Kokoro
@livelyprancing.bsky.social
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Trying. To be the change I want to see and share the joy of life as much as I can.
May all our lives be enriched with peace, health, and happiness and until we All have those, may we All find the strength to make this a shared reality.
Trying. To be the change I want to see and share the joy of life as much as I can.
May all our lives be enriched with peace, health, and happiness and until we All have those, may we All find the strength to make this a shared reality.
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THREAD: It was supposed to be a routine surgery. So when the doctor stepped out, Sandra Parker wasn’t sure she heard right.
Her husband’s heart couldn’t have stopped for more than 5 or 6 minutes, the doctor was saying.
“That’s not a lot of time,” Mrs. Parker thought. “Is it?”
Her husband’s heart couldn’t have stopped for more than 5 or 6 minutes, the doctor was saying.
“That’s not a lot of time,” Mrs. Parker thought. “Is it?”
December 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
THREAD: It was supposed to be a routine surgery. So when the doctor stepped out, Sandra Parker wasn’t sure she heard right.
Her husband’s heart couldn’t have stopped for more than 5 or 6 minutes, the doctor was saying.
“That’s not a lot of time,” Mrs. Parker thought. “Is it?”
Her husband’s heart couldn’t have stopped for more than 5 or 6 minutes, the doctor was saying.
“That’s not a lot of time,” Mrs. Parker thought. “Is it?”
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Extreme heat doesn’t just feel exhausting — it ages your body.
A new study shows repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking.
Climate change is literally speeding up our biological clock.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A new study shows repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking.
Climate change is literally speeding up our biological clock.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking
Long-term study suggests that the more heatwaves people are exposed to, the more it accelerates body ageing.
www.nature.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Extreme heat doesn’t just feel exhausting — it ages your body.
A new study shows repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking.
Climate change is literally speeding up our biological clock.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A new study shows repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking.
Climate change is literally speeding up our biological clock.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Interested in one of these screen-printed posters for your porch or window?
Pick yours up in-person:
Pillsbury House & Theatre, (Sunday, Dec 7th only!) 4-7pm (2nd floor)
Arbeiter Brewing Co. (week of Dec 8th — limited / while supplies last)
*or* message me to request some mailed to your house! 💌
Pick yours up in-person:
Pillsbury House & Theatre, (Sunday, Dec 7th only!) 4-7pm (2nd floor)
Arbeiter Brewing Co. (week of Dec 8th — limited / while supplies last)
*or* message me to request some mailed to your house! 💌
December 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Interested in one of these screen-printed posters for your porch or window?
Pick yours up in-person:
Pillsbury House & Theatre, (Sunday, Dec 7th only!) 4-7pm (2nd floor)
Arbeiter Brewing Co. (week of Dec 8th — limited / while supplies last)
*or* message me to request some mailed to your house! 💌
Pick yours up in-person:
Pillsbury House & Theatre, (Sunday, Dec 7th only!) 4-7pm (2nd floor)
Arbeiter Brewing Co. (week of Dec 8th — limited / while supplies last)
*or* message me to request some mailed to your house! 💌
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🇺🇳UN Population Fund (UNFPA) provided an update on the humanitarian situation in Gaza today, describing it as a population "holding its breath, suspended between survival and uncertainty.” He emphasized that while the ceasefire was desperately needed, it's not an end to the war for women & girls...
December 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM
🇺🇳UN Population Fund (UNFPA) provided an update on the humanitarian situation in Gaza today, describing it as a population "holding its breath, suspended between survival and uncertainty.” He emphasized that while the ceasefire was desperately needed, it's not an end to the war for women & girls...
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"Why not just close prisons and reduce the population, instead of building resilient buildings where people continue to suffer? ... [D]ecarceration must be a centerpiece of addressing prisons' climate vulnerability."
Incarcerated Californians are bearing the brunt of the climate crisis — and the state’s water restrictions.
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As California Limits Water Use, People in Prison Face Punishment for Showering
Incarcerated Californians are bearing the brunt of the climate crisis — and the state’s water restrictions.
truthout.org
December 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"Why not just close prisons and reduce the population, instead of building resilient buildings where people continue to suffer? ... [D]ecarceration must be a centerpiece of addressing prisons' climate vulnerability."
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PLEASE boost and support this kickstarter!!
Support Black Indie Animation!!!!
8 days left to get it to its goal
#indieanimation#animation#kickstarter#crocodiledance
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cok...
Support Black Indie Animation!!!!
8 days left to get it to its goal
#indieanimation#animation#kickstarter#crocodiledance
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cok...
Crocodile Dance - An Africanfuturist Animated Film
An indie animated thriller where a musician reclaims her voice to face the Mami Wata, a monster goddess threatening her family.
www.kickstarter.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:29 AM
PLEASE boost and support this kickstarter!!
Support Black Indie Animation!!!!
8 days left to get it to its goal
#indieanimation#animation#kickstarter#crocodiledance
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cok...
Support Black Indie Animation!!!!
8 days left to get it to its goal
#indieanimation#animation#kickstarter#crocodiledance
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cok...
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🇸🇩 please keep focusing on sudan.
60,000 Believed Dead as Sudan Killings Continue
YouTube video by Preston Stewart
youtu.be
December 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
🇸🇩 please keep focusing on sudan.
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Hi guys, can I get some love for Lana? We clothed her lil sisters in warm winter pyjamas & now it’s her turn.
Their apartment has a big blown out window that remains uncovered & it’s December.
Can anyone help her with shares or donations? She’s only 12 & she’s been thru so much. Still stuck at $1
Their apartment has a big blown out window that remains uncovered & it’s December.
Can anyone help her with shares or donations? She’s only 12 & she’s been thru so much. Still stuck at $1
December 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Hi guys, can I get some love for Lana? We clothed her lil sisters in warm winter pyjamas & now it’s her turn.
Their apartment has a big blown out window that remains uncovered & it’s December.
Can anyone help her with shares or donations? She’s only 12 & she’s been thru so much. Still stuck at $1
Their apartment has a big blown out window that remains uncovered & it’s December.
Can anyone help her with shares or donations? She’s only 12 & she’s been thru so much. Still stuck at $1
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My latest painting is of Jamil from Gaza, who inspires me every day to be a better person. He's only 17 but incredibly wise, and he deserves our love and support. Share his family's survival fund: chuffed.org/project/1601...
December 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
My latest painting is of Jamil from Gaza, who inspires me every day to be a better person. He's only 17 but incredibly wise, and he deserves our love and support. Share his family's survival fund: chuffed.org/project/1601...
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Farrah and Muhanad have a lot of integrity and upon finding out that a scammer was trying to trick other Gazans by saying he promoted their campaign (when he didn’t) they decided to change the URL so he couldn’t do that- so this is their new link to their fundraiser now.
August 31, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Farrah and Muhanad have a lot of integrity and upon finding out that a scammer was trying to trick other Gazans by saying he promoted their campaign (when he didn’t) they decided to change the URL so he couldn’t do that- so this is their new link to their fundraiser now.
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This new website will compile all my paintings for Palestinians in Gaza and their respective survival funds. Nothing more, nothing less. Check it out: paintingforpalestine.carrd.co
Painting For Palestine
A collection of art for Palestine. Palestinian Portraits in oil paint that link to their family's survival fundraisers.
paintingforpalestine.carrd.co
December 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
This new website will compile all my paintings for Palestinians in Gaza and their respective survival funds. Nothing more, nothing less. Check it out: paintingforpalestine.carrd.co
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CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves
CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves
Israel’s military is continuing to pound the Gaza Strip in violation of the October 10 ceasefire agreement. Al Jazeera reports Israeli ships opened fire toward the coast of Khan Younis, while air raid...
www.democracynow.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves
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📽️ WATCH: As her health declined during a high-risk pregnancy, Tierra Walker asked doctors for an abortion. They assured her she didn’t need to worry. Then she died of preeclampsia.
Listen to her aunt Latanya Walker recount Tierra's story. More: https://propub.li/3MkJs6L
Listen to her aunt Latanya Walker recount Tierra's story. More: https://propub.li/3MkJs6L
December 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
📽️ WATCH: As her health declined during a high-risk pregnancy, Tierra Walker asked doctors for an abortion. They assured her she didn’t need to worry. Then she died of preeclampsia.
Listen to her aunt Latanya Walker recount Tierra's story. More: https://propub.li/3MkJs6L
Listen to her aunt Latanya Walker recount Tierra's story. More: https://propub.li/3MkJs6L
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Firstly, there is no mention of how public health officials ignored, denied and aggressively obstructed meaningful discussion and dissemination of the fact that COVID is predominantly spread by the airborne route.
December 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Firstly, there is no mention of how public health officials ignored, denied and aggressively obstructed meaningful discussion and dissemination of the fact that COVID is predominantly spread by the airborne route.
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Great reporting and a knockout final line:
“Not long after, as the sun was going down, an SUV with tinted windows and an out-of-state license plate was seen barreling down a nearby street. It was followed closely by three cars, with drivers laying on their horns and whistling.”
“Not long after, as the sun was going down, an SUV with tinted windows and an out-of-state license plate was seen barreling down a nearby street. It was followed closely by three cars, with drivers laying on their horns and whistling.”
At MPR now: Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make ICE agents' jobs as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
share.google/4LfU58LW6iUR...
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‘Tinted windows and out-of-state plates’: How ICE watchers look for agents in their neighborhoods
Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make their job as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
share.google
December 6, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Great reporting and a knockout final line:
“Not long after, as the sun was going down, an SUV with tinted windows and an out-of-state license plate was seen barreling down a nearby street. It was followed closely by three cars, with drivers laying on their horns and whistling.”
“Not long after, as the sun was going down, an SUV with tinted windows and an out-of-state license plate was seen barreling down a nearby street. It was followed closely by three cars, with drivers laying on their horns and whistling.”
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The current horrors are unevenly distributed. Not all of us are suffering the same effects of fascism. We have to do what we can to defend and protect the most vulnerable in our midst. We can do so while keeping grief close and tending to it. “
shorturl.at/Lk11O
shorturl.at/Lk11O
We Don’t Know Where We Will End Up…
A Year Since the 2024 Election
shorturl.at
December 6, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The current horrors are unevenly distributed. Not all of us are suffering the same effects of fascism. We have to do what we can to defend and protect the most vulnerable in our midst. We can do so while keeping grief close and tending to it. “
shorturl.at/Lk11O
shorturl.at/Lk11O
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A reminder that Iron Circus is gonna get WALLOPED with Baker & Taylor bankruptcy backdraft for the next several months, turning our usual distro payout into bills.
If you'd like to help a small business making weird-ass comics weather the storm, a 💥30% OFF💥 sale is on now!
store.ironcircus.com
If you'd like to help a small business making weird-ass comics weather the storm, a 💥30% OFF💥 sale is on now!
store.ironcircus.com
Iron Circus Comics
Iron Circus Comics is the premiere publisher of award-winning, critically-acclaimed graphic novels in the American Midwest, a small-mid house built from the ground up by founder C. Spike Trotman.
store.ironcircus.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
A reminder that Iron Circus is gonna get WALLOPED with Baker & Taylor bankruptcy backdraft for the next several months, turning our usual distro payout into bills.
If you'd like to help a small business making weird-ass comics weather the storm, a 💥30% OFF💥 sale is on now!
store.ironcircus.com
If you'd like to help a small business making weird-ass comics weather the storm, a 💥30% OFF💥 sale is on now!
store.ironcircus.com
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BTW, if you haven't read Johanna's book THE GHOSTKEEPER, let me just tell you right now that you're missing out. It's touching and lovely and just so incredibly good.
You should read it and then leave a review, because reviews make a huge difference for creators.
You should read it and then leave a review, because reviews make a huge difference for creators.
Did you like my graphic novel THE GHOSTKEEPER?
Tis the season to leave a review! Reviews help authors a ton and you get to share things you like about a book, it’s a win-win! 👻
Tis the season to leave a review! Reviews help authors a ton and you get to share things you like about a book, it’s a win-win! 👻
December 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
BTW, if you haven't read Johanna's book THE GHOSTKEEPER, let me just tell you right now that you're missing out. It's touching and lovely and just so incredibly good.
You should read it and then leave a review, because reviews make a huge difference for creators.
You should read it and then leave a review, because reviews make a huge difference for creators.
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there are of course many examples of political constituencies that have in fact killed scores of children (en route to some other evil goal), but I can't offhand think of any historical examples of a political constituency organized for that specific purpose
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
there are of course many examples of political constituencies that have in fact killed scores of children (en route to some other evil goal), but I can't offhand think of any historical examples of a political constituency organized for that specific purpose
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Reports from South Kordofan say an RSF suicide-drone strike on the town of Kalogi hit a kindergarten and surrounding civilian areas, killing more than 100 people, mostly children, according to updated figures from local medical networks.
December 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Reports from South Kordofan say an RSF suicide-drone strike on the town of Kalogi hit a kindergarten and surrounding civilian areas, killing more than 100 people, mostly children, according to updated figures from local medical networks.
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🚨 Israel’s High Court has issued its 9th delay on a decision over foreign press access to Gaza, extending a deadline to Dec 21 for the Israeli state to present a media-access plan. Foreign journalists have been barred since 2023, aside from tightly... Fox News’ Trey Yingst spoke out about it today ⬇️
December 6, 2025 at 3:22 AM
🚨 Israel’s High Court has issued its 9th delay on a decision over foreign press access to Gaza, extending a deadline to Dec 21 for the Israeli state to present a media-access plan. Foreign journalists have been barred since 2023, aside from tightly... Fox News’ Trey Yingst spoke out about it today ⬇️
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This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
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This is it and frankly it's disgustingly exhausting. Folks have leaped and ran to give machines more human attributes than their peers who demonstrate actual autonomy.
imo reasoning implies agency and volition.
in general I think using anthropomorphizing language like "reasoning" is counterproductive because it shifts the discussion away from the actually valuable use cases for statistically-determined output
in general I think using anthropomorphizing language like "reasoning" is counterproductive because it shifts the discussion away from the actually valuable use cases for statistically-determined output
December 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is it and frankly it's disgustingly exhausting. Folks have leaped and ran to give machines more human attributes than their peers who demonstrate actual autonomy.
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I‘m sharing a Palestinian account everyday and today is Samar. Samar fled with her children at the beginning of the war, but her husband stayed, he was killed and their home destroyed, she also lost both her parents. She is trying to take care of her kids Tala, 13, Basant, 12, Imran, 10 and Zeina, 5
December 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I‘m sharing a Palestinian account everyday and today is Samar. Samar fled with her children at the beginning of the war, but her husband stayed, he was killed and their home destroyed, she also lost both her parents. She is trying to take care of her kids Tala, 13, Basant, 12, Imran, 10 and Zeina, 5