melisa

The comment thread!

freaking the fuck out @ 6am bc I just found out how british people spell “cozy”

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I want a little sugar in my bowl.

🎶 🎷 🎶

Threnody is a new word for me. Many, many thanks. I'm smitten with it.

Gosh. I had to screenshot that one and tuck it away in my virtual pocket - to be slipped out and contemplated over and over again. 🤎 As a child one of my favorite poems was "Overheard on Saltmarsh" by Harold Monro. Your piece gives that same sense of interloper/voyeur to the parallel world. 🤎

US Army advises food bank to soldiers in Germany amid pay uncertainty US soldiers in Germany may not receive November pay amid the prolonged US government shutdown. Emergency funds covered October salaries, but future payments are uncertain.

Government shutdown: US Army tells soldiers in Germany to go to the food bank

The comments do not disappoint. Mayo clinic! 😆 Assault and vinegar!

This case made for THE BEST discussion on how to select the best evidence, persuasion techniques, word choice, and various types of appeals in my Argumentative writing class last night.

Gold.

I keep seeing the beauty
and showing it to you –
to inspire you to look around,
to remind you how beautiful Kyiv is.

I look forward to these every morning! 🥰

Same! Smiling all the way.

I want to thank and honour the person who harvested the potatoes I ate for breakfast, for using their bodies in exchange for very little money. May they be blessed abundantly.

Chicago cyclists bought out all street vendors so they could go home and be safe from ICE. The cyclists then distributed the food among those in need throughout the city.

That puppy dog at the end, too. 💔

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

SAME!!!

Our Defenders 🇺🇦

📹egor.ivanov_maestro

Did you see that guy, tho? If the shoe fits...

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For some reason this brings THE BOOK THIEF to mind. 💔

I saw a post from a Ukrainian woman.
She wrote that every week
something bright and inspiring should happen to her –
to balance the attacks, blackouts, and cold.
Cinema, good books, cultural events…

What this woman, I, and many others do here
feels like the right way
to live through dark times.

Sanae Takaichi elected as Japan’s first female prime minister Takaichi replaces Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, ending a three-month political vacuum and wrangling since the Liberal Democratic Party’s disastrous election loss in July.

Japan’s Sanae Takaichi elected as country’s first female prime minister

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Veteran holds sign

World War 2 veterans, the original antifa, took part in the nationwide protests against the fascist Trump regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

A photo of the title page of Melville's "The Whale" Image source: Sotheby's

It was on this day in 1851 that the novel "The Whale" was first published in London. It’s better known as Moby Dick, by Herman Melville.
#BookSky #History #OTD

Kyiv today.
Gently covered with autumn
and quiet calmness.

I just walked,
walked,
walked…

You seem to like when
I show you
something from Kyiv grocery stores.
I like showing it too.

Freshly baked bread.

Gosh those look amazing.

But the juxtaposition of cozy comfort food against a backdrop of destruction and the daily struggle for survival--💔

"Give us this day, our daily bread."