The Bard

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have to say something" - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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All 13 full moons of 2023

[unhelpfultarot]

The Fool and The Hierophant

Where you're going, you don't need rules.

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Edward Gorey - Tarot

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ultraviolet + infrared images of Pluto, Venus, Mercury and Mars by hubble

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Story is wild

Little girl was part of a county fair agro-educational program where they raise an animal for a few months and at the end it’s slaughtered. Supposed to teach them about the economics of farming and stuff.

But the little girl loved her goat so much she was crying on the day her goat was supposed to be taken away, so her mom sent the county fair people an email saying “I’ll pay for the goat and any expenses. We’ve had several deaths in the family in the past year, I don’t wanna take away one more thing my little girl loves.” Technically the goat had already been sold at auction, so the mom was on the hook for about $1000, only about $70 of which would have been profit for the county fair.

The county fair people were irate and got law enforcement involved, over this “breach of contract”. They literally got a fucking judge to sign a search warrant, authorizing them to go to this little girl’s house and search every room and every cabinet or box “large enough to contain a small goat”. The sheriff’s deputies seized the goat, and whoever they gave it to immediately slaughtered it, though they were supposed to wait until some kind of agreement had been worked out.

In the county fair’s initial email correspondence with the girl’s mother, they made it clear that they were pissed off because the story of the little girl who loved her goat was circulating on social media making them look bad, and they felt the girl needed to be taught a lesson about keeping your promises or whatever. So they refused the mother’s offer to pay for it, and insisted they get the goat. Even if it meant sending the fucking cops into her house lmao.

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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-30/goat-slaughter-shasta-county-fair

[kunosoura]

the congressman who bought the goat didn’t have any objections to the family saving the goat from slaughter either! it’s fucking insane that the cops were so eager to play act their swat commando fantasies that they played stooge to the benefit of no one except some self important local organizers!

Alternate link, LAtimes locks their stuff behind paywalls sometimes

[theelectricfrog]

Don’t forget the part where the goat wasn’t where they had a warrant to search, so they drove 500 miles, leaving the area they have legal jurisdiction in, then searched a farm they didn’t have a warrant for ans seized the goat. The fair then had the goat slaughtered, even though a court had ordered them to keep it alive until ownership was resolved and despite the fact that both potential owners of the goat had decided to keep it alive.

They broke multiple laws in order to “teach” a little girl the “lesson” that “everybody has to follow the rules”.

I sure hope all of the complaints sent to Shasta District Fair CEO Melanie Silva, whose decisions these were and continues to defend her actions, are polite and don’t waste too much ink. I’m certain nobody would take advantage of the fact that the Sasha District Fair and Event Center’s contact page lists their phone and fax numbers, not to mention the email form below that.

[shi1498912]

Would be a shame if that information was to circulate far an wide, and ruin that despicable woman's easter holidays

[ralfmaximus]

I found the lawsuit filing. It is a work of art, brief and to the point. If you read nothing else, check out page 2, the section headed Nature of the Action. Magnificent.

[bisquid]

One of the things that bugs me in the notes is a bunch of people being like 'it's a livestock animal, it's her fault for getting attached' and.

My dudes, I cannot emphasize enough that the little girl's emotional attachment to the goat is in fact the least of the issues with this story. The main issue in this story is the fact that a bunch of cops broke multiple laws, including the unlawful entry to the property the goat was being held, the unlawful seizure and destruction of said goat, and the unlawful use of a criminal search warrant in a civil dispute case, just to start with.

The little girl owned the goat. At no point in the proceedings - and indeed at no point in the proceedings in the course of the normal auction-purchase-slaughter of a livestock animal in this program - did the fair own the goat. At no point in the proceedings did the person who successfully bid on the goat actually own it - he had made the winning bid to purchase rights to the meat. He hadn't even done that yet! The goat legally and incontrovertibly belonged to the little girl. The very worst that should have happened in this story is a brief property ownership dispute in a civil court.

The fair CEO decided to unlawfully force the auction of the goat, and, when the girl's mother began to dispute her actions, to make a false claim of theft, with precisely ZERO legal basis, calling the cops on an already emotionally fragile child, and then had the temerity to be angry with the child's mother because the story was making them look bad on social media.

Regardless of your opinion on the meat industry, livestock slaughter, or 4H, 'cops drive 500 miles, perform an illegal search, seizure and destruction of an American citizen's property, on the word of a biased 3rd party with zero legal rights to the property in question' should make you angry. Because it is a violation of civil rights, and also had no motive besides needless cruelty to an already grieving child.

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Illustration - Maenhir

Wiccan Calendar by Ste Pickford

Lammas/Lughnasadh - August 1st

Lughnasadh is celebrated roughly at the midpoint between the Summer Solstice and the Autumn Equinox.

Summer continues for now, but the days are steadily growing shorter and there is work to be done. Lughnasadh is the first of three harvest festivals, and the central crop in this case is grain. Traditionally the first sheaf of grain is cut, winnowed, ground, and baked into ceremonial bread – the delicious result of months of labor. In the process the seeds for next year’s grain are carefully saved, and the wheel keeps turning. Blessed Lammas!

[kayleightarot]

It is officially, the longest day of the year; the Summer Solstice (10:37 am ET)

For some, that's all it is. For others, it's a day to revel in friendship and family, to ceebrate the successes, and to prepare for the second half of the year by choosing to start new, beneficial patterns. Whatever this day means to you, I hope it brings you much light.

Happy Summer Solstice, Lovelies grian-stad an t-samhraidh

[kayleightarot]

Happy Wednesday, folx!

This week holds a great deal of transitional energy, but it’s about releasing what has worked for a long time but is no longer for your highest good.  Everyone has trouble releasing things that have represented peace, balance, function, security, etc. The longer it worked, the harder it is to believe, and feel comfortable that the unknown “new” will be better for us. Today, I offer Reiki to assist you in the process of releasing, and moving forward.  Enjoy your minute of Woo Gus an ath thuras (Until next time), Lovelies Namasté

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Archive: A Ring of Black Holes (NASA, Chandra, 02/09/11) by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center

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You are here

[vexeia]

[flagellant]

I truly don't have any words about what's happening in Ohio right now. I want to post something like I usually do. Give vocabulary, etc, whatnot. It's important, it's so important. But I don't have words. What could I possibly say about the level of devastation that has happened, is happening, will happen in the future? This is worse than the BP spill. And I don't know how to respond to that with anything other than a shocked numbness.

[flagellant]

There has been a complete media black out regarding the catastrophic and deadly environmental disaster currently happening in Ohio right now, which began a full week ago at time of writing.

A train filled with extremely toxic and reactive chemicals, specifically vinyl chloride, was derailed. A cloud of poisonous chemicals has sprouted and since the cloud is heavier-than-air, it will persist to continue to travel downwind, polluting the atmosphere and environment of everything it touches. All pets will die. Reaching the Mississippi will completely eradicate the safety of all its waters from that point and everywhere downstream. Creeks are already filled with dead fish which the Ohio government claims is not to be worried about. The entire state's soils and ecosystems will be contaminated to deadly carcinogenic levels for the rest of all our lives and far beyond it. If and when it reaches the Gulf of Mexico the currents will carry its poisons globally.

I wish I could say anything of hope right now. I wish I could even say I'm angry. But I'm not right now. I just feel numb. The scale of this is just so beyond anything I can comprehend and there's an explicit and purposeful refusal to report on this.

[exactlyonewerewolf]

My family lives around 30 miles from this in PA. They have a farm there. They are north wind of it so I’m hoping it won’t spread to there, but I’m preparing to hear about animals die offs.

[unhelpfultarot]

Three of Swords and Page of Swords

When you met the monstrous beast of legend, you saw that it had the rusting remains of several other swords still embedded in its sides.

[kayleightarot]

Happy Full Moon Self Care Sunday, folx! This week, the energy of the full moon in Leo (1:28 pm ET) is giving us a gentle push toward self care. 

Use that Leo energy to remember that you are enough. You, right now, as you are, are enough.  So, don’t participate in anything today, that doesn’t support that mantra, or that isn’t respecting that boundary. 

If that doesn’t feel sustainable, then consider it a day off from trying so hard for others, and do for you, in as many ways as you can. Go, Do, Be Gus an ath thuras (Until next time), Lovelies Namasté

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Women Watching the Stars 1936 Chou Ota

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embodying "the world" card in tarot because i refuse to repeat old cycles and instead accept how vibrant, creative, and free my existence is without the weight of my past dragging me down.