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Any pundit who is criticizing Pres. Zelenskyy's attire is failing to read the room, but moreover, they're just completely missing the point.

A country and its leader under immediate and existential threats have no time for suits and neckties.

He has no visible rank or medals or nametapes or epaulets or brass buttons or starched creases. He's wearing what women and men who are fighting on the frontlines in Ukraine are wearing.

He's wearing the urgency of the moment.

That's the point.

@jayarava
Now I can give some focus to helping spread the good news of your presence! I had already accidentally discovered a young gent who is a Triratna friend/practitioner (local to you, I mean), which is one of those charming coincidences that keeps life interesting. 😎 With Mastodon populations now over 3 million, there's bound to be some critical mass at some point.

By the way, your Raves page still has a Twitter "follow me" link on it, not sure if intentional or oversight, none of my business of course but thought I should mention it just in case.

(I'm the guy from the US who asked permission to print your "Heart" work a while back so that I could assemble some study materials, and I'd like to mention that I still pull it off the shelf now and then to remind me of something that slipped my mind. As you can guess, the notebook is really quite hefty even though printed double-sided and restricted to just the Heart material. 😃 )

Thanks very much again for your generosity with your work. You've helped this internet stranger immensely. Should you ever need anything from me, I'd be delighted and honored to help-- I have some experience with proofreading and editing from the technical writing I had to do as a SysAdmin before my retirement.)

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THIS JUST IN...

Hallmark Researchers Say They are Very Close to Developing a Second Movie Plot!

@sarahstankorb
Your admin is listed as @jeff, maybe that will give a clue for a contact somewhere.

@sarahstankorb
Had to do it lately, it came directly through the server I'm signed up on. Is it possible to contact whoever runs the instance? There SHOULD be a webpage for it somewhere.

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Someone please give Marjorie Taylor Greene a hundred bucks and send her to Charles Entertainment Cheese tonight, so she doesn’t embarrass us during President Zelensky’s address to Congress.

@drsueoosthuizen
And as yet another of those little weird coincidences that seem to happen, I was just reading a journal article proposing the idea that Sakyamuni ("sage of the Sakyas," a.k.a the Buddha) was Scythian since that's what Saka/Sakya means. Wouldn't be earth-shattering if true, but kind of fun to ponder. And this object would be from around that time frame!

@JamesGleick @ProPublica
At least they were honest enough to drop that "no evil" thing a goodly while back. Looks like an engrossing report, thanks!

@impermanen_
Would make it easy to find her in a parking lot, no? I mean amongst all the other mules parked there.

@skepteis
Hoo-whee, good thing he didn't try that with smokeless powder (which I would not put past such a clever sort).

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A reminder that Matt Gaetz had $482,321 in PPP loans forgiven.

Matt Gaetz doesn't own a company.

@drsueoosthuizen
Amazingly graceful! Those Scythians really had it going on.

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I'm losing my heart all over again to this 11.5cm tall #stag, carved from a single piece of wood & originally covered with gold leaf, with its vast branched leather antlers. Made in the 5thC BC as a finial for a #prehistoric #Scythian headdress, it was one of the artefacts in the #BritishMuseum's 2017 Scythian exhibition.
There's more about the exhibition at britishmuseum.org/blog/introdu. /1

@DavMicRot
Also an excellent argument for forced sterilization, much as I normally dislike the whole eugenics thing.

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💰Conservative Peer Lord Prior introduced a company called LumiraDx to Lord Bethell. The firm was awarded Covid contracts worth over £45 million.

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Hominins, including Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, and Homo neanderthalensis, travelled the Aegean sea 450,000 years ago.

This was about 150,000 years before Homo sapiens (us) emerged in Africa.

#Science #Archaelogy #Geology

Source: sciencedirect.com/science/arti

@callisto @bennessb
Glad to make your acquaintance! Was born and grew up in Cols., father is from Wadsworth, and mother Lebanon. I got a little Ohio stuck in there over the years. 😉 (AZ the last thirty years or so, but I haven't forgotten.)

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"And may all your active galactic nuclei be bright" 🎅🎄

Lovely new #JWST NIRCam image of the face-on spiral galaxy, NGC7469, in Pegasus.

The big red eight-pointed diffraction spike is due to bright long-wavelength emission from hot gas & dust spiralling into the central supermassive black hole, surrounded by a ring of vigorous star formation.

More info on the data & the GOALS project they come from: esawebb.org/images/potm2212a/

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. S. Evans

#astrodon

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