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Ancient forests aren't "resources"—they're living systems sustaining us all. Destroy them for short-term gain? That's planetary sabotage.
#Ecocide isn't abstract: it steals stable climate, clean air, future harvests from our children. Time to protect what remains. 🌳🛡️
#BiodiversityCrisis #ActNow
This amazing scientific advance may one day lead to either more effective treatments or dare I say perhaps a cure.
This is why it is vitally important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover Way To Reverse Chemical Process Linked With Alzheimer’s Disease share.google/Vm0hfSMfkGIc...
French poster for Casablanca has an illustration of Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, their faces pressed together, the name of the film in red, and cast names and the director's name.
Been a while since a 📽 so tonight's was one of the best: Casablanca (1942, dir. Michael Curtiz) - the thrilling, romantic, funny, beautifully shot ensemble tale of cynic-with-a-lover's-heart Rick finding his passion for life again, with a cast at the top of their game.
"Welcome back to the fight."
SNOWDROPS Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you. I did not expect to survive, earth suppressing me. I didn't expect to waken again, to feel in damp earth my body able to respond again, remembering after so long how to open again in the cold light of earliest spring— afraid, yes, but among you again crying yes risk joy in the raw wind of the new world.
after so long how to open again in the cold light
of earliest spring—
Louise Glück
Surreal moon stunner.
Looking out toward the sunrise, the side glare of the moon pulled me in her direction. Her beams, her glow, the colors in the clouds!
And yet, the moon is the reflection of the sun’s mighty light. Sometimes, they pass wonder from one to another and we get to be witnesses.
Intriguing sunset yesterday. The clouds look like mountains.
#Scotland
#ScottishWords
It’s wet and windy, so here’s the plan. 🥰
thank you, dear friend 🫂
SPACE/NORTHMRC.GIF
Yesterday, Albanese announced Australia would provide military assistance "to help protect and defend Australians and other civilians" in the Gulf.
He then rushed through laws temporarily banning those from countries like Iran and Lebanon from coming to Australia, despite having a visa.
anyone who is artistic or creative in the New Fascist Era is suspect. anyone who values art beyond prompting a new shitty meme to spread hate and propaganda. anyone with a kink or interest that departs even slightly from the vanilla. and most of all anyone queer or neurodivergent. they are targets.
russia had a vibrant, active LGBTQ community 20 years ago, with publications, bars, neighborhoods. now it is silent and underground, all public expression deemed "pornographic" and "illegal", even a rainbow flag. that is what the richest and most powerful men in the world are bringing worldwide.
this is worth reading in full, but I want to call out this part. Dario was arrested for removing someone from a Discord chat. there is no way to be “peaceful” enough.
It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.
photo of two matted and framed artworks on display at museum: Eric Carle (1929-2021) "Just then, a turtle ambled by." The Very Clumsy Click Beetle, 1999 Collage of acrylic-painted tissue paper on illustration board Collection of the Eric and Barbara Carle Foundation Eric Carle (1929-2021) Alternate for “Just then, a turtle ambled by." The Very Clumsy Click Beetle, 1999 Collage of acrylic-painted tissue paper on illustration board Collection of the Eric and Barbara Carle Foundation
photo of matted artwork on display at museum: Eric Carle (1929-2021) Alternate for "Took off his large and heavy shell.." The Foolish Tortoise by Richard Buckley, 1985 Collage of acrylic-painted tissue paper on illustration board Collection of the Eric and Barbara Carle Foundation Many characters in Carle's books undertake a journey of some sort. In Richard Buckley's The Foolish Tortoise, the title character removes his heavy shell so he can explore the world. After many hardships, the tortoise decides to return to the safety of his shell and the comforts of home.
#TwoForTuesday & #TurtleTuesday 🐢:
Eric Carle (USA 1929-2021)
Artwork for The Very Clumsy Click Beetle (1999) & The Foolish Tortoise (Richard Buckley, 1985)
Acrylic-painted tissue paper collages on illustration board
Exhibition: “Small Living Things: The Magical Art of Eric Carle” @ Michener Museum
hullo, ahoy
I honestly am so sick of doctors about everything. I've been struggling for 4 years to get my gastro specialist to even bother considering if my chronic abdominal pain is related to my genetic gastro-intestinal condition
Amfetamines aren't a silver bullet but they're clearly the necessary baseline for further treatment and it's outright sus to deny that at this point. So it is with type 2 diabetes
"So you think GLP-1s will just mean you don't have to face the consequences of your actions?" No, I think GLP-1s are for type 2 diabetes like stimulants are for ADHD
"Type 2 diabetes is a strongly genetic metabolic disease, why isn't the first line treatment aggressively medicating it?" Because that wouldn't give everyone an excuse to do fascist body cult on the people who have it
Screenshot of a CIDRAP news brief titled “CDC reports 11 more pediatric flu deaths,” written by Chris Dall and published March 7, 2026. The article reports that the U.S. total of pediatric influenza deaths this season has reached 90, with 85% of those children not fully vaccinated. The image shows an illustrative hospital scene of a sick child lying in a bed with oxygen tubing while a caregiver holds the child’s hand and a doctor reviews medical data on a tablet.
USA: "CDC reports 11 more pediatric flu deaths as U.S. total reaches 90 children this season; 85% were not fully vaccinated."
▫️Moderate flu season so far according to the CDC
▫️26 million illnesses
▫️340,000 hospitalisations
▫️21,000 deaths
Source: www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...
Prove it.
Provide a definition of male or female that includes me and about 5 million others in this country, tens of millions world wide.
I dare you.
But my favorite pictures from Venice is not cats but this combination that I think of as “missed connections.”
Jeremy's reaction is a good measure of how this failure will be received among the wider public, not only as it concerns the NACC, but what it suggests about the broader ability of Australian institutions to hold anyone of significant power or influence to account for anything in future.
A bunny sea captain and a young sailor watch from the side of the boat, where a school of flying fish are 'flying' near the side of their boat
Daily bunny no.3254 sees something off the starboard bow
Yeah fam this is a universal western disease, not just an American thing. Aussies know that Byron Bay is full of hippies and anti-Vaxxers; so rife this one region brings down the national average. I feel like there’s a class element to this as well
Shame on Albo @albomp.bsky.social and the ALP Pty. Ltd. for their pathetic, unethical sycophancy to the US/Israel illegal war on #Iran.
www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1449/an... #auspol #USFascism #IsraelFascism
An entire generation has been convinced online that Kobe Bryant was “found innocent,” and I cannot express how much that did not happen.
His victim stopped cooperating with prosecutors because she was getting so much harassment, and he begged her to settle.