Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated his life fighting for equity and justice. He taught us that even in the face of intimidation and discrimination, we must never stop working towards a better future – a lesson that feels especially relevant today.

One small thing I hope comes out of this nightmare is at least renaming the Department of Homeland Security. “Homeland” is not a word Americans use. It sounds like a translation from Heimatsicherheitsabteilung.

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

Good show.

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

Fifty years ago today the Edmund Fitzgerald, carrying a load of iron ore, sank in a heavy storm on Lake Superior. All 29 hands were lost. Remember them and their families. Those who mine and mill the ore, those who ship it and those who turn it into steel face many hazards. Think of them as well.

Standing here waiting for a press conference to start, fully realizing that the mere occurrence of a press conference is not news. But a voice says, don’t waste your time. Content something. And a saner voice says, Content? Really? You just said —ing content? As a verb, no less? Get help, man.

NYT asks “Is Kansas City Still the Barbecue Capital?” To which a proper Kansas Citian would say, “I don’t understand the question.”

People have looked to the stars, old calendars and math, apparently, and concluded that our zodiac identities are all messed up. “Corner Gas” (🇨🇦 all-time top-rated sit-com; on Prime) of course has an episode on this. “Safety First,” season 3, episode 10. And of course it involves Hank.

“Hard times ain’t gonna rule my mind no more.” - Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

Happy Canada Day, fellow and future Canadians! 🍁🇨🇦❤️

“True North strong and free.” Happy Canada Day to all who observe. Canadians are good friends and stout allies, and that should mean something to us Americans.

Forget all the annoying stuff in the world for a few seconds and enjoy the natural beauty of Brazil’s Seven-coloured Tanager (Tangara fastuosa) Photo: Luiz Cavalcanti Damasceno

Honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. 🇺🇸 #SomberMemorialDay

Read this book.

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

The ChatGPT app should be banned. People play around with it thoughtlessly for all sorts of things and the environmental cost is tremendous.

This cannot be said loudly enough or often enough.

We are all this polar bear!

sorry sorry. every day I’m like “today I will post about books and not fascism” and then there’s just too much fascism

There’s no such thing as A.I “art.” It’s a soulless amalgamation of plagiarised data. That is the antithesis of art.

When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'

I'm not sure Jesse Palmer telling Jeremy Strong that in the Oscar race he should "like Roy Cohn said, attack attack attack!" convinced Jeremy Strong that Jesse Palmer understood the movie

Fernanda Torres for the #Oscars 📷

I hope Brazil will make history tonight.

That’s more like it.

Says it all.

We must bind ourselves to the way and teachings of Jesus, boldly proclaiming and living the counter-cultural reality of the beatitudes youtu.be/D3nXg1PzAls

In honor of Monday's Presidents Day and its fabled mattress sales, here is a photograph of President Truman’s White House mattress in 1952:

Dems should propose a law that immediately requires every fed agency to post on @bsky.app account, every outlay with a detailed description, $, and a link to existing gov sites with in depth details Rather than trying to keep Elon out, pre-empt him so he cant miss characterize spending.

I'd like to see more writing on how the Musk/Trump junta feels like a frontal attack on the entire concept of virtue, in even the most traditional senses. They are actively demonizing and punishing everyone who doesn't worship Mammon.

Eggs $4.67 per dozen today at Aldi. Repeat. $4.67. Not sure what profound meaning this holds, but I’m pretty sure it’s not a crisis. It’s certainly less than $6 per dozen surcharge at Waffle House. Go figure.

Continuing with #SuperbOwl week with this young Barred Owl looking up towards a Robin. #birds #owl #nature #photography

#Connect2Nature I heard people were getting excited about a Superb Owl this weekend? 😄 Here's a contender - a Great Grey Owl. Photo taken at the Canadian Raptor Conservancy. #Birds #SuperbOwl

“Screaming. A million mouths screaming but also laughing the sky will bleed and there shall be a great flensing a burning away of the flesh it is coming there is no way to stop what is coming.”

Why do drivers lose their minds over bike lanes? Oh no, 3 meters of space in a sea of asphalt dedicated to something that isn't a two-ton death machine! How will we survive? Maybe if we stopped designing cities like car dealerships, we wouldn't need bike lanes at all.

I will be continuing to call it the Gulf of Mexico because I don't cater to the whims of a ridiculous felon www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...

From rage to despair and back again is a tough vacillation to endure on an hourly basis.

No Other Land officially Oscar nominated with no US distribution. Someone release this film properly!

Attacking the good reverend will not erase these from the bible: “ cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner , the fatherless or the widow” (old testament) “ do not oppress the …alien or the poor, and do not devise evil in the hearts against one another. (new testament)

"Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day today, haven't we?" "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow though." - Grant and Sherman after the disaster of the first day of Shiloh, April 1862. They won the next. Today is one of the bad days in American history. Better days will come.

I know this sounds weak, I know it. But kindness is one of the few things we carry that can make a difference for each other. We can’t undo all this hate, but we can still make life a little easier for others.

some ways to generate electricity A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons B) use sunlight to make electrons

Re-upping this for newbies to Blue Sky, ENJOY!

Why is the media like this?

@centralstatessynod.bsky.social Thank you for jumping over to BlueSky.