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Hello EVERYONE! I am really loving Mastodon and meeting awesome people! I have A LOT of fun creating ART* and POETRY*!
*Conceived and created by a human. :)
Say "hi"...enjoy my ART!
My portfolio here: https://sharoncummingsart.pixels.com/
#art #fediart #mastoart #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #writing #writingcommunity #poetry #haiku #smallpoems #artist #artwork #SharonCummingsArt #SharonCummings #followfriday #followerpower #followme
20+ years of creating art professionally and writing poetry for self care = 5 books! High end 80# paper 100 full color pages. Large at 8.5x11 and suitable for framing.
HERE: https://www.artwanted.com/sharoncummingsart/store/
#book #books #Bookwyrm #bookboost #author #authors #poetry #art #poet #poets #poem #poems #artist #artists #artwork #artbook #gift #gifts #giftidea #giftideas #fedigiftshop #writing #writingcommunity #writinglife #writer #writers #haiku #smallpoems #smallpoem #creative #creativity #supportartists
Don't track me Google #Firefox 🦊 #Extension
#Browser #Privacy from #Google #Tracking #Links
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-track-me-google1/
For example your search can become a horrible tracking-wherever-you-go link like:
https://encrypted.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=THE_SEARCH_TERM_WOULD_GO_HERE&source=web&cd=8&sqi=2&ved=0CFgQFjAH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&ei=Ej__TrCkJo2bOrSs2aIE&usg=AFQjCNG5-9Jej-ukVeakTgwonqt2narbYg&sig2=f9f1dWcZoj6ZUC2Zxy9y2g
loving all people
a true Jesus follower
not a heretic
#mastoprompt - heretic
ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/colorful-rainbow-art-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html
#art #artist #artwork #colorful #colorfulart #rainbow #rainbows #loveislove #love #equity #equality #gay #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #jesus #faith #christian #christianity #kindness #kindnessmatters #hope #fediart #mastoart #fedigiftshop #buyintoart #SharonCummingsArt #lesbians #lesbian #trans #friends #friendship #peace #haiku #poetry #poet #poem #writing #smallpoems #pride #family
#Quote about #Friendship
"In a friendship, you don't so much change terms as observe terms changing."
by David Gutterson
📖 #Books cover here: https://social.yesterweb.org/@afwesty/113775172642329513
#Germany's days numbered?
#German engineering miracles slowing down from dealing with the devil / Russian energy?
#Germany's days numbered?
#News #Thumbnails are a kind of #Doom #Porn which I'm guessing we all indulge in for many reasons and treasons.
This website kills paywalls.
#2025 Earth first - Make a start...
🔈Audio Clip 🔈
Earth as the most radical change we can start working with more often... and not buying into the #pollution.
RevBilly Podcast #151
https://revbilly.com/podcast/
Radical change with Earth first.
#Consumption #Earth #Climate #Justice #StopShoppingChoir
#StopShopping
#Capitalism #ClimateChange
Reduce / slow down bad things like pushing #Money #Debt #Banks #Pollution
#Revbilly .com
Respect yourself and #Earth by working with it more often and people investing more in Earth together...
🔈Human identity by Jimmy Carter vs. Consumption 💬 #StopShopping + Make friendship online...
🔈Audio of Jimmy Carter about #consumption as our identity -
A good president ?
💬 " Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns...
- Jimmy Carter, about 45 years ago
...It does not satisfy our longing for meaning "
MY COMMENTS FOR TRUMP / MAINSTREAM NEWS ETC
💬 Hating basically wastes time instead of building each other up... Spending too much time spamming hate post on hashtags like #Trump, #Zuckerberg, AlexJones, #Musk, #Obama #Bezos, etc
You are spreading all the bad news by doing too much there and not actually making friends with the world... here.
Make #friendship means just 1 other more-real person contacted which is a lot more progressive and shares real possibility to find relativity and mutal help...
More than throwing tomatoes at those fake leaders who are anyway put there to occupy our time.
We are not actually achieving much unless we make #friendship and build trust between me and you... (it can be measurable and done step by step) and I mean literally me and then 1 by 1 everyone else... 🌐
#FreeSchool is my hashtag
Also see #Greta for more audio
Right here, right now.
Make contact ![]()
🔈Audio Credit 🔈 ➡️
RevBilly,com Podcast #151 with President Jimmy Carter clip...
I've edited / re-arranged the content which is ok for sharing / re-editing publicly from:
https://revbilly.com/podcast/
#ChurchofStopShopping
#PresidentCarter #USPol #Anti
#Capitalism #ClimateChange #Consumption #Earth #Climate #Justice #StopShoppingChoir
#StopShopping (reduce / slow down #Money #Debt #Banks #Pollution) #Revbilly .com
Go and work WITH #Earth - #Earth work first... (not finance only interactions and bad bank work)...
Go and work WITH the #Earth - #Earth work first...
Go and work WITH #Earth
#Earth work first
#ManMade "work" later
#Mankind has mostly lost it or needs time....
So although we often work with people, we need not forget Earth.
Earth first or as the main and making sure daily work is the Earth and not the bad work first (#finance #banks etc) . As food gets more expensive this gets immediately obvious for 1 carrot (I entirely lived on about 5 wheelbarrows of Pumpkin which near grew themselves AND can withstand freeze - last one I'm just having)
Completely and merge the two - Earth and people - but Earth first or as the #platform.
Most man-made work is now aimed at killing / extracting earth.
Earth first... I can give basic setup and #help as you go even in theory... let me know. 🌍 🌎 🌏
You can still have your internet there and hybrid things towards Earth a bit more!
Not #Banks but #EarthFirst
#EarthWorkFirst #2025
How did my hero die?
I want to know what #JimmyCarter died of in the end
While it's not the best fact or timing now I'm also asking generally from other #Wikipedia profiles that sometimes don't say what the died from in the end (even though he was like 100 years old, yes it's less of a importance and expected)...
I would like to know caringly how my heros and heroines, and people I like to make quotes from, died at the end...
Actually I do respect that don't say... but still would like to know... So kinda just saying...
It's really empowering as a story or something to see how people struggle or fought to the very end... (small tear) 💖
ON ANOTHER NOTE WITH THOSE LIVING (YOU)
I would like to positively work with those alive, but frankly they are inactive in the field of actually thinking and almost dead / dormant... so while that seems insensitive it's not - people do near jack to make friends with the world and expect it to improve... that's my idea of making things better and getting answers more personally... check out my profile for more on that...
otherwise what are we doing if not #humanity and making sure otherselves the next #Trump etc doesn't come along and ruin it (as we see now).
Stay healthy but keep the truth in mind... always. #RIP everyone
#Trump acting like a clown at #JimmyCarter funeral is for public people to echo and spread his name even more!...
@ginaintheburg
With respect you should already know and get the game that he's clowning around / disrespect all he can for people like you to echo and spread his name making him bigger.
Sorry but he's full of it and people are filling up the #Fediverse also with echo of his antics and fooling around, fooling people essentially in following the #shitshow - quite an easy things to see. #USPol
And then on the other side, again with respect, and just so you remember what I say- what are you or other people doing to build trust between others online or are you making friends with the world - essentially strangers we have to practice to become better at solving things with (solving everything indeed).
The focus on the shit is overwhelming and I can measure that to give what I say more wight, literally by how many similar posts there are #Trump, #Musk, #Bozos, #Zuckerberg, #BillGates etc
(what might be ok occasionally but not like moths to a bad light)
and then look at how many actually talk to others here in a deep way to solve communities, or in fact build it even if it doesn't exist... I hope you can tell me or start building something more positive out there... and believe me you're not the only one... and hope you can help us all do something more than watch and comment on them, and do something between ourselves because that's literally enough even if it seems too little.
#Trump acting like a clown at #JimmyCarter funeral is for public people to echo and spread his name even more!
Have you had that "Upcoming price change for your Microsoft 365 subscription" email yet? They want to charge you an extra 50%ish for AI features, and they do *not* make it easy to find the way to turn it off. It took me minutes of searching - this is a particularly evil dark pattern.
"Switch plan" just lets you pick between annual and monthly billing. You want "Turn off recurring billing" and then "Current subscription without AI".
You're welcome. Please boost for others.
Browsing the web and being watched / logged...
💬 "Browsing the web brings with it the ever-present feeling that you're being watched — your activities and preferences and habits all being logged and funneled into a giant vat of horrifying data soup..."
- #MollyWhite #Quote
📋 Post: https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/
#Web #Spying on you
#Tracking #Mining #Data #Privacy #Security
"...it’s become clear that leaving is the only option."
TLDR = Marisa Kabas says:
💬 "It curates its writers... and it makes choices as to who gets paid well and who doesn’t. ”
#Beehiv is suggested as an alternative... (honest I have no idea and maybe shouldn't be pushing links so that's my caveat)
https://www.beehiiv.com
more from Marisa...
💬 I hadn’t planned to write about Substack again, but part of me knew there was a rake somewhere just waiting to be stepped on.
... (skipping parts)
There is no such thing as a perfect place on the internet. But it’s possible to avoid the ones that aren’t even pretending to try to be better. The best time to leave Substack was a long time ago. The second best time is now.
#MarisaKabas Dec 18, 2024
📋 Post: https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-announcement-bari-weiss-free-press
People are only appreciated moreso when they are gone sometimes... (all is said caringly but not the skipping realism which we all suffer with but don't always give time every day to solve)... so I appreciate your post.
@mapache Hard one. I appreciate the post.
At the same time:
People are only appreciated more sometimes when they actually gone.
"Oh my God, why... ?"
"Was such a xyz person and always a xyz person - wouldn't hurt a fly" but they wouldn't necessary support them / give time or go deep. It hurts the brain to do that kind of stuff with deeper people. Today it's just hi and by, close the door.
I do not undervalue each one of us by saying the problems but legends or great people often only when they are gone too even when so obvious, so it shows amazing people writing books and people still wouldn't get it.
And generally we're up against it yes with everyone else so not even your / my fault always proportionately. All is wrong and needs righting / clarifying. communication.
So who is with that kind of thinking? Not many. I'd say near-0.
People busy with #Tech more than #People.
Until something is lost we're all generally of little value and increasing monetary cost - We can give ourselves more value, but at our own risk - and that's why people go - they actually value themselves.
As Jimmy Carter said - Our identity is by what we consume... and less what we give meaning (I will upload that soon). Culture going, fast...
It's both natural and also an evolutionary thing we have to grow as a society (as a larger community) - to hold each individual as high value else all be a #disposable battery for what seems to help us survive, but is empty.
That person by today's current standard is better off in many ways, no longer participating in the bad, the real opt-out from everything being so pre-loaded, pre-planned and caring steralised / cut out. #Capitalism / #Plutocracy etc...
They are no longer trapped - might be no longer alone as spirit flies. Even a working life is quite alone unable to express anywhere or progress even at physical places with seemingly 100s of others. Just work and rent. Respect for people, gone.
This is not an insensitive post.
Most of would do the same over and over again until we see again how serious it is and effects us, and even then move on. We're in the same depressive boat and go to work for the baddies.
I too offer help to anyone reading.
Who here wants to solve all that or give friendship in their free time? (tumbleweeds pass by)
That's the circle group type therapy we all need to do each week - yes hi, my name doesn't matter but what I care about does...
P.S
The way I found this post is after reposting my own "Friendship System" or "System of Love" idea https://qoto.org/@freeschool/113810868710146225
So although I can write about problems I also have the fixes as "Make friends with the world" and shows I cared a long time before and well most people don't want to do love or even to face reality as anyone see's it to rebuild in mind first.
I've tried literally my whole life with every person I could online and offline - maybe 30 overall stuck for 10+ emails as strangers or even family shirking the deeper or yes unresolvable stuff - maybe 5 long term still there to at least not block communication. Just the way it is until people focus on it...
So there's my post if interested in friendship building - yes with the whole world...
#FreeSchool = #Notes #Quotes from #Books #Videos #Talks #Websites all around #DIY Care# and #Caring as our main #Politics / #Politics
#Degrowth / PostGrowth
#WellbeingEconomy #DoughnutEconomics
#CaringEconomy / #CareEconomy / #Partnerism
"Free School" is a term for a movement born from the 1960's / 70's using educational living & learning practice towards #Caring & #DIY with all others (all at the same time - not an after-thought or specialism in 1 field or person who is a #compartmentalised person ignoring others in other fields). Caring to involves more things, increasingly aiming towards everything...
Posts are 1-line #Notes and #Quotes that links all other things (it's all relative).
Long comments use CW to shorten post vertically and add a 'show more' button to reveal more text if you want it. Long posts might seem bad but it's giving chance to more connection and understanding.
All things towards #Freedom (life moving from Shorter to Deeper thought).
Freedom doesn't come from short-depth lifestyles / short lines of text / ignoring / #inaction. Not less communication between lovers of similar things. MORE!)
#FreeSchool = Learning Together 🔁
#FreeSchool = Working Together 🔁 (eventually + I do Free work for Freedom.
#FreeSchool = Co-Operating & #DIY Solutions 🔁
See My #FreeSchool (Hashtag) for latest examples anytime. Or keep open and refresh from time to time:
https://qoto.org/web/tags/freeschool
#FreeSchool ➡ Increment Talking + Peacefully solve everything.
TLDR - Inaction = Fascism
Trust comes from "slowly but surely"... Doesn't have to be all-in, but peace doesn't come from one-way short messaging on 'social' Mastodon either - collecting memes and cats only is limited!
Remember we need develop better humans as well as 'develop' code on computers etc.
☮ Peace needs more... even to save all types of cats!
Get in touch - I'm someone that cares for everything because it's all human-related...
Human #chats welcome - I using #Jitsi audio chat which uses JUST browser (ANY PLATFORM + 2minutes to enter !)
(i.e. no-install / no account / no google / instant / privacy-respecting / safe-enough, etc!) Really the best out there - any platform / device! Instant audio chat !
Just ask for a link and prepare a few topics!
#AltText used (when I remember).
FREE WORK - I do free audio and video editing (anything considered - just ask).
Again - Creating Trust needs a bit of trust given "slowly but surely"... not all-in... being relaxed about it... but has to be more - 'working' like a 2nd job towards peace because your job isn't going to do it / it's now allow by State to get there! War increases prices etc ☮
So do "peace" as a side-job like it was your real job in the world, parallel to the Capitalism (Trap) you (we) were born into. We have to accept that and fight out of that and not be comfortable in it.
Heart and Soul all the way.