Strange Women Lying in Ponds

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[sunshineface]

Wind Farm 12”x12” acrylic on canvas

[nostalgia-eh52]

1973 Marc Bolan

[notwiselybuttoowell]

A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom. Should we be worried?

Scientists in the US have uploaded a fruit fly to a computer simulation, while an Australian lab has taught neurons on a glass chip to play

[vintageeveryday]

During World War II about 600,000 steel stretchers were manufactured for use in the Blitz. They were used by ARP (Air Raid Precaution) wardens after bombing raids.

After the war many of these stretchers were re-purposed as railings and used in lots of estates in South London. Most people pass them by without a second glace. They are a secret and silent memorial to a tragic past. They also prove that recycling isn’t a new phenomenon!

The stretchers were made from steel so that they could be easily washed down after use and used again when necessary. They had a wire mesh within the frame and two indents either side so that they were raised slightly off the ground if they had to be set down while an injured person was being transported. Most were painted green when used as stretchers, but are black in their recycled life as railings.

Many are in poor condition now (and many have been replaced). In recent years a campaign has begun (led by the Stretcher Railing Society)  to raise awareness of these stretcher railings in the hope that they will be protected and treasured as an important part of London history.

[rainformation]

formative years? aren’t they all?

[absolutejamer]

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

[datelinepentagons]

[metmuseum]

Seated Lady Holding a Shield with an Unicorn. 1470–1491. Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/367033

[kamreadsandrecs]

Charleston’s African American Museum Furloughs All Staff

The institution cited “a shift in the political and funding environment” and said staggered furloughs would help avoid layoffs.

[paper-wounds]

“If I Am Killed For Simply Living” — Althea Davis

[ahmed-gaza-celiac]

We are "The Noor Shams Team", a grassroots local initiative in the Gaza Strip founded and run by the families of celiac children themselves. The team representative is Ahmed Sabah, a devoted father whose own child is one of these patients battling the disease every day. As parents and relatives, we live this struggle daily. Our mission is strictly humanitarian: providing safe, gluten-free food and essential medical aid to children suffering from Celiac disease.

Under the current catastrophic conditions, access to regular food is nearly impossible—but for Celiac children, eating normal flour or contaminated food is literally life-threatening. It causes severe intestinal damage, malnutrition, and excruciating pain. Gluten-free products are completely unavailable or unaffordable in local markets right now.

Every single donation goes directly to procurement and distribution:

Purchasing certified gluten-free flour and grains.

Preparing and distributing urgent food baskets to registered families.

Ensuring these children survive this crisis without medical complications.

🌟 How you can help:

To learn more about our project and how you can support our mission, please visit our main blog profile page at @ahmed-gaza-celiac

Even sharing this post helps us reach more hearts!

[closet-keys]

This blog is new, but Noor Al-Shams Celiac Team has been fundraising on instagram and tiktok before coming here. Their chuffed campaign links to google drive folders with many photos documenting the distribution of gluten-free food purchased with previous donations.

I am not qualified to vet fundraisers, but I think there is more than enough information provided to establish this grassroots group supporting Gazan children with Celiac disease. Please check their documentation for yourself (here and here) and help them out!

Help us provide gluten-free food for celiac

Save the children of Gaza suffering from celiac disease

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Trump administration proposes having all federal workers sign NDAs | CNN Politics

The White House is preparing a government-wide nondisclosure agreement aimed at curtailing federal workers’ sharing of “confidential governm

Tami Luhby at CNN:

The White House is preparing a government-wide nondisclosure agreement aimed at curtailing federal workers’ sharing of “confidential government information,” as it seeks to stop internal leaks to media organizations. The draft notice, posted to the Federal Register on Tuesday by the Office of Personnel Management, says the NDA is intended to track existing and new federal employees’ agreement to “safeguard non-public, confidential or proprietary information, created or obtained through their official duties.” The proposal is scheduled to be published on Wednesday. Agencies have the option of using the NDA, according to the draft notice, which will be subject to a 30-day comment period after it is published.

The controversial move is the latest step in the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on the dissemination of its internal planning and data. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office last year started mandating that Pentagon officials sign NDAs before being read in on projects, initiatives and other work products, CNN has reported.

President Donald Trump is also upending the federal workforce, which he sees as an impediment to implementing his agenda. The draft cites federal workers’ providing the New York Times and Washington Post with “unauthorized disclosures” in advance of the US raid on Venezuela earlier this year. News organizations delayed publishing the information “to avoid endangering US troops,” the draft said.

The New York Times’ executive editor has said the paper did not have verified details about the raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, nor did it withhold publishing a story at the Trump administration’s request. A Washington Post spokesperson declined to comment, saying the paper does not discuss its newsgathering practices. [...]

The draft proposal takes a wide view of confidential information, defining it as “internal agency operations, personnel matters, procurement processes, or any sensitive, pre-decisional or deliberative material that is not currently publicly available and should not be disclosed under applicable law.” Such disclosures “disrupt agency operations and erode public trust.” The measure would not create “new substantive restrictions” on workers and would preserve the rights of whistleblowers, according to the draft proposal. But the federal workforce’s largest union, the American Federation of Government Employees, decried the draft as an attempt to silence staffers, noting the proposal “sweeps in an extraordinarily broad category of information.” The union said it believes the administration will push agencies to require their employees to sign the NDA and then fire those who refuse.

More insanity from the Orange Satan’s regime: mandating that all federal government employees sign NDAs.

See Also:

Washington Post: Trump Misadministration proposes NDAs for all federal workers

[fragrantblossoms]

Henri Evenepoel. Sophie de Mey, Fooz-Wepion (detail), summer 1897.

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[nortism]

You can never escape the symbolic Waterloo dates!!