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It's really only been a week....

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Today is the 3rd day of the 5th week, the 28th day of the 1st month, the 28th day of 2025 [ with only 330 shopping days until Christmas ], and: AFRMA Fancy Rat & Mouse Day Daisy Day Data Privacy Day Global Community Engagement Day International LEGO Day National Blueberry Pancake Day National Gift of the Ladybug Day National Kazoo Day National Pediatrician Day National Plan for Vacation Day Pop Art Day Rattlesnake Roundup Day Rubber Duckie Day - well it is Ernie's birthday.... Speak Up and Succeed Day Thank a Plugin Developer Day the waning crescent moon 1% of full [tomorrow is the new moon at 7:36 AM] and Voyager 1 is ~23h 04m 26s of light travel time from Earth Quote of the day: " Predication is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. " ~ Niels Bohr - Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner for his work with atomic structure and quantum theory.    Even though this is not a political blog, I have to acknowledge that the firehose that has been blasti...

Never again

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  Quote of the day: “ I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ” ~ Elie Wiesel (Holocaust Survivor; Nobel Laureate), Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, December 10, 1986

#SilentSunday for 01.26.2025

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  The Great Falls on a Saturday morning after the snows Capital Weather Gang photographer Kevin Ambrose.

just rambling

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 Today is the 5th day of the 3rd week, the 17th day of the 1st month, the 17th day of 2025, and: Ben Franklin Day - his 319th birthday.  By all accounts he was a bit of a lecher and tippler, albeit a brilliant man and statesman.  I wonder how he would fare today with all his little slips on full display?    Cable Car Day  Customer Service Day Ditch New Year's Resolutions Day Hat Day International Fetish Day International Mentoring Day Judgement Day - Created by a married couple, who argued that you don't have to wait until you die to measure whether or not you measure up to your diety's standards - just look in the mirror and be honest with yourself.    Kid Inventors' Day National Bootlegger's Day National Classy Day National Hot Buttered Rum Day National Hot Heads Chili Day National Rye Whiskey Day Popeye the Sailor Man Day - celebrating his debut appearance back in 1929 and forever enshrining the value of spinach and " I yam what I yam " . ...

#SilentSunday for 01.12.2025

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  posted by  https://universeodon.com/@bryanhansel@mstdn.social the Lake Superior basalt shoreline in March 

It's been a long week

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Today is the 6th day of the 2nd week, the 10th day of the 1st month, the 10th day of 2025, and: Houseplant Appreciation Day League of Nations Day - the League of Nations was created as part of the Treaty of Versailles which officially ended WWI on ;this day in 1920 National Bittersweet Chocolate Day - you might know it better as "dark" chocolate National Cut Your Energy Costs National Hockey Mom Day National Oysters Rockefeller Day Peculiar People Day  Save the Eagles Day - I can't be the only person surprised when Biden made the eagle the national bird because we thought it was already and Voyager 1 is ~23h 04m 24s of light travel time, or 24,902,000,000 km, or 15,473,000,000 mi, or 166.459 AU from Earth Quote of the day: " If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded ." ~  Maya Angelou - American memorist, poet, and civil rights activist  I don't know about you, but I am finding the news these days very discouraging.  ...

Dear world

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 Today is the 3rd day of the 2nd week, the 7th day of the 1st month, the 7th day of 2025, and: Distaff Day Harlem Globetrotter's Day I'm Not Going to Take it Anymore Day International Programmers Day Invisible Pain Day National Bobblehead Day National Old Rock Day National Pass Gas Day National Tempura Day Orthodox Christmas Day and Voyager 1 is ~23h 04m 21s of light travel time from Earth Quote of the day: " Reality leaves a lot to the imagination " ~  John Lennon Dear World: I'm sorry Canada, Greenland, Panama, and Ukraine.  I'm sorry NATO We didn't learn anything from what happened in Germany, and I apologize to them as well for thinking somehow the ordinary folks could've stopped their juggernaut.  Many of us tried and failed. Please don't look away.   Please chronicle what you see because here our media is already whitewashing the past and carefully managing the present perceptions to force their reality upon us, educating our young with prop...