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I'm just so broken hearted. My dad has been sucked into the right wing void via YouTube. He is not the loving, intelligent man he was. He is a great father, grandfather and loves me. I thought the past few months, days would have shown him the truth. They haven't and I don't want to see him anymore.

Q. Does the election result mean that woke is broke? A. I don't even know what the woke is. It's just a slur that the right wing uses.

Judith Butler is 100% correct. The word "woke" is pure reactionary bullshit. Its contemporary meaning also distorts history by making it seem as if every positive cultural change of the past 200 years has happened naturally, without agitation by people considered, at the time, dangerously "woke."

Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.

How in the world are you going to say capitalism isn’t the problem when we’ve literally managed to cause climate change and a global mass extinction in less than 500 years of it existing?

Any system that demands constant growth and consumption is unsustainable.

uh oh
#WIP #SciArt #Stanleycaris #isoxys #Blender3D #3Danimation #paleoart #cambrian #reef

I definitely don't remember my dreams often and they are not very visual. I just kind of know what happened but don't have clear images like others describe. Interesting dream experience, I became a wheelchair user at age 19 and I don't walk or wheel in most dreams, just kinda float

Hardly at all, I am pretty sure I have aphantasia because I don't visualize in my daily life either

Everything I learn about crows only increases my admiration for them

“Know what you stand for and what you think is good.”
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Do you know what you stand for?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A slightly deteriorated church sanctuary with beautiful wooden ceilings and a curved stained glass window over the organ on the stage

The sanctuary of an abandoned church

See the rest: www.abandonedamerica.us/macedonia-fr...

booksky checkpoint 🕯️

✧ last book you read:
Beyond That, the Sea
Laura Spence-Ash
✧ your current read:
The Black Bird Oracle
Deborah Harkness
✧ last book added to your tbr:
Three Daughters of Eve
Elif Shafak
✧ next anticipated read:
Tom Lake
Ann Patchett

quote with yours! #booksky #books

A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, the health care we can access and, now, the information we receive.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

I read for hours a day, minimum 100 pages if I'm not distracted by my phone. I generally just sit at a table or counter so I have a surface for my water or coffee. I'm a wheelchair user and unable to curl up on a comfy armchair in front of a fireplace - that would be my ideal location

Cover of the 2003 novel “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini.

I just finished this one. I’m a little embarrassed admitting I had never read it before. So good. It’s hard to describe the feeling it evoked in me. A combination of happiness and sadness and of despair and hope for humanity. All wrapped in one. #booksky 💙📚

sepia toned book cover featuring a young woman/teen sitting with her back to the viewer with her head bent down in despair, dark hair. she wears a black dress with the zipper undone showing her back, her hands are behind her back as if she's just unzipped it. The title is White Oleander by Janet Fitch which is in a messy white font, like paint or chalk maybe

I’m doing this over on BlueSky, so I might as well do it here too!

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
Day 2

Front cover of a book called Nurse by Peggy Anderson. The background is an out of focus female nurse in a white dress uniform walking down a dark hospital hall. At the top white capital letters say the true story that became a national best seller. The bottom third has the word Nurse in bright red letters and the name Peggy Anderson in white below it.

I’m doing this over on BlueSky, so I might as well do it here too!

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
Day 1

Targets of Trump's threats brace for the new administration President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly promised to investigate, prosecute, imprison or otherwise punish his perceived enemies during his campaign. Now, some of his targets are preparing.

President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly promised to investigate, prosecute, imprison or otherwise punish his perceived enemies during his campaign. Now, some of his targets are preparing.

Oof. Yes. It has been a learning experience. Masking for others covered a LOT of executive disfunction.

Forced birth in a country with:

—No universal healthcare
—No universal childcare
—No paid family & medical leave
—One of the highest rates of maternal mortality among rich nations

This isn't about "life." It's about control.

Im gonna say it again: music is VITAL to games. Music guides players. Music enhances emotional moments. Music is so so so important. Funny enough video games are modern operas in the way music is needed to buoy the emotional stakes.

He is legitimately deranged

This is an actual tweet from today

Can we do this?

did not have Microsoft restarting three mile island nuclear plant to power their AI girlfriend generator on my bingo card but here we are