Tangledmoon

How can I help? I’m local and would love to help, behind the scenes, if you need it!

‘We have nothing now’: Myanmar’s exiled media face existential crisis after Trump severs aid Organisations that take extreme risks to document atrocities, corruption and war crimes fear for their future after USAid cuts Each month Su Myat secretly crosses the border from Thailand into Myanmar to report on her conflict-ridden homeland, covering…

‘We have nothing now’: Myanmar’s exiled media face existential crisis after Trump severs aid

I ask myself, all the time, who do they think does *all those jobs* they ignore and underpay?

I’m local, Tod - how can I help? I have events experience and administration/funding skills.

Just me, here, at 2:30am, "wooohooo"ing to myself because I still have super mom hearing and reflexes.

You'll be happy to know my speedy reaction limited the dog puke to only one small area on the bed

Who needs sleep when adrenaline is such fun, eh?

Not that folks have choices but "Let Them" will be what proves their idiocy. Let them fire everyone and burn everything down. The moment those folks who covet every possible penny of growth realize that there's nothing great about mass deportation, firings, and school closures, the tide will turn.

Etc, etc, etc. You get my point. Every closed department represents institutional AND personal spending curtailed. Let AI do it? For whom? A smaller government is bad for your bottom line. Same goes for people living in fear. Alllll of this is.

Empty fields. Empty classrooms. Empty offices.

...empty wallets...

Suddenly, a moment of clarity.

Remember the "Let Them" post that's been going around? It's going to take 2 quarters, max, for it to sink in. Anxious folks don't spend freely. Closed classrooms don't pay for tech licences.

Cut to STEM watching their lives' work being deleted before their eyes. Schools having to try to teach anything when kids are being taken by force. Where did they even find time to send an entire team to threaten an 11yo for posting derogatory stuff about 47? Defund them if they hide that kid!

And definitely hold public schools' feet to the fire over woke sh*t! Did you see that, man? Zero funding if they don't comply! And everyone has to report everything or lose their job!

So now we've got folks where we want them!

So, ICE shows up everywhere. Their buddy, Elno, has an office in the White House! DEI is out (unions have to be on alert - how great is that?!). No more limiting language! Heck, wait until he pardons the big names, like Weinstein, they really CAN do what they like after that.

No regulations. Better yet, removing the agencies which track everything, means there's no one to prove when things go sideways.

They're on board, champing at the bit, through all his announcements. With every pen strike, they're seeing a new tomorrow!

If you can get a moment of clarity, in the sh*tstorm, sometimes it has to be shared. IF I were a capable artist, I'd draw it, but here you go.

All the tech guys, sitting together at the funer...sorry, inauguration, smugly self-satisfied. The new way is paved for them.

BREAKING: The Department of Veterans Affairs has CANCELLED SUICIDE PREVENTION TRAINING because it includes considerations for the LGBTQ+ community.

Veterans suicide.

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

It’s a scam

But we want it

It’s a SCAM!!

Now, that’s a matter of opinion. We want it, so it can’t be.

This is a fabulous analogy for US politics

Ooooh, it’s wonderful! I’m so glad I thought to check for you here 🥰

@schmergo.bsky.social IS THIS YOU?!?!? I’m here for it, if it was, because I can’t get it out of my head since hearing it the first time. Utterly fabulous

Former pirate mayor behind Nanaimo's unusual street names | CBC News The legacy of Frank Ney, Nanaimo's pirate mayor, developer, and larger than life public figure includes Tiggly Wiggly Road and Dingle Bingle Hill.

There’s so much CanCon in this link 😄. I was doing a search because I saw a real estate listing for a house on Dingle Bingle Hill Road. As a kid, Nanaimo *did* seem like the destination for irreverence. I can’t believe fortune sent us this way, but I’m so thankful!! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The book, if you're curious, is called "Haunted Waters - Tales From The Old Coast", by Dick Hammond.

It's some very spooky tales his dad told about life in the early days of colonization, in camps along the coast of British Columbia, Canada. #PNW

I found mine, last year. It's been bugging me for years now, and I actually found a copy, online, and bought it. And there it sits, until today. I have to admit that, upon reading the first paragraph, I'm thrilled, all over again!

I think I've decided to get a life while they tear up the world. 2/3

Like many folks, I've struggled to settle into a good book, this past 5 or so years.

If I have to be awake at 6am (I don't, I just am), I'm not going to spend the next 18 hours reading new

Do you have a "I know what it's about, but don't remember enough of the details" book?

1/3

I give up

I’m so sorry. I can’t believe these names, tbh

Learn To Be Still Eagles · Hell Freezes Over (Remaster 2018) · Song · 1994

What I’m nodding my head to today. The boys always hit the nail on the head. #TheEagles

open.spotify.com/track/5POu9R...

I’m not just disappointed in each of them personally, but flat out disgusted

I wish that had happened with Navalny's too.

Partitioned sorting tray with partially completed Lego Christmas Bakery. Instruction manual just prompted the opening of Bag 4 of the pieces.

I can't rebuild democracy, today, so I'm settling for rewarding myself for getting chores done (big deal, post back injury) and building new things. #Lego

I encourage you to find one little thing you love to think about but never start, and give yourself a boost by doing it. We deserve it.

This is perfect explanation

Damned straight