Help us get the word out about Smokey’s 80th. Smokey's birthday is Aug 9. To keep up on national events surrounding Smokey’s 80th, follow the Forest Service social media sites as well as the Ad Council’s Smokey Bear website www.smokeybear.com and social media sites. www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency...
Watching Google shutter things that actually worked, like Google Play Music, and now Google Podcasts, to turn them into YouTube Music is like someone coming into your kitchen who takes away your blender and kettle then lets you know you'll now only be able to boil water or blend things in your car.
merry christmas weirdos. my favorite dickens line, more and more with each passing year:
business! mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. the deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!
As a general rule of democracy: If a candidate is selling scam NFT trading cards of himself as an astronaut, a soldier, a Founding Father, a deity or any alleged offspring of said deity, and/or various musclebound superheroes replete with eagles, flags, and automatic weapons, vote for the other guy
A room full of Republicans openly auditioning to be in the cabinet of the retributive genocidal white supremacist dictatorship Trump is openly promising, and so much of corporate media are like "that lady is poised; she's the adult in the room."
Calendar
I'll be generating a variety of 2024 calendar collections featuring my work in the next few days.
First up: The Great Blue Heron Collection. Twelve unique, high quality images captured by yours truly.
Available in two sizes on my store here:
www.etsy.com/listing/1625...
1. U.S journalism (especially political) broadly sucks and distorts instead of informs
2. Most Americans live in a corporate-controlled doom cycle of shrinking pay and soaring costs detached from the reality of most business leaders, politicians and pundits
both things can be true!
while they have you distracted with scary sci-fi stories about skynet, their "AI" will be busy unfairly rejecting your grandma's legit medicare claims, or purging workers that had the audacity to try and unionize
money always wins
Big part of every Foodraiser are the folks who get adventurous and offer donations based on the number of donors who contribute
That's me. I'm kicking in $5-per-donor, no matter how few or how many there are.
If you want to get in on that action, please reply here, including amounts and caps 🙂
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9TH ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FUNDRAISING THREAD
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Friends: I need your help to spread the word about our annual Foodraiser, happening in just two weeks! 😱
➡️ PayPal: paypal.me/TGDFoundation
➡️ Venmo: @TGregDoucette-Foundation
➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/9th-annual...
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Statement from President Jimmy Carter on the passing of his beloved wife Rosalynn:
“Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished. She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.”
Much of the media has memory-holed last weekend's "vermin" speech & gone back to the horse race—when they should be connecting it to this new post.
"The final battle" is coming, Trump says, and he uses "demolish" and "expel" and "drive out" and "cast out" and "rout" regarding his opponents.
This week a young woman took to the airwaves. Her name is Riley Gaines. What she said put me in mind of the Nazis who invaded Charlottesville, and corrosive rage that demolishes even those who channel it, among other things.
Read on (thread or essay): armoxon.substack.com/p/channels-o...
Great (very) Blue Heron in the early morning sun.
This isn't true color. I was wearing thick gloves due to the cold and apparently fumbled the camera's white balance setting a couple of clicks into the blue without realizing it.
That said, I like the effect.
If Greg Doucette has taught me nothing, he’s taught me that this is typical, predictable, common. Also see Deshaney v Winnebago. Cops don’t have a duty. Generally, they don’t protect the vulnerable. They don’t serve. You’re lucky if they don’t shoot you and your dog.
An 82-year-old woman told police that her caretaker was going to kill her
The officers complimented the caretaker on the firearms he had inside the home and left, even though she begged them to stay
The caretaker killed the woman four hours later
Heads up that I will be pleading with y'all for help with the Foodraiser soon
Pre-fundraising has not gone well, and I haven't had a chance to start regular fundraising yet
I did finally start putting some info at foodraiser.info at least
I love when right wingers get mad at media matters because all they do is post what they say and it looks horrible even to them, but instead of reconsidering they get furious at media matters for writing it down bsky.app/profile/bobb...