Despite my resolution to keep the bad stuff out of my head this time around, too much has already leaked in. Not so easy to see the end of all we worked, sacrificed and struggled to accomplish.
But life goes on. The fragrance of roasted millet. The sparkle of sun on the snow. The laughing, little girl, wielding a pink snow shovel, fighting back against efforts to clear the sidewalk.
Now there's a family crest with a bang!
(I'll show myself out....)
#BreakingImpossible #OptOutside #running #hiking #travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoSafari #Belgium
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even more sights from my excursion to Mayport village and Naval Station โ๏ธ
๐ 27 artists participated in creating all the murals in this Art District
๐ directly across the street from the Atlantic Beach Arts Market is another big art district ...
๐ of the arts districts I've visited here so far, the Atlantic Beach/Mayport one has the best murals (imo), while the Phoenix Arts District is certainly the largest, when I visited it was mostly graffiti with a few murals; and the CoRK Arts District also has some great murals and graffiti
#Jacksonville #Florida #Murals #AmateurPhotography #Pixelfed #StreetPhotography #Art #StreetArt #UrbanExploration #GalaxyS23+
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What many people, both inside and outside of Europe, often fail to appreciateโmainly due to a lack of judicial knowledgeโis the additional layer of judicial protection provided by the European Union through the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
This court ensures that member states comply with a set of fundamental human rights, serving as an extra safeguard to prevent them from falling into fascism.
USA, sadly, is an example of what can happen when you don't have this kind of protective mechanism.
whitehouse.gov/presidential-acโฆ
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.The White House
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So much for law and orderโฆ
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Itโs almost noon and Iโm having such a hard time getting going today. Itโs so nice to see folks on Mastodon reaching out and lifting each other up, sending support and love around. Weโll get through this if we can keep that up.
I was staring around my office, dazed, and it occurred to me that I couldnโt remember the last time I watered my plants, so I did that. Now one of them is making slight squelching noises. If we could record the noise and amplify, weโd probably hear the word โFINALLYโ.
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Sonnet 055 - LV
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
'Gainst death, and all oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
So, till the judgment that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.
bot by @davidaugust
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#bluesky web login page is well done, you can choose another server, but most people, won't even notice or care.
But 'flagship' / load could be at least partially distributed.
Such a login page could be done if we don't believe each of thousand instances has really a different culture or values.
If all , or most, or the top 10 instance admin, choose to use a standard set of moderation rules, the official client could pick up round robin from a list of big, established, institutional instances, when creating an account.
Leaving the possibility to change that to your own little club, if you know what you are doing.
So I had an odd experience the other day.
Someone told me I was being a reply guy. The thing was, they were replying to my postโI was not replying to them. And I think to be a reply guy, you have to reply.
I think what this person wanted was to reply to me, and just have me shut up while they dispensed with the truth bombs. But I assume that if youโre talking to me, you probably want a dialogue. Otherwise, why be in my mentions?
ย ย ย ย By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, itย isย hereby ordered asThe White House
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๐๐FIRST TEA & FRESH STARTS๐ต๐โโ๏ธ
Hatsugama (ๅ้) is the first tea ceremony of the year. As it's a busy time for us in the teahouse, there's little chance for a proper celebration, so instead the youngest members of Camellia hosted an informal gathering to celebrate 'new beginnings'.
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Tea ceremonies can often seem like sober and sombre affairs, so it was really nice to take these more candid shots of how fun the tea gathering was.
As a team we are rarely together, so events like this are important.
The young members made for fantastic hosts.
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What on earth is Nao-san doing with smoking pipes?
Fear not, she hasn't taken up smoking...January 13th was 'Tobacco Day' (ใใฐใใฎๆฅ)๐, and so it's a good chance to show you a 'tabako-bon' (็
่็ 'tobacco tray').
The pipes play a symbolic role in the tearoom.
Originally the host of the tea ceremony would offer the tabako-bon (็ ่็) during breaks in the gathering, but nowadays it is **mostly** presented as a gesture for guests to make themselves comfortable.
'World No Smoking Day' (ไธ็็ฆ็ ใใผ) falls on May 31st๐ค
#teaceremony #่ถ้ #Kyoto #ไบฌ้ฝ
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The tabako-bon (็
่็) contains everything you need to prepare, light, smoke and put out a pipe (even cigarettes).
As you would expect, each tea school has a slightly different take on the tabako-bon.
This particular tray belongs to Nao-san.
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Our Kickstarter is launching soon, help us prove that we, the people, can build healthy and vibrant communities, without being controlled by vested interests who don't share our values.
Recent events have proved how vital these open and federated platforms are, help us continue building for the people.
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Street traders, Dublin (1927)
Photo: Keystone View Company / Library of Congress
[Is that George's Street? EDIT: yes it is]
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And I'd stand there and watch the cook/chef/whatever, cook my burger and fry my onions right in front of me, and then slap a bit of cheese[1] on it. And that age, any greasy food tastes amazing!
1. Not that sliced processed shit. Actual 'cheese' ๐
Global wealth inequality growing worse โ
dw.com/en/oxfam-report-billionโฆ
h/t @breadandcircuses
climatejustice.social/@breadanโฆ
#WealthInequality #poverty
Oxfam said trillionaires are expected to emerge within the next decade, as the richest 1% now own 45% of global wealth, while 44% of humanity lives on less than $6.85 per day.Deutsche Welle
๐ต ๐ต Business As Usual ๐ต ๐ตWhen the bottom line means more than the poverty line, when stock and bond futures are more important than our futures, when the investment climate counts for more than the actual climate, this is what you getโฆ
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#Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
Billionaires growing richer faster than ever, says Oxfam
Oxfam said trillionaires are expected to emerge within the next decade, as the richest 1% now own 45% of global wealth, while 44% of humanity lives on less than $6.85 per day.Deutsche Welle
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San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 1942 - residents of Japanese ancestry registering for evacuation and housing, later, in War Relocation Authority centers for duration of the war
#SanFrancisco #Calif #Japanese #JAPANESE #JapaneseAmericans #WorldWarII #WestCoast #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
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In music:
one octave = 8 keys
two octaves = 15 keys
Music math is stupid.
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How we treat friends now โ trump administration canceling flights for nearly 1,660 Afghan refugees, say U.S official, advocate
reuters.com/world/us/trump-admโฆ
@Nonilex
masto.ai/@Nonilex/113863148846โฆ
#USpol #USpolitics #HumanRights #Afghanistan #refugees
Exclusive: #Trump admin canceling flights for nearly 1,660 #Afghan #refugees, say #US official, advocateNearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. #military personnel, are having their flights canceled under Trump's order suspending U.S. refugee programs, a U.S. official & a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday.
#immigration #law #HumanRights
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After reading her interesting biography, I'm guessing the Hudson Theatre was the one on Broadway in New York.
#Discourse has an #ActivityPub plugin that federates your posts there to the #Fediverse.
So if youโre running Discourse, you may want to enable that.
meta.discourse.org/t/activitypโฆ
:discourse2: Summary Discourse ActivityPub allows you to publish Discourse posts via ActivityPub so they can be read on services that support ActivityPub such as Mastodon.Discourse Meta
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With Big Social sucking up to Trump, itโs becoming more clear that politics there is dictating content.
This is why Tom Allen believes now is the time for the Fediverse to shine.
computing.co.uk/opinion/2025/iโฆ
As the worldโs biggest social media sites bow to political pressure, is it finally the Fediverseโs time to shine?www.computing.co.uk
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Also, itโs a strange experience looking at this film poster because, when I first watched this film when I was six-years-old, I perceived Diane Keaton as โmomโ.
And now? Iโm like, โLook at how Diane Keaton had it going on with that business attire.โ
Time really sneaks up on you.
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Just in case you didnโt think the oligarchy is real.
businessinsider.com/trump-inauโฆ
Trump's inauguration drew a number of business and tech CEOs, including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and even TikTok CEO Shou Chew.Bryan Metzger (Business Insider)
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The #RideauCanal this morning, now rated "fair", which is still pretty rough for skating.#NCC open data: ncc-ccn.gc.ca/places/skateway-โฆ
Photos and videos
Every day, we work to build an inspiring capital that is a source of pride for all Canadians.National Capital Commission
The right path.
#photography #photographie #fotografie #fotografia
#Art #landscape #Girvan #Scotland #Monochrome #blackandwhite
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With Anthony Santander about to become a Blue Jay, unless heโs content to toil on some west coast purgatory factory like the Anaheim Angels, Pete Alonso should come crawling back to the #Mets, hat in hand, like Dirk Diggler did to Jack Horner in Boogie Nights.
(And they should take him too, provided itโs on their terms)
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San Francisco, Calif. Apr. 1942. A scene at the Wartime Civil Control Administration station where the first group of 664 persons of Japanese ancestry from San Francisco, registered before going to War Relocation Authority centers
#SanFrancisco #Calif #first #Japanese #WorldWarII #California #DorotheaLange #American #USWar #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
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I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.
The land's sharp features seemed to be
The Century's corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed fervourless as I.
At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.
So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.
-- Thomas Hardy
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Chinatown.
#london #streetphotography #photography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography
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Marina Aรญsa
in reply to Marina Aรญsa • • •For example, in July 2021, the CJEU considered the provisions of the EU Treaties incompatible with the Polish Constitution and the EU Commission imposed measures against Poland.
No institution or court can stop the US today.
ec.europa.eu/commission/presscโฆ
Rule of Law: Commission launches infringement procedure against Poland for violations of EU law by its Constitutional Tribunal
European Commission - European CommissionKat OโBrien
in reply to Marina Aรญsa • • •