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Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/declared-extinct-in-2025-a-look-back-at-some-of-the-species-weve-lost/

Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered the global authority on species’ conservation status. We may never see another individual of these species ever again. Or will we? Slender-billed curlew This […]

I’ve fallen in love with the Japanese literary form, zuihitsu.
Zuihitsu, meaning “following the brush,” flow as the mind flows. They are fragmentary—mixing moments of observation, opinion, anecdote, asides, and humor. From the contemporary point of view zuihitsu refuse categorization, vibrating in the live space between prose and poetry.
#poetry

Ways of Seeing: Following the Brush - Zuihitsu as Attention
Zuihitsu, a Japanese literary genre between prose and poetry, is a unique form of attention. Sei Shonagōn and Kimiko Hahn inspire exercises in looking.

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band at home in #berkeley, with prelude, a rare non-acoustic opening act. bob menke & louis falanga audience tape: https://archive.org/details/jg7…

"When I hear international leaders speak of “Israel’s right to defend itself,” I wonder: against whom? Against mothers with their babies? Against teachers with their board markers? Against students with their books? The global silence — or worse, complicity — amplifies our grief" -- Dr Hassan El-Nabih

‘I’m happy and sad to see you’: The paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide
A chance encounter with one of my past students at the Islamic University of Gaza highlighted the paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide: feeling joy in surviving the war and sorrow in witnessing what our survival has cost us.

Moody Urbanity - Literally 📄
情绪化城市 - 字面上 📄
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400，expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

*kneels down to small autistic child with a wide gentle smile on my face* not literally a million times! i know its hard to understand, but its an expression, exaggerating to convey that i saw it so much on reddit in 2022 that it became permanently uninteresting and "reddit" in my mind, and-
*agiant flying saucer swoops by the building, blowing out the windows into teeny little glass specks and giving the place some much needed light these bitches vampires* MY NAME ITH OVERWO…

thank goodness we had a peaceful transfer of power
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/07/president-biden-rose-garden-speech-trump-election/76108284007/

Biden says 'giving up is unforgivable,' assures peaceful transfer of power after Trump win
President Biden vowed Thursday to ensure a "peaceful transfer of power" following Donald Trump's decisive victory in 2024 election.

**“I am proud to join my friend Jeff Merkley in saying this part out loud. Donald c-nt Trump is not a king, he will never be a king, and America does not bow down to kings,”** Elizabeth Warren proclaimed not realizing what she’d just said but didn’t attempt to walk it back."
She Really Said That!’: The Senator Trump Tried to Reduce As a ‘Nasty Woman’ Just Humiliated Him In Public with a Savage Nickname — and Didn’t Flinch
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/10/24/the-senator-trump-tried-to-reduce-as-a-nasty-woman-just-humiliated-him-in-public-with-a-savage-nickname-and-didnt-flinch/

Maxx Crosby Gives Cryptic Response on Raiders Situation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-cryptic-response-situation/