Took husband out for a drive. Found several good spots for my next plein air outing.
Beautiful, peaceful, quiet.
This about sums it up.
#USpol
Continuing with Norwegian church theme. A quick stop in Borgund. #Norway
Yesterday, I was feeling a bit bummed out about domestic & geopolitical crap. I was pruning my cucumber plants, while thinking & hoping that more folks will not only understand why ordinary citizens need to fight back against their governments but also decide to go beyond simply understanding to step into taking more resistance actions - directly or indirectly.
That's when nature provided me of a beautiful reminder that hope arrives, when we need it. A gorgeous dragonfly flew close to me. First, it landed on my hair side ponytail & stared at me for almost a full 30 seconds. Then, it flew over to a nearby trellis & perched there, staring at me, for over a minute. Then, I watched it fly off & eat a mosquito, in mid-air. I don't have photos because I was trying to stay very still, during that entire dragonfly visit. That serendipitous dragonfly encounter helped to remind me that nature tends to deliver some hope-filled beauty, when we need it most. Nature is endlessly, serendipitous 💚
Dogface.
Stackpole, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
For several years now, I've been seeing seeds for fake flowers for sale across various platforms, particularly Facebook ads. Now apparently they are on Etsy and Amazon. My mother in law bought some over 5 years ago. They are real seeds but do not grow into the flowers as shown because the shape, size, color are impossible. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is. Don't click on those ads. #bloomscrolling https://www.404media.co/scammers-sell-seeds-for-exotic-ai-generated-flowers-that-dont-exist/
Irish dancers rally behind trans athletes as Florida threatens to ban them from competing
#News #GCN #GayCommunityNews #LGBTIreland
https://gcn.ie/irish-dancers-rally-behind-trans-athletes/
From Colleen Hagerty:
"...Heat is a particularly deadly disaster
As Jeff Goodell writes in The Heat Will Kill You First, “When heat comes, it's invisible. It doesn't bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know it's arrived. The ground doesn’t shake. It just surrounds you and works on you in ways that you can’t anticipate or control.”
The lack of fanfare that accompanies heat is part of the reason it is so dangerous and deadly. A 2024 Associated Press report found excessive heat killed more than 2,300 people in the US during the preceding summer; the author and others experts broadly agree that this is likely an undercount. Last month's European heat waves have already been linked to 1,300 deaths..."
https://mailchi.mp/ff148447c6d3/come-together-10349552?e=c91400e476
Genocide is now 'humanitarian purgatory'
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-ceasefire-millions-in-humanitarian-limbo-9.7255970
Adult upland goose and goslings nestled in the grass in the Falkland Islands.
https://buff.ly/dbLuMON #geese #falklands #falklandislands #uplandgoose #magellangoose #meadow #sheldgoose #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birds #birdphotography #birdwatching #nature #FAArtist #buyart #HomeDecor #wallart #artforsale #artstore #travel #travelphotography #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #wallartforsale #giftideas @joancarroll
Source: The Hill
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Here's one more hegseth and RFK jr killed
Peter Thiel, radioactive.
Dialog, an off-the-record conference Thiel co-founded but does not attend, has been cancelled. The Powerscourt Estate hotel, which sought to distance itself from the event, says it is “relieved and pleased.”
www.thejournal.ie/wicklow-hote...
Wicklow hotel cancels Peter Th...
#News: 🌳✊🏾 Indigenous defender Lia Yewen speaks out against #Indonesia's occupation of #WestPapua, where millions of hectares of rainforest are being destroyed for #palmoil and #mining. Stand strongly with them! 🛑🔥 #FreeWestPapua #IndigenousRights #BoycottPalmOil @palmoildetect.bsky.social
https://newint.org/indigenous-peoples/2026/lia-yewen-our-lives-dont-matter-indonesian-government?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
RT: @Acyn Jack Smith: I'll give you an example from from my life. I resigned as special counsel. I know I need to get a lawyer because the president has said he wants to jail me for doing my job. And so I retain lawyers, as soon as that becomes public, the president and the justice department target that law firm, and they do it because they don't want me to have counsel. They don't want to have anyone represent me…
AI costs more than humans, while hurting and harming us. Creating long lasting harm. And it produces 'guaranteed to be wrong' drek.
AI costs more than people, and it harms people.
AI is the enemy. Conduct yourself accordingly. Turn off electricity, close roads, deny sales, deny water, zone it away, fire city councils. Defeat republicans.
Get off techbro software.
https://www.404media.co/companies-are-throttling-employees-ai-use-because-its-too-expensive/
Meanwhile Mayor Mamdani has significantly increased funding in education, social services, libraries, and parks. Proof once more that safer communities come from investing in people—not punishments.
Instagram running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, BBC finds
#TelegramSafety #OnlineExploitation #CyberCrime #InternetSafety #ChildSexualAbuse
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgm4e0316zo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss