I mean perhaps we shouldn't organize our society in such a way that it results in 9 berobbed priests deciding if we have fundamental rights or not roughly once every 6 months with little to no recourse inside said system for justice if they decide we don't?

Perhaps, and I'm just speaking theoretically here, America is not in fact the utopian ideal of democracy and goodness in the world and maybe, just maybe, doing things differently than this would be better.

World Meteorological Day: Ocean Heat Breaks Record, Scientists Warn
https://flipboard.com/@sciencealert/world-meteorological-day-ocean-heat-breaks-record-scientists-warn-kdbo496n8knejkgq?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Environment @environment-ScienceAlert

We've reached the time of year in #Portland when leaves start to emerge from the #Moss and #Lichen.

#TextureTuesday #Mosstodon #LichenSubscribe

If I post solid data that COVID surges are decreasing, SOMEONE will feel the need to say the don't believe it or that the data isn't reliable. This is the COVID-aware version of vax deniers--they will believe what they want and discount all data and research to the contrary.

3 things can be true at once:
COVID's still a risk.
Long COVID is a concern.
COVID infection risks are falling.

It takes nothing away from appropriate COVID caution to note that our surges are consistently declining. 1/2

Saskatchewan's Northern Lights

Did you know? Saskatchewan's northern regions offer some of the best Northern Lights viewing in the world. Northern Saskatchewan is situated directly beneath the auroral oval, making the accessible areas ideal locations to witness this spectacular natural light show throughout much of the year. ✨🇨🇦 #Canada

https://northernescapephotography.com/2022/09/23/the-best-places-to-see-the-northern-lights-in-saskatchewan/

It’s not like I (we?) don’t know exactly what this behavior is about.

American liberals are still blaming Harris to cope with their own poor, racist choices. Still finding ways to blame her to avoid responsibility for the concentration camps their abstain votes built. White people couldn’t show up to vote for her, but show up on the book tour to yell at her for a genocide she had nothing to do with.

The misogynoir is intense. The dedication to anti-Blackness and delusion… yikes.

This meme is circulating on social media today. I haven't been able to track its origin or creator, so can't give credit — but I think it's very apt.

#Trump #Iran #war

"When we forget others, our oblivion invites indifferent kings to rule us, to envelop us in their bottomless grievance. If nothing matters but the golden prize, then why not admire the people who cheat, who grift, who blame others? When we accept that outcome is everything, we forget the human motives that lead people to strive, and to hurt."

~ Timothy Snyder

#empathy #solidarity #resistance #Ukraine

https://snyder.substack.com/p/watching-the-olympics-in-ukraine