it is not our intelligence that distinguishes us from other creatures it is our cruelty

Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1294 Fingers crossed for Monday.

I'm fairly confidant that if you told me about your relationship with your family, I could describe your politics to you. Or conversely, if you describe your politics, I could describe your relationship with your family. How do you view authority, how do you deal with conflict? Probably the same.

Given what's happening in the present moment, maybe some people who would have disagreed with this yesterday can acknowledge today that it's true.

Good morning Happy new week

Monday feels... #Photography #Woodland #Trees #Nature #Fog #NorthCliffe #SilverBirch #Monday #Yorkshire #Autumn #Fall #OMSystem

I always find myself staring at this sign and asking myself "Why?" #photography #Ontario #EastCoastKin #KeepOut

That's bonkers out there!! Dundonald, Ontario #onstorm #shareyourweather

The same view as below, 9 days later. I love the warm tones! 🌿

Squirrel didn’t have much time… so, just groomed the critical bits: face, feet, tail😄

☕😏 ... yes, though i'd say the people most ignorant of the way the u.s. moves are its wage slaves; the citizens know damned well how it works,, #TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver

🍵😷 #CovidIsNotOver #Covid19 #WearARespie

🧋😶 ... noting the news coming out of washington that we may soon have yet another temporary reprieve from our greater than normal condition of class based depravation; relieved to be returning to our more usual condition of precarity & degradation ... things need to fundamentally change, fam,,

Our neighbors are hungry. We saw that enhanced child tax credits could reduce food insecurity, & now we know that food insecurity rose when it was allowed to lapse. And SNAP has always been "supplemental"- that's the S in SNAP. The status quo was already one where hunger was a persistent reality.

Safety exist where people create safe spaces.

#北の丸公園 #tokyo #photography #nikon #Z50Ⅱ

#北の丸公園 #tokyo #photography #nikon #Z50Ⅱ

Formerly ppl just thought it was only a small segment of the population was impacted. Now that it's mask off the rich are like "actually we want to condemn a major portion of the global population to social death by intentionally denying healthcare and starving them out!"

If shock and awe is what Machiavellians use to get ahead, desensitizing yourself and compartmentalization means you become Machiavellian yourself. Somantic awareness is key to retain empathetic core values.

Humanity does not exist for this. This is a violation of free will.

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Class warfare is a violation of free will.

🧋😶 ... yep,,

There was no way the stuff that's going down now would have went down like it is now without generations of primering and coordinated sabotage of material conditions/ relations..

🧋😶 ... great question,,

Anyone waiting on the Democrats to be an opposition shouldn't expect much. Don't be surprised if or when the Democrats (starting with the high-level establishment) start joining the Republicans outright and pushing this society toward a more openly one-party state.

No one has to do the Democrats' job for them and tell them about the tools at their disposal. Do you think the Republicans are the only ones who know how the system works? 'If they wanted to, they would' applies to US party politics too. They've been like this and only gotten worse for years.

Calling the Democrats “cowards” suggests that they're scared to do what's right when they show no fervent interest in being an opposition. They're largely colluders, not cowards. Many want their base to think they're cowards to maintain investment in the idea that they can be pushed to do better.

"is the question hideously loaded, & then one’s response to that question.. has to depend on effect and, in effect, where you find yourself in the world, what your sense of reality is.. it depends on assumptions which we hold so deeply so as to be scarcely aware of them" ~ james baldwin

☕😏 ... & once again "the good guys 💙😄" are also aligned with this anti-communist (& anti-socialist) attitude as well they're showing us explicitly they're just as invested & committed to feeding their wealth & power on our continued subjugation & harm, fam,, 🤌🏼👀 #TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver

🍵😶 ... there is no valid excuse or justification for ignoring this,, bsky.app/profile/jerr...

🧋😶 ... noting the news coming out of washington that we may soon have yet another temporary reprieve from our greater than normal condition of class based depravation; relieved to be returning to our more usual condition of precarity & degradation ... things need to fundamentally change, fam,,

mass death is bipartisan 🤝 also check trading activity in the healthcare sector tomorrow

If they continue to be like "well I'm not guilty for what my ancestors did and Natives are just playing the victim" while changing nothing...well then rich ppl are gonna keep auctioning ppls data to get rich, and ai will keep stealing other ppl's creations, etc.

Kind of like the anti Blackness that influenced loss of health care, snap etc. there's in group alliances of folks who run on the notion of "we enmesh on all harm as long as we agree that we refuse to uplift dignity of certain perceived enemy out-groups." (Which happens to be Black, Native, POC

🍵😷 #CovidIsNotOver #Covid19 #WearARespie

☕😏 at least their self-benefiting outcomes suggest they've got a pretty good mastery of how things actually move here in the u.s.,, 🤌🏼👀 bsky.app/profile/jerr...

🍵😶 ... “It’s really interesting to see how the U.S. is different, but where we want to explore next is what other countries are doing that the U.S. can do to bring down avoidable deaths,”

spoiler: Spot on. See history of tipping in USA. Also, worldwide, smiling + greeting expectation = relic of colonization. However, within colonizer nations, e.g., FR, UK, etc, service workers aren't expected to smile or ingratiate themselves. They just need to be invisible when not needed.

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arlington virginia is 15 miles away from langley 📎🖇️📎

🧋😏 ... i don't want to rob anyone of their joy i just want these people to stop harming us thru abandonment & neglect while they personally profit off our harm & then expect our support as if we don't see what's going on is it really so unreasonable for me or anyone to want this? #CovidIsNotOver

☕😏 ... yes, though i'd say the people most ignorant of the way the u.s. moves are its wage slaves; the citizens know damned well how it works,, #TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver

Ms Rachel continues to be more brave than every single person working for the US government combined

What will it take to shatter the irrational denial of Covid-19 that currently prevails among the masses? How many times must they all be infected? How many bouts of illness must they all suffer? How many diseased corpses must pile up, higher and higher? #COVID19

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