shekinahcancook

shekinahcancook, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to LGBTQ

These deranged people are the fundamentalist #ChristoFascists intending to impose #TheNewInquisition rule over the rest of us, to eliminate all #WomensRights like in Afghanistan, to execute #LGBTQ folks and #Atheists like Gaza and Iran, to bring back #Slavery like in Libya and Qatar, and make America a Saudi style ethno-state in the #WhiteNationalist flavor. They intend to turn all schools into #ForcedReligion hellholes and #Kidnap your kids if you dare to let them be themselves. They intend to deport #Immigrants and force the poor into servitude with no #MinimumWages or #WorkerProtections at all, including no #SocialSecurity or #Healthcare since only the rich deserve a decent life - their disgusting god told them so while they were here wallowing on the floor and babbling.

THIS IS OUR FUTURE IF MAGATS ARE NOT VOTED OUT AND KEPT OUT PERMANENTLY: rule by hateful misogynist nutjobs using POLICE STATE VIOLENCE to enforce their whackadoodle beliefs onto us.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9ohqHvOoGyo

shekinahcancook, 1 month ago to kentucky

Emboldened by the fascist Ky GOP imposing their religious beliefs on women and LGBTQ folks, now magats are harassing businesses of people who follow different spiritual paths.

This was never going to end with abortion and trans people - you know that, right?

They intend to eliminate anyone and everyone who will not bow to their disgusting cult. Today it's crystals and nature religions. Tomorrow it's Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Sufis, and Judaism.

These nutjobs don't care about constitutional rights and are fine with using police state violence to enforce their cult's backward and barbaric beliefs. And if that doesn't work, they're fine with murder, arson, and assault.

https://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/clark-county-business-accused-of-witchcraft-owner-says-its-not-true

#Kentucky #KySucks #RedStateHellhole #GOP #ChristoFascism #ReligiousFreedom #CivilRights #Pagan #Spirituality #Meditation #Crystals #Tarot

shekinahcancook, 7 months ago to ukteachers

Just a reminder, class - buy real books. Books made of paper. Libraries are going to be completely defunded by the white nationalist christo-fascists, and right wing nutjobs can, and will, order companies to erase your entire e-library in a snap. We need to preserve real history, real science, and literature, especially biographies and current event books that features real life accounts of real life people who don't fit their mold. Don't let ignorance win. Buy real books - used and new. Build your own library now while you still can, and give books as gifts this holiday season. Knowledge is far more valuable than any plastic junk.

#TheNewInquisition #BookBans #ChristoFascism #WhiteNationalism #Education #Books #bookstodon

shekinahcancook, 1 month ago to random

Now I'm thinking I'm the guy who gets killed by some monster!
#GalaxyQuestToots

shekinahcancook, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Economics

Cocoa Prices have Gone Nuts
Millie Giles & David Crowther
April 19, 2024

Cocoa prices are breaking records on an almost daily basis — with cocoa futures closing at (another) all-time high of $11,020 per metric ton yesterday.

That’s up 158% since the start of the year, and over 4x on the typical prices seen in 2022 — as crop production continues to fall short of demand.

Major cocoa-producing nations like the Ivory Coast and Ghana, which between them grow about two-thirds of the world’s cocoa, have seen excessive tree failure due to disease, changing weather patterns, and hot, dry conditions causing devastating droughts.

Consumers are starting to see the effects of the largest cocoa supply deficit in over 60 years: “shrinkflation” & reduced-cocoa recipes, and Hershey stock was recently downgraded.

Tthe International Cocoa Organization expects production to lag behind demand by 374,000 tons for the 2023-24 season.

https://sherwood.news/markets/cocoa-hits-usd11-000/

#Economics #FoodSecurity #Inflation #Cocoa #Cooking

shekinahcancook, 7 months ago to random

Shabbat shalom! Even if you don't daven in a congregation, sing a song. Really sing it. Don't by shy. Belt it out at the top of your lungs. Feel your feelings with it. And let your heart's vibration go out into the universe, and travel to the One who hears.

May we all have a quiet break from stress & emerge cleansed and refreshed.

shekinahcancook, 2 months ago to history

The Mysterious Dodecahedrons of the Roman Empire

The first of many of these puzzling objects was unearthed almost three centuries ago, and we still don’t know what they were for.

by Frank Jacobs, Big Think May 12, 2023

"In the first episode of Buck Rogers, the 1980s television series about an astronaut from the present marooned in the 25th century, our hero visits a museum of the future. A staff member brandishes a mid-20th-century hair dryer. “Early hand laser,” he opines. As an observation of how common knowledge gets lost over time, it’s both funny and poignant. Because our museums also stock items from the past that completely baffle the experts..."

Well, at least they didn't think the hairdryer was for a fertility ritual.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dodecahedrons-roman-empire

#History #Archaeology

shekinahcancook, 14 days ago to linguistics

Why Do Dwarves Sound Scottish and Elves Sound Like Royalty?
Blame Tolkien and time - by Eric Grundhauser December 7, 2016

"...Tolkien would create languages first, then write cultures & histories to speak them... In the case of the ever-present Elvish in his works, Tolkien took inspiration from Finnish and Welsh. As the race of men & hobbits got their language from the elves in Tolkien’s universe, their language was portrayed as similarly Euro-centric in flavor.

For the dwarves, who were meant to have evolved from an entirely separate lineage, he took inspiration from Semitic languages for their speech, resulting in dwarven place names like Khazad-dûm & Moria.

“When dwarves actually talk, they don’t sound Scottish at all,” says Olsen. “They sound like Arabic or Hebrew.”...As radio & film adaptations of Tolkien’s works were released in later decades, you can see the slow evolution of the dwarven accent..."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-do-dwarves-sound-scottish-and-elves-sound-like-royalty

#Linguistics #Tolkien #Dwarves #Elves #Fantasy #Language

shekinahcancook, 11 days ago to random

Well, that's the end of that. My now ex-friend and I had a huge falling out this morning. It's been a while coming. Somehow it's my fault that everything she was supposed to be doing for the last year didn't get done. She just stops in the middle of things and gets all bent out of shape when you call her on her unfulfilled promises. So we're done. I don't need that kind of crap right now.

shekinahcancook, 10 days ago to random

Inaugural summer 2024 dinner on the patio - achievement unlocked.

shekinahcancook, 12 days ago to Theatre

Neoliberal economics is killing the arts
By Tim Lutton, originally published by Red Pepper May 28, 2024

"...As a society, we must resist art-as-capital, where it is reduced to pure exchange value in a market of commodities. There, any politically-charged and counter-hegemonic content is rendered powerless, constituted as a stable harmonisation of the dominant socio-political order and drowning out all contradictions.

...In the present era, the tendency towards total marketisation of artistic production accompanies perpetual austerity and an atomised rentier economy that is shrinking public and social life. Without a rupture from neoliberal capitalism in general, the means to make new, generative and disruptive art disappears, and much else that is meaningful in our lives will follow after. The rest is silence."

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-05-28/neoliberal-economics-is-killing-the-arts/

#ArtHistory #PredatoryCapitalism #Orchestra #Theatre #Arts #Museum #Exhibition #Education #NeoLiberalism #Culture

shekinahcancook, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to linguistics

If you watched the Banshee of Inisherin or Netflix's Bodkin and wondered if they really say "that" pretty much every other word in small Irish towns, apparently the answer is yes.

Source: https://thelanguagenerds.com/2024/most-used-swear-words-in-every-european-country/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1bQV9JRF3HLds9prO

#SwearWords #Cussing #Linguistics #Language

shekinahcancook, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to gardening

Been playing in the dirt today. It's an unusually warm April day, but very windy.

Fair and Breezy
81°F / 27°C
Humidity 29%
Wind Speed SW 21 G 32 mph
Barometer 29.88 in (1011.2 mb)
Dewpoint 46°F (8°C)
Visibility 10.00 mi
Heat Index 80°F (27°C)
Last update 14 Apr 3:54 pm EDT

#Gardening #RaisedBeds #Vegetables #Greens #Strawberries

shekinahcancook, 1 month ago to humanrights

National Day of Prayer continues to advance Christian Nationalism

Apr 30, 2024 Andrew L. Seidel

From American United for Separation of church and state:

"...You heard that correctly – in a nation where the First Amendment of our Constitution demands that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” Congress established a National Day of Prayer...

The law requires the President of the United States to issue a proclamation recognizing the National Day of Prayer. Some local and state governments similarly recognize the day. Although supporters may claim NDP welcomes all people to participate, it ostracizes nonreligious people, those who don’t pray and many religious minorities. Both the history of NDP and the rhetoric of those who continue to promote it make clear that NDP is mainly for Christians..."

Read the article here:

https://www.au.org/the-latest/articles/national-day-of-prayer-christian-nationalism/

#ChristoFascism #CivilRights #HumanRights #WomensRights

shekinahcancook, 1 month ago to kentucky

Red states like Ky are planning to eliminate income taxes to move to an entirely sales tax system. They plan to tax all goods & services, so presumably your doctor, home care, your bookkeeper, and your contract labor will all have to charge you sales tax on top of their regular co-pays & fees.

Of course, that means the brunt of all taxes will be paid by the low wage working poor, and the rich will not be affected - nor pay any tax on their income. Small biz is screwed.

Of course, this being the GOP in Kentucky, they will no doubt slap sales taxes on Food & Medicine, too, just to make sure they hurt the poor as much as possible.

B/c that's what right wing christians do - hurt the poor, disabled, elderly by depriving them of food, med care, affordable housing, and then criminalizing homelessness for good measure. In the name of their evil god.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/5/1/no-city-should-rely-primarily-on-a-sales-tax-for-funding

#Kentucky #KySucks #RegressiveTaxation #RedStateHellhole #GOP #EatTheRich #SalesTax #Economics #Dystopia #ChristoFascists

shekinahcancook, 1 month ago to politics

When you elect magats to congress, whether or not they decide to do anything at all depends on whether or not they think it will further their plans for dominion and armageddon. Literally. Johnson only capitulated on Ukraine because he thinks it will lead to more people converting to his cult and pushing his cult's unpopular policies.

Not because the safety of the free world depends on it. Right wing christians couldn't care less about that.

These whackadoodles have no business being in Congress or any government position. They're insane. They are letting bronze age fairy tales decide 21st century issues. It's deranged.

An army of Jesus”: Inside Mike Johnson’s come-to-Jesus moment ahead of Ukraine reversal - Johnson met evangelical leader of Ukraine’s National Prayer Breakfast before last week's press conference
By Jonathan Larsen, Published April 22, 2024

https://www.salon.com/2024/04/22/an-army-of-jesus-inside-mike-johnsons-come-to-jesus-moment-ahead-of-ukraine-reversal_partner/

#TheNewInquisition #ChristoFascism #GOP #Politics #UkraineWar #ForeignPolicy

shekinahcancook, 1 month ago to Economics

I think there are tons of people who would love a regular car, an EV or Hybrid, without all that other electronic junk. Purposefully making transitioning to cleaner options too expensive is a stupid policy.

#PlannetObsolence #Complexity #PredatoryCapitalism #Economics #Resources #Sustainability

shekinahcancook, 19 days ago to sustainability

Growth or Scale? By Tom Murphy, originally published by Do the Math May 22, 2024

"...It’s not too hard to lay hands on records of global resource use. One publication I ran across has some useful graphs for a few raw materials in common use. The first graph shows annual extraction of copper, zinc, and lead since 1900, usefully...

...From 1960 to 2005, in no region of the world did annual production of timber moderate alongside growth. The total global activity almost doubled (77% increase) over this interval rather than stagnating or tumbling by a factor of two as growth did.

The result for all of these resources is clear: scale is a more apt correlate than growth. The curves bear a family resemblance to the hockey-stick scale curves: far less resemblance to the peaking growth curves. A confounder in this is that per-capita resource extraction has also risen for many materials, in association with economic growth..."

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-05-22/growth-or-scale/

#DeGrowth #Sustainability #Resources

shekinahcancook, 1 month ago to trans

Your soul doesn’t have junk in the trunk - Or, what Catholic apologists and Richard Dawkins agree about
Avatar photo by Adam Lee Oct 10, 2023

"...Are intersex people God’s mistakes?

The heart of Graebe’s argument is his insistence that God doesn’t make mistakes. He says it’s impossible to have a “male soul” in a biologically female body, or vice versa. Therefore, he concludes, anyone who believes themselves to be transgender is self-deluded:

"To deny that essential unity is to say that God made a mistake. …Jesus says, “This is my body,” but we cannot say that of ourselves. Our body belongs not to us, but to God, and he will not be mocked."

Again, there’s an obvious reply: How does this theology account for intersex people?

As I wrote in Christians against pronouns, it’s objectively true that there are human beings who defy simplistic notions of a gender binary..."

Scientific literacy is not a strong point with fundamentalists.

https://onlysky.media/alee/your-soul-doesnt-have-junk-in-the-trunk/

#ChristoFascism #Trans #LGBTQ

shekinahcancook, 1 month ago to Economics

The middle class continues to be priced out of the automobile market, with insurance, maintenance, and gasoline continuing to rise out of reach.

Cities and towns, meanwhile, continue to treat mass transit as a condescending nod to the poor that should be an extractive money maker instead of a widespread social service.

This doesn't end well, class.

"The bad news: The cost of buying a new car hasn’t changed much… but insuring it has. Indeed, auto insurance prices have gone nuts — rising more than 22% per the latest release. Insurers are shifting the blame onto the increasing cost of “repairing and replacing cars”, which has also risen (some 12%), though not quite to the same extent."

https://sherwood.news/personal-finance/where-is-inflation-still-rising-the-most/

#Economics #Inflation #AutoInsurance #EconomicCrisis

shekinahcancook, 1 month ago to sustainability

How to unite local initiatives for a more sustainable global future

By Vasilis Kostakis, Nikiforos Tsiouris, originally published by ScienceDirect May 1, 2024

"...In a state of emergency, it is audacious to place all our hopes for tackling the ecological crisis and wealth inequality in technology –worse even, in technology that is yet to materialize... High-tech is not unsustainable in its essence, but its scale and mode of production in the capitalist realm are.

...the crux of the matter is profoundly political. The development and production of technology in the modern era are intricately interwoven with wealth inequality and environmental deterioration. Technology is not being produced in a vacuum, thus it is not neutral. On the contrary, it is highly influenced by the decisions of manufacturers, legislators, consultants, designers and everyone else involved –directly or indirectly– in the process..."

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-05-01/how-to-unite-local-initiatives-for-a-more-sustainable-global-future/

#Sustainability #Economics #Resources #DeGrowth #Climate

shekinahcancook, 1 month ago to random

@tomiahonen

Enjoy your christofascist theocracy. The left is mostly going to sit this one out, for various reasons.

shekinahcancook, 1 month ago to LGBTQ

Here's hoping it sticks...

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/4th-circuit-gender-identity-is-a

#LGBTQ #Trans #TransRights

shekinahcancook, 1 month ago to random

We forgot about our appearance generators.
#GalaxyQuestToots

shekinahcancook, 1 month ago to cake

Parve / Vegan Pistachio cake for dessert tonight. (Lost the recipe so I'm winging it.)

Shabbat Shalom!

#Shabbat #Dessert #Cake