@TheOldGuy Use the #photography Hashtag for photos. Lots more people will see it. That's a beautiful pic.
Because electricity is in such short supply Ukraine is struggling to change to LED lighting
From GeeDawg's Live Feed
To apply for a free exchange of light bulbs at Diia, please watch the video instructions. This exchange program allows you to switch out five regular light bulbs for five LED bulbs at your nearest Ukrposhta branch. Making the switch to LED bulbs will help reduce electricity consumption by up to 10% during peak loads.
From GeeDawg's Live Feed
In Ukraine, chicken eggs will be sold in a new way, with two classes: Class A and Class B. Class A eggs must be clean, with an intact shell, with a sedentary yolk without clear contours, and free of foreign odors. They will also be divided by weight into XL (very large), L (large), M (medium), and S (small). Class B eggs are all those that do not meet the quality of Class A.
From GeeDawg's Live Feed
Kyiv has purchased 12 mobile boiler houses to provide heat to social institutions such as hospitals, schools, and kindergartens in the event of a lack of heat supply. Each boiler is capable of continuously supplying heat for a week and refueling is done automatically. These boilers are made in Ukraine and are half the cost of European ones. So far, 50 schools and 20 medical institutions in the city have been equipped with alternative heat sources. Today, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko inspected the operation of one boiler house that was connected to the heating station of a school in the capital.
13. There is considerable evidence that GSI is not an organic movement of parents.
The GSI website features three testimonials from Michigan parents.
But the photos are not of Michigan parents. They are stock images available for purchase online.
They're overestimating DeSantis even more than they overestimated Jeb.
RT @BenjySarlin@twitter.com
. @mckaycoppins@twitter.com on the central story of 2024 so far: The core of the GOP quietly predicting Trump will lose or drop out or disappear without doing anything to make it happen https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/01/2024-republican-primary-donald-trump-deus-ex-machina/672888/
Cruelty to trans kids
From @ErinInTheMorn:
#transphobia #TransKids
Utah forcibly detransitions all trans youth. I hope the ACLU or someone is on this.
https://open.substack.com/pub/erininthemorn/p/utah-care-ban-for-trans-youth-takes
“Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election: either they win or they were cheated. And that’s where MAGA Republicans are today.” #potus #maga #Politics #Democracy #Democrats #repubicans #vote
NEW: The Arizona Republican Party asks the Arizona Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that dismissed the GOP's lawsuit seeking to strike down the state's 1991 no-excuse mail-in voting law.
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizona-mail-in-voting-challenge-ii/
1. A newly-formed right-wing group is launching a brazen plan to remake Michigan public schools — using hyper-aggressive legal action to effectively mandate the erasure of LGBTQ people
Follow along if interested
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@TheOldGuy If they are going to ban books they should ban Brave New World. The anti vaxxers bible.
if anyone wonders what it’s like to be a #caregiver doing #eldercare for ones #parents…
at the start of the yr, my #mother was hospitalized & caught #covid while an in-patient. my #father went to the #hospital 2-wks later, & caught covid while an in-patient. we avoided #SarsCoV2 for 3-yrs. but, half my #family was infected at the one place ppl should be able to trust & go to for help in an #emergency.
both of my parents are exp “brain fog” which should make my job more hellish. so, that’s fun
RT @PickardJE@twitter.com
the story so far:
Pincher
Tractorgate
Owen Paterson
Greensill Capital
Partygate
Mustique
the £800,000 loan
wallpapergate
Lebedev peerage
Warburton
secret hampers
the £150k treehouse
Zahawi tax
Williamson bullying
Imran Ahmad Khan
Raab bullying
Patel bullying
illegal prorogation
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1619760232128970752 https://toot.community/@iandunt/109776696218804639
If Sunak wants us to 'Move On' from the Zahawi scandal, perhaps we should.
Perhaps we should 'Move On' to why he hasn't sacked Raab yet even though he has been formally accused of bullying by around 30 different civil servants from several departments.
Or perhaps we should 'Move On' to why the Home Office has lost over 200 child refugees from hotels while they were under their care.
If Sunak wants us to 'Move On', let's do exactly that. We have lots to talk about.
#UKPolitics
#Sunaks https://mastodonapp.uk/@ProjectFearlessness/109778007364769497
Iranian protesters sentenced to death were tortured, says Amnesty report | Iran | The Guardian
That is because the regime are unapologetic barbarians
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/30/iranian-protesters-tortured-amnesty-report
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2993. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.