Jim Mason
@jimmasonauo
Half man/half cat. Author. Animal freedom advocate. Retired lawyer. Vegan. Anthropology. Ancient history. Pre-history. Evolution. Agriculture. Western worldview. Climate crisis.
This is my 17 year old kitty cat, Roly Poly. She is aging well don’t you think?
And this view looking west toward the Blue Ridge Mountains. From land near Delaplane, Virginia.
Apropos absolutely nothing at all, I thought you might like this beautiful scene of the Mississippi river from the Missouri side.
It is written that white people have a long-standing jealousy of Black people’s sexuality. White= uptight/repressed/shame. Black= open, physical, feeling. See Winthrop Jordan, White over Black
Looks like there is a scientific case for Democratic socialism. 1. For 99% of our existence as more human than ape, our communities were socialist 2. We are Social mammals. 3. In inequality hurts people. 👇🏽
If further proof of my love of cats is needed, look at this guy— Diamond in his prime some years ago.
Just so you know that I love cats a lot. This is Bob, feral, now a neutered doorstep cat and learning to like petting and scritches.
Deuteronomy. One of several passages on the time when Moses led the Hebrew tribes into the promised land and found other tribal peoples already living there.
We could learn an awful lot from indigenous and forager peoples. Especially their views on living in nature. And their views about living with each other.
Maybe the major reason the world is going crazy is because we sapiens have created an artificial worldview of belief that we are separate from and superior to nature.
Republicans and other reactionaries will love this because it ensures more generations of idiots who will vote conservative against their interests.
I feel like I’m a cat and a human body. I love all cats, especially the great Asian tiger, Pantera tigris.
Almost done with this portrait taken from a photo I took years ago in Grand Central Station.
Floofy because selectively bred since 9000 BC for excessively woolly coats for fiber and trade. Here’s the original sheep, mouflon (Ovis orientalis), in it’s original habitat— though endangered --in northern Mesopotamia.