Geoff Budden

The Virginia River Pedestrian trail, tonight at 8 PM

Kent’s Pond, this morning at 7:35

The Long Pond trail this evening: a moment of calm in a tormenting world

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Agucadoura, Portugal, this evening at 9 o’clock

You gotta admit though, huge if true.

Porto: today at 2:20 PM

The Kent’s Pond Trail, this misty morning at about 6:50

I just voted, half a kilometre from my house, 9 AM on voting day and the entire process took 8 minutes. This has been typical of my voting experiences over the last 40 years. Whatever the failures of our political processes, a lot of positives there as well.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

As earworms go, I could be doing a lot worse than “Here, There and Everywhere”

“You are neither here nor there,
A hurry through which known and strange things pass”

- Seamus Heaney, born on this day in 1939

Hamas Launches Unprecedented Legal Case in Britain, Demanding the Government Remove its Terror Designation In a legal filing, a Hamas founder argues that the group has the right to use armed resistance to achieve Palestinian liberation—and that Britain is crushing honest debate about its aims.

Hamas launches legal battle in UK, demanding to be removed from terror listing

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The Virginia River pedestrian trail, this morning at 6:20 :

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

I took this pic 15 years ago, in QV Lake near the mouth of Virginia River. Perhaps an ancestor of the ones you saw

Wow! I’ve seen otters in QV Lake but assumed that they were sea otters (there is a difference, right?). The Virginia River apparently has a large trout population, which perhaps attracts otters

Exactly! In its own way, a perfect day

This morning’s run down the Virginia River pedestrian trail and around Quidi Vidi Lake

9% of Americans have a “very or somewhat” favourable view of the Black Death??!

And Bluesky will grow. The appetite for engagement is still there and Twitter isn’t a satisfying experience for most normal people.

Supporting the apartheid, genocidal state of Israel no matter what cruelty it inflicts and no matter how many laws it breaks would be her values, not Canadian values. The only moral response to evil is to challenge her and those like her at every opportunity

Not very responsive yet but Twitter is just a shadow of what it was. So many of the most interesting people have left!

“My host uses a curious phrase when he speaks of retiring from work. He calls it ‘making his soul’”

- Lawrence Durrell, “Mountolive”, P. 32

This is what our Canadian government is supporting. MPs who support Israel must be challenged everywhere they go

Pro-Palestine Protesters Acquitted, Launch Charter Rights Challenge Charges laid against three MUN students following pro-Palestinian protests on their St. John's campus have bee...

Bravo! 👍

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The Virginia River pedestrian trail, this morning at 8:45

Photo-op this morning at Quidi Vidi lake with local celebrity Finn

The point Turner made here was made many times throughout Canada’s history, including by John A MacDonald in the 1870s and 1880s and Robert Borden in the 1911 election. The wisdom of those leaders is bleakly apparent today