One special feature of Fastmail that I like is the ability to create alias email addresses for your account. You can have as many as you want for free and the mail all gets routed to your main account inbox by default, but it can be helpful for making rules to filter your emails. I only give out my "real" email address to people I really know and trust.
One of the endearing habits of our donkeys is the way they put their toys away. I can only guess what their reasoning might be, but frequently when I come out to feed I’ll find that a toy they had been playing with has been carefully placed inside a bowl or tub instead of just left lying on the ground. Sometimes after dark they will gather their toys up into their barn stall where they sleep.
Mexico’s Supreme Court building is quite shocking if you’re used to the Olympian white marble temples of government buildings in the US. It’s full of amazing murals that graphically remind those working in the court that the state itself is the source of the worst injustices: armed surveillance, police brutality, massacres, corruption, incarceration, torture.
My best friend had pancreatic cancer surgery last week… and contracted #COVID while in the hospital. He’s in really bad shape now and fighting for his life. It’s incredible to me how we’ve been encouraged to treat COVID as “over” when thousands of people are dying every month and many more are disabled by Long COVID.
Talked with an elderly woman who used to own a small family dairy farm in New York. I asked her how it was running an operation like that. She said: “Awful. It wore your body out.” She added that it’s good that the big industrial dairies have put the small dairies under. Surprised, I asked why.
She explained: “Because they use lots of undocumented immigrants. They can house them in mobile homes on the property, pay them very little and operate 24/7. We couldn’t do that.”
@hrefna something that hadn’t occurred to me until just now: the racism and sexism were surely factors in the Democrats’ prolonged resistance to Biden stepping down from the race. “Better to run with old and feeble than black and female.”
From the early 50s to the late 80s there was a pretty luxurious passenger train that you could take from San Antonio to Mexico City. It was called the Aguila Azteca. It had nice sleeping cars, fine dining, an observation lounge car with a bar, the works.
In the 80s the 1st class fare from Texas to Mexico City was $15.
An aging, distracted, anarchic contemplative who lives on a farm with donkeys, works in #solar, advocates for #degrowth and anti-fascism, practices #Vajrayana #Buddhist #meditation.Posts pics of our burros on the #asstodon tag Aprecio la interacción en Español. ⚠️ Lo hablo mal 🥴 pero quiero mejorarRare drops of buddhadharma#FreePalestine #ZapatistaThe header artwork is by Wang Yiguang