Lady Gaga Dog Walker Shooter Sentenced to 21 Years

The man charged for shooting Lady Gaga’s dog walker last year just got a stiff punishment for the crime … landing behind bars for decades.
— Read on www.tmz.com/2022/12/05/shooter-lady-gaga-dog-walker-sentenced-21-years-prison/

‘What the hell, Sam’: Justice Alito slammed for making ‘joke’ about Black children in KKK costumes – Raw Story – Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in one of the most important cases of the term, a case that will determine if the nation’s highest court will or will not allow a person citing their personal religious beliefs to openly discriminate in the marketplace against same-sex couples.In li…
— Read on www.rawstory.com/what-the-hell-sam-justice-alito-slammed-for-making-joke-about-black-children-in-kkk-costumes/

Biodiversity: a long word that simply means “life”…

Petchary's Blog

This past weekend (December 3 and 4), citizen scientists on three (sorry, four) islands across the Caribbean participated in “Inter-Island BioBlitz 2022.” It wasn’t really a competition – but who says scientists (and wannabes like me) don’t love to compete? So, there was an element of that, across the islands.

Trinidad and Tobago invited Barbados and Jamaica to join them this year. The University of the West Indies’ St. Augustine campus in T&T partnered with iNaturalist and the Trinidad & Tobago Naturalists’ Club for the bioblitz.

A snapshot of some of the weekend’s observations, posted on Twitter.

At the end of the weekend, there were over 4,000 observations of over 1,000 species of birds, butterflies, plants, trees, and bugs of various sorts. Many are still being uploaded. We went out into our back yards (or wherever) and ensuring that our exact coordinates were on our phones, took photos of whatever…

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Incompletude

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Tanta vida transborda em meio às nossas expectativas- de uma pessoa, de uma época de tudo o que incomoda, do que não se diz, do que é valioso e por isso, não vendemos fiado.

É fácil criar metáforas para não se sofrer,

Para nos desarmar,

Para criar distrações,

Para trazer a lucidez ao que a mente precisa despertar, combater inclusive. A verdade é que nos afirmamos o tempo inteiro em meio ao nosso trajeto. A gente experimenta certas vivências, experiências perigosas para nos deixar impressionar diante ao novo. Este ( o novo), os olhos enxergam antes mesmo, da constatação das nossas certezas. É um mau exemplo, por onde geralmente, tentamos nos guiar, pois diante dos sobressaltos da vida, tem sempre um incômodo disfarçado de intuição ali dizendo: desperta! Mas você ignorar, porque quer o que impressiona, ou seja, ” a paisagem nova sob a linha do olhar”. Afinal, a monotonia…

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Clouds

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

A poem in Vietnamese by Vũ Hoàng Thư
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
PHotography: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

a cloud

you appeared

I was just there

seemed like

I was staring

but

watching

the clouds drifting

in the breeze

rather

nothing new

truly is

neither this nor

ever

that

October 2022

mây

em về ta chẳng bước

nhưng

đứng yên

không hẳn đã dừng lại đây

đôi khi như

đợi chốn nầy

thật ra

nhìn

gió

mây

vẫn thường


Vũ Hoàng Thư, born Võ Anh Tuấn 1949 in Hue, Vietnam. The poet and translator, head editor of bienkhoi.com currently lives in Fountain Valley, California.

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet, and translator, was born in 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

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Female Photographers In The Victorian Era. — beetleypete

Unfortunately, most of these pioneering ladies are uncredited. However, here is Jessie Tarbox-Beales, the first professional female press photographer. Jessie again. These other ladies are unknown to me. Some are taking the earliest version of ‘selfies’, using their own cameras. The rest are being photographed by others.

Female Photographers In The Victorian Era. — beetleypete