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peachfront

@peachfront@toot.community

Senior parrots, birds, birding, rock swaps, crystals & stone-cutting. Sometimes I write funny dialogue for the birds in your photographs. I read books, & I vote!

Formerly known as Peachfront on Twitter & Instagram, & Amethyst Qu on Medium.

Haven't owned peachfront.com domain in years but you may find my old trip reports at peachfront.diaryland.com.

Pro Tip: Diaryland does not have any www's.

#birds #crystals #photography #fedi22 #books #writing #selfpublishing #birding #nature

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GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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No Time to Panic via - @Teri_Kanefield : 1/…

“Democratic leaders, when they go to work, try to implement policies that help their constituents. Oligarchs and would-be oligarchs can’t do that because the policies they implement benefit the oligarchs and hurt the common people. So instead of promising to improve the lives of the people, they promise to protect them from enemies.”

https://terikanefield.com/no-time-to-panic/

peachfront,
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@GottaLaff

reading it now & love this line--

"Modern oligarchs figured out that the safest enemies are invented ones. Real enemies might drop bombs on them. But if the enemy is a poor migrant immigrant, they’re safe."

too true!

DontStopAsking, to random
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Same news, two different stories.
The New-York-Times
plays the game well of twisting a positive into a negative.

peachfront,
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@DontStopAsking

the Times has chosen fascism, there's no real secret about it, they haven't been credible as a "news source" for a long time now

Green_Footballs, to random
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Listening to that exchange with Trump’s lawyer about the crimes a president should be able to commit with total immunity, and he says MURDER and COUPS could be “official acts” and warrant immunity even after leaving office, and I’m getting that stuck in a really bad timeline feeling again.

peachfront,
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@cynblogger @Green_Footballs

we need a criminal justice system that arrests bribe-takers even if they're a judge, doesn't seem like so much to ask

impeachments almost never happen, arrests happen frequently... there is a whole mechanism, hell, there's a whole police state

i'm tired of the double standard

we actually do have laws, they're simply not enforced against these people

skykiss, (edited ) to Ukraine
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’s security is our security. As allies, the UK & US fight aggression. We stand up for freedom. We stick by our friends. And we win. I urge the to continue its proud support for ’s fight against Putin’s aggression.

I am calling out the in Congress as Putin-owned who support overthrow of our government.

and republicans' open fealty to Putin, a hostile foreign intelligence agent, who is one of the most infamous cold-blooded killers in human history & wanted war criminal.

Mike Johnson & republicans are blocking a bill that would supply ammunition to soldiers, despite the widespread support in Congress and support of the American people. Showing the world that Republicans are anti-American & disloyal traitors to our allies and our constitution.

, where is treason weasel ? He's a communist loving traitor.

peachfront,
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@skydog @bouriquet @Npars01 @skykiss

i don't have to know the deets, i live in Louisiana, i witnessed with my own eyes that Russia has been funding white supremacists in this state since the 1990s

Mike Johnson knows Russia invaded Ukraine, he doesn't care, Russia gives him money

https://www.newsweek.com/who-konstantin-nikolaev-money-mike-johnson-1870600

a thought: i feel like if they're doing it in a little state like Louisiana, they've spread money around in every state, keep in mind our whole population is less than half that of NYC

JoshuaHolland, to random
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Republicans are trying to legalize the murder of brown people.

https://www.axios.com/2024/02/27/arizona-gop-bill-rancher-migrant-kill

peachfront,
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@JoshuaHolland

FFS i don't care how many bills Arizona GOP f'wits pass, it is not legal under our Constitution to kill people "on suspicion" of anything much less a summary offense like "trespassing"

feds should step in & start arresting these pro-lynching politicos for conspiracy to murder/deprive people of their civil rights (ala Mississippi) since they're doing this right in public

Arizona GOP can't legalize lynching anymore than they can legalize any other premeditated murder

GottaLaff, (edited ) to tesla
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Sales Miss in First Year-Over-Year Drop Since Pandemic https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-02/tesla-sales-miss-in-first-year-over-year-drop-since-pandemic

ADDED: Link with no paywall: Tesla sales plunge far more than expected

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/02/business/tesla-sales?cid=ios_app

peachfront,
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@idoubtit @GottaLaff

you could buy an EV that wasn't made by a neo-Nazi own business

if you care about the planet, you don't support a fascist with your thousands of dollars

Tesla or gas is not the only option out there

GottaLaff, to legal
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1/…🧵

Via Klasfeld:

Expected first:

The judge may issue his Sandoval rulings, determining what prior bad acts prosecutors can confront Trump with if he testifies.

A key question: "What's fair game?"

peachfront,
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@HistoPol @GottaLaff

(NFL)

great minds think alike!!!

peachfront, to climate
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I moved into this house in Feb. 1991 & it never once reached a temperature of 102 deg. F. in all those years... This week, it has reached that temperature on two separate days... including today

Big mad

peachfront, to Birds
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It's not a technically good photo but one of my favorite photos for 2023 is this first try at a hummingbird in the rain called, "A light in a dark forest"

mike, to random
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I fear history is repeating itself in such obvious ways. Fascism is rising and Ukraine is Spain in 1938. The Ukraine on its current trajectory will lose the war. The US will most certainly defer aid decisions until after the election which will most likely be too late.
Iran has effectively become a Russian vassal, providing drones and ammunition to the Russian war effort, while also opening up a second front for the US to worry about. We're in deep geopolitical trouble. Happy Wednesday.

peachfront,
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@mike

history doesn't rhyme, it literally does repeat itself over & over because oligarchs, fascists, monarchs, whatever they're calling themselves this year... they are sociopaths who will never change

peachfront, to photography
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Working through my trip photos, trying to figure out how to develop them. May have already posted a similar photo from this series? Malachite Kingfishers do not allow themselves to be distracted by lowly humans so they make good practice subjects...

peachfront, to macrophotography
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Macrophotography is heck

peachfront, to photography
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In case you missed my brag & boast about our Limpkins at Fontainebleau State Park on the northshore of New Orleans. They were easily visible around the fish pond on Friday morning, as was the scatter of their discarded apple snails.

peachfront, to Birds
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"i see you but i don't think i like you"-- Inspector Blue Jay

#bird #birds #birding #GardenBirds #BirdPhotography #Photograph

peachfront, to Birds
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mighty hunter

striated heron

peachfront, to Birds
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Today's #Project365 centered on two fledgling House Sparrows I saw placed in a dark corner by their mom before she left them...

"Lil bro, I got a bad feeling here. Mama ain't coming back."
"How'm I the lil bro? We the same size."
"Point is, we gotta get our own food now."
"Oh, wonderful, just how I wanted to wake up today."

(They did eventually go to the feeders on their own.)

#birds #birding #sparrows #PhotographyChallenge #Photograph #PhotoADay #BirdPhotography #outdoors #BabyBirds #Nature

peachfront, to Birds
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Not the best photo I took today in a technical sense but the best for personal reasons... I haven't documented Brown-headed Nuthatches in the yard since we lost the last of our oaks in Hurricane Katrina 19 years ago!

peachfront, to Birds
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Didn't realize I captured a photo of this lifer...

Quail-Plover

#bird #birds #birding #Photograph #BirdPhotography #RareSpecies #Senegal #WestAfrica #outdoors #nature #wildlife #birdwatching

peachfront, to Birds
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It drizzle, and this is unfair to Red-headed Woodpeckers...

18+ _L1vY_, to random
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Martin Pengelly discusses 's book in which she admits to the animal killings we've just heard about.

What I'm wondering is, do we have any statements from the construction crew that witnessed this?

peachfront,
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@_L1vY_

i don't know but they too are a disgrace to humanity if they didn't at least TRY to report the animal cruelty to the police

she should have been arrested for her crimes then & there...

peachfront, to USpolitics
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neighbor who used to fly the pro-lynching flag put up the RFK Jr. lawn sign so that tells you the kind of person who supports that guy-- they're not "independents" or disgruntled Dems, they're virus-spreading white supremacists

side note

all flags & signs in our neighborhood came down a few weeks ago, from the friendly pro library & rainbow flags to the hate stuff like the last die-hard Trump/Pence sign with Pence whited out but i guess now the haters are creeping back...

peachfront, to Birds
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Two African Fish Eagles sit together to survey their world. The larger, stockier bird on the lower branch is the female. The slighter bird sitting protectively above her & turned to regard the viewer is the male.

Note: When zooming in hard on this photograph, I can see that the male has lost his right eye, but it doesn't seem to be slowing him down any.

peachfront, to Birds
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"Silent Sunday is all very well for some but others of us are being mobbed by fleas"- harassed Osprey

peachfront, to Birds
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This female Downy Woodpecker looks a bit tense, but it's because she's waiting on this branch for her turn at the suet feeder, and I think she's concerned about bigger liner-breakers coming along like the irritable Mockingbird that semi-regularly knocks her off...

#bird #birds #birding #woodpecker #GardenBirds #Photograph #BirdPhotography

gerrymcgovern, to random
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"By now it’s been made fairly clear that the bedazzling wonderment that is “AI” doesn’t come cheap. Story after story have highlighted how the technology consumes massive amounts of electricity and water, and we’re not really adapting to keep pace. This is also occurring alongside a destabilizing climate crisis that’s already putting a capacity and financial strain on aging electrical infrastructure."

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/10/ceo-ai-power-drain-could-cause-data-centers-to-run-out-of-power-within-two-years/

peachfront,
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@gerrymcgovern

AI/LLMs should be shut down world wide as a crime aga. humanity

unbelievable this is allowed to go on after the energy to fuel whole small countries got wasted on utter garbage like crypto that has no legit reason to be

has nothing been learned

tech bros boast about creating disruptive tech because they enjoy burning the world to feed their own sick egos> it's a show of power

time to shut this **** down

but they won't, they'd rather let the world end than offend a tech bro

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