New levels of you're-a-shite-human, you oppose the work and say: “the ultimate summer tourism destination for homeless across the region, including New York, Philadelphia, and North Jersey.”

I unsubscribed from my Amazon subscriptions mid-February (I had a few), only to re-learn that I had signed up for Amazon Prime at the yearly rate, with nearly a year to go. Ah shite, ah well. Agree with all you're doing. Can't all-love with the flag image. I know, I know. Just can't. But thank you.

Galapagos tortoises at Philadelphia Zoo become first-time parents at nearly 100 A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo have become first-time parents.

Good news: beautiful creatures older than any of us.
apnews.com/article/tort...

A screenshot of a poem. The poem reads: Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

#skybrary #skybrarians #booksky

"Ladies" should be buying their own baseball bats and learning to "mean" it. Gen X women have always walked around with a key between their fingers.

There's an unfortunate line break in this headline.

A week ago it was 14 degrees here as a high, and now it's 79. There must be an 80s song that fits my mood about this.

The MMR vaccine is the best way to avoid getting the measles. (And an unfortunate line break exists in the original headline) bsky.app/profile/pbsn...

David Boren, longtime Oklahoma statesman, dies at 83 Throughout David Boren’s political career, the lifelong Democrat served as a state legislator, a U.S. senator, the governor of Oklahoma and the president of the University of Oklahoma.

I sang at Boren's inauguration at OU, just about 30 years ago. Never got to take his Honors Freshman political science class, but he was well-known for teaching it each year. This little 15 person class. Wish I could have. One of Oklahoma's very best. May he be in peace.
www.kosu.org/local-news/2...

“My Father Addresses Me on the Facts of Old Age,” by Grace Paley Fiction, from 2002: “​​Please don’t start in. I’m in the middle of telling you some things you don’t know.”

Somebody, I can't remember who, posted the first part of this on a different SM site. Here's the whole thing. It's fantastic. www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

YouTube video by Ace Records Gil Scott-Heron - Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Official Audio)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSR...

Dear God, what a completely unimportant nonsense story. Not sure if I think it's better that AI wrote this or a person did.

Reading for the vast beauty of individuals in the world, which we learn about in tragedy, and in that tragedy to wish for a better humanity.
poets.org/poem/good-bo...

Grandfather Says "Sit in my hand."

More Ai, not AI: poets.org/poem/grandfa...

Motherhood, 1951 Dear Saint Patrick, this is Peggy

Ai: poets.org/poem/motherh...

Le Monde - World news, culture and opinion from the unique perspective of the leading French newspaper Le Monde - World news, culture and opinion from the unique perspective of the leading French newspaper

Good sources for fair journalism: I pay attention to Reuters and AP. The Guardian a lot of times. And recently: Le Monde in English translation found here: www.lemonde.fr/en/

Made me truly laugh out loud.

Avian Influenza Prevention Zone declared for whole of England Mandatory enhanced biosecurity will now be required and the housing order extended to cover York, North Yorkshire and Shropshire.

Good to know/consider: www.gov.uk/government/n...

Haven't flown in a very good bit. Can you explain what the facial recognition process at PDX is?

5 MLK speeches you should know. Spoiler: 'I Have a Dream' isn't on the list Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech is well known, but there are several other key speeches that also resonate as historical signposts of the Civil Rights Movement.

A good source for MLK, Jr speeches (Give Us the Ballot is a must-hear): www.npr.org/2024/02/07/1...

"noai" didn't work for me, but "no ai" did. I bet you're right with the adaptation. I'm trying to just stop using google altogether, but, of course, easier said than done, even with dudkduckgo.

Tried it our and works! (so long as there is a space between "no" and "ai") Thanks!