Cherish your mask

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Yonder

What the Food?

On the right truck.

You can read this later...

By Gemma Correll.

Thanks to V. for sharing. 

 

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Trolling, sarcasm or WTF?

As seen recently in a Norwich (UK) block of flats:

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From The Guardian, in 2012...

2020, leap year

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Tube story

“Just before Christmas 2012, staff at Embankment Tube station were approached by a woman who was very upset. She kept asking them where the voice had gone. They weren’t sure what she meant. The Voice? The voice, she said. The man who says ‘Mind the Gap’.”



Staff reassured her that the announcement had simply been updated with a new digital system and new voices.
“That voice,” she explained, “was my husband.”

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Should I stay...

... or should I go?

Source: YouGov  

Source: Resolution Foundation 

"Your future dream is a shopping scheme". 
The Sex Pistols, 1977.

Cranes in the sky

Winter is back, at last.

Look into the dark side...

"Scientists believe that dark matter, which we have so far only detected through its gravity-based effects in space, makes up about a quarter (26.8 percent) of the total mass and energy of the universe, and something that is driving the universe’s accelerating expansion—which scientists call dark energy—accounts for another 68.3 percent. The ordinary matter, like stars and planets and galaxies, makes up just 4.9 percent of the total mass and energy of the universe."

It's Dark Matter Day, read more about it here and celebrate.

Sad, sad thing

 

 

 

Photograph: Joao Laet/AFP/Getty

 

Amazon rainforest 'close to irreversible tipping point'

Forecast suggests rainforest could stop producing enough rain to sustain itself by 2021

... "After this point the rainforest would stop producing enough rain to sustain itself and start slowly degrading into a drier savannah, releasing billions of tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere"...

 The Guardian, October 2019

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Sloth. Getty Images

 

Summer again

Black Hole One

"The first direct image of a black hole!". EHT

"With the help of two radio telescopes coordinated by the UA, astronomers have taken the first direct image of a black hole!"  Univ. of Arizona, April 10, 2019.

#EHTBlackHole

— Univ. of Arizona 🐻⬇ (@UofA) 10 de abril de 2019

Read more here.

Human in exile

"When I arrived at Christmas Island six years ago, an immigration official called me into the office and told me that they were going to exile me to Manus Island, a place in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I told them that I am a writer. That same person just laughed at me, and ordered the guards to exile me to Manus."...

Read Behrouz Boochani's literary prize acceptance speech – full transcript.

Behrouz Boochani, an asylum seeker detained on Manus Island, has won the Victorian prize for literature Photograph: Jonas Gratzer/The Guardian

"The winner of Australia’s richest literary prize did not attend the ceremony.
His absence was not by choice.
Behrouz Boochani, whose debut book won both the $25,000 non-fiction prize at the Victorian premier’s literary awards and the $100,000 Victorian prize for literature on Thursday night, is not allowed into Australia.
The Kurdish Iranian writer is an asylum seeker who has been kept in purgatory on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea for almost six years, first behind the wire of the Australian offshore detention centre, and then in alternative accommodation on the island.
Now his book No Friend But the Mountains – composed one text message at a time from within the detention centre – has been recognised by a government from the same country that denied him access and locked him up."

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From The Guardian

Frontier: £30000

Thought shaping

Fairytale of NY

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Plastic world

Read aobut it here.

More about this here.

Saving the albatross

‘They are loving, sensitive and graceful,’. Photo: Chris Jordan

"Jordan is fascinated with these majestic birds. With no natural predators on Midway, Laysan albatrosses show no fear of humans, so his footage provides an authentic bird’s-eye view: “Albatrosses are so mysterious because they haven’t been on our radar. They live in places humans just don’t go – yet when we look closely, they are unbelievably magnificent,” he says."

Photograph: Chris Jordan

... "Chris Jordan believes the focus should be on forcing people to have a stronger emotional engagement with the problems plastic causes. His famous photographs of dead albatross chicks and the colourful plastic they have ingested serve as a blunt reminder that the planet is in a state of emergency."

Photograph: Chris Jordan

"“They are loving, sensitive and graceful – when you look at any creature this closely, it becomes amazing,” says Jordan, who believes we would fall in love with any animal if we only stopped to look at them with a similar childlike sense of awe."

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