Yes it's that bad in America. ๐ฅบ
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnpavlovitz/p/yes-world-its-that-bad-here-in-america
56F / 13C / 32%H fair air quality and sunny on #longisland #weather Fire ๐จ still in effect @k_ratoncita @zebrafinch
Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.โ โI wish it need not have happened in my time,โ said Frodo. โSo do I,โ said Gandalf, โand so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. -Tolkien. May all beings find peace.
The Lizard King of Long Island
*of obsession and invasive species.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/the-lizard-king-of-long-island
Egypt triumphs in 100-year fight, declared Malaria-free
Egypt has been certified malaria-free by the World Health Organization (WHO) - an achievement hailed by the UN public health agency as "truly historic".
โMalaria is as old as Egyptian civilization itself, but the disease that plagued pharaohs now belongs to its history," said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
The week around the world in 20 pictures
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Quick quiz: what do these three statements have in common?
1) Donald Trump won in a landslide.
2) Kamala Harris lost because she ran a terrible campaign.
3) The Democratic brand is toxic.
Answer? Theyโve all been spread by the mainstream media. And theyโre all false.
So tomorrow it will be 7 years.
I have been here 6.
To notice:
It is not the quantity, it is the quality.
Say what you mean, and mean what you say.
Don't be a dickhead.
Nobody cares how many followers you have.
Nobody cares who you follow.
Still has not sold out, to outside funding.
Never been hacked, nor compromised.
Swift justice for bots,
Might be small, but mighty.
Community is a verb.
Please add your thoughts to this hashtag.
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@gemswinc I didn't say it would be better. It will be worse. Oligarchs are now fully running the government. 1930s Germany all over again.
Trump names fossil fuel executive Chris Wright as energy secretary - Of course, why not? ๐ฆ๐๐ #politics
โdoing tonglen for what we are feeling and for millions of other people just like us who at this very moment are feeling exactly the same misery.
Maybe we are able to name our pain
nwe breathe in for all the people who are caught with that same emotion
we send out relief for ourselves and all those countless others.
contact what we are feeling and breathe in, take it in,
for all of usโand
send out relief to all of us.โ
Excerpt From
When Things Fall Apart
Pema Chodron
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