#InsectSaturday

Dragonflies are supreme predators, catching and eating several hundred insects each day, many of which would otherwise annoy you.

💧 They indicate a relatively healthy habitat that can produce enough prey individuals. This one is in area where there are clean quiet waters for their young, surrounded by a protected maritime forest. Easy Street.

Eastern Pondhawk (female) Dragonfly
Sandy Run Park
Nags Head, NC

#OuterBanksNC #OBX #Travel #Nature #NaturePhotography

Latest Covid sewage charts for the SF Bay Area https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater

Wenn der Autozulieferer ZF, der Jahrzehnte aufs falsche Pferd gesetzt hat, 14.000 Stellen streichen muss, geht für einige die Hölle auf. Wenn 100.000 Stellen im Solar- und Windenergiesektor abgebaut werden is es nur Marktregulierung.

“So, the people who know him [JD #Vance] best, the region that knows him best, they like him even less than America likes him,” said Enten.
"Enten added that Vance is 'historically unpopular' as a vice presidential candidate coming out of his first convention."

Huff Post reports on CNN data https://www.yahoo.com/news/cnn-data-reporter-draws-absolutely-072859434.html

Asien führe neue Weltordnung: Orban redet Selbstzerstörung Europas herbei https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Viktor-Orban-schiesst-gegen-Europa-und-USA-EU-vor-Selbstzerstoerung-article25119567.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it&utm_content=n-tv.de%20-%20Startseite&utm_term=%40ntv%40mstdn.social

Detroit, Michigan, June 2024

#Photography #StreetPhotography #NewTopographics #Detroit

#TrumpCoup

https://wapo.st/4cWdTsd

U.S. House Republicans are now virtually indistinguishable from state house performance wackos.

You don't get to grab the mic and scream about groomers training Jewish space lasers on Christian homes until you fund the customs office!

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From VP Kamala Harris on X:

Here’s a link to the video:

https://x.com/kamalaharris/status/1817209185026617839?s=46&t=9Rt-po1fb4U6srDLfMkmJA

LET’S GOOO! TIME FOR US TO ORGANIZE AND WINNN!!!

#Harris2024 #KamalaHarris #Harris #vote #voteblue #usa

"UAW president Shawn Fain: 'I truly find it pathetic when I hear #Trump—a scab—talk about how he's going to bring back the auto industry and bring it back fast. When he was president, he didn't do a damn thing to help the auto industry. Plants were closing and left this country, and he did nothing to help it.'”

Video from MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/uaw-chief-rips-trump-as-scab-who-didn-t-do-a-damn-thing-for-auto-industry-215786565730?cid

⚡️ 🇮🇹 Protesters in Chiomonte, Italy, have besieged the No TAV construction site and invaded the nearby Frejus highway. They launched fireworks and paper bombs against law enforcement officers. https://www.riskmap.com/incidents/2176882/articles/235075812/

Oh, something I noticed on LinkedIn since the Crowdstrike incident -

There are lots of “security leaders” and similarly titled folk proclaiming the presence of Crowdstrike on all these machines being nothing more than a box-checking compliance exercise. Not sure that’s true, I’ll happily say that Crowdstrike has saved me a few times, and any EDR tool is a pretty essential foundational security control for any org - not just something to keep the auditors happy.

Recency bias is a thing. It was the same with Okta. When you talk about Okta and Crowdstrike these days, the incidents are front and center of mind - not the decades of improving security and preventing incidents that came before them. Worth remembering that.

Dodge All

#OlympicGamesForIntroverts
#HashtagGames

#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

Made a music video today. After the last note, I held a pose for a freeze frame. And exclaimed “Freeze frame!” Which was added to the video’s captioning.

Elon Musk on Trump: “America needs a strong leader… You have to admire that Trump after getting shot with blood streaming down his face...”

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

Curling Up.

#OlympicGamesForIntroverts
#HashTagGames

TIL Will Purvis, who was convicted of murder in 1894 and had always maintained his innocence, told the jury he would "live longer than the lot of them." He survived a hanging, was re-incarcerated, and eventually pardoned and released.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Purvis
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1edkehr/til_will_purvis_who_was_convicted_of_murder_in/

Uhhhhh

"A look back at the fight for #disability rights comes with the reckoning of the challenges left unsolved...For disability rights leader Judy Heumann, the tumult of 2020—first the COVID-19 pandemic, then a reignited movement against racial injustice—underscores just how much work remains to be done."

Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/history-30-years-since-signing-americans-disabilities-act-180975409/

I think the kids born in the late 60's to early 70's spoiled it for the ones behind ... No fireworks, not able to buy an air rifle from the local department store, had a childhood without social media, many dangerous chemicals have been removed from general sale and I am sure many other things ... I would like to say, sorry but we had fun ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

two more pages to build on the site lol my discography, and my books

and then nova-prime will have all that content the old version had, and 100% more than wordpress

There was a discussion earlier about either #monday or #sunday was the first Day of the week? Well my dispill tells me it's Sunday! So there's that! 🤣

So every time a town is destroyed by wildfire, a fossil fuel power station gets taken out.
Only fair.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-bayside-natural-gas-1.7277017

#Jasper #StJohn #Canada #ClimateCrisis

Criminal trump’s rhetoric and attacks have become so misogynistic it’s little wonder you don’t see wife Melania and daughter Ivanka showing any support.

#trump #melania #ivanka #misogyny

Here's the thing about the political public opinion polls:

The only polls that matter are done at the ballot box!

Register, vote and try to get everyone you know to do the same.

Finally managed to bridge my #postmarks account through to bluesky

"You can see a lot by observing."
- Yogi Berra