Earth first. Love is love and everyone deserves it.
Who is Bogleg, you might ask? My name comes from an old #MUD. I identify as a member of #GenX. I don't believe in pretending to know things I don't actually know. I consider myself to be a mystic #humanist and believe, to paraphrase John Muir, we should live in the world, not on it. My interests, and what you might find following me:
- #Gardening/#Cannabis
- #Kayak #fishing
- #Skiing
- #Reading (SF&F mostly)
- World events/#History
- #Astronomy
- PC #gaming
Above all, I believe in us.
Just one look at my feed over on Post.news and the number of followers I have (and who they are), it seems pretty clear it's very "Twitter-like." At a glance I might think my feed WAS Twitter - minus the cannabis content, and I am only following a few dozen people. Here feels more like a random Reddit RSS feed. Which is so much more relaxing.
I sure do dislike catching meetings for the upcoming work day after I go to bed and already planned out the next day in my head. I honestly think it's incredibly unprofessional to schedule meetings with less than a day's notice.
Good morning to readers. Hello from Ukraine.
Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, but a barrage of missile strikes plunged much of the city into darkness over the last twenty four hours.
Forecast calls for a low of 24 degrees F in the capital tonight.
Carl Sagan returned to stardust on this day in 1996 and left us, besides his cosmic poetics, his timeless Baloney Detection Kit for critical thinking that should be in every classroom and every voting booth https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan/
While people are sharing The Narwhal article which documents the cozy relationship between the oil & gas industry and the Alberta government, it’s a good time to remind everyone that Kevin Taft wrote a book about this in 2018 - Oil’s Deep State: How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming. Check your library. Indigo/Chapters link here if you want to know more.
https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/oils-deep-state-how-the/9781459413078-item.html
#ableg
@caseynewton's crystal ball: "By the end of 2023, Twitter no longer sets the daily news agenda by default for the entire US press. This will come as an enormous relief to many publishers, who have long wished their reporters wouldn’t spend so much time tweeting anyway"
https://www.platformer.news/p/13-predictions-for-platforms-in-2023
I have this dream to create a #cannabis concentrates processing co-op. Sort of like one of those home brew co-ops. Gear provided that people can come in and rent/share to convert their flower into an extract of their choice. Dry sifter, freeze dryer, deep freezer, bubble washing machine, rosin press, closed loop systems, etc.
Beautiful but freezing day here at #BeaverCreek. Got a half day of turns in and caught this gorgeous view of the Gore range.
#colorado #mountains #skiing #snowboarding #outdoors #mountains
The Christmas tree in Kyiv Ukraine’s grand central square, 2019, 2020, 2021 & 2022.
Heartbreaking.
Interesting piece by @ct_bergstrom: https://post.news/article/2J7VEapSIpNWsrC0EawD8CopYqo
TL;DR: Science education needs to adapt to a world of #misinformation on #socialmedia. (See screenshot below.) We need, in the words of Noah Feinstein, to make sure that everyone is at least a competent outsider to #science: someone who has "learned to recognize the moments when science has some bearing on their needs and interests and to interact with sources of scientific expertise in ways that help them achieve their own goals."
This Congo Red Stem is a solid example of a "narrow leaf" plant. 126 days to flower. #growyourown #cannabis #itsaplant
You look familiar....
Some 430,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz. Learn more about their story in our online lesson: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Hungary #Jews #ww2 #war #Holocaust #Shoah #genocide #antisemitism #memory #education #elearning #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget
19 December 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Marta Weisz, was born in Sárköz. During the war, she lived in Szatmárnémeti.
On 31 May 1944, she was murdered in a gas chamber of Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
Marta was the daughter of Bandi (fate unknown) and Klari. She had an elder brother Robert. Klari & the children were most probably murdered in a gas chamber together.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #children #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #antisemitism #genocide #girl #remember #NeverForget #memory #history
One of the problems with content from #streaming providers is that it doesn't end up on a random cable channel at 11pm, so I don't re-watch it nearly as much as I do things produced by cable networks or movie studios.
I’m also looking to connect with #lgbtq streamers! Let’s talk games together! (Or even play together if you want 🥺)
#gaming #gaymer #Streaming #twitch #twitchstreamer #smallstreamer
Yesterday, at the age of 53, I tried to jump over a little brook while #skiing and caught one of my tips on the far bank. Right before this happened, as I was building speed to try and make the jump, some guy goes, "This old guy still has it!"
One #faceplant later I proved him wrong.
Across the #Arctic, the #permafrost is collapsing, threatening the buildings, roads, pipelines and traditional #hunting and trapping territories. Permafrost also stores #methane .... contributing to #ClimateChange.
All that water is encouraging mould growth. #Floods have spread raw #sewage throughout the #community. #Children experience #asthma and #impetigo, a rash caused by #bacteria.
@MattKollock This is a great read - and mirrors my own journey (I came back to #skiing last year after a 23 year hiatus). Thanks for writing it!
