The warm wind blowing

Playing sweet wind chime music

Feeling summer joy

#haiku

I think going to need to get out one of my bigger ukuleles. The concert ukulele case isn’t working for my chubby little arrow anymore. #cats #ukulele

I’m officially retired as of today. 🥳🤔

I’m curious, the No Kings Protest is this Saturday, how many of you people in the top 10 percent of income earners, which is probably most of the tech workers in the SF Bay Area, are going to participate in it?

I had one of those screaming out into the void moments.

My apologies to anyone that was subjected to it

This post is just a test.

I just wanted to know of this word Zionism is blocked on this instance or if my previous post about Zionism was blocked because I used the F word.

Chillin’ with #cats and #ukulele

Neko says stay in bed #cats #catsofmastodon

This articulates my exact feelings about San Francisco, the tech industry, & the entire social crisis of Capitalism we are all facing. Ms. Solnit writes with fierce precision & grace, connecting the dots with damning evidence rather than hyperbole.

Essential reading.

#Urbanism #SanFrancisco #Inequality #Homelessness #Capitalism #DeathSpiral #SelfDrivingCars #Isolation #Lonliness

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/rebecca-solnit/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley

"Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal."

E.O. Wilson.

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
-Emoluments Clause

America first!

🦅

Too many American stores are already using facial recognition to spy on their customers. They don't deserve your business.

Conversely, a number of chains have pledged not to use it.

Here's a helpful listing, with suggestions on action you can take to help rid our culture of rampant use -- and guaranteed abuse -- of this pestilent technology.

https://www.banfacialrecognition.com/stores/#scorecard

Please read and share - I don't want to have torched my career for nothing

https://blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/

For the last Caturday of the year, maybe the best shopfront cat I ever had the pleasure of meeting. Barely photographable, as too busy seeking affection from inanimate objects, such as this oxygen tank (it was a dive shop)and also from me. #Caturday #cat #CatsOfAthens #CatsOfKoukaki #catsOfMastodon

Why the ruling class fascists feel they MUST destroy democracy

#Forests with multiple tree species are 70% more effective as #carbon sinks than monoculture forests https://phys.org/news/2023-11-forests-multiple-tree-species-effective.html

Young mixed planted forests store more carbon than monocultures: Emily Warner et al. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1226514/full

"Restored forests store C within the forest's #soil, #shrubs, and #trees. Mixed forests are especially effective, as different species with complementary traits can increase overall C storage... they are also more resilient to pests, diseases, and disturbances"

One of the weirdest things in the US is that Supreme Court Justices only need 51 of 100 Senate votes to be put into a lifetime position — earned or not — but officers in the military need 100 of 100 votes to get a promotion that they earned and one nut job senator can prevent the promotion. That's a broken rule that should be changed.

#USpol

Jeff Bezos is moving to Florida in order to avoid paying 7% taxes on anything _over_ $250,000 in capital gains. The man already has more money than he could ever spend in his entire life, more money than his heirs could probably spend in their entire life, and he’s skipping town to avoid giving some of that to help support early childhood education.

There are many reasons why he’s probably a shitty human being, but this shoots up to number one on my list.

Arrow has a habit of climbing into my arms and purring loudly when I check my mastodon feed in the morning. Happy #caterday