Conservatives explain why they’re so obsessed with Trans Kids 🇨🇦

https://thebeaverton.com/2024/02/conservatives-explain-why-theyre-so-obsessed-with-trans-kids/

"I never ceased from preaching suffering, voidness, transience, selflessness, nontruth, nonreality, nonlarge, non-small, nonbirth in origin,

and also nondeath at present, one aspect, nonaspect, the form of the law, the nature of the law,

noncoming, nongoing, and the four aspects by which all the living are driven."

"the preaching is the same, but the meaning varies.

As the meaning varies, the understanding of living beings varies.

As the understanding varies, the attainment of the law, the merit, and the way also varies."

continue 🔽

always-already-immersed

in the living loving light

of Amitabha

are we all.

healing, enlightening,

energy

already always here

now.

good morning 🙏🏻😎✌🏽🖖

#Teddy likes to sleep on his back sometimes ❤️

those canines 😱

"I’ll take Scarface Pacino and the Godfather Brando

Mix ‘em up in a tank and get a robot commando

If I do it upright and put the head on straight

I’ll be saved by the creature that I create

I get blood from a cactus - make gunpowder from ice

I don’t gamble with cards and I don’t shoot no dice

Can you look in my face with your sightless eye

Can you cross your heart and hope to die."

Bob Dylan, My Own Version of You
https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/my-own-version-of-you/

is anyone familiar with this publishing platform?

https://ghost.org/

ever wondered how much original medieval texts cost these days?

SOKOL books sends catalogues printed on high quality artwork reproduction stock to academics in the field. i happened to get some old ones from a friend.

good morning 🙏🏻✌🏽🖖

here's #Teddy enjoying a dollop of whipped cream. that tongue 👅👅👅

btw, he always grooms himself carefully after eating.

time for some shuteye 🥱😴

here's a #Teddy fix for y'all😎

he's a big'un. 17+lbs, but not as round as the one i saw in my garden. maybe 🇨🇦winter fur.

anyway, here he is ❤️

good morning everyone 🙏🏻✌🏽🖖

research long covid and cellular energy insufficiency, i came across the fact that creatine supplement increases energy.

so, i got some and am beginning an experiment.

being cautious, i took ½ dose mixed with my Vega One shake for breakfast.

now, this could be PLACEBO at this point, but,

doing qigong, the energy boost was noticeable, made exercise easier, increased qi flow, reduced joint pain.

all the effects usually associated with my qigong routine enhanced.

clean saliva makes good screen cleaner, for those sticky smudges that the microfibre cloth doesn't get.

just a little, then use the cloth.

clean! and free. and available always except during meals.👅👅👅

end of TED talk on frugal living 🤧

and kittens fart 🌈

squirrel news update.

the probability of pregnancy has increased. she's now starting to remove her "jacket" fur to line a nest somewhere.

and she's getting feisty about personal space for eating.

good use of academic hot air🤣

"Repurposing rooftops. Instead of focusing on the problems of growing food in an urban environment,

Boston University researchers leaned in to one of the benefits. Buildings with a lot of people produce a lot of waste CO2 from human respiration.

The BU team planted beds of spinach near HVAC ports on a campus building, and

found that the plants grew four times as large on the exhalations of academic hot air. Similarly, corn grew at least twice as big."

squirrel news update.

spotted a female who's likely pregnant.

Social Media: ratlike behaviour.

"Social media has been described as “a Skinner Box for the modern human,” doling out unpredictable rewards — a like, a follow, a match — that keep us glued to our phones.

many volunteers

"preferred to administer electric shocks to themselves instead of being left alone with their thoughts.”

Maybe we would rather sit around and push whatever levers are in front of us than sit with ourselves in quiet contemplation."

http://thespec.pressreader.com/article/282076281776585

some trippy visuals of sacred geometry make a relaxing break from the world.🏕️

https://youtu.be/2QWlxqKneLs

here's a video too.

squirrel news update. Stubby squirrel is getting rounder. comes first thing to check for peanuts before the other squirrels grab them all, then finds other goodies in the lawn.

he's definitely not starving.

"(some scholars have translated saṃskāra as ‘habit-formations’).

In other words, karma was understood as a designatory label for the process of pleasure/pain/neutral conditioning.

That which gives me pleasure I wish to experience again (rāga), while that which causes pain I wish to continually avoid (pratigha).

Hence my behavior (karma) arises from what I do positively or negatively to reiterate pain and pleasure."