Laura Grace Weldon

Straight up evil.

10% of all workers live in households where someone participated in SNAP in the last year. Corporations get away with paying their workers poverty wages while taxpayers subsidize their profits.

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

We need a new word for those of us trying to avoid AI, if for no other reason than to keep from adding to the massive burden AI places on water and electricity.

Those avoiding drugs and alcohol have "sober."
Those avoiding processed food have "clean."

Suggestions?

I remember one of your poems, about your grandmother's hands and your hands. Marvelous.

Neurology published my poem about my son's brain injury. As you might imagine, this poem is important to me. Thanks to AI, the poem is a webcomic. Welcome to the Stupidification Of Everything era.

Here's the poem, if you're open to the non-comic version.
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...

THE V-FINGERS SYMBOL AND A HEART WITH THE WORDS: HUMAN DECENCY IS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE.

It goes against everything MAGA stands for.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Hey, GOP!

This is an especially worrying statement when facial recognition can be inaccurate, biased, and generally make mistakes. Basing whether someone should be in the US or not, and ignoring physical media like a birth certificate, is ripe for disaster bsky.app/profile/jose...

Beyond words

My Guru I have loved many dogs, each for being completely themselves, but never had an animal companion quite like this one.

He’s not demanding attention, he’s giving it. He’s not seeking love, he is tutoring me in love’s mutuality.

#dogs #dogguru #MartinBuber

She knows, more than silly grownups, what really matters. Slap on baby!

Come on USA, let's actually vote for compassion and wisdom.

DEMS, do something!

If you need groceries, find the closest foodbank here:
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

CELEBRATING NATURE

Today’s highlight: porcelain mushroom, about 3m high up on a beech.

THIS IS OUR WORLD
Let’s rethink, reshape and rewild it!

#photography #fungifriends #forest #beech #porcelainmushroom #nature #rethink #restore #rewilding #reshape #fungi #planet #tippingpoints #climareaction

“I’ve read too many books to believe what I am told.”

~Suheir Hammad, Palestinian-American writer

Ooooh, I can't wait to read this!

“Tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.”

~Martin Luther King Jr.

This is gone now. The East Wing lobby two years ago.

We're supposed to think this Marie Antoinette ballroom of his is fine because it's being built by private donations, when we all know that "donations" are bribes offered by billionaires to sway even more things their way.

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Not @theguardian.com It has become one of my primary sources of news since 2016 --- far less biased than NYT and WAPO. Excellent writing, quality journalism, and more international news as well.

“’Weep! Weep!’ calls a toad from the water’s edge. And I do. If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness again.”

~Robin Wall Kimmerer