Daryl Gibson @dgibson36@librem.one

"The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them."
--
Charles Bukowski

Today's PSA: (because, apparently, this is shocking to people). It's OK for corporations to make less money. It's OK for shareholders to receive less value.

No, they don't have to raise prices on their consumers. No, they don't have to cut wages or benefits. They're choosing to.

If your perpetually ascending profit model only works because you exploit your labor, then your profit model deserves no sympathy, fretting, or hand-wringing.

You can, and should, make less profit.

The torrential California rains this winter brings something we call a Super Bloom & it was one of the most beautiful displays of #wildflowers I have ever seen.

MORE: https://rebeccaherranen.com/featured/wildflower-super-bloom-at-sunrise-in-walker-canyon-rebecca-herranen.html

#Landscape #LandscapePhotography #California #Spring #Nature #naturephotography #Flowers #Art #buyintoart #Artwork #Gardening #Haiku

Michael Burnham: We must find Starfleet.
Starfleet: You've found us. Now do what we say.
Michael Burnham: No, not like that.

What’s happening in Tennessee is atrocious, and evidence of what the Republican Party fears more than anything else: a multi-racial, multi-generational coalition unafraid to speak truth to power.

Solidarity with the students, lawmakers, and activists fighting for gun control.
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RT @0liviajulianna
‼️⚠️TENNESSEE CALL TO ACTION ⚠️‼️

The bill in Tennessee to expel lawmakers for protesting with students and gun control advocates will…
https://twitter.com/0liviajulianna/status/1643305456985595911

RT @brotherjones_
It’s morally insane that a week after a mass shooting took six lives in our community, House Republicans only response is to expel us for standing with our constituents to call for gun control.

What’s happening in Tennessee is a clear danger to democracy all across this nation.

RT @akela_lacy
NEW: Jan 6 funders are spending millions to back the conservative candidate in Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election. The candidate, Daniel Kelly, advised the state GOP in crafting a fake elector scheme to give the 2020 election to Trump https://theintercept.com/2023/04/02/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-january-6/

RT @RepBowman
Everyone needs to be paying attention to what's happening in Tennessee 🚨

3 lawmakers are about to be illegally ousted for joining the 10,000 kids protesting at the state capitol.

Stop following Trump's location and focus on protecting our democracy from fascism everywhere. https://twitter.com/brotherjones_/status/1643063537244291076

Every time a new Jurassic Park drops, a few months later, animal shelters are overfilled with the abandoned velociraptors that parents impulsively bought for their children before realizing how much work they are.

“Me make them offer them can’t refuse.”
–Cookie Mobster

"Read the books they're banning. That's where the good stuff is."

--LeVar Burton

There’s not “liberal” and “conservative” news. There’s the news, based as close as can get on fact and truth, and then there’s propaganda, filled with lies and distortions.

Fox is the latter.

@PBWolf Good Morning Sis🩵💜🩵 and Happy Tuesday✌️. Having fun getting to know my cousin.

t’was a dark and stormy edit

#photography

A brand new day full of brand new possibilities.
— Good morning ☀️☕️❤️

in october 1994 vincent connare designed comic sans in one sitting without making any mistakes or edits as if receiving dictation directly from God

Another look at my front yard in summer. #flowers #flowerfriday

The trolley problem: your imagination versus the even sadder reality. (Just got this from a friend who also collects trolley problem variants.)

"ALL human beings are born equal in dignity and rights" - Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

I always feel bad about throwing away avocado pits because who knows if I might learn to use a sling late in life or perhaps invent an avocado gun and, if one of those things happens, that is just perfectly good ammunition I am tossing out.