ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

This Oct 18, 2022 article is important to read if you want to understand who David Sacks is and whom Ro Khanna is allying himself with by accepting money from him (i.e., fascists like Ron DeSantis, Peter Thiel/Palantir (look it up), Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk, & pro-Putin/anti-Ukraine GOP in the US), all of whom position themselves as aggressively anti-progressive. Ro Khanna positions himself as progressive.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168125/david-sacks-elon-musk-peter-thiel

@flexghost I think the part that ultimately gets me angry about this constant cycle of the wealthy crashing the economy is that they are given the power to do it at will and never experience any jeopardy while they make the average person have difficulty affording basic life necessities. Pether Thiel won't lose a penny for crashing an entire banking institution and even if a billionaire loses millions it would have no impact on their life.

Banks want you to pay fees to use your own account. Banks want you to have debt obligations for your whole life. Banks get money below the prime rate, then charge you 23% interest on your credit cards. Banks debit your account immediately, then take 2-3 days to clear a check.

apricot snails from puff pastry. super easy

SAUDI OIL GIANT'S $161 BN PROFIT

“It is shocking for a company to make a profit of more than $161bn in a single year through the sale of fossil fuels – the single largest driver of the climate crisis,” - Amnesty International
#HumanRights #ClimateCrisis

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/12/oil-giant-saudi-aramco-records-historic-161bn-profit-in-2022

I hadn't planned on making this image until later in spring with lime green leaves, but alas there was an opportunity that was too good to pass up.

This veteran hornbeam has bags of character - I just love its shape. The snowstorm lasted about an hour in the dying light of the day.

By morning the snow was gone, and the opportunity had gone. Sometimes you just have to take advantage of a short window.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #woodland #trees #forest #winter #nature #landscapephotography

Check out this beauty! 💗 Such stunning detail in this gorgeous photo of a short-eared owl in Homer, #Alaska
Photo by Phillip Flippo
#BirdsOfAlaska

Nanabozho great spirit-being?

Nanabozo is a supernatural being of various Indigenous oral traditions. He is the embodiment of life, with the power to create life in others. In some Anishinaabe and Cree stories, Nanabozo is a main player in the creation of Turtle Island. Nanabozho is a shapeshifter who is both zoomorphic as well as anthropomorphic, meaning that Nanabozho can take the shape of animals or humans in storytelling. Thus Nanabush takes many different forms in storytelling, often changing depending on the tribe. The majority of storytelling depicts Nanabozho through a zoomorphic lens. In the Arctic and sub-Arctic, the trickster is usually called Raven. Coyote is present in the area of California, Oregon, the inland plateau, the Great Basin, and the Southwest and Southern Plains. Rabbit or Hare is the trickster figure in the Southeast, and Spider is in the northern plains. Meanwhile, Wolverine and Jay are the trickster in parts of Canada.

Often, Nanabozho takes the shape of these animals because of their frequent presence among tribes. The animals listed above have similar behavioral patterns. The gender identity of Nanabozho changes depending on the storytelling. Because Nanabozho is a shapeshifter, they are androgynous. While the majority of stories told about the trickster figure are written with he/him pronouns, the gender identity changes depending on the story and many are written with feminine pronouns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanabozho
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/nanabozo#:~:text=Nanabozo%20(Nanabozho%20or%20Nanabush)%20is,prominently%20in%20many%20origin%20tales.

The commercialization of Pi Day is appalling. Let’s remember the reason for the season.

"It takes a Kafkaesque flourish of spite to withdraw help from desperate people on the grounds that they committed the crime of which they are the victim."

#UKPolitics
#Immigration

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/14/stop-the-boats-britain-tory-campaign-rishi-sunak

#birds #bird #birding #wildlife #photography #nature #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #pnw #BirdsOfMastodon #WildlifePhotography #birdwatching #sharebeauty

Warble at my feeder. It is a good moment when everything stressful fades because a bird looks you in the eye and says good morning. I always leave before it becomes agitated, knowing we will greet each other again.

I interviewed Michelle Yeoh a few years ago about #StarTrekDiscovery and I mentioned offhand that I'd written an article about what seeing her use her accent on the bridge of a starship meant to me.

She stopped and said "Wait, that was YOU?"

And then proceeded to talk about how much that article had meant to HER and how it contributed to the success of the show.

I can't think about it without crying.

(The original article: https://authory.com/SwapnaKrishna/On-Star-Trek-Discovery-and-Michelle-Yeohs-accent-aa6d2eb01b3a24970abf406c39146df33)

#MichelleYeoh #StarTrek #Oscars

🧐⏳⌛️🔁

Pi Day is a fake holiday made up by Big Math to sell more math.

Self-portrait #midjourney #AIArt

The Great Gray Owl showing the talon.

See it larger here: https://jan-luit.pixels.com/featured/the-talon-jan-luit.html

#AYearForArt #ArtMatters #Birds #SpringIntoArt #FediGiftShop #Art #WildlifePhotography #Owls #NaturePhotography #fotografie #PhotographyIsArt #Photography #Natuur #birdsofmastodon #Nature #Birdwatching #Vogel #NatureBeauty #Naturelovers #Ontario

The Wall Street Journal editorial pages regularly read like satires of right-wing blindness, but blaming the Silicon Valley Bank failure on corporate "wokeness" is worthy of the Onion for self-parody.

#birds #bird #birding #wildlife #photography #nature #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #pnw #BirdsOfMastodon #WildlifePhotography #birdwatching First killdeer pic of year.

Reflection

Short Mountain, Hedgesville, West Virginia — March 6, 2023

#daily #art #artbooster #photography #photo #WestVirginia #nature #naturephotography

The unwelcome task of re-organising photo files. It does have the compensation of uncovering images you had forgotten about... patterns in frozen puddles...