J. Douglas Alexander

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@alicatwar.bsky.social hey sweet lady, my beautiful friend!!!!

Cool, but AI images looses you a follower

Holiday Message + Four Great Bodhisattva Vows Roshi Joan Halifax shares a special holiday message and teaching on the Four Great Bodhisattva Vows.

Special thanks to @joanhalifax.bsky.social for this deeply empowering and timely reminder of awakened compassion in this season of light and as we venture into the new year.

www.upaya.org/2024/12/holi...

Thousands of students are seen lining the highway with both EU and a Georgia flags. This photo is credited to Beka Kokaia.

Tbilisi, Day 24.

1000s of students have blocked the main East-West highway across #Georgia, shutting off the entrance to Tbilisi.

24 straight days of people power demanding:
- free & fair elections 🗳️
- release of political detainees🚓
- EU membership🇪🇺
- a non-Russian future 🇷🇺❌

#GeorgiaProtests 🇬🇪

There's so much angst and despair radiating all around us. This is wholly understandable, but if something's giving you warmth or strength (even just a bit), be sure to uplift that as well. Help others remember that kindness, solidarity, and care are still at work in the world.

Canada has been a great friend and neighbor to America. It’s a wondrous nation—rich in natural beauty and some of the kindest, most talented people anywhere—so when Trump told PM Trudeau to his face, multiple times, that Canada should be America’s “51st state,” it disgraced us. He disgraced America.

Holy smokes! That is amazing! Congratulations for a *very* well-deserved role!!! You’re gonna kill it!

Dropped religion in ‘98 (at 48) after 4 years of Sewanee’s Ed for Ministry. Dark time. Existential moment when dad passed in ‘02. Realized that I had to work with my mind. Began Buddhist meditation practice in ‘06. I’m definitely a spiritual person but I don’t believe in magic. Life is big enough.

Okay this one is a certified banger.

Curse the one minute time cap.

No, magats. No amount of bullshit will ever make me accept your Fanta Führer.

ELON MUSKS "FREE SPEACH " IS NOT FOR ALL !

IF YOU TELLTHE TRUTH ABOUT TRUMP, ON X, YOU GET BLOCKED !

ELON MUSK IS A FASCIST!

BAN X IN EUROPE!

BAN ELON MUSK FROM ENTERING EUROPE!

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I struggle to use the word “hope” because it risks becoming implicit aversion — and thereby suffering. If I hope for anything it’s the faith to stay present, to witness, and be a point of compassion, to keep my seat, to simply stay & to act with intelligence. Thank you @joanhalifax.bsky.social

Mary Oliver is the modern Rumi.

Generosity is not about optimization.

We feel what we feel. We need to allow every feeling the dignity of its own existence. Then we can decide if we want to take it to heart or let it go.

Hi Yoshi, my name is Doug Alexander, I’m in Houston Texas. I have deep respect for you and would be so deeply honored to be followed by you.

The first step in learning any truth is to wonder about it. Saint Augustine

Off to a Christmas Party/Coat Drive. They can't change who you are. Life is good around you because you are good. Leave MAGA to wallow in their misery.

Women still have options no matter where they live in the United States.

Visit: www.asafechoicenetwork.com

#ASafeChoice 💙

Our community has just crossed the 170k threshold. Way to go folks. Let's keep growing this movement.

Direct government healthcare for all would be even cheaper because we wouldn't have to pay private third parties to adjudicate claims.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. Warren Buffett, American business magnate (born 1930)

I don’t do self checkout if I can go thru a living breathing checker. I chat. I encourage and engage. I smile and say names and ask questions. People are more intelligent that the best self-checkout UI.

I’m that dad. The one who won’t shut up about his kid.

A pumpkin pie with a wavy edge. One side is a little slumped.

An apple pie with crimped edges.

A tan knitted sweater with a simple design down the sleeves. A friend said it kinda looks like Star Wars padding.

A striped knitted tank top. Colors alternate between yellow and a fun multi toned yarn that looks vaguely like sorbet colors.

Recent things I’ve made, from baked things go knitted things.

I need to get better pics of the ceramic things soon.

BREAKING:

Two elementary school children were shot in a school shooting in Northern California before the gunman took his own life.

The incident occurred around 1 p.m. at Feather River School.

The condition of two children is unknown.

Fuck every lawmaker whose votes made this possible.

Today, #KashPatel sent a letter to my counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social threatening to sue & demanding I retract my MSNBC comments on his unfitness to serve as FBI Director. This follows his threats against media & political opponents, showing how he might act if confirmed. I stand by my statements.