Siobhan

@GenXLife@toad.social
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Nurse. USAF Veteran. Introvert/shy/socially awkward
Voracious SciFi/Fantasy reader
Boost toots about; art, music, animals, healthcare, science, current events
Believer in common sense and learning is a lifelong pursuit
Part time gardener zone 10, diver, paddler, hiker, fly fisher, stitcher
Lover of ttRPG and tt strategy games
Music Junkie

#music #art #history #needlework #FiberArt #scuba #RenFaire #gardening #SUP #RPG #TableTopGames #healthcare #mythology #sciencefiction #fantasy #nurse

Avatar is a smiley face of me drawn by a 3 year old on a Magna Doodle
Siobhan1h ago
GeriAQuin1h ago
#Dog #Dogs #dogsofmastodon
Vitruvian Dog
Siobhan1h ago
Dr_Bombay1h ago
this afternoon’s project: cleaning and oiling my sewing machine, in hopes of getting the ol’ girl running well again. It’s sewing season for the burn! #BurningMan #DIY #Sewing
Siobhan1h ago
Voting is Your POWER1h ago

Maldives pioneers portable coral hatchery in major reef restoration breakthrough.

Scientists in Australia and the Maldives have successfully reared more than 3 million larvae and deployed more than 10,000 juvenile corals on 720 seeding devices at 9 different reef locations - marking a major leap forward for coral restoration.

They're now working on a plan to share the system with Pacific nations. #Nature #wildlife #coral #environment #ocean #Maldives #australia #climate #news

https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/maldives-coral-reef-restoration-takes-pioneering-step-forwards/

Maldives coral reef restoration takes pioneering step forwards - Oceanographic

Coral restoration in the Maldives takes pioneering leap forwards thanks to groundbreaking project with Australian Institute of Marine Science

Oceanographic
Siobhan1h ago
Andrew Wooldridge 🐲5h ago
It's Saturday morning but there's no cartoons
Siobhan4h ago
William Lindsey Dec 19, 2022

I'm seeing posts encouraging those new to Mastodon to post an introduction with biographical information. I did not do that when I joined in early December and apologize for the oversight. Here's some biographical information:

I'm a retired academic (Ph.D. in theology) with a husband who is also a retired Ph.D. in theology. As a gay couple now in our 51st year together, we found ourselves very much unwelcome and unwanted in the Catholic institutions in which we taught.

#introduction
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Siobhan4h ago
Fedi.Video6h ago

Hello gardeners 👋

Here is a playlist of PeerTube videos about gardens and gardening:

🌱 https://fedi.video/w/p/tTGagpr99PNv92xdB57v7W

- Watching on a phone: Swipe up first two videos at bottom to browse rest of playlist

- Watching on a computer: Choose video by scrolling through playlist on right of screen

- Watching embedded: Click ⏭️ or ⏮️ to see next or previous videos in playlist

cc @gardening

#FeaturedPlaylist #Gardening #Gardens #Gardeners #PeerTube

Gardens & Gardening 🌱

PeerTube
Siobhan12h ago
Baltergeist13h ago

What would you do if I cuddled with you?
Would you curl up and purr next to me?
Squishing your toes while I rub on your cheeks,
Giving slow blinks of love just for me.
Oh, don't you cry now, my sweet furry friend.
Yes, you are safe now, my sweet fuzzy friend.

#CheerUpAPetWithASong
#HashTagGames

Siobhan17h ago
GoinFawr17h ago

Give The Puppies What They Want - The Kinks

#CheerUpAPetWithASong

#HashTagGames

Siobhan1d ago
Skeewiff1d ago
Bathed the dog... Turns out she's from the 1980s. #dogs #spaniels #photography #om3 #leica
Siobhan1d ago
Theresa1d ago
Hello Dog lovers, can you help me find a loving home for Zoey?🙏💕 This sweet and silly house hippo has won the hearts of shelter staff. She is a little tentative to trust, but once you feel that velvety snoot in your hand to take a treat you will be on your way! Zoey is just 1 yr old and still learning and building confidence but she has already shown us how much love and laughter she has to offer!❤️🙏🏼 Check out the #WestKootenay #BCSPCA adoption page to learn more about this beautiful girl - please share!
#DogsOfMastodon #HouseHippos #AdoptDontShop
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George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽6d ago
She’s right again, you know. She usually is.
Show threadstaringatclouds6d ago

@georgetakei #AltText

hillaryclinton

The thing is, billionaires don't NEED a tax cut. They already have more money than they could ever hope to spend

So why does the Republican spending bill give them one, at the cost of health care for the sick and food for the hungry?

To harm those they see as undeserving

Show thread6G5d ago

@staringatclouds @georgetakei
RE
Republican spending bill....To harm those they see as undeserving

Some #MAGA #Republicans want the #paygo #PayAsYouGo rule kick in,
which ("I didn't do it") cause automatic #Medficare cuts and other public aid

This forces lots of folks to find or ⭕accept #lowpayjobs, imo

Like #farming, maintenance, cleaning, road repair jobs, etc.

Because of the ⭕loss of #immigrants to the US

@jdeisenberg
RE
To harm those they see as undeserving

💯% (Ds and Rs)

Show threadstarfrost6d ago
@georgetakei Lol @ hillary being right. Middle eastern children salute you!
Show threadsaddest cabbage5d ago
@starfrost @georgetakei Just like the children in Gaza being killed lining up for food salute all the tossers who sat on their hands and didn't vote or voted third party. aMiRItE??
Show threadStoneface Vimes6d ago
@georgetakei why do they want a tax cut, she asks? Because much wants more.
Show threadkafilmao6d ago
@georgetakei Totally right but keep in mind she also placed her brick in creating this exploitative system. billionaires don't need a tax cut, because they shouldn't exist.
Show threadJ. David Eisenberg6d ago

@georgetakei #AltText4You
Post by Hilary Clinton:

The thing is, billionaires don't NEED a tax cut. They already have more money than they could ever hope to spend.

So why does the Republican spending bill give them one, at the cost of health care for the sick and food for the hungry?

To harm those they see as undeserving.

Show threadLoafer6d ago
@georgetakei You may not like her, but that's because she's a next level nerd who is correct.
Show threadFurballsNHairballs6d ago
@georgetakei
As usual, she gets it right the first time
😐
Show threadMarty Fouts6d ago
@georgetakei She is wrong in the same way that everyone who casts this as “giving up X to get Y” is. In a bill with a 4 trillion dollar deficit, they are not balancing one against the other. They took away support because they wanted to hurt people not so they could give a tax break. They gave the tax break anyway because they could.
Show threadJen, MPH 5d ago

@MartyFouts no, the tax breaks do trigger Medicaid cuts.

http://democrats-budget.house.gov/news/press-releases/cbo-confirms-gop-budget-bill-triggers-medicare-cuts

@georgetakei

CBO Confirms GOP Budget Bill Triggers Medicare Cuts

Republican Plan Adds to the Deficit, Will Trigger Automatic Cuts Under Federal Law

House Budget Committee Democrats
Show threadMarty Fouts5d ago
@tweetsjen @georgetakei Yes, they wrote the bill that way so they could have an excuse. They could have written a bill that removed the triggers if they wanted to.
Show threadMarty Fouts5d ago
@tweetsjen @georgetakei Also, if it didn’t trigger Medicare cuts they would have cut Medicare anyway; just like all the programs they cut explicitly.
Show threadJen, MPH 5d ago

@MartyFouts they didn’t write the bill way so they’d have an excuse to cut Medicaid, they wrote it that way because those are the tax breaks they wanted and they didn’t care that it will cause cuts in Medicaid or raise the deficit. The bill also imposes more rules for Medicaid, so it’s not as if these cuts are the only things that will change. The bill is not just about cutting Medicaid, most federal agencies are getting huge budget cuts, while ICE gets billions

@georgetakei

Show threadBig Ben6d ago
@georgetakei The statement is true. We already know it. We don’t need to hear it from one of the most notoriously bought-and-paid-for entrenched democrats of all time
Show threadAndrew Brenner6d ago

@georgetakei

So is Bernie Sanders.

Show threadnini6d ago
@georgetakei Too bad Clinton was wrong from 1978 until yesterday (e.g., Panama FTA).
Show threadSimon6d ago
@georgetakei even a broken clock is right twice a day...
Show threadRay595d ago

@georgetakei

Also increasing the national debt by two to three trillion dollars!

Show threadT Jones NoKings FilmICE5d ago

@georgetakei

Its a land grab like Gaza. Can't let Putin or Bibi outdo OUR billionaires. We'll show you how it's done on the unaware, 'somnambulant public'.

They're mad we say #TaxTheRich when they're all #KillThePoors

#ExterminationNation

Show threadRobin Barton5d ago
@georgetakei Prosperity Theology says if you are rich it is because you are 'right with God'. Conversely, if you are poor then you must be morally stained in the eyes of God and all god-fearing folk. Blaming and hating the poor who can succeed in a rigged extractive economic and extractive political system has a long history
Show threadBwaz5d ago
@georgetakei
Cruelty is the point.
Show threadMystical Seeker5d ago
@georgetakei
History has shown us, that kings who don't take care of their people have caused the people to have an uprising. The billionaires seem to have forgotten their history lessons.
Show threadfranebleu5d ago

@seeker @georgetakei
Cool stuff, but unfortunately history and present times show that it just works and that it usually doesn't matter.

This kind of sentence is equivalent to the concept of heaven.

Kings, dons and cheap millionaire demagogues like this lady thrive on it.

Show threadGeoff Berner5d ago
@georgetakei if she was right so often, she would have known how shittily she ran her campaigns.
Show threadDaniel Lewis5d ago
@georgetakei Except it is people trying to build wealth who are most benefited by tax cuts. I have no issue with Billionaires paying the same rate as the rest of us. Why do they need to pay a higher percentage than anyone else.
Show threadJames 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺5d ago
@georgetakei The grand irony being, billionaires are the least deserving, wealth clearly being no measure of ability and certainly not humanity.
Show threadTobiWanKenobi5d ago

@georgetakei

Just that she and her party have been supporting the same tax cuts and privileges for oligarchs whenever they were in power, so her words sound rather hollow.

Show threadMegatronicThronBanks5d ago
@georgetakei It's all about the money. They are raiding every safe and stash they can find to get that taxpayers' gold.
There need to be renditionings and jailings when a real government returns.
Show threadTheresa (she, her)5d ago
@georgetakei
Hillary gets us.
Show threadKilla Koala5d ago
@georgetakei She's so right she should run for presid ... oh, right. 😞
Show threadNina Cried Power5d ago

Money only has value when it is scarce. Whether money is hoarded by the Church, by Elon Musk, by the Mafia or whoever, the objective of hoarding it is to control its value so that you can control the people who have less.

If Everyone Is King Then No One Is; Caitlin Johnstone

"The ruling class continually extracts wealth from the public not so that they can become wealthier than they already are, but to keep the public from having that wealth."

Show threadCassandraVert5d ago
@georgetakei I don't think billionaires want more money, they want the power that money represents. That's why they are never satisfied. It's not about the money itself.
Show threadJeremy Janzen 5d ago
@georgetakei Talk like that might have gotten her the election. Sadly at the time this was the reality. https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/hillary-clinton-billionaires-226538
Show threadTheStrangelet 5d ago
@georgetakei Yes, of course she's right. We could have had taco trucks on every corner, y'all. Instead we have fascism.
Show threadComrade Ferret5d ago
@georgetakei She literally supports Israel's genocide. One of the most stalwart ones. And here you are calling her some sort of hero because she's pretending to not understand why the ruling class wants to hold onto power, and denying being a part of that ruling class. Fuck outta my feed; I'm so tired of these neoliberals faking progressivism.