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What, in your opinion, is the World Wide Web’s greatest contribution? Or the worst? Or something about it that interests you?
The Internet is likely one of the most civilization-changing inventions of all time. There are both good and bad aspects to it; While Putin was able to weaponize Twitter and Facebook to help Trump steal the 2016 U.S. presidential election, both sites were instrumental in the success of massive social justice movements, such as the Arab Spring and Black Lives Matter.
I maintain that one of the Internet’s greatest contributions to humanity is in the sharing of great animal photos with literally billions of people. Animal photos are important for several reasons — they educate us about the natural world, help us empathize, inspire us to protect the environment, give us beauty, joy, and sometimes laughter:
Do you realize how valuable the above image would have been, to, say, a 17th Century Czech engraver like Wenceslaus Hollar? The poor guy had clearly never even seen an elephant when he toiled over this drawing in the late 1600’s:
Fake news!
Or check out Francis Barlow’s illustration of a lion for a 1687 edition of Aesop’s fables:
Heh — looks more like Andrea Mitchell than a lion. If only Barlow had had the Internet. With the click of a button he could have found this research photo:
...or maybe watched this famous video, which has been shared, literally, hundreds of millions of times on YouTube:
So, um, yeah — the Internet is for animal pictures, at least in my book.
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We will be meeting Tuesday, May 23 at Hamburger Mary’s, 2409 Grant Street, for dinner at 7:00 PM. The cost of the event will be whatever you order for dinner, plus $10 for the games that follow (all proceeds go directly to the Welcoming Schools program). Please see Chris’s announcement diary for more details.
RSVPS
1. Chrislove
2. Chrislove’s BF
3. icelus
4. Texdude50
5. scott5js
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Thinking Fella and Ojibwa are organizing the third EPIC Glacier National Park Meet-up this year. Held on June 30 through July 2, 2017. Please see this diary for important planning details.
INTINERARY:
--Thursday, June 29th--
Welcome BBQ at 6:00 PM (at Thinking Fella’s campsite, so you can arrive hours earlier if needed) Food and drink completely provided by TF!!! Sundance Campground, 10545 Hwy 2 East, Coram, MT 59913
--Friday, June 30th—
Morning hike inside the park, destination group-decided at BBQ the night before, either Avalanche Lake or John’s Lake Loop.
Evening potluck BBQ at Apgar Picnic Area, inside the park at 5:30 PM. Prepare for incredible views.
--Saturday, July 1st—
Red Bus ride! We’ll all board a reserved 16 passenger bus at 9:00 AM, and ride up Going-to-the-Sun Road, the iconic road in Glacier! Tickets must be purchased in advance. Please contact Thinking Fella before 5/23 to reserve a seat.
Dinner at The Lake McDonald Lodge and then one-hour boat tour around the lake. Contact Thinking Fella for tickets.
--Sunday, July 2nd—
Morning carpool & drive north along the western border of the Park, to Polebridge, where we can purchase baked goods & sandwiches. We’ll then proceed to Bowman Lake for a lakeside lunch.
Adios Potluck/Picnic Sunday night, at Sprague Creek Picnic Area, north end of Lake McDonald.
Cell phone service is limited and often non-existent inside the park as is internet connectivity.
RSVPS
1. Thinking Fella
2. Ojibwa
3. state of confusion
4. jakedog42
5. MotherMags
6. MTmofo
7. Done4nau
8. Mhosz
9. Mrs. Mhosz
10. Maudlin
11. Mr. Maudlin
12. dsb
13.
MAYBEES :
woolibaar
Boise Blue
Mrs. Boise Blue
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RSVPS
1. Bill in Portland Maine
2. Common Sense Mainer
3. navajo
4. markm667
5. vicki
6. vicki’s recruit 1
7. vicki’s recruit 2
8. smileycreek
9. paradise50
10. Ed Tracey
11. side pocket
12. Mrs. side pocket
13. Richard Cranium
14. YellowDogInGA
15. DebtorsPrison
16. brillig
17. mik
18. thatkid
19. K2
20. LuLu
21. moodyinsavannah
22. norm
23. Egberto Willies
24. Chris Reeves
25. Susan Grigsby
26. spedwybabs
27. Dee Austin
28. Pam Miles
29. Corrie Wikoff
30. Cindi Branham
31. Susan Higgins
32. jlms qkw
33. Larisa Thomason
34. evcoren
35. shermanesq
36. doggie269
37. jpup
38. Sean Wang
39. Steve Stearns
40. loggersbrat
41.
MAYBEES :
SanDiegoDem
JustOneMoreDad
Mrs. JustOneMoreDad
JustOneMoreDad’s kid
momomia
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Asheville Meet Up, May 6th, 2017 with special guests Tom Sullivan, Former Vice Chair, Buncombe County Democratic Party and Matt Coffay, Democratic Candidate for NC-11. L-R: Gordon20024 , Joieau, Otteray Scribe, Matt Coffay, Elizawhig, davehouck, SteelerGrrl, SteelerGuy, Ashley, New friend, Tom Sullivan, randallt. Great job, randallt!
Spring 2017 C+J/Kossack Meetup! Saturday, April 29 placeholder
New England Kos, living large. In no particular order but a nice list of who was there: Northerntier, Frank, Simple, Vacationland, JBL55, Susan Grigsby, Michael Langenmayr (of Daily Kos Elections team fame), Nautical Knots, brillig, mik, Parsons Beach, Jim & Mom, rebereads, Ed Tracey, Jennifer, Knockbally, bluesheep, freedapeople, Common Sense Mainer and Bill in Portland Maine. Huge props, as always, to organizer, nhox42.
Special guest of honor: Bill in Portland Maine and his kiddie pool entourage.
NYC-KOS Represents! L-R: Avilyn (hiding), East Village Blue, kishik, Missys Brother, belinda ridgewood, theRoaringGirl, ericlewis0, Denise Oliver-Velez, sidnora, kathny, Design the Future, navajo and subir (In attendance but not pictured: joanbrooker (photographer) rubyr, MBNYC, Yasuragi, Bethesda 1971 & cohenzee) on Sunday, April 23, 2017 at Spitzer’s Corner.
Colorado: Monday Evenings, Michigan: Wednesdays, 6:00 PM Eastern, North Carolina: Sundays, 1:00 PM Eastern, Missouri: Wednesday Evenings, Kansas: Monday Evenings