Stephen Jones

A short message from me about the documentary, why I want to make it, and how you can help it get made.

Purple Word - Daily Word Puzzle Game A daily word puzzle game. Can you find the purple word? Play free online word game with daily challenges!

OK, puzzle friends. Here's a fun daily game that's fiendishly simple, just higher-lower for words. It scores like golf, where your guesses are strokes and low score wins.

#Game #DailyGames #wordgame
purpleword.com

Black and white stereo pair of images of a woman in Asian clothing, long shawl and a headdress. A man in native dress and a hat in the background along with another women in native costume.

Black and white stereo pair of images of acrobats performing near a wall. Women acrobats in matching striped dresses stand by the wall with two acrobat men doing an elevated handstand in the background

Black and white stereo pair of images of a strong man or muscular boxer posing defiantly with arms crossed over his chest. A punching bag hanging nearby.

Black and white stereo pair of images of an elephant submerged in a lake up to its shoulders, its head raised and mouth open with a man posed perching with one foot on the elephant's neck and one on its head. He's holding its trunk arched back toward him.

Found this terrific collection of #stereo images from early 1900s around South Knoxville, Tennessee mostly taken by C.A. Wayland
Pictures include animals & acts from the Appalachian Expo of 1910 and Prohibition Parades of 1907.

#Stereography #Tennessee #Exposition
cmdc.knoxlib.org/digital/coll...

Weather station on mantel withego flowers Display shows -12F outside, 48% hunudity

Still Life with Lego & Weather Station
Chicago-land, USA
(-12F, high of ~8 expected, -30F to -40F windchill)

Title: Pollution & Profit - are everything People & lives - mean nothing Text: Trump’s EPA will no longer consider impacts on human lives when setting pollution limits, focusing instead on costs to businesses. Since the 1980s, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has used a metric called the “Value of a Statistical Life,” which essentially assigns a value to human life, when considering cost- benefit analysis of pollution limits. As TechCrunch simplified, “lowering pollution can prolong human life, so if the health benefits of reducing pollution outweighed the costs, then there was an economic argument to be made in favor of reductions.” The Trump administration’s EPA has now decided to reverse decades of practice when it comes to considering the impacts on human lives when setting pollution limits on fine particle matter and ozone - two of the most widespread air pollutants. (Long-term exposure to both pollutants is linked to asthma, heart and lung disease and premature death.) The agency will instead estimate -only- the cost to businesses. Per reporting from NYTimes, who obtained internal documents of the plans, “The change could make it easier to repeal limits on these pollutants from coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities across the country, the emails and documents show. That would most likely lower costs for companies while resulting in dirtier air.”

Choose Life? Protect Life? Nah, profit is everything

#EPA #Profiteering #Environment #Pollution

Flying foxes die in their thousands in worst mass-mortality event since Australia’s black summer Volunteers found thousands of dead bats at Melbourne’s Brimbank park, wildlife expert says

Truly Awful. Temps right now (43C = 109F) in Australia & New Zealand have killed Flying Foxes in the thousands. That's on top of 20K+ of these lovely "sky puppies" that died in last April's heatwave, especially nursing moms & pups.

#ClimateChange #Australia

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI My speech for U Washington’s Neuroscience, AI and Society lecture series.

If you read ONE THING about #AI and the #AIBubble and its impact on jobs, creators and artists, then read #CoryDoctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr) 's speech where he calls out the dangers and delusions behind it all.

doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

YouTube video by Sully_Dawg Why Venezuela Matters

Why #Venezuela isn't about DRUGS or DICTATORS and the attack is NOT now and never has been A RESCUE. It's PIRACY. The chief pirate is #Trump and the booty is #OIL.

youtube.com/shorts/QNuZM...

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Scientists Say Reheated Pizza Can Reduce Blood Sugar Spikes—Here’s How Researchers have discovered that cooling starchy foods—from pizza to rice—creates “resistant starch,” a carb that behaves like fiber and alters your blood sugar response

Leftover pizza is MAGIC: The fridge turns BAD carbs into FIBER. So what if it tastes like cheese on cardboard? It's kind of HEALTHIER-ISH!

#Pizza #nutrition

www.scientificamerican.com/video/why-le...

Republican mayor in Kansas facing deportation over voter fraud Joe Ceballos, a longtime Republican and small-town mayor in Kansas, is facing felony voter fraud charges and possible deportation from the presidential administration he voted for.

FAFO: Vote for the "Leopard that eats faces" party & don't be surprised when it EATS YOUR FACE. Honestly, I FEEL for this guy. NO ONE should be deported for what their PARENTS decided when they were FOUR YEARS OLD.

#Immigration #DACA @parkroseperma.bsky.social

heartlandsignal.com/2025/12/01/r...

YouTube video by lftkryo Sixtyforgan: Ich ruf' zu dir (BWV 639)

youtu.be/iF4eeoDp43k

ABSOLUTELY GENIUS: This dude figured out how to make a #Commodore64 sound like a pipe organ.

In his words: "I had an epiphany: Organ pipes produce very simple waveforms, much like 8-bit chips —... [I just added a spring reverb tank to mimic] a church organ."

www.linusakesson.net/sixtyforgan/

#DragonTuesday

Fractal Dragon

#AIイラスト #aiart #synthart #sci-fi #dragon #fractal

Federal court blocks new Texas congressional map for 2026 The decision is a major blow for Republicans, in Texas and nationally, who pushed through the mid-decade redistricting at the behest of President Donald Trump. Attorney General Ken Paxton said he woul...

Woot! Federal court just threw out Texas's blatantly racist and suck-up "anything you want Daddy Donald" voting maps. CHEATERS LOSE - DEMOCRACY WINS.

#gerrymandering #Texas #GregAbbot

www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/t...

Bessent Torched Over Bonkers Explanation for Rising Beef Costs Scott Bessent was ridiculed for suggesting skyrocketing beef prices have nothing to do with MAGA’s economic policies and everything to do with a supposed invasion of cows across the southern border. T...

Zero evidence of sick South American cows infecting American herds much less ones brought by immigrants
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

3D cartoon of Mexican man pulling a six cow over a high border fence, the cow has a haze of green sickness around it and dripping off its tongue. The caption reads "Sec. Bessent's Excuse for Trump's HIGH BEEF Prices" and underneath "It's all those sick cows illegals are bringing (not tariffs)"

Trump's multi-millionaire Treasure Secretary (a #PeterThiel money manager) went on talk shows and tried a laughable excuse for high beef prices (totally debunked in link in comments).

(Image by me)

Night sky dominated by a large glowing red plume of light over a green glowing streak of an aurora plus a few stars.

The news said an aurora was visible tonight even in Chicago. So, I went chasing it here in the NW 'burbs. Here's my shot away from house lights as best as I could get.

#Aurora #Chicago #ChicagoLand

Bas relief stone carving of mermaids embracing, one a European and one a African with dreadlocks

Bas relief stone carving of angles embracing

Bas relief stone carving of angels embracing, one a European and one a African with dreadlocks

Bas relief stone carving of mermaids embracing, one a European and one a African with dreadlocks

Embracing Angels/Mermaids
#AIArt by @pixeljones.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy using #artspace

Partial prompt:
Abstract shallow bas relief cracked granite tile, carving of the upper bodies of two beautiful female [angels|mermaids] embracing, [wings|tails] visible, one European and one African

yes

YouTube video by NewsChannel 5 Tennessee sheriff defends jailing liberal activist for posting Trump meme

#MAGA assault on #FirstAmendment: A Tennessee man spent a MONTH in jail for posting a meme exactly quoting Donald Trump who quipped "We have to get over it." in response to a mass shooting.

The sheriff, DA & judge who signed off on a warrant should be fired.

(Meme in comment)

youtu.be/W2cMNhfCZHo

The officers in black are NIPAS mobile field force drawn from nearly every municipal police unit in Illinois.

The tan officers are Illinois state police. So, all these troops are acting as a buffer between #ICEGestapo and the protestors.

nipas.org/mff.html

See powerful scene approx. 40 minutes ago where Pastor David Black at the front-line of the conflict read scripture and prayed for the troops. "This is a hard job. We know you didn't sign up for this, clubbing peaceful protestors."

YouTube video by Status Coup News BREAKING: LIVE COPS ATTACK ICE Protesters in Chicago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjd7...

Happening NOW at #ICE detention facility in Broadview, IL.
State troopers brought in to clear the street.
(Screenshots from live coverage by Status Coup linked in comment.)
@parkroseperma.bsky.social @joyannreid.bsky.social @apnews.com

YouTube video by Woźniakowski 100k horns #animation #blender

Love this sassy brass 3D animation. So much character!
#3D #Animation #Blender

youtube.com/shorts/IgENn...

‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000 Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip

#Netanyahu says #Israel exercises "restraint" & high #Palestinian death tolls are all propaganda.

Ex-IDF officer says NO: 200,000+ killed while IDF did NOTHING to limit carnage.

FYI: That's 50% MORE than ALL German Jews killed in WW2.

#GazaGenocide #GazaPeace

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Crazy idea: what if we make electricity cost more for non-residential use.

Chicago’s lead pipe crisis, mapped Here's what the data reveals about who's most at risk.

If you're in #Chicago, you can check how likely you have lead pipes supplying your water.

#WaterSupply #WaterQuality

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