I've been thinking about the Muppets again. Blame the latest trailer.

The thing I love about the Muppets is that they're not very good at what they do, but they do it anyway. It's clearly not for the money, they must be doing it for the joy of it. And yes, the muppet performers were definitely doing it for the money, but they were also singing up a storm even though they didn't necessarily have the prettiest (or most accurate) voices, and it was *glorious*.

Be more muppet. Be more muppeteer.

Uk sees protest as a crime
USA uses anti terrorist laws to convict protesters
Italy uses anti Mafia laws to track and monitor climate activists.
Some countries assassinate activists & protectors.

Climate protest is necessary; it is not terrorism nor organized crime.

Governments have FAILED .

#climateaction
#KeepItInTheGround
#protest

https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/protest-isnt-terrorism?publication_id=438146&utm_medium=email&action=share&isFreemail=true

This is one of my favorite pictures. It feels like it was taken yesterday… but it was taken in a Paris public garden nearly a hundred years ago. Everything feels modern: the composition, the casualness, the daring clothes, haircuts, and accessories.

The colors are original: this is an #autochrome, using the first process for color #photography invented by the Lumière brothers in 1903.

The women are unknown, but I can't help wondering how they fared a few years later in nazi-occupied Paris.

You are never just one thing. Never just one self. You are not only “Your current self”, John Green says, but also “all the selves you used to be”. You are legion. You are many. The addict and the sponsor. The drunkard and the preacher. The saint. The sinner. The prophet. The whore. All the facts and facets. All the pieces we should come to embrace.

https://www.duanetoops.com/the-past/

#reading #writing #art #poetry @bookstodon