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Hello from the Outer Lands Archipelago 🌊 New York State 🗽 painting, poetry, prancing, politics & pondering life https://4seasonshelf.com
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Hurry, slowly, in the right direction

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It's almost time to plant the peas #stpatricksday #march2025 #kendricklamar

Democracy is like water. We're relentless, shape shifting and life giving.

The dance of the emu and the goat.

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Maga is now realizing they got used as a foothold inside the doors of democracy by the barbarians

These self-identified Jesus-followers are celebrating the separation of parents from their children and spouses from one another; cheering families torn apart, lives violently uprooted, and human beings being terrorized at school and at work and at church. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-youre-a...

Siri, what are some things that happened to kings

Saturday Feb. 22, at 2:00 pm here in D.C. at the Lincoln Memorial, there's a rally for Ukraine, organized by United Help Ukraine, Razom for Ukraine, and others. Trump may have switched sides. America needn't. unitedhelpukraine.org/events/3-yea...

Getting my fix here instead of Instagram feels like switching from crack to popcorn

Jasmine Crockett is shredding this solo. But it’s past time for the rhythm section to enter this song already.

People who never really went on social media, their lives must be wonderful

Never forget.

Our media choices create our world, and we've got to envision better

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

If there’s one group of people who know how to handle entitled middle aged white dudes

I've been spending less time on Instagram and more time on here, where I'm not getting messed with by an anti-democratic, pro-fascist, late-capitalist algorithm designed by incels and faux patriots. I'm hoping it will result in a greater sense of agency and less frustration...

How did so many get on the wrong side of Star Wars, the Hobbit, and Harry Potter? Not to mention Hunger Games.

Controversial take: sports. I mean, it's all been done over and over with no significant gains in skill, like watching a top spin.

A lot of folks have asked me what they can do to fight back. One way is to support candidates in special elections like this one in New York.

The entire democratic world wishes Zelenskyy was their leader, so I would say he is doing an admirable job. Carry on and Thank you for the example.

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Winston Churchill was right: "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried.” Too many Americans have fought and died defending democracy. We must stand with our European allies against the authoritarianism of Putin and Trump.

Man up, get off the phone, and make meaningful connections.

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

An 11-year-old girl took her own life in Texas after she was tormented for weeks by her sixth-grade classmates at Gainesville Intermediate School, who threatened to call ICE authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said. đź’” đź’”

I don’t often feel rage. That said, I’ve been getting pretty damn close, watching one of the few truly warrior like heroes in the world of leadership…Zelensky…being rat fucked by two of the biggest pieces of shit on the planet.

I want to post art. I want to post poetry. I want to pose musings. But my mind is full of instead, rage urgency desperation & grief. I want to connect with people, make new friends & share stories. I feel stifled by the dying around me, the evil of powerful men & the complicity of our leaders.

Thinking about efficiency as a guiding principle, but the world's already too lean