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Save the Bees Please?
Sheet Pan Balsamic Vegetables

Balsamic Roasted Vegetables are an easy and delicious way to prepare your vegetables in your oven, all on one sheet pan. This combination goes well …
Sheet Pan Balsamic Vegetables
Foreign Non-Intervention: Soviet Invasion of Hungary, 1956

In light of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, it seems appropriate to remind people that Russian Premier Nikita Krushchev invaded Hungary in 1956 in a …
Foreign Non-Intervention: Soviet Invasion of Hungary, 1956
Open Thread | What Is ‘Return to Normal?’ Is it possible?
I agree with this poster. Return to ‘normal’ is not possible. Hon, I say this with all love and no judgment: you don’t need the government to “open” …
Open Thread | What Is ‘Return to Normal?’ Is it possible?
Ensemble

Dans le bleu Picasso un jeune hommequi souffre. Mitsuhashi Toshio Photo : Filipa Moreira da Cruz Cinquante années passées ensembledis-moique tu les …
Ensemble
Let’s save the wildlife- (The giraffe – Giraffa camelopardalis)

Žirafa je afrički sisar iz reda papkara, najviši od svih kopnenih životinja. Međunarodna unija za očuvanje prirode (IUCN) smatra žirafe ranjivim na …
Let’s save the wildlife- (The giraffe – Giraffa camelopardalis)
Just A Few Things Bouncing In My Mind

Like most of you, the news on Wednesday night that Russia had invaded Ukraine, even though expected, was somewhat of a gut punch and kept me awake …
Just A Few Things Bouncing In My Mind
Citadel In The Wilderness
South of the outer foothills of the Himalayan Mountain Range and north of the Brahmaputra River Basin stretches the alluvial floodplains of Dooars in the northeastern realm of the Indian subcontinent. With eighteen historic passages between the lush green plains and the imposing stone and ice mountains, it is the gateway to the kingdom of Bhutan, an ancient and magical region.
Shobosachi had trekked a solid five kilometres through the tiger reserve from the village of Santalabari to reach his destination. The year is 1980. The young man was fresh out of college, and this was to be his last adventure trip before he embarked on the bandwagon of a nine-to-five job life.
As part of the Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands ecoregion, with innumerable streams and rivers flowing from the snowcapped sierras touching the heavens, Dooars was a treasure trove of exotic and endangered birds, plants, and animals. With a…
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Facebook is letting a lot of climate change denial slide despite promises to flag it, study finds | Nieman Journalism Lab
The study found that half of these posts contained no information label, while the other half did.
“50% is a failing grade. It’s an F,” Imran Ahmed, chief executive of CCDH, said in a call with reporters. “Someone with the resources of Facebook should be aiming for an A.”
This 50% without labels (a total of 93 posts), had nearly 542,000 Facebook interactions, which the authors found equated to a little more than half of total interactions with articles in the sample.
Thank You, Octavia Butler
Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better
Today is the Yahrzeit, or the anniversary of the day, in 2006, on which this American prophet and Science Fiction/Fantasy writer left us.
I look back to her words, dreaming of one united human race.
And I look to finding a community of willing workers, united in service to the good of all humanity, where I can both contribute, and be truly included, myself, as well.
To Human Kindness, and in thanks, to Octavia Butler,
S. Destinie
Action Items:
1.) Share your thoughts on how story, and dreaming, may encourage empathy-building cooperation, and might help, or hinder, inclusive thinking.
2.) Write a story, post or tweet that uses those thoughts.
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