Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

Please enjoy a look at what the Emerald City looks like when covered in snow. It's quite beautiful.☃️

<i><b>"It's always in the back of your mind
When everything is dark, still something shines
One chilly afternoon, you drew the blind.

The earth was frozen
Ice upon the water
All at once you saw her
There in the #winter light."</b></i>

Tim Finn / "Winter Light" / 2005

Captured in February 2021.

#Seattle #solstice #wintersolstice #photography #PNW #cityscape

https://blog.tia-international-photography.com/2021/02/15/snowmaggedon-chronicles-part-one/

The “Death Penalty” of Child Welfare: In 6 Months or Less, Some Parents Lose Their Kids Forever
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No state terminates parental rights more frequently or faster than #WestVirginia, according to a ProPublica/NBC News analysis.

1-in-50 #children here experienced the severing of their relationships with both of their #parents from 2015-2019.

For most of them, it occurred within 11 months of being removed from their home for the first time.

https://www.propublica.org/article/six-months-or-less-parents-lose-kids-forever?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

These days so many people want to be 'verified' on the internet

I grew up in a time when we where told 'not to use your real name on the internet'

tihi

@NanoRaptor so I thought this might be one of your works at first.

But no. It's real.

https://www.axxent.de/english/intercom/intercom_ms-100.html

Newly-minted socialists would REALLY do well to acquaint themselves with the history of fascists using antisemitism with pseudo-socialist characteristics to peel people off left movements.

It's a pretty core trait of Euro/US fascism, and the popular left keeps falling for it.

Riffin on an oldie

I'm really sincerely begging the fediverse to recognize the difference between capitalism and commerce. People selling products and services is commerce, which is a good and normal thing. So please stop being weird about artists and artisans who are trying to find their customers on here.

#hanukkah

man is really trying to liz truss this isn't he

*They used to laugh and call him names. Now they're all dead

John Mastodon

Protip for the new mastodonians: don't obfuscate names or words - only hashtags work for search so you won't get troll bombed if you say Elon Musk.

Filters, however, work on anything, so those who don't want to see Elon Musk won't see this post.

But if you write El*n M*sk they WILL see it, and that might make them mad, so don't do it okay? Let people use their filters.

Twitter forced me to delete tweets explaining how to set up an ADS-B feeder and contribute open source, public flight data to FlightAware and @ADSBexchange. I was told these tweets violated Twitter’s rules against posting private information.

@Phyrkrakr Look at these best friends!

Oh, wow, Tom Lehrer has released all of his songs into the public domain. Apparently also his website will shut down "at some date in the not too distant future" so now's a good time to download directly.

"In short, I no longer retain any rights to any of my songs.
So help yourselves, and don’t send me any money."

https://tomlehrersongs.com/