HollsHulsey

@Holls@sfba.social
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Hi everyone! New to the Fediverse and learning as I go. Damn glad to be here. Somewhat nerdy introvert. Interests are #socialjustice, #womensrights, #savingtheearth, #nature, #animals, especially #cats, #horror, #yoga and #spirituality, etc.

Profile picture is a T-Rex with it’s mouth open looking like it’s about to eat a man in biking clothes who is kicking at it, and a woman in biking clothes holding both of her hands up to shield herself and looking surprised.

A proposed IRS settlement would allow churches to engage in political speech during services without losing tax-exempt status, sparking concern from advocates who warn it undermines church-state separation and invites partisan influence.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/07/irs-settlement-reinterprets-johnson-amendment-allowing-churches-to-endorse-political-candidates.html

#seperationofchurchandstate #irs #freespeech #politicalendorsements

IRS Settlement Reinterprets Johnson Amendment - Allowing Churches to Endorse Political Candidates

A proposed IRS settlement would allow churches to engage in political speech during services without losing tax-exempt status, sparking concern from advocates who warn it undermines church-state separation and invites partisan influence.

The Wild Hunt
🧵 Two 19-year-old Mexican counselors, Silvana Garza Valdez and María Paula Zárate, are the reason nearly 20 young girls at Camp Mystic survived the deadly Texas floods. As water surged before dawn, they led the girls—some as young as 7—to safety through windows and into raging floodwaters.
The Blueberry gulag paid off. We got about 3 quarts of blueberries off of our 2 bushes
#Gardening

WHY DOES EVERYONE SUCK SO DAMN BAD

that's it. carry on

I say none of this lightly. I fervently hope for and work toward the restoration of pluralist constitutional democracy and rule of law without even more and worse violence than anything like what we are already seeing. But I am a realist, and I know that with the collapse of the Supreme Court as a meaningful judicial institution, the work is going to be that much harder. 11/11

✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨

Unmute for koala snores!

Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day!

#happy #koala #animal #sleepy #joyousjoyness

According to my calculations, based on weight and how much is left, I have eaten 5 lbs of watermelon in the past 24 hours. 👀

#SelfCare #Watermelon #Fruit #CherishTheGoodStuff

Definitely in the mood to fuck off into the mountains and never come back.
🧐

@PlinyTheOlder

I want to wear all of these around the house like Mrs. Roper from Three’s Company.

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Fairbanks, AK. Crews were laying new power cables which were strung on the ground for miles. The moose are rutting right now and very agitated. He was thrashing around and got his antlers stuck in the cables. When the men (miles away) began pulling the lines up with their big equipment, the moose went up with them. They noticed excess tension in the lines and went searching for the problem. He was still alive when they lowered him to the ground. He was a huge 60 inch bull and slightly teed off!
@VeroniqueB99 oh my gosh!!
@SnowyCA IKR?!😱

@VeroniqueB99

I'm sure that was the expresion on the poor moose!

@SnowyCA 🤣 🤣 🤣
@VeroniqueB99 oh god!! I would not want to be anywhere near that moose when he got on the ground!
@chris 🤣 🤣 🤣 yeah i don't think anyone was....

@VeroniqueB99

Which party had more tension?

@SpaceLifeForm the moose oc! 🤣

@VeroniqueB99

Rocky: Thanks for saving my friend Bullwinkle.

@VeroniqueB99 Drop the moose and run away!!!!
@c_merriweather 🤣 no no they set it down gently... it was apparently not keen on the flying gig...
@VeroniqueB99 Drop... gently, then run away.
@VeroniqueB99 Bad day all around.
@jmax 🤣 🤣 🤣 but it ended well...
@VeroniqueB99 I dunno about that. I kinda suspect a lot of lady moose were laughing at him for a while. Not gonna be a good rutting season for him, maybe.
@jmax 🤣🤣🤣 could be... who knows maybe lady mooses love flying/attempts to fly and will be very impressed with him...?
@VeroniqueB99 Maybe that one odd one.
@jmax 🤣🤣🤣
@VeroniqueB99 (I mean, everyone would be laughing, but it's the "Oh, you're _that_ guy..." that gets really annoying. I imagine.)
@jmax 🤣🤣🤣...hum... you wouldn't be projecting would you... ?
@VeroniqueB99 Look, just because my high school class voted me "most dangerous lab partner "...
@jmax 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 i see.... you'll be fine. Everything will be ok. Just beware of flying mooses...🤣

@VeroniqueB99

Natasha, ve have finally captured Moose!

Now... ve find squirrel.

@bruce 🤣 🤣 🤣
@VeroniqueB99 not amoosed in the slightest.
@wilpercy 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@VeroniqueB99 Excuse my ignorance, please, but when you say a 60” moose, is that its height at the shoulder? Or is that the span of the antlers?
@grammasaurus No prob: It's the antler measurement: the spread (width) of a bull moose's antlers.
@VeroniqueB99 🎵I’ve got the powah! 🎵
🎵 Moose! Moose, moose!🎵
@ArtHarg 🤣 🤣 🤣

@VeroniqueB99

[Look... the comments in this thread are far too 'clean', so I'm here to dirty them up a bit.]

Of course the bull moose was "teed off" once lowered to the ground. Look at the photo: he's happy.

He's high, and he's just been pulled while he's horny.

[Yes, I know they're antlers...
... but my double 'double entendre' joke doesn't work otherwise.]

@TimePencil 🤣 👍 I can always count on you! 🤣
@VeroniqueB99 Ha ha ha! Love that one. It's from 2004. I had to look it up because I used to live up there.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/high-wire-act/
Moose Hanging from Power Cables

Rumor: Photograph shows a moose hanging from power cables.

Snopes
@sunlitrain 🤣 👍 that's a wow! Poor guy!!🤣🤣🤣
@VeroniqueB99 I'm gonna need mythbusters to follow up on this one. How could a moose's skull possibly support the entire weight of its body? Amazing.
@VeroniqueB99 This is when the line team realised how much they had moosed up!