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of a lone coyote drifting down from the hills. The magic I discovered on a similar night at Pierce Pond returned to me, and I grew to love old Antlers.
I just lay in bed for a half-hour after awakening this morning. Loons were still calling, and the rising sun was creating long undulating ripples of gold upon the gently-lapping waters of the lake beyond my screen door. Why get up?
...
In actuality, the Appalachian Trail’s hundred-mile wilderness is somewhat of an illusion.
@MeidasRomi End of Sept and freaking 95F, summer temps (Houston).🔥🔥 For the record, I did not want to move here…😐
Granted a US gov’t shutdown won’t occur until after midnight tonight. But in effect the MAGAts have essentially neutered the gov’t already.
Lots of focus on votes. Meaningless at this point. No one wants to admit that what we once had is gone. And it’s not coming back.
Things ain’t normal.
Things ain’t going back to whatever you thought normal was.
Stop trying to find normal again.
Work the what is. Not the what was.
what doesn't kill you... mutates and tries again.
#nature #biology #optimism #optimization #saturday #funny #notFunny #WeAreAllGoingToDie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLHdbGZtkj8
if a picture is a thousand words, a moving picture is..?
Idk how I missed the video, but it’s pretty …compelling. Not that I need to be compelled, but it might move someone?
@crooksandliars UNBELIEVABLE, wait… 🤔
GOPers only care if they get paid, not other federal employees.
"When you see the word 'polarizing,' beware. It’s a red flag, these days, for false equivalence. It can be way to avoid identifying what’s really going on with a Republican party that has gone off the rails."
~ Margaret Sullivan
#polarization ##BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #media
https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/an-nbc-reporter-got-praise-for-persistence
#Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress
#ClimateCrisis and the rapid evolution of the insect have helped drive up malaria deaths and brought dengue and other mosquito-borne viruses to places that never had to worry about them.
Neat, wildlife photographers day at the Aquarium of the Pacific on Sunday night! #wildlife #photography #aquarium #LongBeach https://laist.com/news/los-angeles-activities/calling-all-photographers-bring-your-camera-and-shoot-to-your-hearts-delight-at-the-aquarium-of-the-pacific
(not that we can really cough up first & last months rent, deposit, pet deposit, application fee, origination fee, "media and credit enhancement fee" and all manner of other sundry & sleazy yet legal fees anyway)
▶️ ☠️ RE: Elon Musk, ever-creeping fascism & general, all pervasive fear...
https://beige.party/@GrimmReality/111152013088736590
This little guy is clearly running illegal SQUIRREL software on CAT hardware, but I'm still sharing it for #caturday.
#cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour #funny #squirrel
SomeBODY is off to their forever home today. Or possibly eternal rest. 🧛♂️ #puppets #puppetbuilding #halloween #nosferatu
Look at the cute little puppy! (learned this morning "Koinu" means puppy in Japanese, ha ha). #tropical #cyclone #14W #TropicalStormKoinu
Vladimir Putin calls for 130,000 new recruits for Russian military https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/09/30/recruits-military-Ukraine/3921696076336/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.