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50 yr old spiritual being having a human experience who loves dogs, cats, books (little free library steward), gardens and New England.

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In contrast to the coverup of the EPSTEIN crimes here in America, there are ongoing investigations in the UK, France, Turkey, Poland, Latvia & Lithuania that is sure to expose his central, filthy role in the largest crimes against humanity case in world history. #AccountabilityIsComing

09.03.2026 20:30 πŸ‘ 33744 πŸ” 9323 πŸ’¬ 1761 πŸ“Œ 660
Reddit screenshot from Glasgow thread. Bright flames rising out the side of a Victorian building.

Reddit screenshot from Glasgow thread. Bright flames rising out the side of a Victorian building.

Video screenshot from Reddit. Building is now a shell with flames visible in every window.

Video screenshot from Reddit. Building is now a shell with flames visible in every window.

The roof has collapsed embers rise into the night sky.

The roof has collapsed embers rise into the night sky.

The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out.
I am amazed by the limited news coverage.

08.03.2026 21:11 πŸ‘ 1763 πŸ” 791 πŸ’¬ 81 πŸ“Œ 106
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08.03.2026 16:04 πŸ‘ 6374 πŸ” 1067 πŸ’¬ 162 πŸ“Œ 37
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This is not good.

06.03.2026 13:40 πŸ‘ 9686 πŸ” 3708 πŸ’¬ 761 πŸ“Œ 467
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a white cat wearing a pink bow tie is standing on its hind legs . Alt: a white cat wearing a pink bow tie is standing on its hind legs .

Here's your reminder that in 2015 a study discovered that a majority of male gatekeeping against other genders was done by those males of low-skill and poor quality.

Don't let some bro who probably can't do the basics bully you out of spaces.

05.03.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
scanned page of a poem: β€œto the young who want to die” by Gwendolyn Brooks

scanned page of a poem: β€œto the young who want to die” by Gwendolyn Brooks

by Gwendolyn Brooks
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04.03.2026 22:18 πŸ‘ 1084 πŸ” 291 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 11
a bright orange canvas jacket with bright blue, green, and magenta letters in a 3x4 pattern reading a b c d e f u c k i c e

a bright orange canvas jacket with bright blue, green, and magenta letters in a 3x4 pattern reading a b c d e f u c k i c e

finished embroidering my jacket :)

03.03.2026 23:27 πŸ‘ 20620 πŸ” 1803 πŸ’¬ 397 πŸ“Œ 91
A map showing casualties. 

Iran – killed: 1,045, injured: hundreds
Israel – killed: 11, injured: hundreds
US soldiers – killed: 6, injured: 18
Bahrain – killed: 1, injured: 4
Iraq – killed: 2, injured: 5
Jordan – killed: 0, injured: 5
Kuwait – killed: 4, injured: 35
Lebanon – killed: 50 injured: 335
Oman – killed: 1, injured: 5
Qatar – killed: 0, injured: 16
Saudi Arabia – killed: 0, injured: 0
United Arab Emirates – killed: 3, injured: 68

A map showing casualties. Iran – killed: 1,045, injured: hundreds Israel – killed: 11, injured: hundreds US soldiers – killed: 6, injured: 18 Bahrain – killed: 1, injured: 4 Iraq – killed: 2, injured: 5 Jordan – killed: 0, injured: 5 Kuwait – killed: 4, injured: 35 Lebanon – killed: 50 injured: 335 Oman – killed: 1, injured: 5 Qatar – killed: 0, injured: 16 Saudi Arabia – killed: 0, injured: 0 United Arab Emirates – killed: 3, injured: 68

Al Jazeera has a useful tracker of who is getting killed and injured.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

04.03.2026 15:13 πŸ‘ 989 πŸ” 564 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 24
MicroFiction for AmpersandAfterDark Prompt from @madp03t.bsky.social 
Almost Through
I spend most evenings reading. Lamp on, chair angled toward the window, the soft hush of pages. I like knowing someone is there on the other side, moving their eyes where I guide them.
Most skim. 
You didn’t. You lingered. You underlined me. You pause where I intend. You breathe where I leave space. I’ve begun to anticipate you.
When you turn a page, something shifts here. The margins widen. The air grows warmer. I feel the pressure of your thumb along my spine.
Last night, a crease appeared in the corner before you folded it.
When you close the book, the room narrows.
Open me again.

    I am almost through

MicroFiction for AmpersandAfterDark Prompt from @madp03t.bsky.social Almost Through I spend most evenings reading. Lamp on, chair angled toward the window, the soft hush of pages. I like knowing someone is there on the other side, moving their eyes where I guide them. Most skim. You didn’t. You lingered. You underlined me. You pause where I intend. You breathe where I leave space. I’ve begun to anticipate you. When you turn a page, something shifts here. The margins widen. The air grows warmer. I feel the pressure of your thumb along my spine. Last night, a crease appeared in the corner before you folded it. When you close the book, the room narrows. Open me again. I am almost through

For #AmpersandAfterDark Challenge 005
Micro fiction beginning in ordinary reality...does the ending seem plausibly normal ...or my own irrational fear?

#writingprompt

03.03.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
Poem by Fanny Howe 'I won't be able to write from the grave'

Poem by Fanny Howe 'I won't be able to write from the grave'

This is essentially one extended sentence. After the colon it opens into a list, an inventory of affection that feels spiritual in tone

It directly contradicts the Romantic idea of poetic immortality

I also love short northern nights, when darkness never fully settles

#poetry
#poemoftheday

03.03.2026 18:24 πŸ‘ 86 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

A poem by Mary Oliver, first published in her 1986 collection Dream Work 

Wild Geese
By Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

A poem by Mary Oliver, first published in her 1986 collection Dream Work Wild Geese By Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

i’d like to hope that the world goes on

Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers.

01.03.2026 13:08 πŸ‘ 123 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4

Because TO ME ?

the big legged woman from FAR ROCK

the fact that they got the evil to think of and power to execute

BOMBING FOLKS INNA DEM SLEEP

Because they feeling ouchy for being outed as PREDATORS

Is a signal we need to be meet em OUTSIDE

not a thought terminating cliche

28.02.2026 14:51 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hello #PoemsAbout friends. I caught the prompt too late this week to write something new, so I went back to the archives. This one is from 1994 for #Spent
@thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

#poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

28.02.2026 04:01 πŸ‘ 124 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 2
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Mayes: We’re talking about having to physically protect the machinery of democracy. And to me, it is surreal that we are at that place.

But what I want Americans to know is that you have a team of AGs that has been working together for more than a year now to protect democracy.

27.02.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 2199 πŸ” 610 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 39
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Bombogenesis 1.1: in the beginning, there was snow. (In fact, it seemed to snow all the damn time.)

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Bellwether

A sudden thaw arrived in late December β€” lasted 
upwards of a week. The coloured lights in windows,

hung from eaves, and strung round yard-art sleighs
and reindeer gave our fog-filled street the cheerful

kind of menace found in nursery rhymes and fairy 
tales, old literary nonsense books β€” anatomies

of dreams. Since then we've had outrageous weather β€” 
gale force squalls and whiteouts, set new wind chill

records. For two months straight we've nested
 \in our heads, worn heavy socks and sweaters β€”

the snowpack on the ground a kind of mythic 
presence. Today a red-plumed bird on our big

backyard maple β€” a valentine to see us through 
to spring. Old heart, the cold won't last forever.

                                                                       Phillip Crymble

Bellwether A sudden thaw arrived in late December β€” lasted upwards of a week. The coloured lights in windows, hung from eaves, and strung round yard-art sleighs and reindeer gave our fog-filled street the cheerful kind of menace found in nursery rhymes and fairy tales, old literary nonsense books β€” anatomies of dreams. Since then we've had outrageous weather β€” gale force squalls and whiteouts, set new wind chill records. For two months straight we've nested \in our heads, worn heavy socks and sweaters β€” the snowpack on the ground a kind of mythic presence. Today a red-plumed bird on our big backyard maple β€” a valentine to see us through to spring. Old heart, the cold won't last forever. Phillip Crymble

A valentine for my sweetheart as it first appeared in The Literary Review of Canada

14.02.2026 21:39 πŸ‘ 278 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 3

Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

14.02.2026 00:10 πŸ‘ 25530 πŸ” 8399 πŸ’¬ 650 πŸ“Œ 339

That's how I know that even if I am in a "bubble", it's the right bubble. Caring about other people isn't wrong. Expecting people to be moral isn't wrong. Wanting to save our planet isn't wrong.

I like my bubble.

13.02.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m so woke that I believe America isn’t a white birthright, that we are all one interdependent community, that people and places are made better by diversity, that no one’s religion should be compulsory, and that there is no such thing as an β€œillegal.”

13.02.2026 15:14 πŸ‘ 126 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Confessions of a Radical, Woke Leftist Whew, this is a tough one to write, but I’ll try to get it out if you’ll bear with me.

I’m so woke, I believe in full LGBTQ rights, that we should protect the planet, that everyone deserves healthcare, that a nation cannot be Christian, that the world is bigger than America, and that to be "pro-life" means to treasure all of it.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/confession...

13.02.2026 15:14 πŸ‘ 575 πŸ” 117 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 6

Emerging from his viewing of the UNRELEASED Epstein case files at Justice Dept, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) says:

"The Dept of Justice has been in a cover-up mode for months... trying to sweep the entire thing under the rug"

09.02.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 12361 πŸ” 3771 πŸ’¬ 311 πŸ“Œ 109
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BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not β€œmove on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

08.02.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 44531 πŸ” 16942 πŸ’¬ 966 πŸ“Œ 967
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Every American needs to watch this:

05.02.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 20572 πŸ” 10315 πŸ’¬ 585 πŸ“Œ 987
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Whistleblower Explains How Cambridge Analytica Helped Fuel U.S. 'Insurgency' In 2014, Christopher Wylie resigned from his position as Cambridge Analytica's research director. He later exposed the company's role in the Trump presidential campaign and the Brexit referendum.

I revisit this interview all the time about the 2016 campaign and how bannon and trump tapped into grievances of white men who could no longer sexually abuse and harass women in the work place - couldn’t just be themselves anymore - and radicalized them to create exactly what maga is today!

04.02.2026 03:16 πŸ‘ 136 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1
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Entering the US is a civil violation much along the lines of a traffic violation. Yet child predators roam free and continue. We have the wrong people in cages

02.02.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 1301 πŸ” 367 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 9
IAC-Testimony.withlinks.pdf

January 30, 2026 testimony by Garrett M. Graff for the Illinois Accountability Commission. Worth reading all 50 pages! It's eye opening testimony about the corruption, lack of oversight & lack of accountability in the ICE & CBP agencies.

drive.google.com/file/d/1y0im...

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