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Monday, May 31, 2021
Late Monday Evening
That was my Memorial Day dinner. Dessert? Maybe banana cream pie. Or maybe no dessert. Haven't decided yet.
Carry on below, if it's not too late.
Baby, remember my name...
Another week, another round of exchanging all of our different viewpoints on another topic.
Mopey Monday
Dunno about Sunday Sloth, but I'm having a mopey Monday. Nice and sunny out but I conked out on the sofa until gone two. Lately I've been dipping into the odd episode of Tarzan: The Epic Adventures with Joe Lara. The news is reporting him as presumed dead, after a plane crash.
What's new with you?
Sunday, May 30, 2021
Sunday Evening Sloth
Today I did absolutely nothing except mess around on Twitter and Press Reader.
Noami Osaka is having a showdown with establishment tennis. She made $55 million on prizes last year, so I feel they need her more than she needs them.
By refusing to give interviews at the French Open, Naomi Osaka is using her vast influence to challenge tennis's old guard. https://t.co/XYCwitjxGl
— Esquire (@esquire) May 30, 2021
Meanwhile in Canada...
Flags will fly at half mast this week at schools and government buildings across Canada as part of the memorial. Reconciliation is such a long way off.Memorials are taking place across the country after the remains of 215 children were discovered buried on the site of the former Kamloops residential school.
— APTN News (@APTNNews) May 30, 2021
See more on this story: https://t.co/SIW6woiCFu
National Indian Residential School Crisis Hotline: 1-866-925-4419 pic.twitter.com/x7iG2wTvDT
It looks like Israel is going to have an interesting parliamentary coalition, but maybe a prime minister facing less time in court.
Israeli opposition said to be closing in on deal to oust Netanyahu https://t.co/ZihW18yEv9
— The Guardian (@guardian) May 30, 2021
For those of you with a holiday tomorrow, enjoy your day! I hope you've got great plans and good weather.🌈🌞
The Photo Gallery
It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.
They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.
Sunday Morning Open Thread
Anything exciting planned for today?
We don't deserve dogs.... pic.twitter.com/Jee2hUe3AQ
— The Feel Good Page ❤️ (@FeelGoodPage11) May 29, 2021
Saturday, May 29, 2021
The House Is On Fire: Cause & Effect 101 and OT
People who would prefer not to have Gaetz & Crenshaw in charge – I won’t quote them, because I don’t believe in spreading propaganda deliberately designed to incite violence - need to listen to Maya Contreras & Elie Mystal
The
people – the creatures- who’d have American citizens mostly in poverty and
under tyranny, beholden to their patronage for sufferance, are the same ones
who do NOT want us to connect the dots.
That’s a well-known fascist’s trick – for anybody who’s bothered to venture beyond their own state lines or curious enough to go to a library and ask actual questions about things that happen in other peoples’ lives.
None of that ^^ is what I thought I was going to write the day before Roland Garros starts with Naomi Osaka making a statement with her declared absence from ridiculous, repetitive press conferences (willing to be fined for it, and rich enough to afford it) that most of her White colleagues are either not sufficiently well-versed in history or just suffused with DoNotWannaKnow –ness have shown in their remarks that they were all too willing to let her point fly right through their heads …
…
but the crazy thing is it’s really pretty much all the exact same point
1) The #TulsaMassacre happened in Lessie’s life. An aspect of Critical Race
Theory is discussing resource disparity (White men hegemony over most resources
in the US). When Black people create resources for ourselves many in power have
historically tried to take them away.
3) The GOP are trying to block #CriticalRaceTheory and #1619Project because when the public begins to analyze racial disparities and connect it how law and policy operate in the United States then people understand accountability is needed. Republicans want nothing to do w/that.
4) I admire what James Talarico did here, but American history has been whitewashed since it’s violent inception. As I told @PepePierce, while I learned about The Trail of Tears and Slavery in 6th grade, you’d think that’s was the beginning and end of Native and Black History.
5) I didn’t learn about Rosewood (1923) or the Tulsa massacre (1921) until I was in college. That wasn’t in class, it’s when accidentally stumbled upon a book about Black run newspapers in America. I didn’t learn about Seneca Village until I move to NYC.
6) We need to continue to fight for a complete History of this Country; to support projects that tell and add to community histories of LGBTQ, Black, Latinx, Native, AAPI, Disability, Jewish, Muslim, etc and how each overlaps & intersects. To see the full complexity of US.
7) Our stories are important. They’re worth
telling. They’re worth preserving. They’re worth archiving. Remember that. Be
an archiver of your family stories, your community stories. It’s so important.
If we don’t tell our stories somebody else will & they have been for
centuries.
from
this thread
https://twitter.com/mayatcontreras/status/1398663314981494789
Jazz it up for the End of the Middle Ages Saturday
Today in 1903, Leslie Townes Hope was born in Craigton Road, Eltham, which would have still counted as Kent but now firmly identifies as South East London. He was the son of a stonemason, Bill Hope (known as Bob), and Avis Townes, a Welsh lass who might have been a music hall singer.
Friday, May 28, 2021
Friday Evening Post
Good evening.
Olivia de Havilland by Bob Landry, 1942 pic.twitter.com/hc5YoFOuAR
— "I am big. It's the pictures that got small." 💙 (@RomanPBone1) May 24, 2021
This is very pleasing to the eye and mind:
Fur Face Friday!
Hey all, we've made it to a holiday weekend (at least for those of us in the US), and the unofficial start of summer, and I can think of no better way to kick it off then with Fur Faces! We've got a special treat today, as last week's post brought us furry (and not so furry) faces from all around the animal kingdom. Let's take a look!
Starting off normally, Kiltedpadre submitted Fur Face Friday regular Cornbread:
Friday Morning Open Thread
yawn
We're tired, too. 🦁 🥱 pic.twitter.com/0Sp9ZCx9Dh
— World Animal Protection US (@MoveTheWorldUS) May 19, 2021
Thursday, May 27, 2021
Thursday evening open thread
These have been coming up in my youtube feed lately; cats and dogs that are participating in a study at UC San Diego;
https://www.salon.com/2021/05/09/are-dogs-becoming-self-aware-bunny-existentialism/
https://www.theverge.com/21557375/bunny-the-dog-talks-researchers-animal-cognition-language-tiktok
Blaurgh!Talk
Thursday Morning Open Thread!
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Wednesnight! Wednesnight! Wednesnight!
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Let's play Twister, let's play Risk. I'll see you in Heaven if you make the list.
Here's a truck stop instead of Saint Peter's
Man of the People
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
Monday, May 24, 2021
Monday evening
I don't see anything scheduled, so here is an OT. If the true OT turns up, please diregard this one.
Don’t get salty about it, stay sweet.
It’s time for another battle of opinions. Are you hungry for victory?
Monday Morning Open Thread
Morning, all. I see it's Monday again, and none of us can be arsed.
What lofty goals are you reaching for today?
Sunday, May 23, 2021
The Photo Gallery (late night edition)
It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.
They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.
Sunday Evening OT
It's the first long weekend of unofficial summer in the great white north. I think all my furry neighbours must be bbqing at home, because none of them have dropped by. Maybe bunny is unhappy the dnandelion smorgasbord is mostly gone.
https://theex.com/main/food/milestones-in-deep-fried-history/the-history-of-fried-food
I was trying to find a picture of a beaver bbqing for this post, but instead got a whole lot of photos of people bbqing beaver tails. Actual literal tails from beavers. While I don't like to yuck anyone's yum, I have to draw the line here. These are the only beaver tail edibles I will endorse.
In other (horrifying?) food, this is something called a red licorice poutine and I just don't know what to do. Yay, nay?
How's it going?
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