Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Cats in the kitchen 😀 ❤️ Wall Art Prints and more: https://matthias-hauser.pixels.com/featured/cats-in-the-kitchen-01-matthias-hauser.html #cats #cat #kitchen #animal #animals #fun #funny #humor #caturday #wallart #art #mastoart #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #SpringIntoArt

I keep seeing bots saying this. They fail to mention that any bill the #democrats wanted to pass would take 60 votes in the senate. We never had that for regulatory roll back. #Republicans ruin everything. Then scramble to blame DEMs every time. #Bank #SVB

Have fun with colors!

In this abstracted watercolor painting of a sunflower I used all colors of the rainbow like bright yellow and orange, vibrant blue, teal, purple and green.

https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/rainbow-sunflower-karen-kaspar.html

#MastoArt #art #AYearForArt #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #TraditionalArt #kunst #contemporaryArt
#watercolor #ArtBooster #BuyIntoArt
#flowers #flower #gardening #garden #floral #nature #NatureLover #sunflower #sunflowers #colorful #colors #happy

A socialist is a libertarian whose bank just went under. You may quote me.

Lack of sleep linked to car accidents among teens and poorer achievement: When schools started after 8:30 a.m., attendance, standardized test scores, and academic performance in math, English, science, and social studies increased, while tardiness declined. One school that shifted start times from 7:35 a.m. to 8:55 a.m. saw a 70% decline in the number of local car accidents among drivers ages 16 to 18.

https://popresearchcenters.org/research-highlights/more-sleep-could-improve-many-u-s-teenagers-mental-health/

Every day we live and spend time with our loved ones we help defeat Nazism. We help defeat Holocausts. We help defeat hate. They cannot eradicate us. They will not eradicate us. 💚

@victoriadecapua self righteous much?

Saturn's Hyperion: A Moon with Odd Craters https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230312.html #APOD

#ElizabethWarren: "President Trump and congressional #Republicans' decision to roll back Dodd-Frank's 'too big to fail' rules for banks like #SVB —reducing both oversight and capital requirements—contributed to a costly collapse." #SiliconValleyBank https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-era-deregulation-deemed-a-key-culprit-in-failure-of-silicon-valley-bank

Opening up a whole new can of worms.

Morning Mastodon,

The weekend is flying past again, Sunday already. I hope that today brings you good things.

This photograph is of the house at Baddesley Clinton. A small pond before the moat surrounding the house.

#DailyPhoto #Photography #Architecture #Landscape #Reflections

@victoriadecapua I bet I can find something you wrote that offends me and take time out of my day to label you, but I prefer sticking to pointing out the irony that the people making fun of mastodon also can’t figure out how it works. Have a great day 💕

Amazing agility.

Look at this northern cardinal. Despite being in the center of a thick tight tangle of branches it moves with relative ease. Any acrobat would be envious. The bird is making its way to one of my bird feeders. In this photo, I'm not sure whether he's flying to his next perch or simply jumping. I suppose it's probably a combination of both, because he will need to right himself from the dive. Don't you think so?

"The female cardinal sings duets with her mate during courtship and while she's on the nest. During that time, her singing tells her mate when to bring food — and also when to stay away. This warning keeps the more conspicuous male's visits to a minimum, lest his flashy color expose the nest to predators." - abcbirds.org

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #NorthernCardinal

Today in Labor History March 12, 1928: The St. Francis Dam failed in Los Angeles, California, killing 431 people. It is the second deadliest disaster in California, after the 1906 earthquake, and one of the worst U.S. civil engineering disasters ever. A defective foundation and design flaws caused the failure. Yet, the inquest absolved chief engineer, William Mulholland, of all criminal responsibility, and he continued to earn a salary from the Bureau of Public Works (though his career was effectively ended). The authorities continued to find victims of the flood until the mid-1950s. Many of the victims were out to sea. Some washed ashore as far south as Mexico. Mulholland was also the designer of the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct, which sucks water from the Owens Valley and is a major cause of the depletion of the fragile Mono Lake. As its water levels continues to decline, it threatens the world’s second largest gull rookery, home to up to 50,000 birds. The aqueduct’s construction, and the shady methods Mulholland used to acquire the water rights, led to the California Water Wars between LA County and Owens Valley farmers. Many of those same Anglo farmers (or their predecessors) usurped the land from Piute people during the 1863 Owens Valley Indian War, which was precipitated, in part, by the vast loss of human and cattle lives, and the displacements, caused by the Megaflood of 1861, which inundated much of the West, from Idaho and Oregon, down to northern Baja California. The corruption related to the construction of the aqueduct has been portrayed in the film Chinatown, and in the nonfiction book, “Cadillac Desert.”

For more on the Megaflood of 1861, please read my article, “Worse Than the Big One”: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2023/01/04/worse-than-the-big-one-californias-coming-megaflood-2/

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #flood #dam #mulholland #MonoLake #OwensValley #NativeAmerican #indigenous #piute #ecology #chinatown #IndianWar #HabitatDestruction @bookstadon

I sure hope so.

This has been a weekend of minimal socialising and naps.

#SilentSunday #CatsOfMastodon #cats #cat #pets #floof #catstodon #DogsOfMastodon #dogs #dog

#silentsunday

#woodland #trees #forest #landscapephotography #nature #art #MastoArt

"ASK NOT WHAT YOUR POLITICIANS CAN DO FOR YOU!
ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR POLITICIANS!"

THEY ALREADY HAVE PLENTY OF IDEAS!

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the U.S. government will not bail out Silicon Valley Bank.

"The reforms that have been put in place means that we're not going to do that again," Yellen told CBS' "Face the Nation."

https://apple.news/AnHeiaKL5QRWE8W4zaYsePg