First California County reinstates COVID mask mandate – Los Angeles Times

Man holds up a sign advising people to wear masks.

John Abercrombie, an usher for the Oakland Athletics, holds up a sign advising people to wear masks bevore a baseball game April 2, 2021.
(Tony Avelar/AP)

Source: First California County reinstates COVID mask mandate – Los Angeles Times

Antes del anochecer

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Antes del anochecer, quiero tomar los pinceles de la mañana y de la tarde con el objetivo de deslizarlos en los lienzos de mi existencia y de los demás -tú, ella, él, nosotros, ustedes, ellos-, para así, antes de que lleguen las sombras, cubrir de luces y de matices las palabras, los rostros, los detalles y las sonrisas. Antes del anochecer, me interesa recorrer senderos, trepar escarpas, saltar cercas, sentir el pulso de la natureza al caminar descalzo y mojarme con las gotas de la lluvia, porque más tarde, quizá, podrían no alumbrar las estrellas. Antes del anochecer, quiero asolearme, permitirle al viento que me acaricie y que murmure secretos a mis oídos, y compartir con la hoja que se desprende del árbol y con el pájaro de bello plumaje, en su vuelo inalcanzable, la sensación de libertad. Antes…

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Beyond Words

Filosofa's Word

May 14th – 10 killed, 3 injured in a grocery store in Buffalo, New York

May 15th – 1 killed, 5 injured at a church in Laguna Woods, California

May 24th – 19 children, 2 teachers killed, 17 injured in a school in Uvalde, Texas

June 1st – 4 killed at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Two weeks.  These are just the ones that made the headlines.  In the two weeks following the Buffalo shooting, there have been 36 other mass shootings in the U.S.  With the exception of the church shooting, the incidents I mention above were all carried out with military-style assault weapons … weapons that civilians have no business even owning.

A grocery store, a church, a school, and a hospital.  American Exceptionalism?  Oh yeah, we’re #1 alright … the only nation on the planet where it’s no longer safe to buy food…

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This Will Never… #flashfiction #scifi #reenasxplorationchallenge

penned in moon dust

Reena’s Absolutely challenging Challenge –> Welcome back! RXC PROMPT #233 ravaged inner space unable to account for entries and exits who came, who destroyed, who left? a soul transformed forever 

It had happened. The event that all of us had trained for.

“This will never happen…” Our O.T. said loudly to our group.

“Why are we doing this then?” An intern very young, very inexperienced had asked.

“They always ask us to do things that they cannot explain the rationale for…” A very seasoned staff person chimed in.

We went through the drill. Most of it was what you would expect; it was the immediate shut-down no matter who was in the facility that bothered us.

“What happens to civilians?” One of my co-workers whispered.

“Hopefully they are in the unit when close-down initiates or they will be radiated.”

“Even kids?”

I gulped not wanting to answer the affirmative.

“But…

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बचपन / Childhood

Kaushal Kishore

कोई लौटा दे
वह मेरा बचपन
जब खेलते खेलते
मैं सो जाता था
छत पर सुकून से
बिना परवाह किए
कि कल क्या होगा…

🚸🚸🚸🚸🚸🚸

Somebody pleasereturn
my childhood
when I used to fall asleep
peacefully
while playing on the terrace
without bothering
what will happen tomorrow…

–Kaushal Kishore

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Top Scientist: We Can’t Adapt Our Way Out of This Climate Crisis – Mother Jones

The world cannot adapt its way out of the climate crisis, and counting on adaptation to limit damage is no substitute for urgently cutting greenhouse gases, a leading climate scientist has warned.

Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy and a professor at Texas Tech University, said the world was heading for dangers unseen in the 10,000 years of human civilization, and efforts to make the world more resilient were needed but by themselves could not soften the impact enough. “People do not understand the magnitude of what is going on,” she said. “This will be greater than anything we have ever seen in the past. This will be unprecedented. Every living thing will be affected.”

While countries can start to adapt to some of the impacts, for instance with seawalls and flood barriers, and by making their infrastructure more resilient to extreme weather, if global heating is allowed to continue then the world will rapidly reach a point beyond what can be adapted to. “If we continue with business-as-usual greenhouse gas emissions, there is no adaptation that is possible. You just can’t,” she said, in an interview with the Guardian.

Source: Top Scientist: We Can’t Adapt Our Way Out of This Climate Crisis – Mother Jones

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