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toriatheisttori.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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shantyminister.bsky.social
Well isn’t this lovely.

Opera star sings Habanera (from Carmen) in the airport (?)

What a terrific voice.
#opera

I don’t care if they’re staged, we need more profl free public #music and #art.
August 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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tomkimmerer.bsky.social
You may have seen that the fools who cut down the famous Sycamore Gap tree have been sent to jail for a few years. That is not the important story: the tree has a living root system, and has begun producing root sprouts. Read the story at Our Trees.
Tom Kimmerer (@tomkimmerer)
The Sycamore Gap tree* is one of Northern England’s iconic trees, loved for its pictaresque location as well as its magnificent size and form. In 2023, two men cut the tree down, provoking outrage. Th...
substack.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
maitreajv.bsky.social
Thinking of moving to France as a U.S. tech worker? I wrote a calm, clear guide to the EU Blue Card + French Tech Visa—what they are, who qualifies, and how to apply. For those building thoughtful cross-border lives.
🔗 johnsonvigouroux-avocat.fr/blog/
#LaFrenchTech #EUBlueCard
johnsonvigouroux-avocat.fr
June 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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nytimes.com
Breaking News: A woman sued oil and gas companies over her mother’s death in a heat wave. It's the first wrongful death case targeting fossil fuel companies over their role in global warming, experts said.
Oil Companies Are Sued Over Death of Woman in 2021 Heat Wave
www.nytimes.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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scalzi.com
Today I'm finding out which people believe that if you're part of a population that is a small overall percentage of humans on the planet, it's okay to strip you of rights.

I wonder if they have considered how easy it would be to classify *them* into a small overall percentage, and do it to them.
April 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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armandsarlangue.bsky.social
Another image from this incredible foggy morning at the iconic Mont Saint Michel last week…

#photography #art #landscape #history #myregion
April 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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asharangappa.bsky.social
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
April 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
It's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter...
Color photo of a white lily blossom, overlaid with a black skull and cross bones and text that reads “no lilies for kitties”.
April 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.
Bridget with The Beatles on Abbey Road. Bridget hanging out in Grant Wood's American Gothic. Bridget in Bruegel's Hunters In The Snow (with a freshly caught mouse). The Cat With The Pearl Earring.
April 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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modacitylife.com
A former French military base, Vauban is a thriving neighbourhood of 5,500 residents connected to Freiburg town centre by bus and light rail. Built in the late 1990s as a radical experiment in low-car living, it forgoes virtually all on-street parking in favour of active, green, and social spaces. 🧵
People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany. People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany. People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany. People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.
April 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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cait.bsky.social
if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually
April 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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meidastouch.com
This is what corruption looks like.
March 31, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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bonpote.com
Le calcul est rapide à faire, et c'est valable partout : tramway, bus, train... il faut remplacer au maximum l'utilisation de la voiture. Pour le climat, notre santé, notre avenir.
March 31, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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bergamax.bsky.social
Indochinese Green Magpie, aka Yellow-breasted Magpie (Cissa hypoleuca) in Vietnam.
Photography by Sam Thuong Dang Ngoc.
March 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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blackazizanansi.blacksky.app
All I want is to be able to get on the internet without everyone trying to sell me things.
March 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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chris-cookson.com
Pro AI, which is in turn pro destroting the environment, pro war and pro fascism. Literally everything Hayao Miyazaki is against.
a cartoon of a man in a trench coat standing on a boat
ALT: a cartoon of a man in a trench coat standing on a boat
media.tenor.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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sorayanadiamcdonald.com
”Miyazaki said, 'I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.' He also said, 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.'"
OpenAI CEO Responds to ChatGPT Users Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images
The latest version of OpenAI's image generation technology has resulted in a flood of users sharing images transformed in the style of Studio Ghibli.
variety.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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brianralexander.bsky.social
I keep thinking about Servants of the Damned. It’s a great book about Big Law and its hollow moral center. I happen to know one of the lawyers discussed in it and a partner of the main firm discussed. The rationalizing they do is intense. @davidenrich.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
The Trump administration is trying to deport a legal permanent resident who has been in the US since she was 7 simply for disagreeing with Trump's foreign policy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...
Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation
Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her.
www.nytimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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marinetondelier.fr
En France comme aux Etats-Unis, l'industrie pétrolière utilise la justice pour essayer de bâillonner les écologistes qui dénoncent ses pratiques immorales et destructrices.

Soutien TOTAL à toi @yjadot.bsky.social, quiconque te connaît un peu doit savoir que ça n'arrivera jamais !
Yannick Jadot jugé mardi à Paris pour avoir accusé TotalEnergies d’être «complice de crimes de guerre» de Poutine
Yannick Jadot comparaît mardi 25 mars devant le tribunal correctionnel de Paris, poursuivi en diffamation par TotalEnergies. Le sénateur écologiste avait accusé d’être «complice de crimes de guerre» ...
www.liberation.fr
March 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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marinetondelier.fr
Merveilleux dossier.

Je suis devenue écolo en admirant la beauté des oiseaux.

Retrouvons cette capacité d'émerveillement et cessons de maltraiter la biodiversité, aussi indispensable à notre survie qu'à notre bien-être.

"Protéger les oiseaux, c'est nous protéger nous-mêmes" 💚
Une de Libération du vendredi 21 mars 2025 : "Santé : avec les piafs, la vie en rose"
March 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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askaubry.com
How not surprising that those who convince themselves their God forgave them will do less to rectify a situation they caused.
been forgiven by God may be more likely to forgive themselves after hurting someone- but this self-forgiveness doesn't always lead them to apologize. In fact, a new study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin found that divine forgiveness can actually make people less likely to apologize by satisfying their internal need for resolution. At the same time, divine forgiveness can also boost feelings of gratitude and humility, which, in turn, can lead to more heartfelt and sincere apologies. The study reveals that divine forgiveness works through two opposing pathways-one that inhibits and one that supports the act of of both studies revealed a consistent pattern. The researchers discovered that when people felt more forgiven by God, they also tended to feel more self-forgiven. This connection between divine forgiveness and self- forgiveness was present in both studies, even when considering other factors like the seriousness of the offense or how close they were to the person they hurt. "I was surprised that our findings were consistent across Christian, Jewish, and Muslim participants," Ludwig told PsyPost. "I had expected to see differences among these religious groups, but it appears that experiences of divine forgiveness influence their conflict resolution behavior in similar ways." Interestingly, this increased self-forgiveness was linked to a decrease in apology behavior. In both studies, people who reported higher self-forgiveness were less likely to say they would apologize and their emails were judged as showing less remorse, lower quality apologies, and less sincerity. This suggests th
March 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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audreygarric.bsky.social
Capitale française de la biodiversité, la communauté de communes de Bruyères - Vallons des Vosges multiplie les mesures concrètes pour favoriser les espèces et les habitats « ordinaires », comme un crapaudrome ou la création de zones humides. Rafraîchissant
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
Dans les Vosges, la biodiversité est l’affaire de tous : « Il y a un côté émerveillement près de chez nous »
Lauréate du concours organisé par l’Office français de la biodiversité, la communauté de communes de Bruyères - Vallons des Vosges multiplie les mesures concrètes pour favoriser les espèces et les hab...
www.lemonde.fr
March 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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waleedshahid.bsky.social
The top 25 political and news accounts on X in the past 30 days.
March 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM