GammaMaDonna

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Earthling:adult human ♀Fury-ous crone, Live-in Gamma of 3; musician/ret.music educator
Everything’s everywhere. It’s way too much & it’s all the time. ☯️
GammaMaDonnaNov 22, 2022

I wouldn’t eat these if I— well, that’s silly. Of course I’d eat one – they’re just out of the oven. Waiting is. 😋 Banana Persimmon Muffins with chocolate chips. (Persimmons freshly picked)

“Don't buy food where you buy your gasoline. In the U.S., 20% of food is eaten in the car.”
• Michael Pollan

#Persimmons #baking #Live_inGrandma #GrandmaBakes

GammaMaDonnaNov 21, 2022

Princess Buttercup, all tuckered out after her 2.5 hour spa (grooming) appointment this morning. It’s exhausting being beautiful. 🐾🖤🐾

“Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawing rooms and libraries?”
•William James

#Earthling #DogsOfMastodon #Labradoodle

GammaMaDonnaNov 21, 2022
Plague PoemsNov 21, 2022
When I read the headlines
I tell myself
that we must not
grow accustomed
to mass death
and then I notice
that absent
from the headlines
are the plague’s victims
and I remember
that we have already
grown accustomed
to mass death.
GammaMaDonnaNov 21, 2022
rick Nov 20, 2022

You might have seen somebody using the proverb Vox Populi, Vox Dei. What was missing was the context in which it was used:

Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.

In case you do not speak Latin, it means in English:

And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

GammaMaDonnaNov 21, 2022
Little Green SpaceNov 20, 2022
A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less.
GammaMaDonnaNov 20, 2022
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Nov 20, 2022
Think the main difference between the two platforms is that on Twitter when you make a joke you get one haha and two death threats, whereas on here you get one haha and someone earnestly explaining the 6th century origins of the specific road that particular chicken crossed. Yet to decide which is more distressing.
GammaMaDonnaNov 20, 2022
Sheril KirshenbaumNov 16, 2022

The History of Earth as a 24 hr clock. Humans have only just arrived.

Note: I first came across this image through UW-Madison geology. #science #SharedPlanet

GammaMaDonnaNov 19, 2022
Jason SmithNov 19, 2022
I love when I can get a heron to fill the frame. My #nikon AF-S 300/4 continually punches above its weight.
GammaMaDonnaNov 19, 2022

I haz a BIG bone.
Princess Buttercup, a 14 month old, 55 pound standard #Labradoodle. 🐾🖤🐾

“Outside of a dog, a book
is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it's too
dark to read.”
•Groucho Marx

#Earthling #DogsofMastodon

GammaMaDonnaNov 19, 2022
Tom ForsythNov 19, 2022

A reminder that Twitter was not made as you see it today. At the start it was literally an SMS frontend. It didn't have concepts like threads, DMs, groups, privacy (ha!), blocking, muting or any of that crap. ALL THAT GREW ORGANICALLY - at first just as conventions, later adopted.

We will figure out how to use Mastodon. And some of those ways will be adopted officially (whatever that means!). This is our place. We'll shape it. Give it time.