Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

there is a very good point there...

"Dear Mom, Frankfurt Airport is so innovative! They have turned their escalators into waterfalls! I hear they are going to stock tropical fish in the lobby." #frankfurt #airport #flooding #PostcardsFromTheAnthropocene

Also if you're in Russia, please kill your local draft officer https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/26/russia-man-shoots-commander-drafting-residents-for-war-in-ukraine

Flesh eating bacteria is in the NY/CT/NJ area. Not going in any water around here.

This👇

a violinist, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man. He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper's cemetery in the Dorset back country.

As I was not familiar with the country lanes, I got lost and, being a typical man, I didn't stop for directions.

I finally arrived an hour late and saw the funeral guys had evidently gone and the hearse was nowhere in sight. There were only the diggers and crew left and they were eating lunch.

I felt bad and apologised to the men for being late. I went to the side of the grave and looked down and the vault lid was already in place. I didn't know what else to do, so I started to play.

The workers put down their lunches and began to gather around. I played out my heart and soul for this man with no family and friends.

I played like I've never played before for this homeless man.

And as I played 'Amazing Grace,' the workers began to weep. They wept, I wept, we all wept together. When I finished I packed up my violin and started for my car. Though my head hung low, my heart was full.

As I opened the door to my car, I heard one of the workers say, "I never seen nothin' like that before and I've been putting in septic tanks for twenty years."

Orinocan Saltator

A beautiful and colorful grosbeak-like bird with slate gray upperparts, black mask and bill, immaculate white eyebrow and throat, and rich salmon-buff underparts. Sexes similar. Fairly common, in pairs or small groups foraging for fruits and flowers, as well as insects. Mostly in dry regions with bushes and scattered trees, gallery forest edges and savanna. Loud and melodic song with three variants, often given in duet. Found only in Colombia and Venezuela.

Link: https://ebird.org/species/orisal1
Photo Location: Colombia

Rosalynn Carter marks 96th birthday at home with the former president, butterflies and ice cream.💝

Rosalynn Carter marks 96th birthday at home with the former president, butterflies and ice cream | AP News https://apnews.com/article/rosalynn-jimmy-carter-birthday-first-lady-president-3ba02fcffd3669877ac2130395a18970

#Journalists, whose primary purpose is to inform as many people as is possible (or relevant), must all make full and proper use of #image Alt Text.

Their near universal failure to do so is a clear indication that they do not consider people who rely upon Alt Text to be a part of their audience, and worthy of being as informed as those of us who don't need full and accurate image descriptions.

This may seem minor to you.

To me, it's yet another indicator as to how journalism is failing us all.

@MHowell @JonChevreau @samlitzinger

In 2016, Trump said we should vote for him because he had devised a secret plan that was guaranteed to defeat ISIS in 30 days. He said he was "smarter than the generals." He wouldn't say what the plan was.

The press was like, "Trump offers a bold new vision for a safer world!"

It's been seven years now. Let's stop letting him use the entire political press corps as his own personal publicity department.

My mom(age 74): When you date at an older age, you have to expect people to die.

Me: When you say, “people” how many are we talkin’ about?

When I started college in the 80s, tuition quadrupled before I graduated. Minimum wage was $3.35 and a semester hour was $4. When I graduated, minimum wage was the same, but a semester hour was $16/hr.

Fast forward 30 years when I go back to school to take 2 classes. Minimum wage was $7.25, a semester hour was $267. I spent about $2000 for 2 classes.

More people with more money to spend would improve the economy tremendously.

https://www.axios.com/2023/08/14/student-debt-biden-lawsuit-dismissed