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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

David Gerard 1d ago

Do not stay at a Hyatt hotel. They're running fake "smoking detectors" specifically as a revenue-generating scheme and arbitrarily fining guests $500.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1945959030851035223.html

Thread by @_ZachGriff on Thread Reader App

@_ZachGriff: I was just scammed by a @Hyatt hotel — and what I’ve uncovered so far points to a *much* bigger issue. A 🧵 (1/13) It started when I checked out of Hyatt’s Pell Hotel near...

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦11h ago

looks like there is one person posting #indivisible links, buried in sites controlled by USA fascist techbros because the USA corporate media controlled by fascist mediabros isn’t covering the protests.

YET!

isn’t it funny when there’s a deluge of #indivisible protests posts on Mastodon, those protests do get covered by INTERNATIONAL big media?

@indivisibleteam need to be 2 things:
- the seed for growing protests nationwide
- the firehose of news & media coverage they aren't getting

Alison Creekside 13h ago

"Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close.
50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world."

~ ‪Christian Christensen‬, Professor of Journalism, Stockholm. Pillaged from BSky.

Calico Jesse 10h ago

“Russians Reject UN Note”
“Missouri Flood Damage Exceeds 1951 Record”
“Mississippi Messiah Defies Court”
“Nudist Convention Storms Bailey’s Beach”
“British-Iran Talks Still Deadlocked”
“Faster-Than-Light Weapon Promised”
“Typhoon Doubling Back on Manila”
“Marriage Solemnized on Floor of Hudson”

Collection of “unhinged” headlines from “the year of the jackpot” in Heinlein’s The Menace From Earth.

We really are on the worst timeline.

#Reading #SciFi #Heinlein #MenaceFromEarth

Mistress Remilia 10h ago

How old am I? Old enough that I still close all my programs and put my computer in performance mode to burn a CD, just in case.

Also old enough that I still burn CDs.

2022 August 16

A Meteor Wind over Tunisia
* Image Credit & Copyright: Makrem Larnaout
https://www.facebook.com/TheRoyalAstronomicalSociety

Explanation:
Does the Earth ever pass through a wind of meteors? Yes, and they are frequently visible as meteor showers. Almost all meteors are sand-sized debris that escaped from a Sun-orbiting comet or asteroid, debris that continues in an elongated orbit around the Sun. Circling the same Sun, our Earth can move through an orbiting debris stream, where it can appear, over time, as a meteor wind. The meteors that light up in Earth's atmosphere, however, are usually destroyed. Their streaks, though, can all be traced back to a single point on the sky called the radiant. The featured image composite was taken over two days in late July near the ancient Berber village Zriba El Alia in Tunisia, during the peak of the Southern Delta Aquariids meteor shower. The radiant is to the right of the image. A few days ago our Earth experienced the peak of a more famous meteor wind -- the Perseids.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220816.html

#space #galaxy #perseids #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #nature #NASA

cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ 5d ago

I hope every "Christian" that voted for this shit "because of the children" goes to hell. #maga #trmp #usaid

The Trump Administration Is Ab...

The U.S. Will Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Aid

Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

The Atlantic

Halcyon Loon 5d ago

Well my employer has decided to partner with Palantir, which means it's time for me to find a new job. I was a lot more willing to make 40% less than market rate when I knew my employer wasn't funding concentration camps because they want AI coding tools.

Anyway if you need a UX designer/researcher located around the Minneapolis-St. Paul region of Minnesota, USA who knows his way around US government regulations for CMS quality reporting, healthcare, enterprise software I'm looking!

For all of you who have been so incredibly helpful, I cannot thank you enough!

#FediHire #FediHired #GetFediHired

AnnaAnthro 4d ago

The U.S. Will Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Aid - The Atlantic

“Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food—enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week—are set to expire tomorrow, acc to current and former government employees with direct knowledge of the rations.

Within weeks, two of those sources told me, the food, meant for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, will be ash.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/

The U.S. Will Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Aid

Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

The Atlantic

Ham on Wry 6d ago

Lady Baba Yaga Gaga

#MythicalBandsAndMusicians
#HashTagGames

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We seriously need a crowdfunding campaign to put a billboard up like this everywhere

Tofu Golem Jul 12

@luckytran
Ever since private donations were allowed in campaigns, so since the time of the Founding Fathers.

John Maguire Jul 13

Jargoggles Jul 12

@luckytran
The creepy AI-generated billboard really undermines the text.

ChrisRoberts Jul 12

@jargoggles @luckytran Totally. It's a great statement, but whenever I see this posted somewhere I'm annoyed by the layout, choice of fonts, word spacing, type kerning, irregular line height, and the fact that it's apparently posted in the middle of nowhere where it will do the least good. Or maybe it's just me.

Em & future cats 🇺🇦🐈🏳️‍🌈Jul 12

@ChrisRoberts @jargoggles @luckytran
Nope! It’s not just you 😹. I’m having issues with it too! 😵‍💫 But yes this is a very good statement and idea for a real life billboard. We don’t need Ai to do it for us

Schneckbert 🐌5d ago

@ChrisRoberts @jargoggles @luckytran definitely not just you

Edge 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈Jul 12

I'm ready.

Bruce Mirken Jul 12

@luckytran If someone organizes it, I'll pitch in.

@luckytran
Just came from YouTube; MAGA commenters are giddy about firing 1300 State Dept employees.. I guess if you never crossed the county line you have no concept what State does for US citizens.

@luckytran love it! thank you for posting.

bouriquet Jul 12

@luckytran When a billionaire came up with the idea, and called it DOGE.
And we all rolled over and changed the channel to watch basketball

Fat_Farang Jul 12

@luckytran 1789

James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺Jul 12

@luckytran When the billionaires bought the media.

A Flock of Beagles Jul 12

"why don't the rich and powerful simply undo their own power??" --this sign

Patrick Morris Miller Jul 13

@luckytran January 20, 1981.

forestclaws Jul 13

@luckytran you can do it yourself too, with an affinity group, for only the costs of the materials

@luckytran when we allow donations to politics

CynBlogger™️Dissents Jul 13

@luckytran
I’d also like several reading, “When did immigrants become our nation’s sworn enemies?”

GhostOnTheHalfShell Jul 13

When the criminal economic elite conspiracy decided there’s no deep state like their deep state.

verifiedlesbian

@luckytran this is the kind of billboard that doesn’t piss me off

@indigoviolet @luckytran it pisses me off because why is air bolded but not traffic controllers

/lh /nsrs

verifiedlesbian

@piku @luckytran this billboard is pissing me off, i’m the original starwalker

Oregon Wine Woman Jul 13

@luckytran
@gtconway3
Are you interested in funding or helping to find funding for such an effort?

Matilda Love Jul 13

@luckytran vandalism is a highly recommended activity! especially of billboards!

llanciawn 6d ago

@luckytran When a dumb electorate elected billionaires.

@luckytran I feel like Donald Trump will get the billionaires taxed faster than any other avenue. By the time Trump, Scamyourmommy (Ramaswamy) and Musk are done, nobody is going to trust billionaires.

@luckytran Probably would have to be real though but I'm fine with shitty AI generated clickbait like this staying on Facebook where it came from.

Robin Barton 6d ago

@luckytran Agreed

rotted mood 6d ago

@luckytran it was never a better idea. when has a politican ever gone with the better idea?

Internet Rando 6d ago

@luckytran ...everywhere!

BowieChilde 6d ago

@luckytran Bloody hell, just start taxing churches. It would bring in as much, if not more!

@luckytran Oh, I don't know. I think it started when the fuckin #GOP stuck its head up its ass.

Huntn00 15h ago

@luckytran The #Gozer Way is better to the selfish, greedy bastard losers who do not know how to function in a healthy society, only caring about themselves and viewing those around them as marks to be taken advantage of.
Unrestrained capitalism with its billionaires and mega corporations is what will kill us. There’s zero evidence that capitalists can prioritize the health of the market, fellow human beings, society, or the planet in front of their piles of gold. 😔