Knitting at the county fair today. The first time I went to one of these after moving to the US a friend told me I had to eat something fried because it was "culturally significant to Americans" and I can't see deep fried fair food without thinking that now.
Goodmorning lovely people,
Rise and shine!
And although it's monday, it's also the first day of the rest of your life! Enough reason to make it a good day if you ask me 😊
As for me, I only had four hours of sleep last night, and I am very grateful right now that coffee exists ☕
Have a great monday, and don't forget to be kind!
Greetings from Holland🌷
#Art by Baifern
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Today: In your mind, fast forward to a few hours before you know your time has come (a calm and peaceful end so do not worry about that). Alone for a minute in that time, you have a chance to look back over your life. Think about what you wish you hadn’t wasted time on and what were the best moments that you wished you’d done more of.
#Life #Slow #Mastodon #Fediverse #Time #LindaSgoluppiArt #Minute
I recently got a new coffee brewer, a Mr Coffee, which does a fine job of brewing coffee at an economical price and made a discovery. If I use a metal mesh basket to hold the grounds instead of a paper filter, it improves the flavor tremendously. That is what my taste buds told me. How many of you disagree with this assessment? 😉 I read that the mesh basket allows the coffee bean oils to come though.
Not the best platform, but I’m going to make what some will call a religious statement, but I describe as philosophical, the Necessity of Meaning in this life. The debate will be about the definition of meaning. 🫣🙃IMO, that meaning would have to include a continuation of consciousness or what exactly is the point? So what, you learned a lesson or you gained wisdom and became a better person, if everyone you know ends up “not existing” does anything you do in this life matter in any way? 🤔
Federal judge blocks Montana’s anti-drag ban
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/montana-drag-ban-lawsuit-b2384030.html
Tubervile thinks that proximity will make it easier for him to weaken America's Armed forces:
From Stars and Stripes: — "Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who continues to block hundreds of military promotions in protest of a Pentagon policy, said that he thinks politics is getting in the way of putting U.S. Space Command’s permanent headquarters in his home state."
Sure, let's reward his respect for the military.
#tuberville #military
I must confess, I hadn’t spent much time arguing with white supremacists since DeSantis started his “war on woke,” so I have no measure of how successful he was at pulling the support of white supremacists. He was certainly pushing every one of their buttons quite methodically. Given the failure of his campaign, I suspect they are still waiting to see who they will back. If you wanted to find out, you could see which way they were leaning by watching the conspiracy theories.
4/6
Per NYT: "U.S. Hunts Chinese Malware That Could Disrupt American Military Operations"
Big deal! No way the Chinese could disrupt American Military Operations more than Tommy Tuberville and his GOP supporters already do. #Tuberville #NationalSecurityThreat
Hello fellow vegans, my name's Matt and I've just transferred over from mastodon.world to be among like-minded folk here at veganism.social
I'm still fairly new to Mastodon but I love the whole fediverse concept and also like the ability of the various different servers to act like community hubs (hence my migration to this one).
Please do say hello and give me a follow (I'll follow you right back!)
Also, just by way of a heads-up, in a rare moment of perfect synergy between my professional life as an executive recruiter and my socio-political values & activism; I will shortly be launching a search for a number of key roles seeking to advance the veganism movement here in the UK.
The search campaign will probably be going live towards the end of next week, so please do keep your eyes peeled and help in any way you can with recommendations/referrals and boosting/sharing relevant posts etc. Both I and a very important animal rights & welfare charity will be very grateful if you do.
Many thanks and looking forward to getting to know you.
-Matt McLaren
PS Anyone with a LinkedIn profile who'd like to be kept in the loop about roles in the movement etc., please do feel free to connect with me on there too - I'm at https://linkedin.com/in/mattjmclaren
IT'S WORSE THAN WORST CASE SCENARIOS EVER PREDICTED!
Weather events today, such as floods and heat waves, are more extreme than the so-called alarmist scientists predicted a decade ago. Parts of the world are drier than average, others extremely wet, and some face soaring temperatures. Climate chaos is now rampant in almost every corner of the world.
#GlobalWarming #climatechange #weather #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #AureFreePress
#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.