Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

In many legends, a person is a werewolf by choice, turning into a wolf by donning a magic wolfskin. In some versions, the werewolf leaves behind their human clothes when they transform. If these clothes are ever destroyed, the werewolf can never regain human form.
#FolkloreSunday #OfDarkandMacabre #folklore #mythology #monster

@ancient_catbus I’d like to add that what I dislike about Masto is that a block means nothing when a person or bot can make new accounts on new servers to refollow you (referring to my latest difficulties on here)

The cat is guarding his string from the dog (who is not interested in it). The dog is still guarding his bread from the cat (who is not interested in it) and so it goes.

Today I learned that fish make incredibly loud, low frequency sounds. According to a researcher I spoke with, NOAA's Megan McKenna, they are kind of like frogs -- one will start yammering, then a ton of them will join into a chorus, and then it will die down. Here are some recordings! https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/news/mar21/calling-fish.html

"The Texas GOP have banned more books from school libraries this past year than any other state in the nation, targeting titles that deal with abortion, LGBTQ representation and race. Those were the recent findings of PEN America, a nonprofit organization advocating for free speech."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Texas #Republicans #race #LGBTQ #abortion
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https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/texas-gop-are-banning-books-but-want

Again, fascist use the whole cow.

Why is EVERY single deflection for fascist violence, automatically "mental health?"

These folks are telling you more than you realize, perhaps even more than they realize. How do nazis think about people with mental health issues? How do nazi societies address mental health issues? The nazis want to talk about "mental health" because to them? It's all the same train ride to the gas chambers.

Our grocery bills, and all bills, are high because of more greed than ever in history? Oh, that explains it. 🛒🍋🍞🥛

https://fortune.com/2023/04/05/end-of-capitalism-inflation-greedflation-societe-generale-corporate-profits/
#inflation #greedflation #economy #economics
h/t @yaneerbaryam @Peternimmo

The wealthy pedophile and rapist friends of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are still flying around the world in their private jets, using all the water sans accountability.

Did about a seven-hour hand-sewing push over the course of yesterday to get the upper corners and center area joined into one continuous piece. 🥳 I love seeing the pieces become a surface!

#EPP #quilting #PassacagliaQuilt

“Mastodon may not be the future of social, but we might not get to the future without it.”

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network

#ActivityPub #SocialMedia #Internet #OpenWeb

Mike knows a lot about the gas business!

Mike Pence’s family’s failed gas stations cost taxpayers $20M+ 13-JUL-2018 #NeverMikePence2024 #FuckMikePence https://apnews.com/article/07f9256ae1984362ba3eff192b4d6dd0

But at some point, if this continues, they will run out of LGBTQ+ people to target. They already are starting to run out of trans people and have begun expanding their rhetoric to include non-straight cis people as well. It won't stop there. They will keep finding new targets. This is the thin wedge of fascism that they hope will eventually topple, not just trans rights, but then gay rights, women's rights, and finally human rights.

They cannot be convinced they are wrong. They know they are wrong.

They don't care about truth. The only thing they care about is power.

Have a peaceful #SilentSunday everyone ☺

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If only the #DemocraticParty leadership took #unions as seriously as #billionaires do!

https://doctorow.medium.com/a-collective-bargain-a48925f944fe

I am not advocating violence. I am informing you, plainly, that the violence has already started. The oppressive, evil laws being passed at the state level all across the country are violence. The groomer and pedophile rhetoric is violence. The kidnapping of trans kids in Florida is violence.

People are dying. Innocent people just trying to exist.

Want to make a difference? The next time you run across someone pushing this agenda, punch them as hard as you can. The only way they lose is if it is too painful, too costly for them to exist in the public sphere. They won't stop lying until someone is willing to stop them. Get ready to defend, using every means at our disposal.

We are already at war. This is a battle flag.

I hope they force every editor at The New York Times to read this opinion piece in The New York Times showing how the mainstream media (led by The New York Times) by emphasizing isolated examples of right-wing-extremists not being loved on elite universities WHILE ignoring Republican states using states to make swaths of speech illegal, they have misinformed all of US on the true threat to free speech https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/opinion/free-speech-campus-states-not-students.html

AMEN!

Sometimes when you take a photo you get photo Bombed.

See it here: https://jan-luit.pixels.com/featured/sleeping-giant-photo-bomb-jan-luit.html

#AYearForArt #ArtMatters #Birds #PhotographyIsArt #Photography #NaturePhotography #fotografie #birdsofmastodon #Birdwatching #WildlifePhotography #GiveArt #BuyIntoArt #FediGiftShop #Art #mastoart #PhotoBom #Landscape #LakeSuperior

PURPLE COURAGE RIBBON

'As a two time cancer survivor I hope that my art can inspire, lift-up and bring awareness to the world of the "hope and strength" available to us all.

Lavender, purple, lilac ..colors that represent strength, endurance, passion and hope. Colors to celebrate survival of all cancers that attempt to devastate our soul from within.

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#SharePamsArt #BuyIntoArt #artmatters #AYearforArt #survivor #mentalhealth #hope #mastoprompt #art #FediGiftShop