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Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706378/ “You’re going to return as real men” — the deployment of russian conscripts to the Belgorod region, near the border #Ukraine #UkraineWar #UkraineWarVideoReport
"You're going to return as real men" — the deployment of russian conscripts to the Belgorod region, near the border
Andreas mastodon (AP)
They are going to return in body bags.

katharine mastodon (AP)
Speakeasy but for healthcare
Chris Johnson mastodon (AP)
Brilliant idea!
katharine mastodon (AP)
Doctor’s office/healthcare clinic but when the cops come to raid the joint, the walls and fixtures flip to turn the place into a shooting range or casino or car dealership

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706417/ Treska prílohy. Čo Vám chutí k treske? #slovakia
Treska prílohy. Čo Vám chutí k treske?

#TuckFrump mastodon (AP)
'It's telling': Insider spills about 'break from Mr. Trump' among Republican lawmakers https://www.rawstory.com/trump-break-from-gop-lawmakers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706415/ Neues iPhone war gestohlen? #austria
Neues iPhone war gestohlen?


meehawl mastodon (AP)
It's not the video games or the socials:

"CDC analysis associates two-thirds of teens’ poor mental health and 89% of suicide attempts with parents’ and household adults’ violence, abusive behaviors, “severe” mental health problems, drug and alcohol abuse, and jailings."

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/cdc-teen-mental-health-california-19986352.php
The CDC analysis associates two-thirds of teens’ poor mental health and 89% of suicide attempts with parents’ and household adults’ violence, abusive behaviors, “severe” mental health problems, drug and alcohol abuse, and jailings. Serious family troubles are “common,” with “approximately three in four students (76.1%) experiencing one or more” and “one in five students (18.5%) experiencing four or more,” the CDC reports.
This Be The Verse

By Philip Larkin

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They fuck you up, your mum and dad.   

    They may not mean to, but they do.   

They fill you with the faults they had

    And add some extra, just for you.


But they were fucked up in their turn

    By fools in old-style hats and coats,   

Who half the time were soppy-stern

    And half at one another’s throats.


Man hands on misery to man.

    It deepens like a coastal shelf.

Get out as early as you can,

    And don’t have any kids yourself.


Copyright Credit: Philip Larkin, "This Be the Verse" from Collected Poems. Copyright © Estate of Philip Larkin.  Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd.

Source: Collected Poems (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2001)

Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
Toast and most important coffee ordered ... It's nice and quiet, I'm the only customer, at this moment

Hugz & xXx
Mina mastodon (AP)
Smoothly booting the day.

Have a good one!
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Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
@mina

You have a beautiful evening sweetie ... 💋

Even tho, hopping back into bed soinds inviting ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx
@Mina


Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706411/ Učiteljica mora biti odlikovana za požrtvovnost i hrabrost! #croatia
Učiteljica mora biti odlikovana za požrtvovnost i hrabrost!

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mvario mastodon (AP)
US animal lab from which monkeys escaped accused of widespread abuse | South Carolina | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/animal-lab-monkeys-abuse-allegations

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706409/ ‘Like a nuclear bomb’ – Should LED lights be banned? | Newstalk #ireland
'Like a nuclear bomb' - Should LED lights be banned? | Newstalk

Kyrylys mastodon (AP)
38.39º

Myphatself mastodon (AP)
it seems there was a trend in the 70s maybe with having shrunken heads. I remember my uncle having some along side his lava lamp.
Mitch Wagner mastodon (AP)
@Myphatself I like my head full-sized.

Martin Kostera hubzilla (AP)
😬

Ehm. Kde že je ten pracák? 😬

Image/photo

Image/photo

#AI #chatGPT


Dr. Amy, Psy.D. mastodon (AP)
I painted this recently 💜
Abstract painting with reds, oranges, and yellows with black mixed in around the edges. Green leaves in the lower right corner. Four daisies scattered around, each with a glass bead painted rose gold in the center. In the middle of the painting are two white roses not fully bloomed.

JP mastodon (AP)
Journalists should get in the habit of asking Trump after he makes any announcement “has Elon approved that?”

Chuck Darwin mastodon (AP)
Last year, representatives of New Mexico’s oil industry met behind closed doors
with the very groups with which they typically clash
— state regulators and environmentalists
— in search of an answer to the more than 70,000 wells sitting unplugged across the state.

Many leak oil, brine and toxic or explosive gasses,
and more than 1,700 have already been left to the public to clean up.

The situation is so dire that oil companies agreed to help try to find a solution.

After months of negotiations,
the state regulators who ran the meetings emerged with a proposal that they hoped would appease everyone in the room.

The bill would instruct drillers to set aside more money to plug their wells,
authorize regulators to block risky sales to companies that would be unlikely to afford to clean up their wells
and implement a buffer zone between wells and hospitals, schools, homes and other buildings.

The industry, unhappy with the state’s final language, turned against the bill it helped shape.

The influential New Mexico Oil and Gas Association told its supporters that HB 133 was
“a radical and dangerous approach designed to strangle the oil and gas industry”
and asked them to send their elected representatives a form letter opposing it.

If passed, the trade group proclaimed,
the bill would
“Destroy New Mexico.”

The Independent Petroleum Association of New Mexico,
which represents small oil companies,
called the bill “overzealous.”

In the face of such opposition, Democrats removed key provisions.

The New Mexico Oil and Gas Association eventually changed its position to neutral,
but largely stripped of substance,
the bill died on the floor of the House of Representatives.

“Industry killing the bills was the dynamic I saw,” said Adam Peltz,
a senior attorney with the Environmental Defense Fund
who helped write the New Mexico proposal,
as well as similar bills in other oil-producing states

https://www.propublica.org/article/oil-industry-lobbying-unplugged-wells
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Chuck Darwin mastodon (AP)
New Mexico faces a multibillion-dollar shortfall
between the money companies have set aside to plug wells and the actual cost of doing so,
according to state research -- a reality mirrored in many states.

Across the country, more than 2 million oil and gas wells sit unplugged,
but the money held in cleanup funds,
called bonds,
is many tens of billions of dollars short of the projected costs,
ProPublica and Capital & Main found.

Now, a once-in-a-lifetime effort to shrink that shortfall is underway,
spurred in large part by federal funding for well-plugging efforts.

As regulators and legislators seek to require that drillers set aside more money for the work,
they have invited oil companies and trade groups to help write the regulations.

This dynamic
— politically expedient in states where the industry wields tremendous influence
— has combined with secretive drafting processes and millions of dollars of industry lobbying
to weaken or kill proposals in state after state.

In some, including Oklahoma and Utah,
lawmakers propose bills only after oil trade groups approve the language.

In many others, regulators and drillers work together through organizations such as the quasi-governmental "Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission" to design policy.

But even when given a seat at the table,
like in New Mexico,
the industry has turned against reform efforts.

Holly Hopkins,
a vice president of the American Petroleum Institute,
the industry’s largest trade group,
said in a statement,

“We are continuing to work with policymakers to advance balanced regulations that enhance safety, sustainability and environmental stewardship
and help ensure that American energy is produced responsibly from start to finish.”

Those working to reform a status quo that has left potentially millions of wells as orphans disagree.

Sen. Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat,
is preparing to file a bill in Congress targeting oil companies’ use of bankruptcy to offload cleanup obligations on the public.

“The challenge in anything that involves fossil fuels,
and particularly that addresses a profit strategy of fossil fuel companies,
is you’re taking on the most powerful lobby in the United States of America,” he said.

smellsofbikes diaspora
This took me a moment

Kevin Leecaster mastodon (AP)
Sixteen gigawatt hour project!!!!!

Batteries charged with wind & solar are going to put out the fires at fossil fueled power plants.
https://www.ess-news.com/2024/12/09/powerchina-receives-bids-for-16-gwh-bess-tender-with-average-price-of-66-5-kwh/

Ibises in the Sky

This is a flock of white ibises (Eudocimus Eudocimus) that passed over one day.

Pay attention to the sky
And you'll see things that fly
In air where serenity rises
Graceful, soaring ibises.

My photo gallery contains more that 1000 images that I've chosen to share. Most are there for their visual appeal but there are a few novelty images. You can check out my gallery at:

https://swede1952-photographs.pixels.com
"The image shows a flock of four white ibises flying in the sky. The birds are captured mid-flight with their wings spread wide, showcasing their feathers against a clear blue sky. The photograph is visually striking due to the contrast between the birds and the sky, and it captures the grace and beauty of the ibises in motion." - Copilot

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Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706405/ Заслужена почивка #bulgaria
Заслужена почивка

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706403/ Casă de piatră Makaveli!Să-ți trăiască Șoșoaca #romania
Casă de piatră Makaveli!Să-ți trăiască Șoșoaca

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1706401/ Wigilia: Why Poland celebrates Christmas Eve with 12 dishes #poland
Wigilia: Why Poland celebrates Christmas Eve with 12 dishes

裸のラリーズ (Les Rallizes Dénudés/Hadaka no rariizu)は、1967年に水谷孝を中心に京都で結成されたエクスペリメンタルノイズロック・サイケデリックロックバンド。1960年代から1990年代に活動し、国内外のノイズロックシーンに多大なる影響を与え、現在もカルト的人気。
https://monumental-movement.jp/Les-Rallizes-Denudes-Live-1972/
結成当時のメンバーは水谷孝、中村武志、若林盛亮。その他、山口冨士夫(元村八分、後にティアドロップス)、久保田麻琴などが一時在籍するなどメンバーは流動的。1996年を最後に活動を休止している。
Les Rallizes Dénudés Live 1972 at Circus Circus in Kyoto (Full Album) https://youtu.be/zoaAUptZ0mw


Andrew Zonenberg mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Actuarial analysis of Santa Claus

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Dgar mastodon (AP)
Venn Diagram:

IMMORTAL + INVADES HOMES = zombies 

EMERGES AT NIGHT + IMMORTAL = vampires 

INVADES HOMES + EMERGES AT NIGHT = cockroaches

IMMORTAL + INVADES HOMES + EMERGES AT NIGHT = Santa Claus
A four-quadrant grid. 

Anti capitalism + Pro Christmas = Jesus 

Pro Christmas + Pro capitalism = Santa 

Anti capitalism + Anti Christmas = The Grinch 

Pro capitalism + Anti Christmas = Scrooge
Kahte🐿️ mastodon (AP)
Bisous du train 😘😘😘😘

Jcrabapple mastodon (AP)
Anyone have suggestions for cataloging a vinyl record collection? Any self-hosted applications? I'd rather not use a spreadsheet but I'll go that route if I have to.


Loren hometown (AP)
There’s nothing better than telling someone about an animal they’ve never heard of and them being genuinely excited about it

Lauren Weinstein mastodon (AP)
I haven't had time to post an update on the new kitten Blaze, and I'll update in more detail later. But just to let you know he's doing very well. He's on medication for his respiratory and eyes condition. Though he will probably always have less than perfect vision, he obviously has enough vision that he's not having any noticeable problems at all. He'll be an indoor cat of course so he'll be fine. He is full of energy and has a veracious appetite -- I sometimes suspect he's actually a panther cub. Are there solid gray panthers? Doesn't matter. Though Blaze has had no contact with Leela so far, and won't
for a couple of weeks, Leela has been under stress (very common when a new kitten comes into a household, even when they are kept far apart) and I'm dealing with that now as well and have to stay on top of this. Blaze is little bundle of joy, and if there's one thing we need these days it's the increasingly difficult to attain joy.
Tony Wells mastodon (AP)
Good to hear. Cats will usually bond after some initial unease, and will then gang up on you.

Michael mastodon (AP)
Another weekend sorting and reprocessing some of my archives from Southeast Asia. I find this market scene from Bagan, #Burma / Myanmar very captivating. #Photography
Market scene. A young boy in dark red monks robes holds a begging bowl with a very pensive scowl on his face. In the background are many people buying or selling fresh vegetables.

Mike Sheward mastodon (AP)
“And to Colin, whom he states in a message he may not have had the best relationship with during his mortal years, hopes this will make up for following his passing, he leaves his original Picasso artwork…”

“Oh my god, oh my god…”

“…NFT collection.”

“FUCK!”

Chris Trottier pleroma (AP)
Tom Mulcair used to be the leader of Canada’s Official Opposition, and this is a good summary of everything about to go down in Canada.

Things are not pretty and they’re about to get worse. All this because Trudeau can’t walk away.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/tom-mulcair-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-s-train-wreck-of-a-final-act-1.7154855
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