Notices by CynBlogger ❌👑 (cynblogger@sfba.social)

@Fragglemuppet
Happy Birthday! ❤️🥳🎉🎊🎁🎈🍨🎂
(I don’t know how a screen reader interprets emojis, so you have a heart, the party hat dude, two party favors, a wrapped gift, balloon, dish of ice cream & a cake. And here’s the Aries Ram symbol: ♈️)

Ollie (big) & Otis (little) say good morning & have a great weekend!
(Granddaughter number 3’s doggies)

#dogsofmastodon #daschshund

@jeridansky @bich
Thanks for posting!

Re-reading Thomas Merton’s final journal (“The Other Side Of The Mountain,”written from 10/1967-12/1968 - his death), he addresses Vietnam and America, under Pres. Johnson. This quote was written a few days after the October, 1967, March On The Pentagon, in which over 100,000 people protested against military escalation.

“The stupidity and blindness of American power, which, in its own terms is perfectly “logical” — and yet its terms are fantastically arbitrary and respond only to the “reality” of a thinking that goes on within an artificial and closed system. To defend your own reality and then impose it forcefully upon the outside world is paranoia.”

[Merton was a Trappist monk, a prolific & influential writer, and a peace activist.]

#NoWar
#ImpeachTrump
#Merton

@jeridansky
Whoa! ❤️
Amazing that you’ve been to that amazing part of the world! I’ve been gobbling up every Himalaya video on YouTube — so envious of you! Thanks for posting!

(I’d love to see others if they’re available…)

@servelan
Hmmm, let’s see.
Jan 6: Violent, lethal, destructive insurrection, driven & incited by the losing candidate to overturn a valid election, secured by 50-state certification, with results held through 62 challenges.

ICE protests: Right to protest guaranteed by the First Amendment. Action initiated as protest against unconstitutional, violent, inhumane assaults & abductions & family separations of all three categories of victims: undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants in process of asylum & lawful entry, American citizens. Detainees most often held due to race, language, skin color.

Yup, pretty different, Barbie.

#fuckICE
#ICEout
#StopTrump
#ImpeachNoem

@sgt1372 @jeridansky
What a glorious voice she had. I love her “Fields Of Gold” 😪

#ArtAdventCalendar #art #digitalart #procreate #mastoart #seascape

Day 10 — Ocean Sunset

Sacramento showed up with large crowds at the Capitol & most suburbs.

(Photo below posted from Reddit/r/Sacramento by u/CaliRebelScum.)

#NoKings

@dalfen
Meanwhile kids are DYING from whooping cough (pertussis) and measles — and measles was considered eradicated until recently.

Stupidity is literally killing Americans.

@Savvyhomestead

#NoKings OCTOBER 18 nokings .org

There will be thousands (millions) of American flags displayed across this country in three days.

EVERY SINGLE FLAG SHOULD BE FLOWN UPSIDE DOWN!

#StopFascism
#StopTrumpNow
#StopICE

@RamenCatholic
Trump LIED?
You can’t be serious!

@mastodonmigration @tchambers
Read it. (And enjoyed the reading…very clearly written & also entertaining.)

I’m no longer an analyst/software engineer, so ignore this comment from a nobody if you want, & it’s not meant as snark. To use an ancient comparison, you’re going to start with a model that people USE daily (like WP5.1) & end up with an over-engineered, experts-only quagmire with so many esoteric features that befuddle average users (like pick a version of MS Word).

[All I’d like are 1) a draft version of posts that is then finalized at posting but remains editable; 2) a mandatory subject word/phrase at the start of every post so we can self-edit seen content without having to filter by (unknown) hashtag; e.g. “politics” “cats” “tech” “humor”. ]

And FYI, one reason I left Bluesky after a few weeks was the “starter pack” nonsense — which absolutely caters to popular/large account & is not inclusive of lesser-known (but delightful) commentary. Fuck that stupid numbers game!

Cheers!

#bloomscrolling #photography #naturephotography

#replyguysayswhat
#HashtagGames

“You misremembered; actually, it was…”

After ten years of Trump basking in the media spotlight where his every syllable, typo, grunt & burp are reported, it’s time that EVERY ACCOUNT of his communication also includes a fact check and the label “RESULT = LIE” when appropriate.

Ten years and thousands + thousands + thousands of his lies, yet they’re still considered news. Lies aren’t news; lies are lies.

#StopTrumpNow
#ImpeachTrump
#truth

#SilentSunday #photography #landscapephotography
#CostaRica

@georgetakei
Logic is just too hard.

#SilentSunday #France #photography #naturephotography