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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

FOTD – August 9, 2024 – Dahlia – Cee’s Photo Challenges

Source: FOTD – August 9, 2024 – Dahlia – Cee’s Photo Challenges

Glaciar del Ródano: el cambio climático a toda velocidad – Stigmatis

El aumento de las temperaturas está derritiendo glaciares en todo el mundo. Dos fotos de vacaciones tomadas por una pareja británica en Suiza muestran la gravedad de la situación.

El matrimonio Porter en el glaciar del Ródano (2009 y 2024). Imagen: Duncan Porter, @misterduncan/X.com

Source: Glaciar del Ródano: el cambio climático a toda velocidad – Stigmatis

The Cards We’re Dealt | From Behind the Pen

Life, Encouragemnt, Courge

Image Credit: Peter Griffin

Life is like a card game. The dealer distributes cards that you have no idea what they hold until you flip them over. From that point, depending on which game you’re playing, you will have to devise a strategy to play with the cards you are dealt, in an effort to win the game.

Should you hold them or fold them? Do you play or run away? If only life decisions were that easy, we wouldn’t have a thing to worry about. Sometimes life deals us a great hand, with a win-win situation. It’s like you have the Midas touch no matter what!

Some days you may feel like you’re playing a game of Solitaire, finding yourself alone, trying to figure out the next move, and having to start all over again until you get the sequence right. Other days it seems like you’re playing a game of Blackjack where there is a strong adversary whom you feel you have to defeat quickly and defiantly. Many times, you often feel like you’re playing a long game of Poker, where you are competing against some hardcore opponents for a long, hard fight just to get ahead.

While card games typically have guidelines to go by, life has no foolproof instructions that can guarantee you will avoid pain, heartache, and disappointment. Yep, life is a gamble in the game of chance. If you play your cards with divine instruction, you will develop divine wisdom to be in step with the life-changing, life-enhancing moves you make, and reap the rewards from the life lessons you learn.

Image Credit: Pixabay 

Source: The Cards We’re Dealt | From Behind the Pen

Una caja para tontos – Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

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Existen, en determinadas plazas comerciales y en algunos espacios públicos, vitrinas de cristal con una serie de muñecos de peluche acomodados con cierta intencionalidad, y un mecanismo que, a cambio de una moneda, el público manipula durante algunos segundos con el objetivo de tratar de sujetar uno de los juguetes y hacerlo suyo. La mayoría no lo logra porque se trata de un equipo diseñado para dificultar la captura de muñecos. Siempre que miro esos aparatos, pienso que se encuentran en espera de incautos, soñadores, tontos e ilusos dispuestos a gastar y derrochar su tiempo y su dinero en anhelos frustrados, en la ambición y en el intento de conseguir un muñeco que minutos antes no planeaban adquirir y que coincidieron, inesperadamente, en el camino. Ante la ausencia de historias enriquecedores e interesantes en la vida, los que logran atrapar un muñeco -el que sea- son considerados personas afortunadas, hábiles y exitosas. Asombran porque la mayoría pierde. Es una mofa, un juego, una comedia, una aventura. El sistema eléctrico y mecánico está manufacturado para complicar los intentos de sujetar y extraer alguno de los muñecos indiferentes a los deseos de la gente. Igual es la vida. Alguien, y otros más, imponen gustos, modas, sueños y tendencias. Enajenan, manipulan y controlan. Su plan tiene cierta intencionalidad. Son los que están desarticulando a las familias y las instituciones, confundiendo y rompiendo a las generaciones jóvenes y llevando a cabo acciones para destruir los modelos actuales e imponer un gobierno que a nivel mundial se apodere de la voluntad humana y de los recursos naturales y minerales del planeta. Solo hay que voltear a un lado y a otro, en el mundo, para comprobarlo.

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Source: Una caja para tontos – Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

79º aniversário do bombardeio de Nagasaki e texto lido por dos sobreviventes – Japão para Românticos

O representante dos sobreviventes da bomba atômica, Seiichiro Mise, lê o Juramento pela Paz em uma cerimônia de paz que marca os 79 anos do bombardeio atômico de Nagasaki, no Parque da Paz na cidade em 9 de agosto de 2024. (Mainichi/Kenji Ikai)

Inicia-se hoje no Japão o feriado nacional Obon Yasumi, feriado prolongado dedicado às vítimas do bombardeio de 1945 que atingiu Hiroshima e Nagasaki. A cerimônia de Paz marca 79 anos do bombardeio atômico com um discurso de Paz pelo representante dos sobreviventes, confira abaixo:

“Toda vez que vejo um relógio de parede parado em 11:02, lembro-me do pesadelo de 79 anos atrás.”

Source: 79º aniversário do bombardeio de Nagasaki e texto lido por dos sobreviventes – Japão para Românticos

Magic Shell Ice Cream Topping Recipe

With it being ice cream weather I thought I would reshare one of the most fun recipes I have posted. It goes on as liquid chocolate syrup and instantly turns into a magic shell of crunchy candy chocolate right before your eyes. I have to admit I didn’t think it would work but trust me, it is just like the store bought stuff but cheaper!

To see my step by step directions with pictures and a printable recipe card click HERE.

http://www.InDianesKitchen.com

Source: Magic Shell Ice Cream Topping Recipe

Open Thread | LarryO Calls Out The Media | 3CHICSPOLITICO

About their coverage of the Orange Menace. Needed to be said

 

John V. Moore (@johnvmoore) posted at 9:15 PM on Thu, Aug 08, 2024:
Damn @Lawrence just slammed his script down on the desk. He is spitting 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👍🏽
(https://x.com/johnvmoore/status/1821731917466677659?s=02)

Source: Open Thread | LarryO Calls Out The Media | 3CHICSPOLITICO