Notices by Carolyn (cstamp@mastodon.social)

Just a suggestion: a lot of people and media are looking to generate outrage for clicks. I don't know about you, but I have long expended any extra energy. We need to get better at dismissing attention-getting for what it is. Don't spread the crap, ignore it, don't give them the attention they want.

@persagen Mute, filters, blocks. Use copiously. :)

@MisuseCase @mekkaokereke @tob @wendinoakland It is NOT just evangelical Christians. Name a religion and there will be a preacher preaching hate. It doesn't mean there aren't anomalies, in which parishes don't depend on hate and the fear of god to bring people into their pews (or equivalent) and pad their coffers, but it is definitely not relegated to one group of one religion.

Two travel shows that made an impact on me were the Andre Dupuis & Scott Wilson “Departures” two-part episode on North Korea, and Anthony Bourdain “Parts Unknown” in the Congo. With the former, it is tremendously sad that after it, the orange bloated warthog came to power & tried to start a nuclear war via tweet and I imagine that all the inroads folk had been trying to make vanished. 1/2

With the latter, the damage done by Europeans in Africa, wow, I had not know the extent, and that some seem waiting for a return of the good things that they are maintaining…. 2/2

@persagen @RiaResists Wow. The slo-mo really shows the cat jumping form & how it was able to absorb the shock of the fall, and I guess the landing spot helped, thank goodness.

@vfrmedia @HoustonDog @persagen Under that article, I posted another, in which BC firefighters did successfully rescue another cat a few months ago, so it's still a thing in at least parts of Canada.

The cat is down!!!! But now the concern is if it's ok.

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/cowichan-cat-stuck-in-tree-for-days-is-finally-down-1.7111076

@persagen

@rubixhelix You are underestimating the power of education, especially if kids are taught what to look our for in advertising and marketing, taught critical thinking. The better informed people are, the better choices they make. @adritheonly @dalias @AbandonedAmerica

@AbandonedAmerica A lot of us are terrified because we think we're next. :(

@persagen Oh, yes! Still amazing good stuff in the world, just being swallowed up by the big black hole of the rising fascism. It's nice to still be amazed and wonder. :)

@persagen "For many years, paleontologists have debated what these prehistoric big cats would have looked like based on their fossilized bones. The frozen cub provides new revelations about its soft tissue anatomy such as the shape of its ears, muzzle, muscles, and broad feet adapted to walking in deep snow."

So very cool!

@randahl Alt text: Stephen King: "I quit Twitter. Eleven years, man. It really changed. Grew dark."

I'm guessing that was posted on threads.

Yesterday on Twitter, he posted: I'm leaving Twitter. Tried to stay, but the atmosphere has just become
too toxic. Follow me on Threads, if you like.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14084935/stephen-king-leaves-X-twitter-elon-musk.html

@persagen 😃

@persagen "unfixed tom". I wonder if having some female cat perfume might help coax it lower...

@br00t4c "Smalls used money initially intended to buy his 13-year-old daughter some new clothes, but after learning about her bullying, he decided to spend the money on Ryan instead...."As parents, we have to take responsibility for what our children do,"..."We can teach our children, but when they go and are around other children they can veer off a little bit. When situations like this happen, we have to take action and be the parent and not the friend.""

Awesome dad.

@IcooIey @fifilamoura @mekkaokereke Nice needs to be redefined. It never meant doormat, which is how it's often interpreted. Tolerating crap isn't being nice, it allows crap to thrive, and every time a person does that, they lose a little bit more of their soul.

@madeindex Thanks!

@br00t4c "officials say that while searching his electronic devices for clues, they discovered that before Borgwardt went on his kayaking trip, he had been communicating with a woman from Uzbekistan online, had opened a new bank account, obtained a new passport before leaving his original one at home, then wiped his computer."

Whoops, shouldn't have left the phone, should've just tossed the SIM card.

Someone thought it good to show me something by the orange bloated warthog (no, trying to avoid). The way he's ranting, if I were in the Dem political party, I'd want to audit the voting machines. When he rants that way, he's always looking in a mirror.