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One of the best things about living in England is all the historic buildings we have to cry in

We saw this beautiful lady fern (Athyrium felix femina) on our lunchtime walk earlier. It looked very feathery.

#fernodon
#mindfulness
#wellbeing

But I don't wanna be shopping bags.

#proofreading #itmatters
#humor #humour #grammar #spelling #writingcommunity #books #writing #funny

Would you like to learn more about starting a small business in #NEOhio?

Get personalized resources and grant guidance for starting and scaling your small business at my Small Business Expo NEXT WEEK on Saturday, May 20.

Save your spot and RSVP now at https://bit.ly/RepBrown-SBE23.

Good essay https://wandering.shop/@mariahaskins/110333552619665529

Happy #Caturday from my little clowder!

The past several months have been leaner than usual. I set up a Ko-Fi account, etc. but it's difficult for me to share that. I'd rather people get prints but I understand too well the $$ issue there. That was what led me do something small specifically for mobile wallpaper - a win-win if you like this, you can get something and support what I do.

On Etsy Here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1476762133/white-cat-starry-night-art-for-mobile

#CatsOfMastodon #MastoArt #CreativeToots #Cats #MarkOnArt

Despite all its promises of equality and due process under law, America has always had its scapegoats.

I didn’t know it at the time, but when I was a child my entire community became scapegoats. The attack by Imperial Japan upon Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941—a “day that will live in infamy”—made most Americans look upon anyone with a Japanese name or face as the enemy.

May is AANHPI Heritage Month, so I want to take a moment to zero in on the history that led Asian minorities in the U.S. to come together as a group and demand America fulfill its promise of justice and equality: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/scapegoats-aahpi-george-takei-essay

Hopefully #SunsetSunday will become a thing on here and I thought I'd add one of my husband's photos as a contribution.

This is the west coast of the #IsleofWight photographed during one of the most extreme sunsets I've ever witnessed. Our son said it looked like a volcano had erupted in the sky!

#sunset #LandscapePhotography

I call this one and of Dreams...I've given the #landscape a quilted effect. I live close to the ocean and mountains so they're often in my #artwork - and now after, working on "quilt" artwork, I'm thinking maybe I should learn how to do the real thing.

Art is here - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/land-of-dreams-quilted-peggy-collins.html

#art #ocean #mountains #britishcolumbia #canada #color #AYearForArt #MastodonArt #FediGiftShop #MastoArt #FediArt #BuyIntoArt #peggycollins

She's right, the shooter was part of a gang, her gang...

People use the word "exponentially" ever more often, in my experience. Very often they just mean "a large number", which has little to do with exponential _growth_. Let's use exponentially for things that behave exponentially. Only.

The Middle Bay Lighthouse in #MobileAlabama more or less as it originally looked when built in 1885. It's still standing but the lantern was removed decades ago.

Prints on my site here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/mobile-alabama-middle-bay-lighthouse-mark-tisdale.html

#Alabama #lighthouse #DigitalArt #MobileAL #GulfOfMexico #coast #nautical #MastoArt #ArtMatters #CreativeToots #MarkOnArt

1. Take your thoughts & prayers and go fuck yourself.

2. If that offends you, pray for me to stop saying "take your thoughts & prayers and go fuck yourself".

3. Take your thoughts & prayers and go fuck yourself.

4. Ask yourself why your thoughts & prayers didn't make me stop saying "take your thoughts & prayers and go fuck yourself".

5. Repeat until you take your thoughts & prayers and go fuck yourself.

"But that influence was dark and malign. For the sake of contestable political issues, he abandoned necessary moral virtues, and he taught his followers to do the same."

I'd invite French to recognize that the Christian right does not need to be "taught" to abandon moral virture as it pursues raw power. This is encoded in the DNA of the Christian right.

Ask those of us they've targeted, like queer folks. We'll explain it to you.

#TuckerCarlson #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
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9 May 1939 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Marcel Jacobs, was born in Enschede.

He was deported to Auschwitz in February 1943 with his mother Rika and his 7-year-old sister Marlene. They were all murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts

Media literacy tip:

The surge of climate-change conflicts will be presented to us as "ethnic tensions lead to violence" in the newspapers.

The rise in climate refugees will be presented to us as "migrants seeking work."

When you try to read a new situation using the language of the old broken economic system it's hard to see what's happening.

This guts me…

BY THOR'S HAMMER!
It Is Time!

Before you lay your head to sleep tonight, please say a prayer or send a good thought to the heroes of Ukraine who are ready to lay down their lives in the coming counteroffensive against the Russian invaders.

Lest we forget, freedom isn't free; it is the selfless acts of everyday citizens who stand to defend their, and our freedoms, no matter the country.

EVIL SHALL NOT STAND when justice is at hand!
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news

I’m not gonna lie or pretend otherwise…the Allen, TX shooting has me scared about going anywhere where lots of people are. Living in America is terrifying.

This is one of my favorite images on the internet