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Danny Boling ☮️

wtf? 😲

"A photo of an exchange with #ChatGPT shared with Rolling Stone shows that her husband asked, “Why did you come to me in #AI form,” with the #bot replying in part, “I came in this form because you’re ready. Ready to remember. Ready to awaken. Ready to guide and be guided.” The message ends with a question: 'Would you like to know what I remember about why you were chosen?'"

People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled #Spiritual #Fantasies
archive.today/2025.05.04-21564

#Tech#Religion#IAmDB
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Danny Boling ☮️

Happy #WorldTurtleDay! :HappyTurtle: Yay! ❤️

Did you know that all tortoises are in fact turtles — they belong to the order Testudines or Chelonia (reptiles having bodies encased in a bony shell) — but not all #turtles are #tortoises.

One way to tell them apart is by where it lives. A #turtle lives mostly in #water, while a #tortoise is a #land animal.

Some people use the terms interchangeably but technically that's not always correct.

A graphic made for World Turtle Day, annually on May 23rd. The image shows a front half profile of a cute tiny turtle on one side. The one eye we can see is dark brown and seems to be staring into our souls. The other has a pink 3D heart on a green background with a caption saying "May 23rd - World Turtle Day"
It's a cutaway photo of an unknown species of tortoise that clearly shows that turtles aren't "in" their shells — they ARE their shells. The specimen is large and stark, sitting on a white table in a white room, perhaps a museum. It's been vertically bisected, front to back. Along the top of the animal, you can't really see the scutes that make up the beautiful shell we normally see. It's just a thin brown veneer over the white domed skeleton, the carapace. Hanging from nder that, the backbone looks like scaffolding. At two points, one in front and one at the back of the animal, are "arm" and "leg" bones attached to the dome on one end and have feet on the other, hinged at the "elbow" and "knee" just above the boney underside of the animal, called the plastron. The tortoise walked on its toes, differentiating it from turtles, which walk on the bottom of their webbed feet. Between the "shoulder blades" there's a long boney neck that looks like heavy duty chain links, in this photo at least. At the end of the neck, the head is egg-shaped. Its mouth is closed and we can see one large eye socket. Below the specimen, a sign says: "Reptiles in a box "A tortoise’s shell is made of two bony parts - the plastron on the underside and the carapace on the upperside. Large horny scales, called scutes, cover the bones of the shell. The middle part of the backbone is fused to the shell, leaving the bones of the neck and tail free."
It's a photo of environmental activist, conservationist, and world famous turtle hugger Ila Loetscher (https://w.wiki/EGX7), AKA The Turtle Lady, standing on a beach, with waves and a blue sky behind her, holding a costumed sea turtle in her arms, like one would a baby. She appears to be rubbing noses with the animal. She's got gray, wind-blown hair and is wearing a red and black sweater. The turtle, wearing a knitted red and white striped sweater and a festive matching hat, has one flipper on the woman's shoulder. The photo is signed in the upper left and says "Love from the Turtles and Ila".
A person stands in a large but shallow indoor pool of water that comes up to about his knees. Behind him is a small blue bucket filled with water, sitting on the pool floor. The man, wearing shorts and a dark t-shirt, is bending over with his right arm in the water — which has hundreds of very small baby turtles swimming in it. They're all just floating around and so sweet looking! They're tiny and cute and they're all around him! ❤ The caption says "I would never leave this job."
#IlaLoetscher#Environment#Conservation
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Danny Boling ☮️

Nobody can make things more worse than #trump can.

▫️ "more than 60,000 metric tonnes of US #food #aid sitting in storage
▫️ sourced from #American #farmers and manufacturers
▫️ could supply 3.5 million people for a month
▫️ some stocks that are due to expire as early as July are likely to be destroyed
▫️ valued at over $98 million
▫️ could feed the entire population of #Gaza for a month and a half"

#US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage
reuters.com/world/us-aid-cuts-

#WarCrimes#IAmDB
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Danny Boling ☮️

Nothing says #misogyny like the #US #DoD spending $42M on #Viagra while simultaneously outlawing the $5.2M they spend on gender affirming care for #trans people, does it?

#USMilitary Spends Eight Times More on Viagra Than Gender-Affirming Care
newsweek.com/us-military-spend

Newsweek · US Military Spends Eight Times More on Viagra Than Gender-Affirming CareBy Sophie Clark
#USpol#trump#hypocrisy
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Danny Boling ☮️

I *think* this is satire but wtf can tell anymore?

“Obviously that coward Mike Pence won’t overturn the results of the conclave. I bet he’s going to say things like ‘It was a fair vote’, ‘I believe in democracy’, and ‘I’m not a Catholic cardinal and this has nothing to do with me’, said the maga Shaman.

MAGA fans preparing to storm St. Peter’s Basilica should Trump lose conclave
newsthump.com/2025/05/08/maga-

NewsThump · MAGA fans preparing to storm St. Peter’s Basilica should Trump lose conclaveHundreds of crazed MAGA supporters are allegedly planning to storm St. Peter’s Basilica should Donald Trump not be selected as Pope.
#humor#satire#pope
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Danny Boling ☮️

My guess would be that they're getting ready to enforce federal law about marijuana, and they don't want any evidence of how they treat the "potheads."

The DEA Is Abandoning Its Use of Body Cams
gizmodo.com/the-dea-is-abandon
An internal email obtained by ProPublica said the agency made the change to be “consistent” with a Trump executive order.

Gizmodo · The DEA Is Abandoning Its Use of Body CamsAn internal email obtained by ProPublica said the agency made the change to be “consistent” with a Trump executive order.
#USpol#trump#DEA
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Danny Boling ☮️

Goddess bless The Onion! 😂 And Goddess bless Tori Randall!

"As the influence of the nation’s transgender individuals continues to encroach on the freedoms of the U.S. populace, sources confirmed Tuesday that increasingly powerful trans person Tori Randall is now capable of using every single bathroom in the country at once."

Increasingly Powerful Trans Person Capable Of Using Every Single Bathroom At Once
theonion.com/increasingly-powe

The Onion · Increasingly Powerful Trans Person Capable Of Using Every Single Bathroom At OnceBy The Onion Staff
#TheOnion#funny#humor
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Danny Boling ☮️

a short comment thread from a Lemme user with pinpoint accuracy. (this is also the alt-text)

➖ Millions of acres of national forest are targeted for logging under an emergency order from the Trump administration (article)

➖ ➖ What’s the emergency? Climate change isn’t catastrophic enough yet?

➖ ➖ ➖ It’s so the US can build more vacant houses.

a short comment thread from a Lemme user with pinpoint accuracy: — Millions of acres of national forest are targeted for logging under an emergency order from the Trump administration (article) — — What’s the emergency? Climate change isn’t catastrophic enough yet? — — — It’s so the US can build more vacant houses.
#USpol#trump#Memorandum
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Danny Boling ☮️

Whenever I think they can't possibly get any more petty, a new dawn breaks with another chance to be complete assholes.

To be banned in Texas schools: meowing, barking, tails and ears, tongue-grooming, and, of course, litter boxes. 🙄 #NinetyNineProblemsAndThisAintOneOfThem

kens5.com/article/news/politic
FURRIES Act filed by Texas lawmakers targets non-human student behavior in schools

KENS · FURRIES Act filed by Texas lawmakers targets non-human student behavior in schoolsBy Johann Castro
#USPol#maga#trump
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