Straight up evil.
01.11.2025 17:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@lauragraceweldon.bsky.social
Writer, poet, book editor, hope monger, cranky pacifist, effusive introvert. Author of four books. Braided Way editor. she/her Ohio 6a lauragraceweldon.com
Straight up evil.
01.11.2025 17:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 010% 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.
01.11.2025 17:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We 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.
31.10.2025 20:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Neurology 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.
29.10.2025 19:45 β π 30 π 10 π¬ 1 π 1Amazon 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!
30.10.2025 13:59 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0This 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...
29.10.2025 16:18 β π 2484 π 866 π¬ 54 π 31Beyond words
29.10.2025 20:23 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Heβs not demanding attention, heβs giving it. Heβs not seeking love, he is tutoring me in loveβs mutuality.
#dogs #dogguru #MartinBuber
She knows, more than silly grownups, what really matters. Slap on baby!
29.10.2025 16:13 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Come on USA, let's actually vote for compassion and wisdom.
28.10.2025 15:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0DEMS, do something!
If you need groceries, find the closest foodbank here:
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
CELEBRATING NATURE
Todayβs highlight: porcelain mushroom, about 3m high up on a beech.
THIS IS OUR WORLD
Letβs rethink, reshape and rewild it!
#photography #fungifriends #forest #beech #porcelainmushroom #nature #rethink #restore #rewilding #reshape #fungi #planet #tippingpoints #climareaction
βIβve read too many books to believe what I am told.β
~Suheir Hammad, Palestinian-American writer
Ooooh, I can't wait to read this!
24.10.2025 20:34 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0βTomorrow 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.β
~Martin Luther King Jr.
This is gone now. The East Wing lobby two years ago.
22.10.2025 20:24 β π 3502 π 1602 π¬ 125 π 85We'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.
22.10.2025 11:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0adding
21.10.2025 16:30 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Not @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.
21.10.2025 16:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0ββWeep! Weep!β calls a toad from the waterβs 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.β
~Robin Wall Kimmerer