@sgreerpitt.bsky.social
Political and environmental sociologist, retired professor, artist and crazy cat lady, hubby is another sociologist. Democrat. Jew. Appalachian raised in California. Love my Kentucky mountain home. Bi. Breast cancer survivor. She/her.
apparently Gyges' Anti-Anti-AI block list was seeded with anyone who reposted "I Am An AI Hater" by @anthonymoser.com
it's a great essay and apparently if you repost it the bros will avoid you
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
now that's my kind of landscaping!
Auri a Finnish band that's one of my favorites. Name of the Wind
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Eluveitie from Switzerland
Jinjer from Donetsk, Urkraine
lots of signs of spring everywhere (forsythia at the edge of our property).
yes Putin's wet dream of endless war that destroys the US, increases his wealth, and takes attention away from his war in Ukraine.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche admits that the DOJ excluded all images showing “death, physical abuse, or injury” from Epstein files release.
then I just as soon NOT be "special"
The US has no justification, no legal standing, no moral reason to take over Cuba, "friendly" or otherwise.
Occurs to me that it is in Putin's best interests to play both sides (Iran/US) and keep this conflict going as long as possible with the maximum amount of damage possible, so he can sell Russian oil, and divert weapons from Ukraine to middle east.
my kitties all like to eat roses - got roses for my birthday last month and within 48 hours they were mostly eaten, but don't seem to bother daffodils.
but has someone taken the time to teach you to say "Luhavul" correctly. When I first moved to KY in 1975, friends were insistent that I had to learn to pronounce it properly, and made me practice!
I'm declaring right now that I do not support this war in Iran. I do not support any war. I do not support Netanyahu. I do not support Trump. I think Israel needs a change in their leadership badly. And I think America needs a change in their leadership badly. How do we do it? The Hague?
daffodils are in full bloom, Gurrly kitty likes them almost as much as I do.
What we are doing to Cuba is immoral and offensive. Cuba didn't attack us, had no plans to attack us, was doing nothing to harm the US, but we've cut off their supply routes for fuel and other necessities like we're at war. Just one of the million things I'm pissed about tonight!
until 1917 there were many cities in US (Baltimore, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Cincinnati) with huge German speaking populations and government and public schools operated in German as well as English in these cities. Had we not gone to war with Germany, that might have continued for many years.
A favorite poem. Unfortunately war technology has far surpassed Teasdale's day, and we would leave little in the way of trees or birds alive with 21st century war.
there should be a rule that people who WANT the world to blow up should not be allowed to make decisions that could lead to the world blowing up.
As if there wasn't enough devastation from conventional weapons (thinking of the waste land that once was Gaza), or enough other environmental disasters awaiting us, created by human disregard of ecological principles. 3/3
And it's not just Trump I'm worried about, Netanyahu is also crazy and controls nuclear weapons. Old men with big egos and little concern for anything other than their personal hides. Is there anyone who could/would step in and say no to either of them using nukes? 2/3
T keeps saying "consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before," every time Iran makes a reasonable response to an attack on their country. It's been decades since I last spent significant time worrying about nuclear war, but now I am. Is anyone else seriously worried about this? 1/3
I will!
to be clear, this statement is in this context only. there are times when complaining IS action, like when citizens stand up in a hearing and object to the actions being taken, or stand up in a demonstration and criticize action.
I don't get outside in the evening as much anymore, not since my last dog died, and I miss seeing all those sunset. Yours is beautiful.
complaining is not doing something. doing something is offering a solution, making sure that solution is seen as viable (by providing grassroots support, votes, money, etc.).
Of course it is Dems "fault." Newsom isn't palatable to me. But complaining about existing candidates, without offering up an alternative, demonstrating the viability of that candidate by getting out the vote for them, is not "doing something". That is my one and only point I'm trying to make here.
I did read that. If your state has open primaries that's because their laws allow that. A state in which Dems sue to stop open primaries have different laws, laws that can be changed. They don't change by themselves. People have to change them. People satisfied with them won't change them.