Fiona Zerbst

Thank you, you are kind! Nice to meet you, too. 🙂

This is brilliant! "Mechanical psychic" 😆

Sorry I am not that person! ☹️

LOL

I had Covid in November and, for two-and-a-half months, my vision was impaired. I was actually nervous to drive as my right eye got so bad I thought I would have to see a specialist - red with blurred vision, blind spots, etc. It's fine now, but I honestly thought my eyesight was deteriorating.

My cats would win. 😋

A place I would love to visit! But this is Cape Town. 😁

Today's view. 💙

BlackRock $26 Billion Private Credit Fund Limits Withdrawals The firm’s $26 billion HPS Corporate Lending Fund, one of the largest non-traded business development companies, said in a statement Friday that shareholders requested 9.3% of their shares, but manage...

Blackrock blocking withdrawls. These are ‘domestic delinquencies’ according to sources meaning households & individuals can’t make payment on their debts. The US economy under stress. War costs $1 billion a day. finance.yahoo.com/news/blackro...

Mosul Alert: Apache airstrikes hit joint PMF checkpoints amid 14 massive explosions - Iraqi News Fourteen explosions rocked Mosul on Friday as military helicopters targeted PMF checkpoints in Shariykhan and Qara Qoyun.

Iran-funded militias attacking Mosul (close to Kurdish regions). www.iraqinews.com/iraq/mosul-a...

Iran spent years fostering proxies in Iraq. Now, many aren’t eager to join the war Tehran’s Shi’ite proxies in Iraq have so far launched few attacks during the U.S.-Israel assault on Iran. Insiders tell Reuters how the decimation of other pro-Iran regional groups, and the pursuit of...

Pro-Iran militias are embedded in the Iraqi government. There are other fractures that can be exploited, though. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

YouTube video by Ginton Ginton, Richard Bona, Salif Keita - Kalabancoro (Official Music Video)

Happy weekend, beautiful people. youtu.be/Z7tdaywuPMs?...

When your kitty falls asleep kneading you... 😻

Found this and am beside myself. Claire Messud is one of my favourite writers.

With the advance of AI, I feel my work as an artist is no longer respected. Should I just give up? | Leading questions Think back to the reason you started making art, advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith writes, then separate this from the money or acclaim

1. Make art for yourself. Make the art you would like to see/read/experience. 2. Make art for your family/friends/community. Everything else is an unknown quantity, anyway - and all human art has value. 🙂 Source: The Guardian
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Likewise. It's looked rather hopeless for so long...

Yep.

Finally, a little good news.

El chavismo mantiene el cierre de radios mientras proclama una “nueva era” de libertades Al menos ocho emisoras han sido silenciadas en lo que va de 2026. El cerco sobre la radio contrasta con los gestos de apertura del Gobierno y el sorpresivo giro crítico de grandes corporaciones como V...

How things going in Venezuela, you ask? The chavista dictatorship, the apparatus of which has been left completely intact, is still using the military to shut down radio stations it deems too critical elpais.com/america/2026...

Elon Musk's makeshift AI power plant generates sound and fury in Mississippi The 27 temporary gas turbines roar like jet engines day and night to power data centers, residents say.

AI is destroying the world & we should reject it: "Just down the road from Gossett’s house, 18 methane gas turbines had arrived on trailers on behalf of the richest person in the world. Without warning, the temporary turbines began running day & night" www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

YouTube video by MoBlack Records MoBlack - Yamore (Corona Sunsets Session)

I've been mainly listening to classical music this year, but I've made a few serendipitous discoveries that are too good not to share. This is one of them. youtu.be/fjX258XsDFM?...

Police told Kelly Wilkinson to ‘cool off’ and give estranged husband ‘a break’ days before he burned her to death, inquest hears Wilkinson was turned away by police while seeking help four days before she was murdered, Queensland coroner’s court told

Kelly Wilkinson was being abused by her husband.

She tried to go to the police.

They told her to “cool off”.

They suggested she give her husband a “break”.

They accused her of cop shopping.

Her husband stabbed her over 20 times and set her on fire.

The cops were complicit in her murder:

Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands Global survey shows young men and boys hold more traditional views about gender roles than older generations

Gen X ignored again! But seriously...it's little wonder women don't want to get married any more. Ewwww! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

At the Waterfront for an event on violence prevention, education and trauma-informed practice. Nice to get here early and relax over breakfast.

Putin is 'buying' Africans under false pretences. A couple of court cases going on.

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

Israel has long attacked Gaza during Ramadan. A pattern.

That's how you kill grandma and grandpa.

Weirdly, I have never read The Europeans, and neither has my friend Deborah. We're starting it this month and we'll discuss it afterwards.

Common or Eurasian coot (Fulica atra) swimming on the surface of the water.

I don't usually bother much with coots, as they are just so common and plentiful. So much so that I didn't realise they have scary red eyes.

#birds #photography