Jonathan Bliss

8-yr-old Liza Ostapenko,from a rural border settlement in Chernihiv region,greets Ukrainian Defenders returning from Russian captivity-in any weather,at any time of day,in every season

Whenever Liza learns about a prisoner exchange,she runs to the road near home with a Ukrainian flag
📹valera.glyhov

This caterpillar wears the body parts of insect prey Dubbed the “bone collector,” this caterpillar found on a Hawaiian island disguises itself while stalking spider webs for trapped insects to eat.

Very interesting, ty. reference: www.sciencenews.org/article/cate...

Israel's army chief says pilots struck Iran 2,500 times with 6,000+ munitions in 24 hours, destroying 80% of air defenses and 60% of ballistic missile launchers, achieving near-complete air superiority. A second phase targeting regime pillars and military capabilities now begins. #Iran

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In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad Across 25 countries, Americans are the most likely to see the morality and ethics of people in their country as somewhat or very bad.

for reference: Very interesting components.

www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

I see that Pew does this every year and past data is available, I'd like to see the trend.

As a young man, I figured there must be absolute moral bullet points. Now I have seen that murder, theft, etc are relative.

With those big blades spinning I would think there would be so much turbulence only a Jedi drone pilot could succeed at this..

This post has so many interesting findings re what folks view as moral vs immoral vs "not a moral issue".

The simple answer is annually in the Spring. Since the 2025 study was just published, I'm guessing it could take a year to gather and collate, but I don't know.

If you have google, I can recommend this: "how often does Pew do Global Attributes study" which leads to a number of interesting links.

In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad Across 25 countries, Americans are the most likely to see the morality and ethics of people in their country as somewhat or very bad.

reference:
www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

And that data was from a year ago!

Also season finale last night in which it seems some couples the the knot. My millennial kid is the expert, just trying to help out 🙂

Pretty sure LIB is the show Love Is Blind and the names line up.

Oh look, Ukraine has cards!

Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

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Here's a link to a @fisheries.noaa.gov illustration of how difficult it *already* is for a right whale calf (red dot) to avoid vessel traffic (blue dots)

www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/end...

NOAA announces planned rollback of North Atlantic right whale protections There are fewer than 380 right whales left in the world, with roughly 70 females capable of bearing young.

🐋 #whale #rightwhale

NOAA announces planned rollback of North Atlantic right whale protections | Maine Public share.google/lZJnbsYNF0tY...

Indiana lawmakers are once again trying to weaken child labor laws: Bill sponsored by business owner would enable employers to hide child labor violations Coordinated, industry-backed campaigns to weaken child labor protections continue to target state legislatures in 2026. Yesterday, the Indiana Senate passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements...

The Indiana House and Senate have both passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements for businesses to document the employment of child workers.

If this bill becomes law it would enable employers to hide child labor violations, according to @epi.org.

First they came for Dunkin, but idc because I'm in the PNW.

They will cheat...these fkn monsters have to now.

William Myron Keck - Wikipedia

As a side note, interesting bio from a time when philanthropy was a thing

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

Injectable “satellite livers” could offer an alternative to liver transplantation MIT engineers developed “mini livers” that could be injected into the body and take over the functions of a failing liver.

Injectable “satellite livers” could offer an alternative to liver transplantation news.mit.edu/2026/injecta...
The engineered tissue grafts could take on the liver’s function and help thousands of people with liver failure.

Ukrainian ombudsman: 337 Ukrainian POWs are known to have been executed in Russian captivity, as of late 2025.

95% of Ukrainian POWs are subjected to systematic torture.

Gives hope in mine which iirc is about R+5 (since Tom Foley)

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💯🇺🇦 “I will never leave Donbas and the 200,000 Ukrainians who live there,” Zelensky told Corriere della Sera.

“The best defensive strongholds remain here. If we withdraw our troops, the Russians will have complete freedom of action.”

• Front: “AFU have liberated 460 sq km in 2026.”

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Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms The meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of electi...

www.propublica.org/article/elec...

Sobering to wonder where we might be 3/ 6 months from now

As it happens I just refreshed my recollection of The Beatitudes, and the irony here is: even if this plan succeeds, I'm thinking these leaders might be surprised by the outcome just saying.

Israel bombs council choosing Iran's next supreme leader, official says "We wanted to prevent them from picking a new supreme leader," the official said.

www.axios.com/2026/03/03/i...