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Mom, Artist, online teacher. I live in AZ usa, born and raised in so. Cal. She/her



ooh. For those on the far west side, there's a native milkweed giveaway on Saturday in Camarillo.

#SaveTheMonarchs #NativePlants

Absolutely priceless! E. Jean Caroll won the defamation case against Trump, and within 24 hours he was back at it: Defaming her on national tv.

Aparrently, being ordered to pay 5 million dollars to Caroll was not enough of a lesson for Trump, so now a new trial has been given the go ahead — this time E. Jean Caroll asks for 10 million dollars.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/e-jean-carroll-can-pursue-10-mln-lawsuit-against-donald-trump-judge-2023-06-13/

E. Jean Carroll can pursue $10 mln lawsuit against Donald Trump -judge

A federal judge on Tuesday said E. Jean Carroll, the New York writer who last month won a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump for sexual abuse and defamation, can pursue a related $10 million defamation case against the former U.S. president.

Reuters
Colorful flowers by Jan Luit

Colorful flowers by Jan Luit

Jan Luit - Website
(Did I steal this from @dianeduane’s Tumblr? Absolutely.)

All lasting things are strangled by #VC and debt loading for a quick profit.

The parent company of Pyrex / Instant Pot file for bankruptcy (chapter 11). These companies are staples in many households, but often once in a decade purchases not aligned with 6%/yr shareholder revenue. Expect decreasing quality, and increasing costs from whatever is left after.

#VentureCapital #enshitification #LateStageCapitalism

@pluralistic

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/13/business/instant-brands-bankruptcy/index.html

@m0rpk @AmyDentata @pluralistic I suspect many phenomena are at play in the downgrading of social media infrastructure, and all infrastructure:

maintaining is less valued than creating, taxation regimes incentivise and markets value capital spending over labour, and how public utilities are sold to private sector, loaded with debt and run down so we're all now literally swimming in shit.

enshittification plugs into all of those ideas - its critique goes wider than just two-sided markets.

Finally, my paper copy of #redteamblues by @pluralistic arrived. Still had to free it from customs, thanks to the EU copies being shipped from the UK. 0,11 EUR for tax, and a 5 EUR lump sum for the import without the IOSS system. Thanks, #brexitreality.
Fortunately, the immaterial contents reached me a while back in .epub format and I much enjoyed the read.

Roses 'Iceberg' outside my living room windows

#BloomScrolling #Flowers #Gardening #Roses

when i somewhat packed some artsy things for vacation i found an old sketchbook with some mixed media experiments (i just got some watercolor back then).

#MastoArt #TraditionalArt #CreativeToots