Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

„Tibetan Butter Lamp“ was taken in a Tibetian monastry. The lamps traditionally burn clarified yak butter. The Tibetian offer the lighted butter lamps to representing the illumination of wisdom.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/golden-tibetan-butter-lamp-birgit-moldenhauer.html

#Photography #China #Tibet #Travel #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #Himalaya #Buddha #Budddhism #Lamp #Monastry

https://www.pictorem.com/507241/Golden%20Tibetan%20Butter%20Lamp.html

More rabbit art for today! I gave this bunny big green and blue peepers to match his colorful markings.

Artwork is available here - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/colorful-rabbit-art-year-of-the-rabbit-peggy-collins.html

#rabbits #rabbit #bunny #bunnies #colorful #color #colorfulart #wildlife #wildlifeart #animals #animalart #green #zentangle #zentangleart #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #mastodonart #fedigiftshop #mastoart #fediart #peggycollins #peggycollinsgallery

@edendestroyer@masto.ai

As for #Lemmy, a #Reddit #Alternative:

You can find a server of your choice through this link:

https://join-lemmy.org/instances

A word of warning: Ignore the server lemmygrad as it may contain a lot of pro-russian sentiments (given the war) expressed and encouraged in it, with lemmy.ml having a ton of chinese authoritarian #propaganda.

I personally use #beehaw and can wholeheartedly endorse it. You can subscribe to any community through it, except the defederated ones.

#feditips

Born in 1821, Elizabeth Blackwell was determined to become a physician. But she was rejected from every med school she applied to bc she was a woman. She was finally admitted to Geneva College, but her acceptance letter was intended as a joke.

Dr. Blackwell was the first woman to receive an M.D. from a U.S. med school & championed women in medicine. Eventually, she opened a clinic, started a medical college for women & became a professor. https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_35.html #science #history #HistoryRemix

We've watched The Muppet Movie three times this month. Real talk here: I have walked this earth for nearly five decades, I have lived a bit, I've seen a few things, and I will still start tearing up when I hear a frog puppet playing a miniature banjo and singing a song about rainbows.

A bit of impressionistic painting of the charming town of Colonia in Uruguay this morning. #AYearForArt #Uruguay

How do you build a following on Mastodon? I'm not used to this

Why are so many people seeing more engagement on Mastodon than Twitter?

To me, the answer is pretty simple: Twitter tries to aggregate as much attention as possible around stuff that goes mega-viral.

There are only so many minutes in the day. So for stuff to "blow up big" necessitates that most of the rest of the posts from people we might actually want to hear from must go unseen.

more from @heycaseywattsup

https://www.caseywatts.com/blog/welcome-to-mastodon/

Ukrainian military medic Alexandra Kruchenko spent several months at Azovmash and Azovstal, and then in Russian captivity.

She tells her story.

SLAVA UKRAINI
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Mariupol

A Boy Was Killed on a Dairy Farm. The Police Blamed the Wrong Man: His Father.
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When an 8-year-old Nicaraguan boy was run over on a Wisconsin dairy farm, authorities blamed his father and closed the case.

Meanwhile, the community of immigrant workers knows a completely different story.

https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-dairy-farm-jefferson-rodriguez?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Good on Medhi Hasan for telling the truth about many things, including #covid :

 “What Americans aren’t being told, sadly, is that most experts in the field don’t agree with the media, Congress, the White House on this. This is a disease that every study shows will increase your chance of a heart attack, dementia, a stroke, diabetes, not to mention long Covid itself, brain fog, all the other issues. Why would I want to get that?”

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/feb/22/mehdi-hasan-interview-trump-biden-fox-news-msnbc?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The patient, Chris Harvey, is a young trans man and a student at Washington University in St. Louis.

He started the process at the Transgender Center when he was 14. He is EXACTLY the sort of patient who Jamie Reed is saying should not get treatment.

We need to hear from these trans men's voices. Jamie Reed shouldn't get to speak for him. Especially not if she's outright lying about the assessment process.

#Florida college students planning statewide walkout Thurs in protest of recent education-related efforts by #DeSantis, incl his policies targeting #LGBTQ+ & people of color.

"Stand for Freedom" is a statewide movement and walkout scheduled for noon. Participants are calling on DeSantis admin to restore #diversity, equity, and #inclusion initiatives in colleges & universities

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2023/02/21/florida-college-students-plan-statewide-walk-out/69924041007/

A Norfolk Southern Policy Lets Officials Order Crews to Ignore Safety Alerts
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Norfolk Southern allows a monitoring team to instruct crews to ignore alerts from #train track sensors designed to flag potential mechanical problems.

In October, months before the East Palestine derailment, the company also directed a train to keep moving with an overheated wheel that caused it to derail miles later in Sandusky, Ohio.

#NorfolkSouthern #NTSB
#Trains #Safety

https://www.propublica.org/article/norfolk-southern-policy-safety-alerts-east-palestine-derailment?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

What I missed on other social media for so long is the real people and their everyday thoughts and feelings. Did you enjoy your coffee this morning? I wanna hear about it. Is your dog the cutest? Show me a picture! What song did you listen to recently that spoke to you? How does the sky look today in your corner of the world?

Not every post has to be geared for maximum impact and response, not everyone has to be an influencer or professional content creator. I'm here for the little things.

Hi! I'm new here. My name is Eva.

I'm 40 years old, married, and childfree. I speak English and German. I love dogs, old video games, and music. I still buy CDs.

I'm a long-time vegetarian, now vegan. I live in Florida. I have been working from home since before it was cool.

Nice to meet you all! #introductions #introduction

@MissingThePt I see what you did there. My generation isn’t even an option because OK boomer.

I have a big bunch of #DoctorWho art prints on eBay, international orders are welcome! (Boosts are always appreciated!) 🙂
https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/scotgra-57

My poor tree. But this is kinda hilarious

"This post is not shared." 😾