Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Leaf blowers on a Saturday? Have you people no decency?

Dearest Florida

What the actual fuck.

There are so many faiths in this state. Stop forcing Christianity down everyone's throats

https://www.newsweek.com/banning-hanukkah-discussion-florida-school-outrage-1763820?amp=1

#florida #hanukkah #pascocounty #theology #wtf

Guess it’s #caturday

"Human rights become less relevant if their protection is left only to lawyers and diplomats. So, it is not enough to pass the right laws or create formal institutions"

"The democratic world has grown accustomed to making concessions to dictatorships... Fighting for peace does not mean yielding to the pressure of the aggressor, it means protecting people from its cruelty."

from Oleksandra Matvychuk's 's Nobel prize lecture. Here is the whole thing:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/12/10/2022-nobel-peace-prize-not-a-war-between-two-states-a-war-between-authoritarianism-and-democracy_6007255_4.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&s=09#Echobox=1670674197

This whole “Twitter Files” nonsense has made me realize that I need to *leak* my next research article instead of publishing it.

@talia_christine I hadn't noticed. 🤣 #caturday

Pileated Woodpecker. Among all the woodpecker species visiting us in our backyard, the Pileated Woodpecker is no doubt the most majectic one. Very tall and very loud. They can literally peck at a tree\trunk and destroy the whole tree (likely doomed before due to disease or insects inside the tree). #birdwatching #birds #ottawa #birdphotography #nature #woodpecker #wildlife

New from me, on Slate: A far right account notorious for inspiring violence is, in the eyes of Elon Musk’s handpicked team of anti-trans weirdos, a victim of out-of-control liberal censorship.

(except it's bullshit and they're crazy)

https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/twitter-files-bari-weiss-libsoftik-elon-musk.html

How the fuck do people know what is going on with the bad site, without still being on the bad site?

Elton John quits Twitter over policy change that ‘allows misinformation to flourish’ - Musician’s comments come after Elon Musk said he would grant ‘general amnesty’ for suspended accountsSir Elton John has said that he will no longer use Twitter after a change in its policy that he says will allow “misinformation to flourish unchecked”.The 75-year-old... #twitter #theguardian

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/09/elton-john-quits-twitter-policy-change-allows-misinformation

At Auschwitz we see the end of the process. The Holocaust did not start from gas chambers. It gradually developed from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence.

74 years ago UN accepted the "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide" which defined genocide. It was drafted by a lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent Rafał Lemkin.

The text of the convention: https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-prevention-and-punishment-crime-genocide?fbclid=IwAR3HdtYBZwEi_wuecYc3DJivA5ZA1-4ZxlsBowcVXcMqR9jlVdmpI6Rl16k

#GenocidePreventionDay #genocide

NEVER FORGET: Senator John Thune SAID he will hold the global economy HOSTAGE to force CUTS to Social Security & THIS is the UNIFIED position of the Republican Party in both the House & Senate.

TELL EVERYONE WE STILL HAVE WORK TO DO TO PROTECT THE PROGRAM IN THE 117th CONGRESS!

There's bike infrastructure, and then there’s Dutch bike infrastructure.
#Hovenring, the World's 1st suspended bike path roundabout (although some Norwegians I know dispute that…)
#cities #BikeLanes #urbanism #bikes #Dutch

This isn't an image of just any mustang, this is a Carter Reservoir Spanish mustang. They've been DNA tested to the original Iberian stock brought to the Americas by the murderous Conquistadors. This isolated herd of horses in the far NW corner of Washoe County, Nevada, feature primitive (dun factor) markings including leg stripes, breast herringbones, dorsal stripes, black facial stripes, and capes.

#Mustangs #SpanishMustang #Horses #WildHorses #Nevada #WildLife #Photography #LinuxPhotography

Tiny realizes she came with a preinstalled cat toy. #CatsOfMastodon

"Every Dec, the Trump Org would cut a check to a mail room employee....

It didn’t matter to the mail room guy. The money wasn’t for him.

His job was to cash the check at a local bank, lug the bills back to Trump Tower, take the elevator to the 26th floor and hand the money over to Allen Weisselberg"

...

If this hadn't come out during the trial I wouldn't have believed it.

I mean... our expectations were low, but DAMN!😡

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-organization-trial-uncovers-secrets-from-bonus-scams-to-his-and-hers-benzes/ar-AA153Rb4?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=71fcff63cf354e4c83139515d9999c93

The only way this makes any sense is to assume that the US health care system was designed to make money, and not to take care of patients

With all of the horrible things happening in the world, it’s nice to find the wins. Especially in the area of our environment. A group called Coral Guardian is restoring coral reefs, and it’s quite magnificent. More wins like this, please.

https://www.coralguardian.org/en/

#Climate #Environment #CoralReef #Restoration