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#Bush

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@aqunt nice.. another "war on terrorism.."

oon tainnut kuulla tän tarinan ennenkin.

#Bush #alQuaida #BinLaden #Irak #WeaponsOfMassDestruction

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4 days ago

Sandra Day O'Connor dies.

No mention of how she was instrumental in the fraudulent installation of George #Bush as President.

#911
#Iraq
#Afghanistan

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Divas for Democracy
6 days ago

Hmm. Maybe the reason #Israel has been calling the Oct 7 attack Israel's 9/11 is because they, like GW #Bush & 9/11, had information warning of the attack BEFORE it happened & they ignored the intel.

https://www.politico.eu/article/attacks-will-be-spectacular-cia-war-on-terror-bush-bin-laden/

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SallyABL
1 week ago

Good evening.

Dramatic skies - and weather - today. Here are a couple of photos of low hanging clouds along the Brindabellas that caught my eye.

#Clouds #Bush #Landscape #Nature #NaturePhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #OutAndAbout #Australia #Canberra #Photography #Fotografie #Fotografia #WildOz #AustralianBush

Light clouds hanging low in front of a mountain range beyond open land.
Landscape view with bush and trees in the foreground. Beyond is a row of low clouds in front of mountains. Above the mountains the sky is thick with clouds.
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Th3OneRav3n
1 week ago

Oh wow, I forgot to post today.. Late.but better than nothing😉

#MilfMonday #Boobs #Bush #Booty #NSFW

Color photo of nude female facing to the left.
STownsendImages
2 weeks ago

Brewers Blackbird

A Brewers blackbird perched on a lone branch at the top of a bush at the Summers Lake Wildlife Refuge in southern Oregon. (05/22/23)

#blackbird #brewersblackbird #bird #perch #bush #nature #animal #bird #wildlife

Don Trueten :antifa:
3 weeks ago

Bekenntnisse eines Ex-Zionisten:

Mein Judentum wird das Massengemetzel in Gaza nicht dulden

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) - Ich trauere um die Menschen in #Israel und #Palästina, die beide von ihren eigenen Regierungen und #Führungen missbraucht und terrorisiert werden. Die #Hamas ist keine legitime Regierung und sie ist nicht der #Islam. Der #Zionismus ist nicht das #Judentum. Die Hamas und die israelische Regierung haben das Leben ihres eigenen Volkes als Schachfiguren in einem groben politischen Spiel benutzt. Mit der Zerstörung des Gazastreifens, die so schlimm war wie die Zerstörung Dresdens im Zweiten Weltkrieg, hat die israelische Regierung schnell jegliche diplomatische und weltweite Sympathie verspielt, die sie durch die #Ermordung von 1.200 unschuldigen Israelis durch die Hamas und die #Entführung von 240 weiteren Personen gewonnen hatte. Infolge der #Kriegsverbrechen eines eindeutig zionistischen Staates stehen #Juden in der ganzen Welt vor einem noch nie dagewesenen moralischen #Dilemma.

Die Videos von Hunderten unschuldiger, friedlicher Israelis, die bei einem #Musikfestival brutal ermordet und entführt wurden, waren entsetzlich. Zu wissen, dass die Hamas an diesem Tag an 21 weiteren Orten ähnliche Verbrechen gegen die #Menschlichkeit begangen hat, ist mehr als wütend und herzzerreißend. Da möchte jeder hart zurückschlagen. Aber politisches Kapital lässt sich durch ein gewisses Maß an Zurückhaltung gewinnen, und #Bibi kennt so etwas nicht. Es ist nicht weniger wahnsinnig und wütend zu sehen, wie Bibis Regierung mit zehnfacher Gewalt zurückschlägt und aus 20.000 Fuß Entfernung zehnmal so viele Frauen, Kinder und nicht kämpfende Männer ermordet, wie am 7. Oktober von bewaffneten Schlägern getötet wurden. Wenn ich sehe, wie Hunderttausende von mittellosen Menschen durch die Straßen des #Gazastreifen​s stapfen und nicht wissen, wohin sie gehen sollen, dann kommen mir die Tränen. Zu wissen, dass ihr Leid durch eine grobe und scheinheilige #Perversion der jüdischen #Ideale verursacht wird, macht es noch wütender.

Es macht mich auch wahnsinnig, wenn ich mir die grobe Hybris und Arroganz des israelischen #Geheimdienst​es und der israelischen #Armee vor Augen führe, die auf #Wachposten an der Grenze verzichteten und stattdessen ein elektronisches System einsetzten, das von der Hamas so leicht zerstört werden konnte, als sie schliefen. Ich war schockiert, als ich erfuhr, dass es an diesen #Grenzübergänge​n keine Augen, Ohren und #Waffen gab, nachdem ich vor vielen Jahren durch den stark militarisierten Nahen Osten und Israel gereist war. Obwohl ich amerikanischer #Jude bin, musste ich mich nicht nur vor der Einreise nach Israel am berüchtigten #Rafah-Tor legitimieren, sondern auch vor dem Betreten einiger Orte, an denen ich ein herzlicheres Willkommen erwartet hatte. Während meiner zweitägigen Teilnahme an einer Konferenz in #Nazareth im Jahr 1980 (direkt nach Camp David) fühlte ich mich durch die spürbare #Überwachung der #Sicherheitskräfte beobachtet. Die #Sicherheitsbeamte​n scheinen die #Touristen vor vierzig Jahren effizienter überwacht zu haben als die #Netanjahu-Regierung die Haupttore des Gazastreifens im vergangenen Oktober. Offenbar hatte sie einige #Truppen entsandt, um den #Hausbesetzern im #Westjordanland zu helfen, weil sie sich zu sicher war, dass die Hamas in Gaza damit zufrieden war, Israels Polizist im Gazastreifen zu spielen.

Die #UNO und ein Großteil der #Weltöffentlichkeit waren nicht immer ein freundlicher Ort für Israel, aber nicht, weil der Großteil der Welt die Juden hasst. Schließlich haben wir uns weltweit viel Zuneigung und Unterstützung verdient, weil wir den #Holocaust überlebt haben. Die Kritiker dieses Todesregens aus dem Himmel hassen die Juden nicht. Sie hassen, was Israel seit 1948 unschuldigen palästinensischen #Zivilisten antut, und in jüngster Zeit den Moloch von #Bombardierungen in #Gaza. Gibt es eine profanere Definition von "#Overkill", als dafür zu sorgen, dass für jeden getöteten israelischen Juden zehn oder zwanzig Palästinenser sterben?

#Zionismus ist kein Judentum, und jede gegenteilige Behauptung der israelischen #Propagandisten führt nur dazu, dass Juden mit dem Pinsel der #Kriegsverbrechen der #Likud-geführten Regierung gezeichnet werden. Die meisten amerikanischen Juden der jüngeren Generation sind unzufrieden mit dem, was aus dem Zionismus geworden ist. Was auch immer die ursprünglichen Tugenden des Zionismus waren, als ein Weg für verfolgte Juden aus der Palästinensischen #Autonomiebehörde, ihren Selbstwert zu behaupten, so ist er jetzt zu einem Bestreben mutiert, ein anderes Volk zu demütigen und zu beherrschen. Der Zionismus wurde unter dem Likud-#Premierminister Menachem #Begin immer grausamer, unter Ariel #Scharon noch grausamer und unter Benjamin Netanjahu (Bibi) sogar destruktiv radikal. Ja, der Zionismus war immer ausgrenzend, um die jüdische Einwanderung (#Alija) zu fördern, aber die #Extremisten haben ihn in eine kranke, grausame #Ideologie verwandelt, die die arroganten, imperialen #Gräueltaten der israelischen Regierungen unter der Führung dieser drei vorangetrieben hat. Es ist, als ob Bibi und Donald #Trump beide die ultimativen Fantasien ihrer Parteien für eine grausame, dystopische, faschistische A#genda erfüllen. Die Entwicklung ist unter Bibi schnell eskaliert, so wie die Republikanische Partei sich unter Trump schnell entwickelt hat.

Sie hassen die #Raubzüge der rechtsextremen israelischen Siedler, die den biblischen Mythos als gültige historische Aufzeichnung betrachten, als ob er das Gewicht der modernen Diplomatie und gültiger Verträge hätte. Die moderne #Diplomatie im Nahen Osten begann nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg auf der Konferenz von Sam Remo 1920 in #Italien, und das #Besatzungsrecht ist in den #Genf​er #Konvention​en verankert, nicht in alten Texten. So sieht es der größte Teil der Welt. Die jüngsten israelischen Regierungen haben die illegalen Besetzer ermächtigt, noch mehr Gräueltaten gegen die palästinensische Bevölkerung, ihr #Eigentum, #Schulen, #Bauernhöfe und die Wasser- und L#ebensmittelversorgung zu begehen.

Ich halte mich für einen guten, UN-orthodoxen Juden und sehe keine Notwendigkeit, mich zu ändern. Ich akzeptiere meine lebenslange Unbeliebtheit bei den republikanischen Juden, die in vielen amerikanischen Städten die #Synagogen und S#ozialeinrichtungen dominieren. Sie waren die Klasse, die von den #Reaganomics verführt wurde, und sie sehen auch keine Notwendigkeit, sich zu ändern. (Vertrautheit erzeugt manchmal Verachtung.) Dennoch ist die große Mehrheit der jüdischen #Amerikaner sehr fortschrittlich und weist mit Nachdruck auf die Sünden des israelischen Militärs und der Republikanischen Partei hin. Wir wenden uns gegen die selbstzerstörerischen Tendenzen der jüdischen #Republikaner, die die progressive Agenda aufgegeben haben und unter den #Bush-Jungs immer weiter nach rechts gerückt sind, und gegen Donald Trump, der all die dystopischen Elemente des republikanischen Fantasiemodells verwirklicht hat, nachdem die Bushs und Reagan einfach nicht gemein genug waren.

Niemand kannibalisiert die eigenen Leute so wie die Republikaner und insbesondere die jüdischen Republikaner. Vor und während der Gründung Israels waren viele strenggläubige orthodoxe Juden vehement gegen die Gründung Israels, und einige tun dies immer noch. Sie betrachten die Schaffung einer politischen Einheit in der biblischen Heimat als eine Störung der Ankunft des Messias. Auch sie sind antizionistisch, aber aus einer anderen Motivation heraus. Wir sind kein Monolith.

Ungeachtet dessen, was ich jetzt sage, plädiere ich nicht dafür, die medizinischen und humanitären Bedürfnisse der in Israel lebenden Menschen in Zeiten des Krieges zu vernachlässigen. Die meisten von ihnen hassen ihre Regierung, so wie die meisten Amerikaner Trump hassen. Diese Gräueltaten geschehen auch nicht in ihrem Namen. Ich plädiere für eine umsichtige israelische Regierung, die sich für eine Lösung einsetzt, die die #Staatenlosigkeit der #Palästinenser beseitigt und damit Sicherheit für die Juden schafft. Es ist unwahrscheinlich, dass dieses Ergebnis von der gesetzlosen und autoritären Netanjahu-Regierung erreicht werden kann, die darauf aus ist, die Gerichte zu zerstören, um an der #Macht zu bleiben.

In den mehr als 40 Jahren meines Engagements für akademische #Studien über Israel und Palästina habe ich es vermieden, mich als "Antizionist" zu bezeichnen. Angesichts der #Diskriminierung, der #Pogrome und schließlich des Holocausts, den die Juden durch den europäischen weißen #Nationalismus der faschistischen Ära erleiden mussten, war es schwer, sich nicht für die Verwirklichung eines lang gehegten Traums der Juden zu begeistern, in das "Gelobte Land" zurückzukehren. Dies begann als formale politische Bewegung mit dem 1. #Zionistenkongress in #Basel im Jahr 1896. Er wurde zu einer alle vier Jahre stattfindenden Konferenz, und die jüdische #Einwanderung nach Palästina begann in immer größeren Wellen. Viele Juden wie ich bezeichneten sich als Zionisten, die jedoch die berüchtigten israelischen "#Militärexzesse" ablehnten. (Ein #Euphemismus für kaltblütigen, systematischen #Mord und #Piraterie.) Aber als Jude war ich noch nie so gegen das, was aus dem Zionismus geworden ist. Der massive Overkill und die Gräueltaten in Gaza unter Bibis Führung seit dem 7. Oktober und die unerbittlichen Angriffe auf palästinensische Menschen und Eigentum im besetzten Palästina des #Westjordanland​es durch rechte #Siedler haben mich fest in das antizionistische Lager getrieben.

Nicht korrigierte / authorisierte eigene Übersetzung sowie Hashtags @thomas

Quelle und Verlinkungen:
https://www.juancole.com/2023/11/confessions-zionist-slaughter.html

Danke für den Hinweis an @DrALJONES

auf https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/111419752731294298

Via Retoot von:
@sebastianschroeder

#Antisemitismus

Bec
1 month ago

Our local outdoors organisation is partnering with some local First Nations Elders, and they're meeting with us in different places and talking to us about the area, the bush food in the area, some of the history.

Today I took Kid1 along and we learnt a bit more about a native fruit, the quandong. We tried the fruit and the nut inside (which we smashed open using the less traditional method: a tyre iron). It took me back to my childhood -- these grow around the place where I grew up too.
Later, one of the Aunties joined us on part of the walk. Such a joy and privilege to chat with her and be in this amazing, beautiful bush.

#hiking #bloomscrolling #nature #ThingsILove #WesternAustralia #MenangCountry #TraditionalKnowledge #bush #mosstodon #LichenSubscribe

It's a close up of a succulent commonly called 'pigface', with bright pink daisy-like flowers and the leaves are like fleshy little fingers, and they're different colours, red, green. They grow like a creeper along the ground, and in this image, they're growing at the base of a dead bush. The branches of the bush are covered in some pale lichen and a hairy light green moss -- it was stringy and soft to the touch. In the background there's some strappy-leafed plants too.
There's a narrow dirt path heading up the hill, with hikers walking away from the camera. On the ground either side of the path grows a groundcover, a native violet which is not flowering at the moment (but when it does, it'll be purple and yellow flowers) and there are taller trees further out from the path. There's a mist hanging down over the trees and it's covering everything, hanging down from the sky like a veil, making it all quiet and moody on the trail.
We're up on the top of the peak, looking out towards another peak, where the reds, greys and browns of the granite are easy to see due the recent rain. The sky overhead is grey and it's been raining or misting most of the time we were walking, but in a refreshing way, not in a freeze-your-fingers-off kind of way. In the foreground you can see the moss and small trees and shrubs that grow on top of this ridge, thriving despite the conditions
This was the other side of the peak, before we got quite to the top. The clouds and the mist cleared for the first time since we arrived, and the mist was rising up from below, and I'd just huffed and puffed up the steep side of the hill, and this was a very welcome sight. In the foreground, there's some beautiful tall trees growing up from below, hiding the fact that there is quite the intense drop off the granite. Don't get too close to the edge!
Sampath Pāṇini ®
2 months ago

#Netanyahu is like if George W. #Bush and Donald #Trump got married and had a kid.

@Miro_Collas @dswidow @GW

DoomsdaysCW
2 months ago

A shadowy and controversial secret club meets in the California woods every year — and at least 5 US presidents were members

by Áine Cain
Mar 11, 2018,

"George H.W. #Bush joined the club in 1973, while chairing the Republican National Committee during the Watergate scandal.

"Domhoff writes that Bush belonged to a camp called Hill Billies, along with top executives from #BankOfAmerica, #GeneralMotors, and #ProcterAndGamble.

"Bush also brought along a future president as a guest on one trip to Bohemian Grove. He introduced his son — George W. Bush — at a lakeside talk in 1995, saying that he'd make a great president, according to Domhoff."

https://www.businessinsider.com/bohemian-grove-club-us-presidents-2018-3?op=1#george-h-w-bush-bunked-with-executives-from-influential-companies-7

#BohemianGrove #Oligarchy
#Corporatocracy
#Corruption #Koch #Blackwater

GENTLE REMINDER:

#Zionism was not considered a mainstream political ideology until it became normalized during... wait for it... the #Reagan and #Bush administrations (1980-1992).

by the time Clinton was elected, it was impossible for an American politician to even suggest why zionism and the whole concept of an engineered ethnostate are more than wrong. they're fascist.

it's why i will forever post this Einstein & Arendt 1948 letter about #Israel #Palestine #fascism & #zionism :

GeriatricGardener
2 months ago

“The priority must be to put Bush, Blair and Cheyney behind bars, before Trump: the rigged system that worked so hard to rehabilitate this trio of war criminals is exactly the same system now determined to put Trump on trial”

by Jonathan K Cook in @substack

“While Bush struggled to form complete sentences – much as Biden does today – but looked all-American in his vintage leather jacket, the ghoulish Cheney went about arranging the destruction of entire countries, including Afghanistan and Iraq, on behalf of the military industrial complex.”

[..]

“But if we are considering how our political systems are designed to shorten memories so that not only can monsters walk among us but they are celebrated and profit year after year from their crimes, Tony Blair deserves a dishonourable mention.

If anyone is as politically and morally monstrous as Cheney, it is the vainglorious, power-worshipping British prime minister of that period. While Bush sold the neocon plan for Iraq’s destruction in a leather jacket, Blair sold it to Europeans – or at least those who were gullible enough to take him seriously – in crisp white shirts and power suits.”

#Bush #Cheyney #Blair #Trump #Putin #WarCrimes #WarCriminals #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Iraq #Afghanistan #US #Britain #PermanentWar #Imperialism #RogueStates

https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathancook/p/the-priority-must-be-to-put-bush?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

cohan
2 months ago

1 #Monday is my first #DayOff, each week, so I don't try to be too productive. Today I did some writing early afternoon, then went out for air/ #exercise (i.e. get out of the computer chair and move!) + to immerse myself in #nature. Rather than puttering around the yard/garden, I wanted to get into the #bush Of course it was starting to #rain lightly as soon as I was setting out, but I persisted-I wasn't going super far, I could run back if it got serious (possible thunderstorms) #Alberta

Standing in very light rain, looking ahead along a cleared strip through mixed woods of aspen and balsam poplar and spruce, with occasional willow, birch, saskatoon etc, follows a post and wire fence to the right. A couple of cattle trails follow the same line, faintly visible through low grass and some fallen leaves. This section of woods ends a little way ahead and a more open area marks the beginning of a wetland area, with grasses and low shrubs in front, taller shrubs and mixed trees farther back with a layered grey and dark sky above, The deciduous trees throughout are in variable fall states from mostly bare to mostly green, with lots of gold.
Looking across a mixed wetland with grasses, sedges and forbs some trampled by cattle, others knee to waist height, in green, gold, tan, and shrubby willows and birch partly bare through greens and golds. Farther back are taller birch, nearly orange, and mixed poplars in fall colour  and spruce. Above a thick dark cloud hangs with a lighter strip just above the close horizon. It continues raining lightly.

@jadomian OFC not.

After all, the only thing the #West cares about is #Oil.

Otherwise we'd see the entire #Bush clan and their cabinets behind bars after being sentenced by the #ICC for their crime of aggression!

Nonilex
2 months ago

On the #Judiciary Cmte, which she joined during her 1st #Senate term, #Feinstein became known as an independent-minded vote.

During the #Bush admin, she opposed the noms of #SCOTUS justices #JohnRoberts & #SamuelAlito, several candidates for #FederalBench, & AG #AlbertoGonzales. But sided w/ #Republicans on noms incl’g… #MichaelMukasey —despite his refusal to describe #waterboarding as #torture —& fed appeals court judge #LeslieSouthwick, whose nom was opposed by #CivilRights & #GayRights grps.

Nonilex
2 months ago

Her support for the #intelligence community made especially explosive the investigation she led into the “#EnhancedInterrogation techniques” employed by the #CIA against #terrorism suspects after the #Sept11, 2001, attacks. #Obama ended the program shortly after succeeding George W. #Bush in the White House.

Deeply disturbed by testimony to the committee about secret CIA prisons known as “#BlackSites,” #Feinstein called for the investigation shortly after taking the chairmanship.

Killick
2 months ago

This guy. Ralph Nader. If he can stop the Greens from supporting Cornell West, fine. But I will not forget his vanity campaign that gave us 8 years of Dubya Bush.
Gift article from WaPo: https://wapo.st/3RvdANj
#USPol #Nader #Bush #Biden #ThirdParty

whoosh
2 months ago

@GottaLaff

It was obvious during #Nixon, and #Bush.

#Doonesbury

old Doonesbury strip
Piper
2 months ago

Sleepy friend on my morning bike ride - perfectly camouflaged.
#Lizard #Australia #Bush

blue tongue lizard
Nonilex
2 months ago

But the #CodeOfConduct only applies to the lower courts. At the #SupremeCourt, justices decide what’s appropriate for themselves.

“I can’t imagine — it takes my breath away, frankly — that he would go to a #Koch network event for #donors,” said John E. Jones III, a ret #federal #judge appointed by President George W. #Bush. Jones said that if he had gone to a Koch summit as a district court judge, “I’d have gotten a letter that would’ve commenced a #disciplinary proceeding.”

#SCOTUS

SallyABL
3 months ago

Scenes from the Murrays coach on the way to Sydney for the weekend.

#Australia #NSW #Clouds #Nature #Landscape #Bush

Wide landscape image showing geeen fields and clouds on the horizon
Landscape photo showing open land and interesting clouds
Landscape image with drier ground and a few scattered trees
Dry land

I always pass by these beautyberry bushes on my daily walks, and I can't help but admire them. They're so pretty. 💜

#outdoor #outdoors #outside #nature #plant #plants #bush #berry #berries #beautyberry #beautyberries

Some purple clusters of berries on a bush.
Some purple clusters of berries on a bush. This photo is a close up view of the berries.
A distant shot of the beautyberry bushes. The bushes are next to a sidewalk near a road.
Johnny B. 𓅇
3 months ago

@KristianHarstad Also #remember this and the other pictures from the #torture prison in #AbuGhraib, #Iraq - the first country G.W. #Bush invaded for the #WarOnTerror as retaliation that had nothing to do with the attack on the Twin Towers which was masterminded by #Saudis. Also remember the Collateral Murder video. Remember how you put every Muslim under suspicion. Remember Afghanistan and how you betrayed it's people. #NeverForget #NeverForgive
#Warcrime

Infamous photo of tortured detainee in Abu Ghraib. A man stands on a thin box, his head hooded and his fingers extended out and connected to wires.
cohan
3 months ago

@plants @nature
Top left- rebloom on Geranium himalayense with #bumblebee Right- native aster Canadanthus modestus in the #bush with bumblebee #WildflowerHour Centre, Achillea/Yarrow cultivars/hybrids mainly flower earlier, though there are always a few..there is another notable wave in late summer/early autumn, #gardening
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SallyABL
4 months ago

Here's another stunner showing off at the #BotanicalGardens ... and its another from Western Australia.

Please enjoy these delightful flattened, round spikey purple coneflowers (isopogon cuneatus - family Proteaceae).

#BloomScrolling #Flowers #Bush #Plants #WildOz #NativeOz #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Canberra #Australia #Gardening #FlowerPhotography

As described. Image of multiple flowers growing on the shrub.
As described. Close up image of single flower.
Daniel AJ Sokolov
4 months ago

George W. #Bush #satire
Those were the days...
#Dubya

GW
4 months ago

Fascism is the Western Answer to Class Struggle

As temporarily disgraced American idiot-prince George W. Bush put it, ‘war is good for the economy.’ Of course, his war wasn’t good for the million Iraqis that died in it, nor for the wider Middle East that was lit on fire by it, nor for the European and Scandinavian nations that faced the ‘inexplicable’ surge in refugees that it produced. But for the titans of war, the benjamins are flowing again.

#fascism #war #Bush

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/04/fascism-is-the-western-answer-to-class-struggle/

Bryan 🏳️‍🌈 Firefish
4 months ago

Starting today's run with new #Bush with #AmyLee and #1000Years

#HooraySongOfTheDay #NowPlaying
#Music #Running #HealthyLiving
🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🎶🎶🎶

[ BUSH - 1000 YEARS FEAT. AMY LEE [Visualizer] ]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aODtr-zF764&feature=share

Took a nice bath today! It's surprisingly difficult to take nice bath selfies.

#NSFW #TransLewd #Pussy #HairyPussy #Bush #TDick

Me in the bath, shown from chin to thighs. The water is clear. You can see my top surgery scars, body hair, and pussy.
An angle where you can see my pussy better, except there's a reflection of a bottle kind of obscuring it, oops.
Me spreading my pussy
Guan
5 months ago

There's a beautiful #lavender #bush absolutely filled with #bumblebees in my neighbourhood. They might be hard to spot on the photograph.

Every time I walk by I pause to enjoy their buzzing. Bumble bees make me happy. :blobuwu: #bloomscrolling

A lavender bush filled with bumble bees.
Kriszta Satori
5 months ago

'There's a photo of #Prigozhin serving wine to George w. #Bush in the #Kremlin when he visited decades ago. And there's a photo of him at a meeting between President #Putin and various members of the #Russian military elite with representatives of #Libya , a country where #Wagner #mercenaries were believed to be active'

Badwolf303
6 months ago

@Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva. I understand that. it’s just The history from 1945 forward to today is complicated. I lived a good part of that. The struggle isn’t generational so much as class. The UAW workers weren’t infiltrating state legislatures & starting wars 4profit. That was the #Kochs #Bush snakes. I’ll put together a 🧵 & see if I can be clearer. It may take awhile.

Southern Leftist
7 months ago

@MarkRuffalo
Bush sucked the toes of the elite, demolished government secularism, and led our nation into a war founded on lies.

I could go on, but he needs to be put down alongside the entire GOP.

#bush #Iraq #AbolishGOP

The Streets of Melbourne
7 months ago

Meet a scary looking critter, the #orbspider, but she’s pretty harmless all the same.

This is a female. They’re the big ones! Males are way-smaller in size.

I saw a heap of these (nearly walked into this one’s web) a week ago, along the #LoddonRiver in #Bendigo #australia.

Australian golden orb weaver:

Found in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, northern New Zealand, and New Caledonia.

The female typically grows to around 40mm (1.5 inch), whereas males only reach around 7-10mm (quarter to a third of an inch) in length.

It’s web is normally over 1 metre in diameter. Once built, it never leaves its web.

They’re harmless and not poisonous to humans.

Its main predators are birds and parasitic wasps.

Breeds throughout late summer and spring, and produces an average of 380 eggs.

The tiny males tie down the much larger females before mating, weaving silk threads over their abdomens.

Sexual cannibalism is rare with this species, however up to 50% of males are cannibalised throughout the natural course of life, as ‘prey’.

They’re an edible spider and are considered a delicacy in New Guinea. They’re plucked by the legs from their webs and lightly roasted over an open fire. Ummm, no thanks 😳

#altext, first image

#creepycrawley #spider #spiders #scaryshit #urbanflora #flora #Bendigo #Centralvictoria #bush #river #gardening #garden #melbourne #aesthetichedonist #flowersofmastodon #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #makesmehappy

A lanky legged spider sitting in a thick spider web in wait. It sits, head pointing to the ground, pictured from above. 

The web is thick and is almost luminescent in places where the sun hits its surface. I’m over 6 foot tall and the web surface was from waist to head height, with a network of web threads splaying out in all directions as the-downs, down to knee-high connected to dry grass on the ground, whilst connected to the to the lower parts of the tree tops (Gumtree’s) about 2.5 metres (8 foot) high. 

This female has a large body size; around 5 centimetres from end to end of it’s splayed out legs and it’s black from first observations but has an intricate network of different shades of greys over its back surface. Some patches near it’s head appears silver. The main bulbous body is as large as my thumb nail. 

It’s legs are hairy, short hairs. Grey-white in colour closer to its body and lengths of browns and dark grey to black, the rest of the leg length. 

It’s head is about 1/4 the size of its body and is silver in appearance with half a dozen black patches. At the front of it face you can see two short, thin feelers, I think they’re called. Maybe pincers not sure. 

The background consists of blurred vision of a gumtree trunk, branches, leaves and powder blue skies. 

Another spider, a tiny male; I suspect around 1/4 inch in size shares the web, above this giant huntress!
cohan
8 months ago

New #profile pic / #avatar-- from around the #SpringEquinox, late March -taking a moment to sit in the sun in my scruffy #home / #bush look, after a #SlowWalk in the #forest on the #farm taking #NaturePhotos , mentally working on a poem (yet to be posted) and gathering some firewood! A handful of degrees C above freezing that day.
#selfie #me #CoffeeBreak #BorealForest #Alberta #spring #sprinter #animist

self portrait photo- old white guy, looking a bit pinky-orange in the sun, head and shoulders- I'm almost smiling at the camera, mostly white/grey short clipped goatee/moustache and narrow short side-burns.   I have glasses on, narrow black metal frames, in old "nun" style, lenses darkened by sun, looking violet, eyes visible through lenses, with crow's feet from the almost smile and half squing into sun.
I'm wearing a faded black hoody, tan coloured knobby/wooly lining visible inside hood, which is held up by a cap, worn and dark blue, just the edge of rim visible.
Behind are mixed trees with evergreen foliage and blue sky visible beyond.
Jennifer McMurray
8 months ago

Growing up, during the #Reagan, #Bush, and #Clinton presidencies, I was taught that we were living in an enlightened society.

We are actually living in a repeat of the excesses of the #GildedAge. The #poor are again suffering for the #rich.

This was exacerbated by Reagan and Bush with their #TrickleDownEconomics born from flawed reasoning. The rich will NEVER redistribute their wealth.

The question is if and when we'll ever see a repeat of the #ProgressiveEra. I hope I see it in my lifetime.

Lockdownyourlife
8 months ago

Nothing dates you quite like the listening to Dragula or Glycerin.

#robzombie #bush #music

@ProPublica #Funfact: #Trump removed most safety standards that were added under #Obama and even #Bush...

@morecowbell @futurebird @hugo Good point. I think another problem is easily communicating vision to the people.

#BillClinton: It’s the economy stupid!
#Bush 2.0: War on Terror! (it morphed into this)
#Obama: Hope & Change (also Yes, we can!)
#Trump: Make America Great Again!
#Biden: I’m not Trump!

Seriously, what is #JoeBiden’s vision for America‽ People do not understand where he & the #Democrats are taking #America, so they look at the #GOP.

@futurebird @hugo That is one major problem with progressives right now: communicating a glorious albeit reachable vision for the future.

#Reagan, #BillClinton, #Obama, #Trump & even #Bush 2.0 (with all of his speech issues) were very effective at communicating their future vision of the #UnitedStates to the American people.

#Biden & even #DeSantis to a degree are more about crafting policies than communicating vision which is why both have struggled to connect with the general audience.

Michael Birch
1 year ago

Had a wonderful walk today with old friends through one of our QEII blocks. Fantastic fungi. Photos – Clair Hickey. #bush #qeII #fungi #nz

Aseroe rubra, anemone stinkhorn fungus
Trametes versicolor fungus, I think?
View of regenerating bush with a tree fern and totara through to scattered kanuka on the edge of the block.
Thoraiya
1 year ago

Mossy boulders with #bush #turkey . He battles lyrebird for dirt-scratching supremacy (and tourist sandwiches) in this part of the #Leura #Forest #BlueMountains #NationalPark #BirbsOfTheFediverse #mosstodon

A bush turkey with a red head, yellow wattle and black body inspects a moss covered stone in a rainforest.