Take or pay.
Like buying a call option?

I feel like it was meant for you. We are one multi-ethnic nation. To be shown its breadth doesn't make you less a part.

I don't have to be able to sing to like music. And I don't have to dance to share in the joy of those who do. To appreciate those expressions is to share our humanity.

Hawksbill sea turtle Cozumel 2019

#scuba #DiveSky
🌊 Yes, I'm new here. Not new to diving. I've been diving for a long time. Though, I'll prove to have little real experience. Which is to say, I won't have a lot to offer here. I'll drop this by way of introduction.

Thank you for adding me.

Written the executive orders in ruzzian? Oh, wait...

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

#addDiving

Oh god, a sick dinosaur just sneezed on me. Whatever he has, I hope it's not Cretaceous.

Black and red Rock Pigeon

Has anyone else seen one like this?

Go for it. When I grew up there were only 2 sexes. X&Y, if you like. Later we learn it sometimes bleeds across. This is the best explanation I've seen.

Trump to Hit European Nations With 10% Tariffs as He Presses for Sale of Greenland The move risks upending a landmark trade deal the U.S. president reached with the European Union last year.

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This hardly needs saying, but this is absolutely the wrong use for trade policy. If done intelligently, and with a clear economic purpose in mind, trade policy can be a very effective tool for restructuring the economy in ways that benefit productivity growth.
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I'm going to miss that but I'll try to follow you there. If you were to publish Tanta's work as a book I think I would buy a copy. That was important learning to me.

Mr. Market has been holding his breath. We might assume he will do so until May. If it appears monetary policy is subordinated to the whims of a madman... As another president famously said," this sucker could go down ".

Once we were all believers in the "Washington Consensus". Now we all deny it.
OK. Maybe not "all".

Spread this EVERYWHERE.

PRI's Wonderful Life — Paleontological Research Institution By Dr. Warren Allmon , Director of the Paleontological Research Institution December 30, 2025 The holidays are a time for “Christmas movies” in my house, and one that is always on our list is&nbs...

I’m thrilled to share that PRI reached its fundraising goal and we will survive! Thanks to all who made this happen! I am so grateful!❤️

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2025 = sleepwalking

Lesser Kestrel photo

Saw Lesser Kestrels today although my photos aren't so good.

Lesser Kestrel
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Eventually. "The registry only activates after Ukraine joins the EU..."
Euro will then replace the hryvnia

Somebody once said (Krugman?) that one day they will build a monument in Brussels to Trump, Putin and Xi for bringing Europe together in a way that Charlemagne couldn't. 👇

So do you speak Ukrainian, Russian, or both? My Ukrainian friends are native to the Russian language.

There is a cloud over my land. We aren't in fear for our lives. Not as you. But the life we knew is finished. Yet, from time to time a ray of light breaks through. I am helping to support a Ukrainian family who were forced to flee their home. Would that I were able to share that with you.🌞

"The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God."
Fyodor Dostoevsky

In dark times we must search for light. To find the good in people. We often feel alone. I am not alone. I see that light in you. You are showing your light to the world.

She. Probably Passer Hispaniolensis.

Esta es su paz: una Gaza ocupada y en ruinas, donde un pueblo entero intenta sobrevivir con una fracción de la ayuda que necesita.

El mundo se movilizó para exigir paz.
Esto es lo que han entregado: una cruel obra de teatro sin justicia, sin protección y sin humanidad.

On the left, a narrow, glass-fronted display case with a mix of letterpress, hand-bound, antiquarian, and collectors' books; stretching off to the right, 8-foot bookcases laden with literary and contemporary commercial fiction, about one thousand books out of the 6-7 thousand in that section. LED lighting and light-colored wood cases and flooring keep the room feeling relatively spacious despite the sheer quantity of books.

Communities need used-book shops.

As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...

We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.

This guy sucks. 👇

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. We're having Thanksgiving with our family too and we've been cooking for 2 days already. The question is not so much how long it takes us to eat - we're accustomed to long dinners - but turkey topor and what to do with the left overs. 🦃

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Susan Wise Bauer (@susanwisebauer) There are three massive problems with this opinion piece, currently being reposted by the U. S. Department of Education. No, four massive problems. No, more than that. Among the problems...I’ll just...

I could say so much more.

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