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The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--

03.06.2025 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 22199    πŸ” 3740    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, β€œOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

29.03.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 11590    πŸ” 4397    πŸ’¬ 132    πŸ“Œ 168
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Eclipse from LA. Looking downtown from the Park Row Bridge. πŸ’•
Composite image, foreground and moon shot separately. Foreground F/16 30sec at 21mm. Moon: F/6.3 0.8sec at 400mm.

#eclipse #LA #losangeles #lunareclipse #moon

14.03.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

18.02.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 36695    πŸ” 6387    πŸ’¬ 610    πŸ“Œ 686
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β€œCatastrophic”: Trans Youth Losing Access to Care As President Trump continues to sign new executive orders attacking transgender people and their rights, we hear voices of protest from New York, where hundreds of people rallied Monday outside NYU Langone...

"Catastrophic": Trans Youth Lose Access to Care as Hospitals Capitulate to Trump Attacks

05.02.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 314    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2
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Anti-ICE protesters are blocking both sides of the 101 Freeway near the Alameda Street exit in DTLA. The CHP has since closed that portion of the freeway.

02.02.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5896    πŸ” 1221    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 88
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Anti-ICE protesters in California have shut down the 101 freeway in Los Angeles marching towards City Hall.

02.02.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 40159    πŸ” 8065    πŸ’¬ 1062    πŸ“Œ 643
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A Brutal Beginning: Orienting Ourselves Amid the Shock and Awe We must be prepared to live and act defiantly, deriving no legitimacy from the illegitimate brutes who would govern us.

I wrote about Trump's executive orders, including his attacks on trans and undocumented people, and how we should be orienting ourselves to defy fascist violence in this moment. This piece includes commentary from @chasestrangio.bsky.social and @silkys13.bsky.social.

21.01.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1064    πŸ” 492    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 116
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Palestina Libre, San Salvador, El Salvador
#FreePalestine

06.01.2025 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Astro-wrap, 2024 ✨
Whatever else it holds, may #2025 also bring #wonder and the light of other, possible worlds, including, especially, here on earth. #happynewyear

01.01.2025 06:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Short-eared #owl.

#oregon #woods #birds

29.12.2024 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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M33, Triangulum Galaxy

29.12.2024 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A little bit of Supernova remnant IC443, Jellyfish nebula, taken from roof, Bortle 9

06.02.2024 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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