Br Martin

The US conservative media and political establishment was correct:

If New Yorkers elected Mamdani they'd get radical leftist policies like stopping homeless people freezing to death.

Instead of the more traditional mayoral duties of accepting kickbacks from property developers and foreign regimes.

A kākāpō egg being candled, showing development. Credit: Andrew Digby

A female kākāpō on a nest with two eggs. Credit: Andrew Digby

We found a 4th egg in #kakapo Waikawa's nest yesterday and found it was fertile. Waikawa has maintained her incredible 100% fertility record: 5 clutches of 4 fertile eggs in 4 breeding seasons. That's unmatched by any other kākāpō. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds

flower painting

flower painting

my mom wants me to ask you for flower commissions for $15 each (even one would make her so happy). you’ll get a scanned in digital version of a painting. She’ll be doing watercolors. If you want her flower art, all you have to do is drop a reference photo of a flower that you like in the comments.

Congrats on Level 73! Your post made me think of the Larsen cartoon with the dino family arriving at the La Brea tar pits and remarking, 'This looks like a great place for picnic'. :')

Julia Gillard: "I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man (Abbott)". Here set to music:

Ooh. Lovely! Y'day was 40°C in the west. 😵‍💫 Waiting in trepidation for the next electricity bill.

<3 The religious life is the ultimate rejection of all of that! Recalling the images of elderly sisters and brothers getting carted off, protesting when children in cages first came to light. Bad ass!

I am wondering if a good number in the 16% are scared to declare in case they come to the attention of Trump's gestapo.

Isaac Herzog’s visit to Australia is not a threat to social cohesion, but a measure of it - ABC Religion & Ethics Bondi changed Jewish life in Australia irrevocably. The visit of Israel’s president should not be seen as a provocation but as an opportunity — to affirm solidarity in the face of terror and to restor...

Leibler says Herzog's visit would model "it is possible to show solidarity with Jewish Australians by acknowledging the centrality of Israel to their identity"

As a Jewish Australian, the last thing I want is my identity linked to a genocidal, apartheid state. #auspol
www.abc.net.au/religion/jer...

God bless the Judge Bierys of the world

Also applicable:
"He has told you, O mortal, what is good,
and what does the LORD require of you
but to do justice and to love kindness
and to walk humbly with your God?"
(Micah 6:8)

h/t @jackjenkins.me

Oh I just looked it up and see it dates from 1981 😯

I'm partial to Kendrick's Restore, O Lord. Very fitting for US circumstances. ❤️🥲

Thank you for caring for these babies, sorry over number 5, but glad she was somewhere safe, comfortable and loved. 😿

ie. orig asserts that we somehow have power over God and denies God's sovereignty. (And yes, out of respect for copyright and without permission for change, I simply do not program).

Yes, despise this song and will never program without substantial lyric changes. All these suggested are good.

Also 'It was our sins that held him there' imo, is close to blasphemy, hence: 'It was our sins he chose to bear'

My beautiful Mabel sends you greetings in solidarity (an older pic of her enjoying her new mat)

In a time of endlessly difficult news, this gave me a little lift to read 😌

(Which is to say, locos are lovely and never evil :) )

'Enormity' means gross evil, the word you are looking for is praps, 'immensity'.

It is perfect and has not had enough appreciation. Even more tongue-twisty than the original.

Eventually as per JHN's epitaph: "Out of shadows and phantasms into the truth". 😻😿

What am I looking at here?

Accidental 'crying horse' toy becomes bestseller in China A dour-faced toy horse — the result of a manufacturing error —  has gone viral in China, with some workers saying its expression mirrors their long hours and workplace stress.

Feel you, Tongzhi.

I’ve got you.
Mural for Alex Pretti in Seattle by Topsy

I hope this means Mr A will turn down the invitation to the so-called 'Board of Peace'.

As a gamer I did experience a frisson of interest. Big sword energy!

Lawyers request AFP probe into Israeli president as Australian visit looms The Australian Centre for International Justice has formally requested a police investigation into Israel's president for alleged incitement to genocide. He is expected to visit to Australia next mont...

An Olz legal group has formally requested the Australian Federal Police to investigate the alleged genocide incitement.

Prayers for quick healing and return to work. 🙏🐱

Yer, they really pick me up espesh the baby king parrots. 🐤