Jennifer Yasminke Dowling

Portrait of a young adult with close cropped hair , eyes closed, chin up (as if sniffing the breeze) signed by rennandizon.art

Gorgeous artwork in USyd's Graffiti Tunnel.

Looking out a window, past a cat hammock, juvenile brushturkey on the left and sulphur crested cockatoo on the right. Both perched in a white cement wall.

Daily visitors (pardon the cat furr on the window)
#brushturkey #sulphurcrestedcockatoo

Aren't American Republicans so smart? No need for doctors, ChatGPT can cure what ails ya.

Shredded bits of white paper scattered on a grey, blue and off white carpet.

Look what my furry fiends left for my return home from work: this is half the damage.

Exhausted, dreaming cat #Solo #catsofbluesky

I am back. W00t

My beloved Siamese cat loved when I sang that song (off key) here in Sydney.

For @ssidky.bsky.social and @sidneykochman.bsky.social :

www.betootaadvocate.com/breaking-new...

I had a similar scare with one of mine. He lived to be an old, crotchety man. Prayers yours gets the help they need and go home soon.

I'm sorry, but know you're not alone. Have a chonky cat to cuddle (virtually). The belly is not a trap...

@ssidky.bsky.social Time to become a coin collector?

If there’s one thing Israelis and Palestinians can all agree on it’s that white Americans ruined hummus.

Sadly, all too well.

Still, sorry. Especially since it felt it was a safer, more secure place than USyd.

Sorry to read that. 😢

Chunky ginger and white cat lying on the bed, belly up and paws curled, next to a pile of clean clothes on the unmade bed.

Closeup of long haired calico cat with bright green eyes and long white whiskers

The keepers of my sanity in an insane time (except a meal times, zoomie hours and 2:30am)

Oh thank you, I so needed that.

Tweet and video: Netanyahu is now going fully genocidal; calling Palestinians "Amalek" & citing the bible to justify their destruction! The bible called to "utterly destroy all that Amalek have, & spare them not; but slay both man & WOMAN, INFANT & suckling, ox & sheep, camel & donkey"! (1/2)

This is openly genocidal rhetoric.

Anyone in denial of it at this point… knowing who his other ministers are, what they’ve said about Palestinians, the overall rhetoric around the war… is going out of their way to ignore what’s happening.

No more! We are witnessing a horror.

Love this analysis. The Searchers always struck me as under appreciated.

Beware the rennet, however. 😉

Some people bake for self-care, I pickle veggies and make compotes.

Lol. Inspera writing to me about AI and examinations. #EDlife

Sh'koyekh, great article.

A cute bat face peering out of a snuggly bat wrap

A pile of bat wraps - they look like little burritos. Made from lots of different patterned fabric that might usually be used for toddler winter pyjamas. There is green fabric with bees, pale blue fabric with australian native animals, and some other fabric with brightly coloured stars

When the world's a dumpster fire - make bat wraps. A bat wrap is a piece of flannelette fabric with a pillow stitched in at one end. The orphaned bat cuddles the pillow (as it would its Mum) & the extra fabric is wrapped around to simulate being enclosed in her wings. Bats are important pollinators

Mazl tov!!

Jews are traumatized beyond belief. So many are hoping to simply be treated as humans who are suffering.

This is understandably very hard while there is a war on. While others also deserve their humanity to be seen.

The answer is an always-expanding commitment to seeing the humanity in others.

"Today we came across bizarre posts on the Instagram page of one Shaun King, who turns out to have millions of followers, who claims that our relative Natalie Raanan supports the anti-Israeli messages he uploads to his page. First and foremost, we make it clear that he is lying! Our family does not and did not have anything to do with him, neither directly nor indirectly. Not to him and not to anything he claims to represent. Natalie told us that this morning it was the first time in her life that she came across Shaun King's name and his posts, after she finally got a phone call after two horrific weeks in captivity in Gaza, and was looking for what was written about her while she was away."

"Shaun King is trying to catch a ride on the great exposure that her kidnapping received all over the world and in the US in particular, and the most ridiculous thing is that Natalie and her mother Judith are very active in Rabbi Hecht's Jewish community in Chicago and in the Chabad house, and if Shaun King knew them or their family he would know that. We ask not to be quick on the keyboard and share things without checking them in depth. Mainly not to believe people who speak for others. The damage that the sharing of these lies does is so huge, and the effort of our family and all the families of the abductees should be focused on bringing them home, and not fighting the lies that are being spread like wildfire. We're not done, we've just started. We have 2 more murdered in the family and 8 more family members still kidnapped, and there are over 200 more families in our situation. Now we need the support of all the people of Israel and all the countries of the world to bring everyone

Here is the full, translated statement from the Raanan family in response to Shaun King’s bizarre claim that he played a part in getting Judith and Natalie Raanan released by Hamas:

True. It is Hornsby after all. But y'all get most of the blame.

@sidneykochman.bsky.social and @ssidky.bsky.social (and Uel)
Y'all are personally responsible for the odd looks I'm getting in Westfield.
Good episode of Go_Kvetch