Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

A story of back alley. #fotografie #streetphotography #photography

Good morning! We had an epic sunrise this morning. #adirondackcoast #photography

I am trying but failing to understand how #GeorgeSantos was allowed to get away with his stunningly insidious lies for so long. In the age of Cantaloupe Caligula, have we become so inured to compulsive liars that we don't even flinch now when another pops up? Is there ANYTHING this SOB hasn't lied about? #politics

This is a great story of how Barnes & Noble’s new CEO who was hired in 2019 has turned around the company. Sales are up, it opened 16 stores this year and plans to open more next year.

The secret is the CEO really likes books and readers. So he stopped doing deals with publishers to promote their latest books & NYT best sellers and encouraged individual stores to promote books they found most interesting.

So simple yet…

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and

Russia’s abductions of Ukrainian children are a genocidal crime https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/27/russia-genocide-ukraine-children/ #children #genocide #ukraine #russia #humanrights

I had expected to have a good night's sleep after 6 days away...but no...it's been terrible. I guess the accumulation of worries I'd successfully ignored are now jostling for top spot and I'm going to have to tackle the list today. Big time.

Oh, I forgot that it's #Caturday , so here you go!

View of Washington, D.C., from the Capitol, looking west, during the Civil War. The Smithsonian Castle is in the far background with white one-story buildings in front, housing a Civil War hospital. A canal runs where the National Mall now stands. The Botanic Garden is in the foreground. The Potomac River and hills of Arlington, Virginia, are in the far distance.
#history #photography
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Aja’ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara’ib al-mawjudat (Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing) by al-Qazwini (1203-1283)

@PleaseCaption By the way, if you didn't know this, you can add alt text to an image after the fact, but the process is not very intuitive. Use the "Edit" tool, then DELETE the image from the toot. Put it back in, and then add the alt text. You can't add alt text until you first remove the image and replace it.

🫂 After all the evil Russia brought to Ukraine, the light of our hearts continues to illuminate our path.

Read @RubrykaEng@twitter.com article how volunteers are helping to rebuild Kyiv region after russia's invasion 👉 https://bit.ly/3VwFDKv

#UkraineWillWin

Chinese media bragging about high vaccination rates is largely bullshit because so many of us have not been vaccinated in over a year so. By Chinese scientist's own studies we are effectively unprotected and not being permitted to boost- so are getting much sicker for no reason.

I think it’s important to repeat: you don't "have something to hide" when you put blinds on your windows or close the door when you're on the can or wear clothes.

Privacy isn't about having something to hide. It's not about keeping secrets. It's about you being the person who chooses what you reveal about yourself, and when, and to who, and the other word we have for that is "dignity". Your inherent dignity, as a human being.

Your privacy is the agency you have over your dignity.

29 children hospitalized in Ohio as antivaxxer parents make #measles infect again.

Measles, preventable by vaccine, had been declared eliminated from the US in the year 2000. https://thehill.com/homenews/3788623-more-than-80-ohio-children-infected-in-measles-outbreak-most-unvaccinated/

Twitter is down & I am laughing so hard!!
I hope that Freaky little Fascist Turd spends all night trying to figure it out.

i hope everyone who ever made a meme i enjoyed has a happy 2023

he's helping
#catsofmastodon

I'd suggest that we ask Santos' mother if that's his real name but it seems that she may or may not have died on 9/11.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/george-santos-claimed-his-mother-died-in-the-9-11-attacks-five-months-before-saying-she-died-in-december-2016/

Teach me something useful about a subject you know very well.

Doesn't have to be a detailed lesson, in fact ideally just a few words or a single post.

Boosts appreciated, 2023 is coming and I'd like to get smarter. Maybe we can all get a bit smarter.

I'll start:

My job is voiceovers and I can tell you with absolute confidence that reading your writing out loud is like a magic trick for better proofreading.

The mouth stumbles on mistakes the eyes glide over.