Marli King

@marlichi.bsky.social

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Elder GenX AuDHD Secular Humanist animal lover. Most fond of my housemates Dude (longcoat Chihuahua), Dilly (lavender Ameraucana), & Diva (cream crested legbar) - a.k.a. The D Squad. She/Her. I follow people who post pics of their chickens🐓 P.S. Fuck Trump

Sometimes I wonder why I am always so tired, but then I remember all of my hobbies involve keeping something alive.
Happy National “Hear-Fireworks-All-Day-and-Night-Being-Set-Off-by-Drunk-People-You-Wouldn’t-Trust-With-a-Glowstick” Day! (Image is of a child in Victorian era clothing carrying the flag of The United States of America)
Trans People Are Valid. “MENTAL ILLNESS!!” It’s not. But only an absolute asshole would bully everyone they think has a mental illness.
Every conversation about US politics is like “OK, so there are 100 people and 300 cupcakes, and *two* of those cup people have *299* of the cupcakes. We think the cupcakes should be better distributed so *everyone* gets enough cupcakes. And then someone will start shrieking and crying about how you *can’t* just *steal* all those cupcakes from those two people!!! That it’s *cruel and unusual* to expect those two people to *give up* those cupcakes, without ever acknowledging that they can’t even eat *all* of those cupcakes, and *most* of them will simply rot while *98 people* split a single cupcake. And then they insist that this is the *best* system in the *entire world* even be any cupcakes for *anyone* if we *didn’t* let those two people keep hoarding 99% of the cupcakes.
Every time you type prompt into ChatGPT, a data center somewhere evaporates freshwater just to stop the servers from overheating. Not metaphorically, physically. Real water. Gone. A conversation of 20 to 50 questions consumes roughly 500 mL of freshwater. Microsoft water consumption spiked 34% in a single year as AI expanded. These are not abstract numbers. They are liters pulled from rivers, aquifer and reservoirs. By 2028, AI data centers are projected to consume over one trillion (1,000,000,000,000) liters of water annually. You think you are using a free tool. You are paying with the planet’s most critical resource.
An image of a young black man in vintage US army uniform, sitting on a bench, with a piece of luggage next to his feet. Above his head is a sign that reads: "COLORED go to back of bus." The caption reads: "To those who served and loved the country that did not love them back."
Two 5 week old pullet chicks are scratching in a snuffle mat. One is blue gray with slate colored legs (lavender Ameraucana) and the other is very pale gray with a small feather crest and yellow legs (opal legbar).
Trump is suing the IRS, which he oversees, for $10 billion. Both sides want to settle to avoid going to court. Aside from money, one of the settlement terms is to drop all audits of himself and his family. He’s stealing 10 billion from taxpayers and covering up his tax crimes. You get that, right?
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” -Abraham Lincoln
You do not earn $1 billion. You steal it. Nobody works 1 billion times harder than a nurse, a teacher, or a farmer. That money comes from underpaying the people who actually did the work. Stop worshiping hoarders who are just really good at wage theft.
Only a white man in America can… -Be videotaped with underaged girls while hanging with a child sex trafficker -Cheat on his wife with a porn actress and pay her to keep quiet -Publicly fantasize about having sex with his own daughter -Openly boast on tape about sexually assaulting random women -Be convicted of 34 felonies, have 91 criminal charges, 26 sex assault allegations, 5 bankruptcies, and 2 impeachments -Be sued by the Department of Justice for racial discrimination -Have a $25 million fraud settlement, a $400 million fraud judgment, and $96 million sexual assault judgements … and be considered a good Christian by white evangelicals and elected President of the United States TWICE. -Bishop Talbert Swan
6 chicks are in a 12”x16” clear plastic tub. They are moving around and eating and drinking and pooping - as baby chicks do.