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Thanks for identifying a sound I’ve been hearing here in southern Appalachia for two years that Merlin wouldn’t ID! So maybe not local for you. We also have blue jay who does a perfect copy of a juvenile red tailed hawk.
07.04.2025 11:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0HAIKU
It’s the golden hour.
Time to pause, reflect, unwind,
and boop a cow snoot.
You do not have to consume every single tiny piece of bad news in order to be a good person. It’s ok to miss things. Traumatizing yourself isn’t the same as activism. Bearing witness to the point that you’re paralyzed with fear and horror and fury isn’t going to help us get through this.
17.01.2025 17:06 — 👍 5276 🔁 1987 💬 68 📌 94
Only, they never really did this - they just liked talking about it for a bit there. Oil company investment in renewables reached $30 billion in 2023, but that's pocket change; it amounts to only four percent of their overall capital investment, while their fossil investments continue to skyrocket. And it turns out, some companies have outright lied about their expenditures on renewable energy; others spent a while touting fancy ventures like algae-based fuels before just folding the projects outright, presumably happy with the PR return on investment that kept real pressure off their backs for another critical decade.
renewables spending; ExxonMobil's latest is about a massive increase in oil and gas output. Already the US's biggest oil company, Exxon announced on Wednesday a plan to boost its oil and gas output by 18 percent by the end of the decade. And we're starting from quite a baseline: the US as a whole set an all-time record, for any country, for oil output in 2024; that record will fall in 2025.
The British oil giant BP will "significantly reduce" its investments in clean energy, it announced this week. This is like a ball rolling downhill. A balloon slowly deflating. A dead tree in the forest decaying into the soil. Nature is healing.
This is largely a statement that would have been true at any point over the last century or so, but: the oil industry is killing it. Recent years have seen record-shattering profits, major projects and expansions like Willow in Alaska continue to garner permits and approvals, and major new oil and gas plays like those in Guyana, Mozambique, and elsewhere are expanding the field even further. At major energy events, oil executives take victory laps, almost bubbling about their continued dominance.
Widespread Looting Associated With Fires
12.01.2025 02:41 — 👍 251 🔁 76 💬 7 📌 2Psst!
Could two of you please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there?
National Suicide Prevention Hotline
Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK)
1-800-273-8255 (USA)
1.833.456.4566 (Canada)
I guess it’s because I don’t have Cooked Billionaire Brain but I find it genuinely hard to understand why having 300 billion dollars is meaningfully better than having like four billion. Like what are you working toward here.
29.11.2024 17:29 — 👍 193 🔁 13 💬 26 📌 4More and more people are getting diagnosed with ADHD because we don't have anti-mind wandering corsets anymore.
28.11.2024 14:09 — 👍 37 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
From State Art Collection - Dresden - The golden yellow and salmon-red ceremonial dress with gold and silver lace follows the shape, nuanced colors and sophisticated decorative details of Italian women's fashion around 1590-1620. The tight-fitting, slightly protruding, pointed bodice is trimmed in dense rows with narrow gold and silver lace. It is closed at the front with concealed hooks and eyes. The skirt is buttoned to the bodice using numerous gold and silver trimming buttons. The slightly stiffened bodice embodies an early form of the so-called snail waist, which was to be a defining feature of women's fashion in the 17th century. The skirt - an overskirt - is open at the front and is effectively trimmed in several circumferential panels with wide and medium-wide gold and silver lace, into which drop-shaped silver sequins are worked. A second, representative skirt was effectively visible through the front slit and the long skirt slits, which were held together with ribbon roses (not known). The graceful star-shaped shoulder decoration is borrowed from the bridal and formal wear of noble Venetian women. The jagged tips flash with bright red silk pompoms. The tight-fitting salmon-red sleeves are fastened at the wrist with buttons. They are completely embroidered with scales and stars. The golden yellow wing sleeves above are decorated with lace and many small trimmings made of gold and silver thread. The accessories of the dress can be imagined as a high, fine white lace collar, lace cuffs of the same kind, and rich gold and pearl jewelry. The queens and princesses of the English and Danish royal families, as well as Maria de' Medici, Duchess of Florence and Queen of France, were particularly pioneers of the fashion represented by the dress shown. No other original examples have survived in this completeness and condition.
1 - Welcome to #ThreadTalk! Get ready for #fashionhistory – it’s been a while, but I'm back.
Today’s topic is All That Glitters – we’re talking about fashioning fabric with gold and metal, but especially real gold.
Below, 1610-1620 - Dress of Electress Magdalena Syblla of Saxony.
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14.11.2024 23:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bluesky,
Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this
I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
