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Gina
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Lefty, green etc. Advocate for adult learning and education. Live in Brussels with cat, dog and partner. Wondering how I got to my age this fast
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newyorker.com
The acclaimed writer Tom Stoppard has died, at 88. For the award-winning playwright, “art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself,” Kenneth Tynan wrote, in 1977.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
Tom Stoppard, Withdrawing with Style from the Chaos
From 1977: For the playwright, art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself, an absurd mosaic of incidents and accidents.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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wwf.org.uk
Today we celebrate the jaguar. ✊🐆

We’re excited to share a selection of images from Brazilian wildlife photographer Rodolfo Paz.

With a love for big cats and nature, Rodolfo travels the world in search of capturing unique moments like these. 🧡

#InternationalJaguarDay
Close up portrait of a jaguar’s face, its paws just visible at the bottom of the frame. The jaguar is lying face, facing the camera but looking to the bottom right. The lighting is soft but bright, showing off its bright orange eyes and black markings. A jaguar sat amongst green leaves in the forest yawning with its mouth wide open, its tongue hangs out and its canines visible. Its limbs covered by the greenery. The lighting is bright but not strong, the colours are vivid. A close up of a jaguar peering out between brown branches, looking to the left of the lens. The sunlight is soft but catches the top of the jaguar's head which extenuates its markings. Tones in the image are mostly browns and blacks. A jaguar’s head raised above the water as it swims in a river to the left of the frame, the water is brown and the lighting is warm and bright. The sunlight catches across the water and the top of the jaguar’s head.
November 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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somuchpingle.bsky.social
#FrogFriday > BlackFriday - Here's a male Uakari Poison Frog (Ranitomeya uakarii) hauling two of its tadpoles to a location with permanent water, where they can continue development. Rainforest in the Rio Tahuayo drainage north of Iquitos, Peru. #herps #frogs #NaturePhotography 🌿
Side image of a brightly colored frog on the trunk of a small tree, captured as it climbs the tree. The frog's body has alternating stripes of black and orangish-red, while the limbs have reticulating patterns of black and yellow. The most notable feature are the two large, gray tadpoles clinging to the frog's back.
November 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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admirablewomen.bsky.social
#OTD in 1967, Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars & changed our view of the universe. 𝘉𝘶𝘵...

The #Nobel Prize in #Physics for their discovery went to to her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish & to astronomer Martin Ryle.

theconversation.com/fifty-years-...

#WomenInSTEM #astrophysics #MatildaEffect
Split image: Main photo — black-and-white portrait of young Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the 1960s, smiling broadly in front of the large lattice structure at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (SW of Cambridge in the UK). Inset (left) — color portrait of Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell today, short graying hair, glasses, and a warm smile, wearing a blue jacket.
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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harikunzru.bsky.social
‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
DEPARTMENT Homeland Security @DHSgov The stakes have never been higher, and the goal has never been more clear: Remigration now.
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
lumo25.bsky.social
Es gibt auch Brotautomaten (ziemlich viele), und Erdbeerautomaten (natürlich saisonal). Ich hab auch schon einmal einen Milchreis aus einem Automaten gezogen
November 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
if you steal a cell phone or wallet in paris they kick you out of the french thieve's guild for insufficient whimsy
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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akoetzing.bsky.social
Und mit "Vier Schwestern" kann man noch eine weitere Dokumentation von Lanzmann sehen. Ein Porträt über vier Frauen, die den Holocaust überlebt haben. Ihr Schicksal tauchte in "Shoah" nur kurz auf, später widmete ihnen Lanzmann dann jeweils einen eigenen Film.
Vier Schwestern - Geschichte | ARTE
Die Geschichten von Ruth Elias, Ada Lichtman, Paula Biren und Hanna Marton eint ein grausames Schicksal: Unter dem Naziregime wurden die vier Frauen terrorisiert und gequält. Sie überlebten. In Claude...
www.arte.tv
November 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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akoetzing.bsky.social
Filmische Annäherungen an den Holocaust gibt es viele, aber nichts ist so eindringlich wie "Shoah" von Claude Lanzmann. Nach sehr langer Zeit ist der Film mal wieder vollständig zu sehen. Natürlich bei @artede.bsky.social, wo sonst.
Shoah - Geschichte | ARTE
In zwei Teilen strahlt Arte erneut den 9-stündigen Dokumentarfilm von Claude Lanzmann aus. Elf Jahre reiste der 2018 verstorbene Filmemacher durch Europa und sprach mit Zeitzeugen des Holocaust –Opfer...
www.arte.tv
November 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
lumo25.bsky.social
Wtaf

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘I didn’t even know this type of attack existed’: more than 200 women allege drugging by senior French civil servant
In a case echoing the Pelicot trial, dozens of women allege they were given hot drinks mixed with a diuretic to make them urinate. Three of them speak out here
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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miamidsa.org
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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roby-b.bsky.social
Do your parent friends know there's a vaccine that can prevent one of the 10 most common types of cancer (both incidence and mortality) in the world?
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
If you are a tech bro billionaire, you can delete the receding hairline your ancestry has saddled you with and replace it with a tight-knit block of follicular robo-growth, you can change your face, change public opinion en masse via the misinformation you spread via your digital platform and the more moderate and considered voices you are able to algorithmically drown out, send rockets to space, buy yourself a position at the forefront of political life despite being singularly unqualified for such a position. You can, because of all this, probably convince yourself there is in fact *nothing* you cannot do. But here you will be incorrect. What you can't do is ever be a reflective, compassionate human being who can grasp, with any feeling, the harm of your actions. The bubble of unreality you have constructed around yourself - the one which no longer contains anyone who tells you the truth- will be too well-insulated for that to be possible. You would probably believe you are enhancing your legacy with each additional chunk of power you purchase if you hadn't already dismissed the concept of "legacy" due to your conviction that, for yourself (although not for the minions) you can invent everlasting life. But, despite what you have convinced yourself, one day you will, just like everyone else, die. In the final moments, you will be reduced to something frail and helpless. You billions will not grant you an exemption from that. Maybe right then, in that reduced state, the last thing you will see is the true horror of what you were: the rippling evil of all the choices you could have made with your money and didn't, and the repercussions for the planet. Then it will be over. Those voices who said, "Fucking love that dude, he really tells it like it is - I wanna be rich like hime one day!" will fade. All that will remain will be the more rational and sane voice of history above your grave, announcing "Here lies the most heinous piece of shit imaginable."
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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rutgerbregman.com
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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casuallylucid.bsky.social
If you think women here can't be forced backwards...

These are women in Parliament in Iran in the mid-1970's.

Their decline feels familiar.

A reaction to women having too many rights.
A fear of what was happening to traditional family.
A desire for younger wives.
A closing of the fist.

#Pinks
Female Parliamentarians in Iran in the mid 1970's, dressed in dresses and hairstyles similar to styles popular in the USA at the time
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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wurzelmann.at
How it started

How it's going
Screenshot einer Headline: "Sind Betriebsräte bei Swing Kitchen unerwünscht?" Screnshot einer Headline: "Swing Kitchen ist pleite"
November 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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taz.de
In Kolumbien haben binnen­ver­triebene Frauen eine eigene Stadt gegründet: taz.de/Solidaritaet...
Foto von einem Verkehrsschild am Eingang der Ciudad de las Mujeres, darauf steht auf spanisch: „Achtung! Machismo tötet!“ Dazu der Text: „Wir sind jetzt keine Opfer mehr, sondern politische Akteurinnen.“ Eidanis Lamadrid ist Bürgerin der Ciudad de las Mujeres, einer Stadt in Kolumbien, die Frauen aufgebaut haben. Dort finden Vertriebene Schutz vor den bewaffneten Konflikten im Land
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

-FDR, 1937
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Thanks to his new Tesla pay package, Elon Musk could stand to make $3 billion more per year than all 1.4 million elementary school teachers in the U.S. combined. Still wondering if inequality is out of control?
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
lumo25.bsky.social
I come home after a 4-day trip: dog is happy, wags her tail, goes back to bed. My partner comes home after half a day at the office: dog does a happy dance for five minutes, sticks to him the rest of the evening 🤷
jonathanslater.bsky.social Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 8d
I wish you this love today. Good morning Blue Sky
November 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
lumo25.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
France’s birds start to show signs of recovery after bee-harming pesticide ban
Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
Jamal Khashoggi. Say his name.
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
Incredible to think that Elon will not be indicted for this
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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docgaby.bsky.social
Die große KI-Blase
Ja, es ist eine Blase. Und ja, sie wird platzen.

Carole Cadwalladr
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
November 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM