PennWriter

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day.

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Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

Beautifully said 💕

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No I was just called a name for caring. I am now deleting Bluesky because I tried to say the media should have left him alone. Instead everyone is piling on me.

Don’t say that. I was just called a “fucking ghoul” because I said that.

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Same.

We’ve been told justice is coming for years. It isn’t. No use into clinging to false hope. Too many are complicit in allowing our country to fall.

Until ALL Americans have healthcare, all politicians should be without it. Why should we fund your healthcare? Fund your own damn healthcare or don’t have it. You (all of you) also make far too much money for doing so little for Americans.

Why are our tax dollars paying for their subscriptions in the first place? They make a boatload of money; they can pay for it for them and their staff themselves.

Yes! What do they care about us? Yet, they are supposed to work for us. We pay for their healthcare and outrageous salaries and that needs to change. I’m so fed up with both parties. Bunch of complicit fools.

The US is crumbling and politicians are hosting a hot dog party. Priorities. Complicit.

I paid $3.35 this week in PA.

Nope, hard disagree. I have a MA in Holocaust & Genocide Studies, and Trump and MAGA are following along the Nazi playbook. Has nothing to do with them having the same skin color.

Nazi Germany, the U.S. edition.

You going to say anything about the concentration (well, death) camp in Florida? How can you celebrate when we have concentration camps in the U.S.? We all know what that leads to but….crickets from you.

Too many don’t realize they’ve been played yet. They’re cheering this. They won’t get it until it hurts them and then they’ll blame someone else. Anyone but their orange god.

💯 percent agree.

But they’re trying to rip away Americans’ healthcare while they have the best. It’s disgusting and I don’t get how anyone, even MAGA, can be okay with that.

I think it is time politicians work like we do - so many weeks off, paid holidays, and sick days. None of this BS where they can give themselves a raise and no top tier healthcare unless we all have it.

But, but…what about the beach? You were just whining about missing your trip to the beach. PA deserves better.

Idea. How about stepping aside for the good of the U.S. and letting younger Dems - the fighters - take over?

Instead of me continuing to teach my daughter about Nazi Germany, she now gets to live in the 21st century version. I hope I live to see the downfall of every single complicit politician - you, included.

So illegally bombing Iran isn’t an impeachable offense? You’re just as delusional as your orange god. I can’t wait for the modern Nuremberg Trials when you and all of your fellow Nazis will have to answer for your actions.