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"...We didn't notice how they hinted that nothing is ever finished, that struggles are never truly concluded, that sometimes we have to re-dream our lives, and that life can always be used to create new light."
- Ben Okri
- Ben Okri
A Mark of Resistance
- Adrienne Rich
Stone by stone I pile
this cairn of my intention
with the noon’s weight on my back,
exposed and vulnerable
across the slanting fields
which I love but cannot save
from floods that are to come;
can only fasten down
with this work of my hands,
1/2
- Adrienne Rich
Stone by stone I pile
this cairn of my intention
with the noon’s weight on my back,
exposed and vulnerable
across the slanting fields
which I love but cannot save
from floods that are to come;
can only fasten down
with this work of my hands,
1/2
December 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
A Mark of Resistance
- Adrienne Rich
Stone by stone I pile
this cairn of my intention
with the noon’s weight on my back,
exposed and vulnerable
across the slanting fields
which I love but cannot save
from floods that are to come;
can only fasten down
with this work of my hands,
1/2
- Adrienne Rich
Stone by stone I pile
this cairn of my intention
with the noon’s weight on my back,
exposed and vulnerable
across the slanting fields
which I love but cannot save
from floods that are to come;
can only fasten down
with this work of my hands,
1/2
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Buddhist read: Developing an attitude towards meditation, by Ajahn Sumedho wp.me/pFy3u-1g3.
Developing an attitude towards meditation, by Ajahn Sumedho
The goal of Buddhist meditation is to see things as they are; it is a state of awakened attention. This is a very simple thing to do; it isn’t complicated or difficult or something that takes years…
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September 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Buddhist read: Developing an attitude towards meditation, by Ajahn Sumedho wp.me/pFy3u-1g3.
"Many sunscreen brands from all over the world use the same manufacturers and testing labs - and so this issue is unlikely to be isolated to Australia..."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The sunscreen scandal shocking Australia - the world's skin cancer capital
It has shaken consumer trust and raised questions about global sunscreen regulation.
www.bbc.com
September 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
"Many sunscreen brands from all over the world use the same manufacturers and testing labs - and so this issue is unlikely to be isolated to Australia..."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
o give life you must take life,
and as our grief falls flat and hollow
upon the billion-blooded sea
I pass upon serious inward-breaking shoals rimmed
with white-legged, white-bellied rotting creatures
lengthily dead and rioting against surrounding scenes.
1/2
and as our grief falls flat and hollow
upon the billion-blooded sea
I pass upon serious inward-breaking shoals rimmed
with white-legged, white-bellied rotting creatures
lengthily dead and rioting against surrounding scenes.
1/2
September 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM
o give life you must take life,
and as our grief falls flat and hollow
upon the billion-blooded sea
I pass upon serious inward-breaking shoals rimmed
with white-legged, white-bellied rotting creatures
lengthily dead and rioting against surrounding scenes.
1/2
and as our grief falls flat and hollow
upon the billion-blooded sea
I pass upon serious inward-breaking shoals rimmed
with white-legged, white-bellied rotting creatures
lengthily dead and rioting against surrounding scenes.
1/2
The best & most effective 'timeline cleanse' is just to turn off the computer and go outside. Watch the sky, pet a cat, feel the breeze, listen to the birds, go for a walk, clean the house. Smile and receive a smile, say hello, say good bye.
In short, go & live. Beyond here, there's another world.
In short, go & live. Beyond here, there's another world.
August 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The best & most effective 'timeline cleanse' is just to turn off the computer and go outside. Watch the sky, pet a cat, feel the breeze, listen to the birds, go for a walk, clean the house. Smile and receive a smile, say hello, say good bye.
In short, go & live. Beyond here, there's another world.
In short, go & live. Beyond here, there's another world.
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This is Zeze. We post his face quite often. When we posted on Monday, many people wanted to know more about his story – and make sure he's okay.
Though he was attacked by poachers as an infant and lost his eye, we're happy to share that Zeze is more than okay today.
📸: Fernando Turmo
Though he was attacked by poachers as an infant and lost his eye, we're happy to share that Zeze is more than okay today.
📸: Fernando Turmo
August 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This is Zeze. We post his face quite often. When we posted on Monday, many people wanted to know more about his story – and make sure he's okay.
Though he was attacked by poachers as an infant and lost his eye, we're happy to share that Zeze is more than okay today.
📸: Fernando Turmo
Though he was attacked by poachers as an infant and lost his eye, we're happy to share that Zeze is more than okay today.
📸: Fernando Turmo
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I’m travelling in a “Château Class” car on the VIA Rail 🇨🇦 #Churchill MB train. What’s in a name. I booked a nice and cosy #sleeperette mini-cabin with almost all the amenities, except space: a bed that slides away during the day, a sink, a toilet, and towels for the shower located down the corridor.
August 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I’m travelling in a “Château Class” car on the VIA Rail 🇨🇦 #Churchill MB train. What’s in a name. I booked a nice and cosy #sleeperette mini-cabin with almost all the amenities, except space: a bed that slides away during the day, a sink, a toilet, and towels for the shower located down the corridor.
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Clearly this is not about making DC, or any of us, safer.
August 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Clearly this is not about making DC, or any of us, safer.
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Listening to this press conference it seems clear that Trump is mentally gone and that his team is consolidating power for President J.D. Vance.
August 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Listening to this press conference it seems clear that Trump is mentally gone and that his team is consolidating power for President J.D. Vance.
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A 24-year-old US-Indian man living in Ottawa, Canada, Saihajpreet Singh, exposed for developing a network of MAGA bots including DOGEai to influence US elections, politics, and public opinion to support Donald Trump, the US Republican Party, and Israel. #cdnpoli ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...
Meet the 24-year-old Ottawa software engineer who runs a MAGA bot
The bots were created to flood X with pro-MAGA messages, attracting attention from Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
ottawacitizen.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
A 24-year-old US-Indian man living in Ottawa, Canada, Saihajpreet Singh, exposed for developing a network of MAGA bots including DOGEai to influence US elections, politics, and public opinion to support Donald Trump, the US Republican Party, and Israel. #cdnpoli ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...
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This new work establishing lithium deficiency as a possible risk for cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease is groundbreaking. Eric Topol gives a very good summary of the new results and their broader context in prior work.
erictopol.substack.com/p/lithium-an...
erictopol.substack.com/p/lithium-an...
Lithium and Its Potential Protection from Alzheimer's Disease
A new, elegant study reawakens the prospects for this metal, and specifically lithium orotate
erictopol.substack.com
August 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This new work establishing lithium deficiency as a possible risk for cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease is groundbreaking. Eric Topol gives a very good summary of the new results and their broader context in prior work.
erictopol.substack.com/p/lithium-an...
erictopol.substack.com/p/lithium-an...
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Look what arrived yesterday hot off the press. The amazing Alpine flower book by my good friend Bob Gibbons. Published posthumously it is a wonderful legacy of one of the greatest modern botanists. It was a privilege to have shared many European tours with him @saveplants.bsky.social
June 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Look what arrived yesterday hot off the press. The amazing Alpine flower book by my good friend Bob Gibbons. Published posthumously it is a wonderful legacy of one of the greatest modern botanists. It was a privilege to have shared many European tours with him @saveplants.bsky.social
"...We didn't notice how they hinted that nothing is ever finished, that struggles are never truly concluded, that sometimes we have to re-dream our lives, and that life can always be used to create new light."
- Ben Okri
- Ben Okri
August 9, 2025 at 4:53 AM
"...We didn't notice how they hinted that nothing is ever finished, that struggles are never truly concluded, that sometimes we have to re-dream our lives, and that life can always be used to create new light."
- Ben Okri
- Ben Okri
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Fun fact: "Focal follow" is an animal behaviour research method that is used regularly at Gombe Stream Research Centre.
Scientists track individual chimpanzees from the moment they wake until they build their nest that night.
📸: David Bygott / Stephano Lihedule / Nick Riley / Robert O'Malley
Scientists track individual chimpanzees from the moment they wake until they build their nest that night.
📸: David Bygott / Stephano Lihedule / Nick Riley / Robert O'Malley
August 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Fun fact: "Focal follow" is an animal behaviour research method that is used regularly at Gombe Stream Research Centre.
Scientists track individual chimpanzees from the moment they wake until they build their nest that night.
📸: David Bygott / Stephano Lihedule / Nick Riley / Robert O'Malley
Scientists track individual chimpanzees from the moment they wake until they build their nest that night.
📸: David Bygott / Stephano Lihedule / Nick Riley / Robert O'Malley
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UK hasn’t seen poverty like this for 60 years, says Gordon Brown
UK hasn’t seen poverty like this for 60 years, says Gordon Brown
www.independent.co.uk
August 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
UK hasn’t seen poverty like this for 60 years, says Gordon Brown
Between v/bloggers who don't have to adhere to journalistic standards 'report' on current events and AI generated pictures and videos, the 'news' that we are are subjected to is very, very slanted. V/Bloggers can say anything they want and if that is your only read on the event, it leads to 1/x
August 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Between v/bloggers who don't have to adhere to journalistic standards 'report' on current events and AI generated pictures and videos, the 'news' that we are are subjected to is very, very slanted. V/Bloggers can say anything they want and if that is your only read on the event, it leads to 1/x
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The best way to make life meaningful is to cultivate compassionate insight each morning as the motivation for your daily activities, www.compassmethods.com. youtube.com/@compassions... #motivation
July 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The best way to make life meaningful is to cultivate compassionate insight each morning as the motivation for your daily activities, www.compassmethods.com. youtube.com/@compassions... #motivation
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Sorry, but this is AI, not the real Morgan Freeman. This video is getting views by telling people what they want to hear. Same for those Steve Harvey videos. It's easy to be fooled.
August 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Sorry, but this is AI, not the real Morgan Freeman. This video is getting views by telling people what they want to hear. Same for those Steve Harvey videos. It's easy to be fooled.
Ongoing pet peeve: when people use Neandertal to describe someone of low intelligence. They obviously are still using an outdated idea of what Neandertals were thought to be like prior to the vast amounts of paleoanthropological research that has been done over the last 100 years.
August 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Ongoing pet peeve: when people use Neandertal to describe someone of low intelligence. They obviously are still using an outdated idea of what Neandertals were thought to be like prior to the vast amounts of paleoanthropological research that has been done over the last 100 years.
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Loblaw, Empire and Metro control more than 60% of Canada’s grocery market = record profits, price-fixing scandals, and loyalty programs that harvest data.
Why not municipal “Public Goods” stores without manipulative markups that invest back in their communities?
#cdnpoli #canada
shorturl.at/6HBdF
Why not municipal “Public Goods” stores without manipulative markups that invest back in their communities?
#cdnpoli #canada
shorturl.at/6HBdF
A New Kind of Corner Store | Perspectives Journal
A grocery model that puts affordability and access ahead of margins could nourish something we’re starved for: a little more stability, and a little more imagination.
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August 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Loblaw, Empire and Metro control more than 60% of Canada’s grocery market = record profits, price-fixing scandals, and loyalty programs that harvest data.
Why not municipal “Public Goods” stores without manipulative markups that invest back in their communities?
#cdnpoli #canada
shorturl.at/6HBdF
Why not municipal “Public Goods” stores without manipulative markups that invest back in their communities?
#cdnpoli #canada
shorturl.at/6HBdF
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People are already feeling the impacts of climate change – some more than others. Data shows that women are disproportionately affected.
One report indicates that climate change could push up to 158 million more women into poverty by 2050, compared to up to 142 million men.
📸: Marie Meloche
One report indicates that climate change could push up to 158 million more women into poverty by 2050, compared to up to 142 million men.
📸: Marie Meloche
August 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
People are already feeling the impacts of climate change – some more than others. Data shows that women are disproportionately affected.
One report indicates that climate change could push up to 158 million more women into poverty by 2050, compared to up to 142 million men.
📸: Marie Meloche
One report indicates that climate change could push up to 158 million more women into poverty by 2050, compared to up to 142 million men.
📸: Marie Meloche