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One of this year’s home-made Christmas presents made me think of @… and @… for some reason … :D

i have a dozen or so xmas records on continuous loop for the next couple days, including three by johnny mathis!
this one is a 1967 reissue of the 1958 classic. i picked it up at the used record store up the street for seven bucks.
#nowplaying #OldVinyl

"Rare parrots return to Atlantic Forest fragment after decades of silence"
#Atlanic #Parrots #Animals

Rare parrots return to Atlantic Forest fragment after decades of silence
Twenty brilliantly colored red-browed amazons took flight over a reserve holding one of the few remaining intact swaths of Atlantic Forest in Brazil. The green-and-red parrots had been missing from Alagoas state for generations. In January 2025, the birds returned home. Researchers say releasing the red-browed amazons (Amazona rhodocorytha) will help the species rebound and […]

Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
BLAKE: Zen, surface conditions?
ZEN: Tolerable. The land masses are arid and support only primitive plant life. Nine tenths of the planet is covered by water which is highly acidic. The level of the oceans is constantly rising and they now virtually cover all traces of the cities built by early civilizations.
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There's an intersection in Cambridge on my usual commute that was substantially reworked to be more bicycle friendly, but they went and screwed up the light timing so that almost everyone on a bike hits at least one red light if not two. This also gives people the time incentive to do a non-standard thing to skip one light phase.
The video shows what is necessary to get a green and a yellow -- 20mph on an e-bike.

#FotoVorschlag 'Adventliches' / Advent
My wife was gifted two #Lego sets. And this was one of it. It fits super cool to the season and into our appartement.
Happy third #advent if…

So, it looks like the US Israel are proposing to construct what Apartheid South Africa called "homelands", but which are actually very large concentration camps...
They euphemistically call it "Green Zone".
Which, in addition to being a concentration camp is one that is intended to be a no-mans land between to protect Israel.
Moreover, the remaining "Red Zone" is the area that the trumps jarad-k Saudis Emirates want to bulldoze and use to build…

A Tennessee special election to replace a Republican congressman who stepped aside this summer
has resulted in crowded primaries for both major parties,
a new test for one of three districts that GOP lawmakers drew as safely red in 2022 by dividing left-leaning Nashville.
The race to fill the seat vacated by former U.S. Rep. Mark Green could gauge the popularity of Donald Trump’s authoritarian second-term agenda, especially with suburban Republican voters.
There had be…

Special election in Tennessee draws a crowd in both parties
A Tennessee special election to replace a Republican congressman who stepped aside this summer has attracted crowded primaries for both major parties. The departure of former U.S. Rep. Mark Green has resulted in the contested primary Tuesday in one of three districts that GOP lawmakers drew as safe red seats in 2022 by dividing left-leaning Nashville. Eleven Republicans are running in the 14-county district, with most attention centering on state Reps. Jody Barrett and Gino Bulso and former Ten…

Just me trying to reconcile Baseline listing `<track>` as “widely available” and all browsers shown with green checks when down the page there’s an entire row of red Xes for one of the core accessibility features of `<track>`.
#HTML #accessibility

Heading to Liverpool to found Your Party?
Read this first.
#YourParty

The Green Way
At the end of a politically hectic year, the Green Party under Zack Polanski is one of the few genuine success stories on the British left. How much potential is there in a future Red-Green alliance?

"Rare parrots return to Atlantic Forest fragment after decades of silence"
#Animals #Parrots #Birds

Rare parrots return to Atlantic Forest fragment after decades of silence
Twenty brilliantly colored red-browed amazons took flight over a reserve holding one of the few remaining intact swaths of Atlantic Forest in Brazil. The green-and-red parrots had been missing from Alagoas state for generations. In January 2025, the birds returned home. Researchers say releasing the red-browed amazons (Amazona rhodocorytha) will help the species rebound and […]

Woman running across one of the suspension bridges at Stewart Park for this year's Turkey Trot
#photo #photography #sports

Everyone on the British left should read this from @meadwaj
"...it is the Greens today who, under the energetic new leadership of Zack Polanski, are setting the pace. Given the uncertainties of the Your Party narrative, it is the Greens who will continue to step up and set that pace. They are, as I have said, the leading force on the English left."
"[The leadership of other left forces] ave a serious responsibility not to get in the way of this advance"
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The Green Way
At the end of a politically hectic year, the Green Party under Zack Polanski is one of the few genuine success stories on the British left. How much potential is there in a future Red-Green alliance?

I would hope most of my followers are already pretty skeptical of #rfkjr's autism claims. The internet's #hankgreen has done a deep dive into one of the bogus claims if you want to see how the lie was constructed:
Lying About Autism is a Full Time Job -