@GottaLaff I’m a cis woman who promises to use only men’s public restrooms in Utah. Your taxes will pay whatever compliance enforcement apparatus they’ve got to find my birth certificate and compare my bare bottom to it.
Yikes 😬
The wolf is at the door now. We are at that point in time.
Via: Utah Library Association
6:12 PM · Feb 3, 2024
"If you are a Utahn concerned about ongoing threats to librarians and teachers, and book-banning, go to Let Utah Read to learn more about the issues and how you can help."
Oh, did I say this country is at the book-banning stage? I meant the book-burning stage. It's not even randos--but an elected official. She flamethrowered library books in her mama's yard. (Because they were books for gay teens.)
Leaving for a long overdue #vacation early tomorrow so any posting will likely be images over 9 days in southern #Utah.
We’ve been married for nearly 15 years but never took a honeymoon, so this is sorta it now that we’re empty nesters. The schedule is relatively fluid, taking it day by day, with St. George as our “base camp”. The entire trip is inspired by this amazing video as we enjoy hiking & haven’t been to Utah yet.
@kevinctofel beautiful pictures. I would recommend that you hike the narrows as it's an amazing hike and you end up only getting about waist deep in water.
Likely the last #vacation photos I'll post now that the #Utah portion of the trip is done. Recharging back in #Vegas a few nights before flying back to Pennsylvania. Suite at MGM Signature is like a small apartment with a balcony for some nice night shots. #Photography
BTW: All trip photos were taken with a #Pixel7Pro.
@GottaLaff@PJ_Evans
PJEvans was actually rude, though, whereas you weren't. :)
You seem to have attracted a large number of bots in your follower list. Keep that in mind if ever they start attacking you.
@artemesia seems to be a nasty one, as that one is on a Cloud(G)lare server (swap the G for F). CF are destroying the free/open web by intercepting websites' encryption. The HTTPS on a CF site means nothing, because CF, handles encryption/decryption.
@w7voa “FBI fatally shoots man” - are we sure this wasn’t just an “officer-involved shooting?” Either NBC has updated their style guide or I’m guessing this dude was white 🤔 or the FBI doesn’t get the deference local police do.
Vielleicht sollten sich mal mehr Leute mit den Prinzipien der #APO (Außerparlamentarische Opposition) in Deutschland und der #Provo Bewegung in den Niederlanden Ende der 1960er, Anfang der 1970er befassen, damit wir den politischen Stillstand und den dadurch bedingten Rutsch in den Protofaschismus überwinden. #Justsayin
@jwildeboer ich finde es total krass in dieser sehr ernsten Angelegenheit was von Clickbait zu sagen. Mit einer EULA Grundrechte der GPL zu testen und schauen wie weit man damit kommt ist einfach nicht in Ordnung und zwar auf mehreren Ebenen.
My parents are on vacation at a bison ranch in #Utah & discovered there is 0 alcohol sold anywhere in the region. The ranch owner buys some out of state once in a while... 😳
And now I totally get where this anti-progressive fear of liberal social policy is coming from... the US has entire states that are still afraid of alcohol. 🤣 No wonder rainbow flags put them into convulsions.
@GottaLaff
In the deep South it was the only outlet rural folks had. Once a week to meet up with neighbors, attend funerals, sing and eat chicken. That's when idiots like Pat Robertson brainwashed those innocent minds into fearing everything , and kissing snakes ,talking in tounges raised it's ugly head. Fear created into hate, and here we are, fighting cults for a seat on the bench or a place on our schools boards. If there was a Jesus, he's be ashamed.
Doh! I grew up in #Utah and somebody just pointed out to me (today) that "Deseret" means "honeybee" (from the Book of Mormon -- the religious book, not the Broadway play). #beekeeping#bees#honeybee 🤷
@ai6yr Utah has its share of reused names from New York (boy did ppl like naming places after places), a city or two named to gain favor in DC (see Utah’s struggle for statehood) and TONS of conlang stuff like Deseret, Kolob etc. Sometimes it feels like living in a sparsely populated religious theme park.
@ambivalena You nailed it. I always loath any attempt to attribute meaning to pictographs and petroglyphs. They range up to 10,000 years old, however, these are probably around 1,200 years old. Too much has changed and there's just no way to understand what the person was thinking when they drew them
@elaterite in two times in my life I’ve had opportunities to view pictographs/petroglyphs. It’s one thing seeing them in a photograph. It’s downright surreal seeing them in person, right in front of you. What a gift that you were able to find these.
@ai6yr A building next to mine had a pile of tumbleweeds 10 feet high and the entire length of the wall. Every single truck/SUV had tumbleweeds caught underneath it, and any truck with a snowplow attachment now looked like it had been plowing thorns. Going outside without being armored in a car meant risking being hit in the face with a thorn bush.
@ai6yr Yes, it's interesting that tumbleweeds are a staple of the "Western frontier" look, when they didn't get here until 1873. They are, rather, a staple of the "Western frontier as seen through Hollywood lenses."
A close crop of an earlier post from a couple of weeks ago. Also, since I'm on my home computer, I slightly enhanced it using a parametric mask in Darktable to reveal a bit more detail.