Desert Dweller 🌵

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Author. Retired service dog trainer/exec. Equine afficionado. Critic of arrogance. Conservatism escapee. Raging introvert. Almost a year into the adventure of establishing a home in the high desert wilderness of Arizona.

Won't follow accts with no bio.

#WritingCommunity #horses #dogs #GermanShepherd #GSDs #USPol #ChristoFacism #Arizona #Homestead #publishing #TraditionalPublishing #WedsNeigh #MonDog
Joined Fediverse:11/8/22
Also:@[email protected]
Desert Dweller 🌵Oct 29, 2023
📚📚📚I'm going to pin this survey until tomorrow. At the risk of being a big PITA, I'm going to grovel a little for more participation.🥴🙃
Pretty pleeeeasse ⁉️⁉️

#books #reading #bookstodon #WritingCommunity #read #bookbuying

https://mstdn.plus/@jnye/111307745731090234
Desert Dweller (@[email protected])

📚❤️ PLEASE BOOST. Would you buy a book written by a favorite social media poster? Platform doesn’t matter—any & all. Let’s say you follow someone because a certain subject is of critical interest, & this person’s input has been extremely high value. Said poster, w/thousands or millions of followers, publishes a book that’s mostly a compilation of post content. Are you likely to buy? #WritingCommunity #Writers #books #bookstodon #reading #read #writinglife #bibliophile #bookworm #bookbuying [ ] Yes, for myself [ ] Maybe to give to someone else who doesn’t follow t [ ] Nope [ ] Other (explanations very welcome in post comments)

MSTDN+
Desert Dweller 🌵Oct 27, 2023
William Lindsey Oct 27, 2023

"A recent survey by Lifeway Research found that 52 percent of American churchgoing Protestants say their church teaches God will bless them if they give more money to their church and charities. That figure is up from 38 percent of churchgoers in 2017."

And, as Elle Hardy reports, at the same time, the prosperity gospel now dominating the thought of many US churchgoers is increasingly blaming the poor for being poor.

#ProsperityGospel #churches #US

https://newrepublic.com/article/176117/prosperity-gospel-christian-war-poor

The Evangelicals Calling for War on Poor People

A new, antisocial strain of the prosperity gospel is making its way into pulpits and breeding new hostility toward the least fortunate Americans.

The New Republic
Desert Dweller 🌵Oct 27, 2023
Author on a MissionOct 27, 2023
📚❤️ PLEASE BOOST. Would you buy a book written by a favorite social media poster? Platform doesn’t matter—any & all. Let’s say you follow someone because a certain subject is of critical interest, & this person’s input has been extremely high value. Said poster, w/thousands or millions of followers, publishes a book that’s mostly a compilation of post content. Are you likely to buy?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #books #bookstodon #reading #read #writinglife #bibliophile #bookworm #bookbuying
Yes, for myself
42.5%
Maybe to give to someone else who doesn’t follow t
10.8%
Nope
36.7%
Other (explanations very welcome in post comments)
10%
Poll ended at .
Desert Dweller 🌵Sep 29, 2023
To whom it may concern: I'll be offline for a while, at least until 10/13, in order to focus on a manuscript and meet a deadline. Meanwhile, best wishes to all Mastodonians & Firefish-ians (??), and I leave you with this year-old photo of an #Arizona high desert #sunset, which is the approximate view I'll be watching from my desk window while I work. 🙂 Time to type! 💻
Desert Dweller 🌵Sep 29, 2023
💯 times THIS! Surely the broad scope of humanity who created all the John Mastodon jokes could come up with a better term? "Derivative Rip-Off" or something similar. I think I could adjust to a new set of reference initials. 🤔

RE: https://mstdn.social/users/PixelChonk/statuses/111146024764421136
PixelChonk Ⓥ :mastoalt: (@[email protected])

Stop calling it AI. It isn't. Intelligence forms thoughts and makes decisions, these algorithms are advanced and very intricate but that's all it is. They want you think it's AI because they can claim it's "generative" instead of "derivative" which it is. It makes it easier for them to not credit and pay the actual creators it was derived from. Its on purpose. AI didn't create anything. A computer program took a bunch of existing material and mashed it up. It's not evil, the scam of it is

Mastodon 🐘
Desert Dweller 🌵Sep 21, 2023
Author on a MissionSep 21, 2023
Every time I think I've seen every possible cloud/light pattern around here, an #Arizona #sunset throws me a curve ball... or a zigzag?? It was beautiful, but quite strange! Hope everyone has a lovely evening.
Desert Dweller 🌵Sep 17, 2023
I'm so thrilled to see real #RAIN! Come on #Arizona #monsoon. This is especially for the doubting @Yoshi. 😂
Desert Dweller 🌵Sep 17, 2023
Nili Kaplan-Myrth, MD PhDSep 17, 2023

THIS WAS PREVENTABLE! I felt unwell when I woke up Saturday. Instead of going to synagogue for #RoshHashanah, I tested for #COVID19. Positive.

Two weeks into the school year (where my daughter is one of a few who mask), and I attended two school board meetings as a trustee (where I was one of only two people masked).

Because others refused to listen to public health and #MaskUp, I now have to cancel 1-2 weeks of patients. (No, I will NOT work while sick or risk exposing any of my patients).

Desert Dweller 🌵Sep 17, 2023
Author on a MissionSep 17, 2023

#Rainbows & #sunsets! Mother Nature had a lot to say tonight. I've lived here about 15 months and I still spent the bulk of my evenings staring at horizons with my mouth open.

#Arizona

Desert Dweller 🌵Sep 15, 2023
Author on a MissionSep 15, 2023

Excellent point.

#ChristoFascism