Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

A male Allen’s Hummingbird show off his iridescent gorget in #sanfrancisco
#hummingbird #bird #birding #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #birdphotography #sfwildlife #olympusphotography

🇺🇦 Ukrainians cheered from their balconies while their air defences blasted Russian missiles and drones out of the sky in the first hours of 2023, as Moscow saw in the new year by attacking civilian targets across #Ukraine. #news #Russia
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/defiant-ukrainians-cheer-new-year-drones-blasted-skies-2023-01-01/

Happy New Year.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.

It doesn't have to be this way.

“In America, a country that can often be cruel to its citizens, the public library is a surprising kindness. It is institution that offers grace and sanctuary, and a vision of what our country might one day be.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/28/usa-public-libraries

I am 8 followers away from 200 on #Mastodon. Can we get there on #NFL gameday???

#sports #football

A NEW YEAR MESSAGE
FROM PLANET EARTH

On this one day of the year when I feel obliged to be mildly civil to my troublesome tenants, I'd like to join you in celebrating the arbitrarily designated beginning of my next SOLAR ORBIT and wish you good luck on your gravitational travels in the infinite spacial void that surrounds me and, ultimately, makes you all COMPLETELY insignificant in the big universal scheme of things

And your rent was due YESTERDAY

#HappyNewYear2023 🌍🎉
#Earth #NewYear #Humour

Things I'm already aware of/am keeping in mind:

1) Hotels near the parade route in Pasadena cost 47 million 22 billion eleventy-hundred dollars on Jan. 1-2.

2) I'm probably going to buy a ticket in a grandstand.

3) Southern California is chilly in early January.

#RoseParade #Pasadena #California

Happy New Year Bookstodonians! #bookstodon @bookstodon May we find joy in the #books we share with one another.

Happy New Year! Here is a cat. #CatsOfMastodon

Israel as the only ‘democracy’ in the region? Sorry, Binyamin Netanyahu is taking away that excuse https://disunitedstates.com/2023/01/01/israel-as-the-only-democracy-in-the-region-sorry-binyamin-netanyahu-is-taking-away-that-excuse/

A superb 17thC gravestone at Torphichen Preceptory. Scottish stones of this period have a far earlier look to them at times. Look at those standing figures!

#photography #Scotland

John Roberts just issued a report about how we must “respect judges’ safety”

Dude what about the safety of the girls you’re forcing to give birth?

What about the safety of women the GOP has placed a $10,000 bounty on?

What about the docs who are terrified of doing their jobs?!

Whenever #Perseverance digs just an inch deep in the ground around the Three Forks depot area, there is this light colored layer that shows up in the images. Seen earlier here: https://fosstodon.org/@65dBnoise/109565559607323850

Processed, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
RMC: 32.0378, Sol: 663, LMST: 13:20:14
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00663/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0663_0725800895_178EBY_N0320378ZCAM03510_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #solarocks #space

Frosty

John Harris points to a line in Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon to discuss how British politicans are dealing with Brexit: “Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.” He writes,

"As a new political year begins, those nine words seem more apposite than ever, and they snugly fit one defining fact of our national predicament: that the wreckage of Brexit is all around us but our politicians will still not acknowledge it."

#Brexit

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/01/wreckage-of-brexit-politicians-denial

@TomWellborn

I love this photo his son Adam did around the time of his Documentary For The Love Of Spock

Charles Pierce says that in order to secure enough votes to become speaker, Kevin McCarthy will have to make a bargain with more than one devil:

"You see, McCarthy wants to be speaker of the House of Representatives. Nero didn't want to be emperor as much as McCarthy wants to be speaker. Poisoning his rivals being unavailable as a campaign strategy, McCarthy has determined instead to further poison the political culture."

#KevinMcCarthy #Republicans

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a42355661/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-multiple-ballots/