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sunrise over dock highlighting dock posts

#Photography #Nature Sunrise over dock

This makes my blood boil in ways I cannot describe.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

MLK quote for this morning

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

The popular meme of 2 astronauts as the always has been. Replacing the gun with a bouquet of roses with ribbons. Caption is changed to "Always has been," 'Wait it's all loveable?' "You in your entirety, including your flaws, struggles, and insecurities"

Always has been

Today's news from Google:

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In 2022, the incarceration rate in the United States was 541 people per 100,000 people. This means that about 5.4% of the US population was incarcerated.

As a blind dude, your images mean nothing to me without an alt-text description. I know it’s a pain & I have zero expectations of you using this #Accessibility tool so thoughtfully provided by #BlueSky but I appreciate every effort. It doesn’t have to be The Great Gatsby but please include me 😎

Welcome, friends.

Gray squirrel sitting in a tree.

Just a cute little squirrel sitting in a tree. #photography #wildlife #squirrel #Minnesota

Calico kitten looking annoyed

Snippy is not amused…

#Cat #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #CatLover

Welcome, btw, there is a strong culture of including alt text here. It is also much appreciated

Listen to Mustn'ts, child, listen to the Don'ts.
Listen to the Shouldn'ts, the Impossibles, the Won'ts.
Listen to the Never Haves, then listen close to me.
Anything can happen, child, Anything can be.

Picture of a wonderful kitty

Hi I usually draw a lot (I'll post them later when I get back to my computer) but for my first post, have my cat, Appa, for now

That's a sinister idea

People, we'll always have Octavia E. Butler and we'll always have Ursula K. Le Guin.

He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There. (Gift Article) How the dream of a lifetime became reality for a sculptor from Egypt.

A positive story to start the day

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/n...

Melania’s $40m Amazon deal: another sign Bezos is capitulating to Donald Trump | Margaret Sullivan Sadly, the Amazon-Melania deal has much the same flavor as the rest of Trump appeasement moves – not just by Bezos but by others of his ilk

If you ever doubt what trump power is about, follow the money.

Melania’s $40m Amazon deal: another sign Bezos is capitulating to Donald Trump | Margaret Sullivan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I stumped my ass off for him. I will wait to see how he does his job, but if he supports 1 trump unqualified nominee, he is dead to me.

When they killed breonna Taylor, they fired 32 times.never hitting her boyfriend who had just fired at them, but killed her in the next room.

Republicans are one step closer to stealing an election. The North Carolina Supreme Court has blocked the certification of Democratic Justice Allison Riggs’ victory in November despite two recounts verifying her win.

REPOST if you stand with Justice Riggs against the GOP!

Welcome

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is the weak nation,like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity. Jimmy Carter

Enough said.

There is a team assembled to transfer this large grift into Trump's bank accounts.

So, how did he buy a gun?

Post from Sarah Longwell says, "Since we're discussing states to add, I know the U.S. District that has a population greater than both Vermont and Wyoming that deserves a look."

Hear, hear!

Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.

3Blue1Brown - Bayes' theorem A visual way to think about Bayes' theorem, and strategies for making probability more intuitive.

For anyone interested in math explanation done very cleverly, this is my favorite website. Attached is one of many examples.

www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/baye...

The press needs to be clearly called racist for giving any credence to the right blaming everything on hiring black and brown people. Fuck this. Ask them to name individual people and what they did to fail at their job and verify it, otherwise your only report should be “elected official is racist”.

The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.

Since I got off into the woods of what is Christian, there is this.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Can we kindly use a definition of Christian that Christ might support?