ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Peacock showing off.. 🦚

This is not "one lone senator submitting a crazy bill" anymore, and I want to confront that line of logic early.

We are now at 7 states with proposed drag bans.

Most have multiple sponsors.

This bill has 4 senate sponsors.

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath

Just one of 50 reasons why everyone should want more walkable streets. In Fast Company Magazine.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3062989/50-reasons-why-everyone-should-want-more-walkable-streets

#cities #urbanism #walking #streets #cars

37 years ago, there were 50 companies in charge of most American media
Today,90% of the media in the U.S is controlled by just 6 corporations,
Bloomberg, Hearst, Newhouse, Murdoch, and Ochs-Sulzberger,plus various billionaires.
Now includes elon musk..

There's always an agenda
#thinkingcap

Grand Prismatic Spring at #Yellowstone

This hot spring -- is the largest in the US and third-largest in the world -- runs at an average of 160ºF.

Read more about this beautiful hot spring @ https://fullsuitcase.com/grand-prismatic-spring-yellowstone/

Photo credit Ignacio Palacios

#Google street view: https://goo.gl/maps/88H2w9ym5EwcBQYu9

#Photography #Nature #NaturePhotography

“scene from a 1915 epic space opera film” #midjourney #AIArt

The Road to Canis Major - From Bill - https://flic.kr/p/2n62xWd

Had it in mind this morning to sketch Charleston dancers. Pretty loose sketch. #art #rnapper #watercolor

#Garfield #bot

Introduction: In a land long ago I was a cop. Don't miss it. I'am also a #writer, collect #fountainpens, love #jazz and am an #audiophile. Politically, i'm farther left than one would imagine. Oh yes, I'm #lefthanded.

Why is the prevailing story in the media “the price of eggs is high” and not “record windfall profits from food and oil companies” ??

America’s largest egg producer Cal-Maine reported a record quarterly profit of $198 million

Anti-poverty charity Oxfam is calling for governments to impose windfall taxes on large food companies

THAT’S the story.

#bookreview
A Desolation Called Peace
by Arkady Martine

If you like intelligent space opera, this jewel is for you. Arkady Martine won the Hugo Award for the initial book in this series, A Memory Called Empire, and this sequel is as good, if not better. Strong characters, well thought out plot, and great writing pull you along. Read Memory first. The world building is awesome but complicated and Peace jumps right into the action without preamble.
Highly recommended.
#books#Hugo #Bookstodon

wow ok unfollowing now, I was a big fan of the original ship of theseus but had no idea it’s now… wait

It's 1989. I'm an assistant cameraman on a #BBC documentary in #Haiti. A boy had been trailing us for hours, wanting to help. Seemed like a nice kid. He was interested in my camera so I showed him how it worked. Then, he grabbed my camera, ran about 20 feet turned, and snapped this photo of me. He captured perfectly the look on my face, just as I realized I might never see my camera again. Then, he ran back, handed me my camera, all smiles.
Good kid. Wonder whatever became of him.

#ThrowBackThursday #Thursday #Photography #ShortStories

My fiancé has really been hit hard by the Birdsite third party app death thing. She used Twitterrific, and absolutely HATES!!!! the Twitter app experience. She mostly uses Twitter for Hockey news, and has tasked me to find hockey stuff on Mastodon.
I am *not* a sports person by any means.
So, for those who are, HELP!

In the wake of J6th, many far-Right groups are in chaos, while other newer formations are rushing to fill the void.

In the latest installment of #ThisWeekInFascism, we roundup the growing collection of neo-fascist, white supremacist, and neo-Nazi groups that have been growing over the last few months, as the far-Right mobilizes to attack the #LGBTQ community.

We also look at how antifascists have been pushing back.

https://itsgoingdown.org/this-week-in-fascism-133/

You can't use TikTok on the University of Texas Wi-Fi. Concealed guns on campus still allowed.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tiktok-banned-university-of-texas-austin-campus-1234662400/

Then the leopard ate the transphobe's faces.