Notices by impermanen_ 🕊️ (impermanen_@zirk.us), page 5

We let all the equines out to run with wild abandon in the forest today and they had a grand time. Because that’s the kind of people we are.

The kind that forgets to latch the gate. 🙄😅

#horses #asstodon

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.

Have a happy-ass New Year, everybody!
#asstodon

Cool program in #Iran to outfit the country’s 250,000 nomad families with portable #solar power systems.

The header photo is not what the article is describing, which is probably more like the attached photo (donkey not included)

From: @byteseu
https://pubeurope.com/@byteseu/113736611668267777

This is an #asstodon / #renewableenergy / #solar / #degrowth crossover 👆

Hopefully Santa will bring them a new traffic cone. 2025 is looking like a banner year for donkey #bonkbonk-ing.

#asstodon

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.

#StillMasking

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.”

😳
#immigration

Verrrry chilly morning. We broke out the warm winter burrito wraps and they always look great in them.

Happy #Donksgiving btw. We could make that a thing. Show us all your #donkeys or any donkey you love. Then we will all be donkful! #asstodon

A peaceful night to all. Y’all be good critters, ok?
#asstodon

@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.”

Mini donkey in hot pursuit. You never think your life could end this way… until it’s too late. #asstodon

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.

Me: Say ‘“cheese”, Arturo”

Arturo: 😬

#asstodon

#silentsunday #asstodon

It’s the weekend! Stop working this shift is done! Yabba dabba doo!
#Fensterfreitag #asstodon

“It is the delusion that the self is so separate and fragile that we must delineate and defend its boundaries; that it is so small and so needy that we must endlessly acquire and endlessly consume; and that as individuals, corporations, nation-states, or a species, we can be immune to what we do to other beings.”

~ Joanna Macy

“The crisis that threatens our planet, whether seen in its military, ecological, or social aspect, derives from a dysfunctional and pathological notion of the self. It derives from a mistake about our place in the order of things.” 1/2

“Robert Bellah calls for a moral ecology. ‘We have to treat others as part of who we are,’ he says, ‘rather than as a ‘them’ with whom we are in constant competition.

“To Robert Bellah, I respond, ‘It is happening.’ It is happening because of three converging developments.”

1/2

“First, the conventional small self, or ego-self, is being psychologically and spiritually challenged by confrontation with dangers of mass annihilation.

The second force working to dismantle the ego-self is a way of seeing that has arisen out of science. From living systems theory and systems cybernetics emerges a process view of the self as inseparable from the web of relationships that sustain it.

The third force is the resurgence in our time of nondualistic spiritualities.”

~ Joanna Macy