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It's Sunday and that means it's time for another Featured Blueberry Guitar!

I can't play guitar. I've never seen a Blueberry guitar in real life. But I appreciate fine workmanship and beauty and these are definitely both!

blueberryguitars.com/product/b

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Local Denver News has posted places people can donate to help the victims of the Club Q shootings.The LGBTQ+ nightclub where the attack took place announced on Sunday afternoon an official state-run donation site to help victims of yesterdays shooting.
The LGBTQ+ nightclub where the attack took place announced on Sunday afternoon an official state-run donation site to help victims of the shooting.
9news.com/mobile/article/news/

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But one of the pool noodles only nestles the pit and does not constrain it. That one is doing better and you can see the roots trying to emerge. (Roots not shown here, not enough hands to hold the seed and the camera.)

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@barbaraedelman

The trimmed avocado seed experiments:

medium.com/@avokaato/sprouting

Iโ€™m not shy about admitting I thought this was goofy. Peeling the skin off the seed? And then slicing 0.5 cm off the bottom of the seed and a whole 1 cm off the top end? The only attractive part of this method was sitting the trimmed seed in about .5 inch of water in a little flat-bottomed dish and then covering the same to sit in (preferably) a warm-ish place.

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Rudeness isnโ€™t a bad habit โ€ฆ like something you just happened to pick up somewhere and accidently keep forgetting to not be โ€ฆ itโ€™s a character trait youโ€™re choosing to bring into a space and inflict upon others.

Pre-Frontal Cortex
Is a very useful thing
Without it, who knows?


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@Florence careful, you get sand up in that thang it'll be hard to clean it out. ;)

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@Florence Yep ITA. Like twitter was a decade or more ago. My adrenal gland is a lot less active here. LOL

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There's so many states right now that have active antiLGBTQ bills being debated over, Churches and leaders speaking hate against us, but not one of them have a clue what it's like to live in this kind of fear. I stand for my sibling transfolk today, because we need to be heard, we need to be seen, and we need to be recognized for what we are. WE ARE HUMAN! Just like you! WE HAVE HEARTS! Just like you. We do not deserve to be treated this way.

Most are not called Bob. Many are called Derek.

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When I joined , I did my intro and wished to post a photo of my cat, it came out sideways which annoyed me instantly. So I posted to say hello, rather grumpily by this time, and moaned about my sideways photo. Within seconds people came forward to explain how to post them the right way up (a tiny edit or crop will suffice) and all was well.

That kind, helpful welcome made me realise this was a different kind of space, not full of judgements but full of kindness.

It matters.

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Domestic abusers are more likely to kill their partners if they have a gun AND more likely to become mass shooters. But because domestic abuse was widely accepted when the Second Amendment was ratified, a Trump judge says we canโ€™t disarm alleged abusers. slate.com/news-and-politics/20

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^^ That right there is why we need to regulate the F*CK out of social media conglomerates.

They've turned our very lives against us.

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I work in behavioral evaluation spaces. If your eyeballs are viewing Twitter, then you're helping Melon Husk.

Doesn't matter if you're blocking ads. Ads are just a tiny peice of how their algorithm exploits you. The rest of your behaviors are tracked and weaponized against you for profit. Every time you pause the scroll, it tells them more.

That happens on every social media platform except one. This one.

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CounterSocial is the first Social Network Platform to take a zero-tolerance stance to hostile nations, bot accounts and trolls who are weaponizing OUR social media platforms and freedoms to engage in influence operations against us. And we're here to counter it.