Notices by Jo with elbows up & chin up (joblakely@mastodon.social), page 2

A quick little painting I am liking a lot.
It’s always the ones I do quickly and decisively that I love the most. It’s very tiny, about 4 x 6” oil on canvas board & some digital painting over top & retouching.

Beaded earrings from @Tzipporah
Muse (not a portrait exactly) was @twospiritdyke@bsky.social

#lgbtq #twoSpirit #queer #art #artwork #portraitart #painting #lesbian #pride
#mastoart

They want to tell you the boycotts don’t work…except Target has already lost over 16 billion since they trashed DEI. Walmart stores are empty & while I can’t find figures on losses…truth will out eventually. And Tesla alone has lost over 750 Billion.
People aren’t flying to US.
Keep up the good work people. You may not see the results published and they may say it doesn’t work, but it clearly does.
#resist #resistance #boycott

This Jewish comedian pulls no punches roasting Zionists.
https://youtu.be/DjihuT-R94E

Just learned this Fun fact: ””socialist Norway” has almost 2 trillion USD in their Sovereign Wealth Fund.
If everybody quit working today, Norway could maintain its standard of living for more than 400 years.
They nationalized their oil and gave the profits to the government, not shareholders.
Socialism is the enemy of billionaires, but the friend of the middle class.”

#Canada needs to do the same. The whole world needs to do the same.

@fkamiah17 @SrRochardBunson
Saw this today too from London ( from YT)

@aehdeschaine @hollie
SAME!!!!!
I don’t watch much as a result, bc I also really hate police, fbi, cia, and military propaganda shows. And I hate horror & violence. And now dislike most dystopias or negative future visions.
It doesn’t leave much.
I love most British comedy panel & game shows.
I like funny human stories told well.
Fleabag, Derry Girls, Chewing Gum, Ghosts, Dinosaur, Catastrophe, Colin From Accounts, Upload, Undone, Lower Decks & Strange New Worlds.

@aehdeschaine @hollie I got into the first series, finished it, but could not do the second. The first ended so disappointingly, I wasn’t going to waste my time. It was so violent, so many awful people with power. I didn’t need more of it. I used to love costume dramas…but not so much anymore either. It is all off putting these days.

@kaia @overholt
I’ve read of a few awful humiliations we were forced to endure. But most records of our achievements and our sufferings have been completely & purposefully destroyed. 1000s of years of it.

@blogdiva I really learned about this scarcity economic bullshit through Buckminster Fuller who spoke about Malthusian Darwinian economics as bullshit which is scarcity & population control eugenics. Who is fittest to survive.

@WarnerCrocker we definitely need to see more Dem leaders helping communities organize, stay safe and brainstorm solutions.

Someone posted a video with the caption ‘the wolf is at the door…’ about these times.
No. That’s not right. The wolf is in the house, has reproduced and is in every room of the house defecating everywhere and destroying everything. And have already killed many.

The time is long past. The wolf was welcomed in with open arms, over and over. What are you going to do now?

Took this from another poster who posted without alt text.

Fuck Imperialism.

@FlashMobOfOne @Mikee a man on the bus today wearing a surgical mask, PULLED IT DOWN TO SNEEZE.
Like why do you bother wearing one? Certainly it’s not for any mutual benefit.
Oh you don’t want all your snot spray to hit the mask? You’d rather share it with everyone on the bus instead?

Not the first time I’ve seen people pull down their mask to sneeze or cough.

Instead of privatization we should be doing more publicization…bring more into the commons.
Governments should provide non profit low cost hospitals, dental, housing, health insurance, social media platforms (like have their own fediverse instances) grocery stores, drug stores, gas etc. Of course this is what they feared about communism, but it’s capitalists that feared it. Alternatively Government can choose to fund ONLY non profit independent business & cooperatives with public funds.

The problem with a lot of Americans, the media and corporate culture responsible for it too, is that they confuse ruthlessness with genius.

@richpuchalsky I was just thinking similarly today with how disappointingly business as usual Dems are trying to be bipartisan with actual nazis as if there is ANY common ground, while trying to appear like the good guys for doing that bending towards fascists to work together, instead of obstructing with all their power. They either cannot read the room, the writing on the wall, or get their feet unstuck from the profiteering they’re in.

Delta plane seems to have had a fire in air, crash landed at #Toronto Pearson airport completely upside down in a most unusual crash. All passengers are alive, but some seriously injured.
Really curious to hear what happened.

I’ve lived with the UGLIEST metal horizontal blinds for years, which my landlord didn’t want removed but were already bent & broken when I moved in. I put sheers on top, but it was a mess. Well they got so bad…it was one stupid wide blind…they finally bowed so much, I (finally) decided I wasn’t living with it. Bought magnetic Roman blinds, which reminds me of shoji screens or sails with battens. I love it. And it nicely blocks out the less than attractive view. I love the look.
Also bean update.

Happening now: protest at Treasury with Dem leaders.
https://www.youtube.com/live/1USE5CuwrRk?feature=shared