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garden sparrow. regular visitor- did not leave his name.

Small, swift and simple
wings carry sparrows aloft
to high feathered paths
if we are not meant to fly
why then do our dreams have wings

#tanka #poetry #photography #Canada

Taking the twins out for a stroll

Lily Lake, Estes Park, Colorado

I recognize that not everyone looks things up for a living, as I do, but it would be nice if people could figure out how to do elementary web searches and lift the requisite fingers to do it.

This is why it's important for you to remove source identifiers from links!!

The animal kingdom is truly miraculous! We humans have so much to learn from our animal friends… ❤️😊

Screenshot of actor Tramell Tillman over the headline Tramell Tillman on Severance Delays, Coming Out as Gay and Tom Cruise

he’s gay AND Tom cruise?? he really CAN do it all, wow

a leaflet on a telephone pole explaining how Labubus are demonic

Labubu's are a vessel for the Mesopotamian demon, Pazuzu. Let that sink in. Then imagine how much better THE EXORCIST would have been if, at the end, Father Karras had been possessed by a giant Labubu.

HAPPENING NOW: It's Day 2 of the bench trial in Newsom v. Trump, the suit brought by California over Trump's use of the national guard and marines for immigration enforcement.

I'm covering for @lawfaremedia.org.

Today we expect testimony from the government's witnesses.

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AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

Martyrs of Gaza @GazaMartyrs This is my will and my final message. If my words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace, mercy, and blessings be upon you. God knows that I have given all my effort and strength to be a support and a voice for my people since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that God would grant me life to return with my family and loved ones to our original town of Ashkelon (Al-Majdal), occupied land. But God's will was swifter, and His decree is binding. I lived pain in all its details, tasted grief and loss repeatedly, yet I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is—-without distortion or falsification— hoping God would bear witness against those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, those who besieged our breaths, and whose hearts were not moved by the shattered bodies of our children and women, nor did they stop the massacre our people have faced for more than a year and a half.

I entrust you with Palestine, the jewel of the Muslim world and the pulse of every free heart in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its innocent children who were not granted the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart, their remains scattered on the walls. l urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward liberating the land and the people until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you with my family. I entrust you with the apple of my eye, my beloved daughter, Sham, whom fate did not allow me to see grow as I dreamed. I entrust you with my dear son, Salah, whom I wished to support and accompany until he grew strong, carrying my burden and continuing the mission.

I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose prayers were the reason I reached where I did. Her supplications were my fortress, and her light my path. I pray God to ease her heart and reward her abundantly on my behalf. I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah Bayan, from whom war separated us for long days and months, but who remained faithful, steadfast like an olive tree trunk that never bends, patient and devout, carrying the trust in my absence with strength and faith. I urge you to gather around them and be their support after God Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast on my principles, bearing witness to God that I am satisfied with His decree, believing in meeting Him, and certain that what is with God is better and everlasting. O God, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path to freedom for my people and family.

Forgive me if I fell short, and pray for me mercy, for I have remained true to the covenant, never changing or betraying it. Do not forget Gaza... And do not forget me in your good prayers for forgiveness and acceptance. Anas Jamal Al-Sharif 06.04.2025 This is what Anas ordered to be published upon his martyrdom.

Anas Al Sharif had these words to publish if he was martyred which he was tonight as Israel starts the invasion of Gaza City

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

Anas al-Sharif: Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospital Al Jazeera had condemned a "campaign of incitement" by the IDF against its reporters, but the military claims one of the journalists was part of Hamas.

An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Attacking Rad Pride to prevent it from marching in the Village tonight, the SPVM pepper-sprayed a salsa show in Emilie-Gamelin Square, causing it to end early (😢). They also evacuated Berri metro station after pepper spray got inside (😆).

‼️Important Update‼️

There have been increasing reports of people receiving verbal abuse when calling in complaints

So we've put together steps + a script to follow if this happens!

Please be careful out there

↻💬♡ to help spread the info!

By my count this makes 5 out of 12 authors on the Polari First Book longlist who have withdrawn. It's hard to understate the moral courage this involves, esp for folk launching their first book into the world. As so often, those with the most to lose end up showing the most moral fibre. Solidarity x

Good evening, I’m out here in Los Angeles near MacArthur Park, where protestors have taken to the streets to protest the recent raids across the city, despite a TRO prohibiting them

There's a Sam Pratchett in the world now and I am so so happy and I know Sir PTerry's grinning so proud wherever he is

i hope Young Sam gets to read all the books his granddad wrote and love people as fiercely as Sir PTerry loved people, even when they're selfish and small and stupid and silly.

@dynael.bsky.social and I would like to introduce you to Samuel Raphael Pratchett. Born on July 19th 2025 to the sound of Welcome to the Jungle by Vitamin String Quartet. Not bad for a human.

“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”

Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?

That Kamala interview was heart breaking because it's one of the few times that I've ever seen a national political figure say the system is broken and that trying to work within it to change things probably wont work.

Mis amores! Community outreach time! I’m looking into touring my solo show via speaking engagements at universities/colleges/institutions in order to offer a variety of things to celebrate local communities. If you have a connection with your local speaker bureaus/event planners slide into my DMs 🥹🫶🏽

‘The UK wants my passport for porn – it’s a dream come true for blackmailers’ Our columnist says the Online Safety Act is less about safety and more about surveillance - and risks personal data falling into the wrong hands.

"When you restrict access to legal adult content, people don’t stop consuming it, they just get it from sketchier places. Just as when the US tried to ban booze, the law-abiding folk shut up shop, the gangsters rushed in"

The smartest commentary on AV, of course, comes from a sex worker.

He's not even dicking them down so why are they so eager to defend this dude
And he isn't even that pretty. There are easily a couple dozen others prettier on screens. When he's Jensen-pretty then maybe I understand the whole ride or die thing.

– beyond this, don't discuss political angles explicitly if at all possible, those will be counterproductive"

even spreading this thread and others like it will help. this is a really big one.

"focus on discussing concerns around a lack of payment system neutrality, erosion of trust in payment reliability, undue influence of lobbying in personal business and livelihood; proceed to censorship concerns last and only if the person on the other end is not combative.

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visa and mastercard deciding what games are allowed to be sold is an apocalyptic level threat to the games industry. phone calls are the highest impact way to help.

this is an all hands on deck situation. the enemy got results with 1000 phone calls.

we can beat them

phone numbers and a script:

4 panel comic - the text under each panel reads "I'm studying the art of comics, hoping to unlock something new in me. Avoiding practice. Avoiding practice" in the pictures I'm reading while the spirit of Scott mccloud appears above me, then I'm balancing a pencil on my fingers. the final panel is empty

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