagine that...
I have found what I will call a Eunich Horn, although it was known as "La flûte de l'eunuque" in France during the 16th and 17th century. It has a vibrating diaphragm in the ball chamber that is activated by speaking or whistling at the hole in the side, somewhat like a kazoo or didgeridoo. The diaphragm is made of "goldbeater's skin". It seems possible that scrotum skin may have been used in the making some instruments, and therefore influenced the name.
https://mimo-international.com/MIMO/doc/IFD/OAI_CIMU_ALOES_0159298/flute-eunuque
♲ @dianea@diasporasocial.net:Yes, the Americans are now running death camps.
Medical care in ICE custody now denied as policy.We'll see these death camps here soon. Somewhere the locations are being chosen.
Fascists do not put on the brakes or see reason. They can't now. They're all war criminals and the counts are added to daily.
They can only shut up the non-fascists, by fear, by incarceration or by death.
And they have to expand or die which guarantees they will indeed come for us here.
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♲ @psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com:mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/… moira@mastodon.murkworks.net - @[url=https://hachyderm.io/users/inthehands]Paul Cantrell[/url] Seattle schools are already on alert, people (including me) have been making and distributing whistle packs, they're to the point of being kits and there's a map of dropoff/pickup locations at businesses, and so on:
docs.google.com/document/d/1u8…They're winding up to attack us, but there aren't enough of them to do this everywhere. We hear you, and we are getting ready.
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♲ @huartsound3@diaspo.it:DID CRAZY TRUMP JUST THREATEN TO ARREST JOE BIDEN?
In Trump’s War against the United States of America, as he readies 1500 members of the 11th Airborne in Alaska to parachute into Minnesota in a bid to provoke Civil War, as he threatens conflict with NATO while being unable to remember America is IN Nato, is the dictator’s next step an attempt to arrest Joe Biden? To indict Kamala Harris? To convene grand juries to pursue the former First Lady and Jen Psaki and Kareen Jean-Pierre and god knows who else?
“Everyone is asking about the Autopen (question mark)” because he’s nearly 80 and he still doesn’t know how to use punctuation marks. It starts with usual Trumpian stupidity and then turns very dark very fast. Quote: “it was an absolutely illegal act perpetrated by the Radical Left Insurrectionists who illegally ran the Biden Administration. Every one of them should be arrested for what they have done… the whole thing was rigged, there must be a price to pay, and it has got to be a big one,” end quote.
This is no longer one of those 'signs of his mental illness' from the 1st administration; this is something one of his whores at the Department of Justice will act upon because a) they ARE whores and b) because they are soft and frankly getting an indictment against Joe Biden for something that amounts to “Being President Without Trump’s Permission” is just easier than confronting the whining pants-soiling Jabba the Hutt with bronzer currently occupying the White House – until the floor beneath him collapses. Possibly – given Trump’s weight – LITERALLY.
MEANWHILE: We are blackmailing NATO and the EU over Greenland, and he is trying to start a civil war in Minnesota. And his minion is caught on tape ordering CBS to run an interview unedited and this clown Bari Weiss is caught complying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7DkeJsNvo8
52:48 min video
#Countdown by Keith #Olbermann
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♲ @christophs@diaspora.glasswings.com:NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books * TorrentFreak
NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training. In an expanded class-action lawsuit that cites internal NVIDIA documents, several book authors claim that the trillion-dollar company directly reached out to Anna's Archive, seeking high-speed access to the shadow library data.
Of course. It's easier that ways as getting all the licenses and acks from the publishers!
#nvidia #piracy
This Is The EndThis Is the End
Putinism abroad always morphs into Putinism at home. And we chose this path. Why? Because something-something the price of eggs.Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark)
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in reply to Neil E. Hodges • • •@Neil E. Hodges Compare the situation with a streetcar.
Everyone is behind the Führer (aka driver), and everyone not standing sits (in jail or worse)
Jump off the car in movement is forbidden. And every 30sec comes the cashier...
If you compare the Third Reich with a streetcar, that's all the same.
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