Glimmer Moonbeam

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

If your version of Christianity wants to put the Ten Commandments in schools but take free lunch out of them, you are worshipping something other than Jesus.

[Stacked Librarian @StckedLibrarian]

You read Audiobooks.
Audiobooks are read.
Reading does not occur in the eyeballs.
Reading occurs in the brain.
People can use their eyeballs to read.
People can use their fingers to read.
People can use their ears to read.
It’s all reading!
Any definition otherwise is ableist.
📚

[ؘ @archivemileyc]

any Miley Cyrus cover is better than the original song

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[April Ajoy @aprilajoyr]

An Alabama pastor was publicly outed this week for dressing in drag sometimes.

He received lots of hate.

He took his own life today💔

Anti-queer comments have tragic consequences.

That pastor's life mattered whether he was in a suit or in a dress.

Hate kills. Choose love.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[Everything Dice 🎲✨ @EVERYTHINGDICE]

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[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

.@POTUS and I will always fight for what's right.

Because it's right to fight for every woman to make decisions about her body.

It's right to fight for everyone to live free from discrimination.

And it's right to fight for paid leave, clean water, and affordable child care.

[Glimmer Moonbeam @glimmermoonbeam]

@MedfordALERT @NWSMedford @Holden_WX @matthoffmanwx @MattJordanKOBI Leaving movies in the park and the skate park has lots of blinking red & green lights. Doesn’t feel safe to go explore. But adds more mystery 🤔

[Glimmer Moonbeam @glimmermoonbeam]

@MattJordanKOBI @MedfordALERT @NWSMedford @Holden_WX @matthoffmanwx Looked very balloon like

[Glimmer Moonbeam @glimmermoonbeam]

@MattJordanKOBI @MedfordALERT @NWSMedford @Holden_WX @matthoffmanwx No noise, but moving quickly. Almost impossible to get a pic/video of

[Glimmer Moonbeam @glimmermoonbeam]

@MedfordALERT @NWSMedford @Holden_WX @matthoffmanwx @MattJordanKOBI Looked too big and close to be starlink. The video doesn’t do justice to the floating nature, a few clumped together and others by themselves 🤷🏽‍♀️

[Glimmer Moonbeam @glimmermoonbeam]

Hey @MedfordALERT any idea what the blinking balloons were that passed over Medford a few minutes ago? A dozen or so balloon like floating objects with flashing red & green lights traveling north to south. Seen from Bear Creek Park. Intriguing.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Dear Ma & Pa MAGA,
Donald trump is not being “indicted for you.”
He‘s never done a thing for you.
Here’s what he promised you:
He said he would lower drug prices.
He didn’t.
He said he’d protect people with pre-existing conditions.
He didn’t.
He said he would repeal the Affordable Care Act, and replace it with something “beautiful.”
He didn’t.
He promised to eliminate the federal deficit.
He didn’t.
As a matter of fact, he increased it by almost $7.8 trillion.
He promised an infrastructure bill was coming in “2 weeks”.
It never came.
He promised to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it.
He didn’t and they didn’t.
He promised his tax cuts for the wealthy & corporations would pay for themselves.
They won’t.
In fact - they added $2 trillion to our national debt.
He promised to end the opioid crisis, ‘bring back coal’, protect steel jobs, increase wages, stop factories from moving overseas, enact term limits, show his taxes & that Hillary Clinton would be “locked up”.
He didn’t & she’s isn’t.
He said he would make America great and put America first.
He let a pandemic ravage the country unabated and kept our national security secrets in his bathroom.
And here’s what he did:
He used YOUR money to pay-off a porn star, mocked a disabled reporter, attacked a POW, bragged about sexual assault, got impeached (twice), lost re-election, plotted a coup, incited an insurrection, and stole highly classified documents he knew he wasn’t allowed to show anyone, but did.
So now he has found himself indicted on 34 state felony counts & 37 federal ones, all while still facing many more.
He didn’t do any of that “for you”.
He’s an incurious, incompetent imbecile, who is as corrupt and self-obsessed as he is dumb.
And he’s really, really dumb.
He’s a sociopathic traitor who’s done nothing for you.
Nothing.
He’s being indicted because of HIS actions.
His selfishness.
His disregard for the law and for the safety of our citizens.
Because the truth is, that aside from how much money you’ll send him to pay his many, many lawyers, that he doesn’t give a f*ck about you.
He doesn’t do anything for anyone but himself.
And getting indicted is 100% about him. Not you.

Believe me.

[Andrea R MD, @andrear9md.bsky.social @AndreaR9Md]

Dude is on tape:
Telling the Russians why he fired Comey
Trying to extort Zelenskyy for dirt on Biden
Talking about how he downplayed the pandemic
Pressuring the Gov and SoS of GA to overturn the election
Giving away classified info
THE DUDE IS ON TAPE
What more do you need?

[cam ✨ @IcedFrapp]

they’re saying implosion for the titan submersible & all i can think of is that episode of mythbusters where they built a body and sent it underwater & let it get decompressed

[Jessica Burbank @JessicaLBurbank]

Why would the government have an obligation to search for and save the life of a billionaire who willingly took a submarine to the ocean floor but not a kid with cancer who can’t afford healthcare?

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

20 years jail for rescuing 1000 low income migrants who were forced to put their lives at risk.

Expanded search for rescuing a few billionaires who chose to put their lives at risk.

Criminalizing poverty and excusing oppulance. Smh

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

"eradication" is a polysyllabic term for "wipe out"--"exterminate"--"kill." Hitler proposed a "final solution" to the "problem" of what he called "life unfit for life"--primarily Jews but also the disabled, homosexuals, & anyone who didn't agree with his Aryan vision/insanity.

[Vu Le (with one E) @NonprofitAF]

OMG y’all, AI can write jokes now! I need a backup career, something that AI can’t do. Massage therapy? No, I’m vegan and have very little strength. Need suggestions!!!

Meanwhile, sign-up for this free webinar on AI

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

There’s a difference between defeating people and defeating injustice, between working to right a wrong and working to wrong others because you believe you’re right. Take care with your energy. Mind your soul. We’re all journeying through.