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I watch birds and old movies

Midwesterner in the pnw
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“I carried him on my back. It took seven days.” A camp in eastern Chad is now home to more than 100,000 refugees of Sudan’s civil war, and is a key destination for those fleeing El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State. Resources are strained as the number of newly displaced people increases.
Escape From the Abyss: Surviving the Atrocities in El Fasher
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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George Michael hits #1 today in 1987 with “Faith”.

“.. It was very much about having faith in yourself,” he said. “It wasn’t a religious song at all — it was about believing in yourself when everything around you is changing and people are questioning what you’re doing.”

#RIP
December 13, 2025 at 3:11 AM
This Afro Russian gal on Heated Rivalry is so gorgeous, we love to see it
December 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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haven't seen ms patti posted here yet this season, place needs work www.youtube.com/watch?v=z84Q...
Patti LaBelle- Where My Background Singers?
YouTube video by Ryan Bloomquist
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
My parents watch MSNBC all day and it’s melting my brain a bit 🫠
December 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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It amazes me that this oriole—who was a regular visitor to my bird feeder last winter—found his way back not just from Baltimore to Raleigh, but to my back yard in particular, without using a cell phone.
December 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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I saw the heron again : )
November 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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A female hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) at Tingley Beach in Albuquerque, on December 4, 2025.

#nature #naturephotography #birds
December 7, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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A classic of the genre
December 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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My period watching me make plans for the week:
December 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“Luckily everyone had their passport, because I've been telling them to have their passport with them,” Osman said.

This is disgusting!!
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The diddy documentary is so nauseating it makes Suge Knight look charismatic in comparison
December 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Hot Chocolate, the band that never really saw themselves as disco (even though they made quite a few excellent disco records), hit #1 on the UK dance chart on this day exactly 50 years ago with this absolute gem.

What’s your favourite Hot Chocolate “disco” track?

#disco #music #musicsky
Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing (ZDF Disco, 24.04.1976)
YouTube video by Hot Chocolate
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
When the race war is on and I have to kill Tim Robinson
December 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Deception (1946) deserves a quality remake
November 29, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I love seeing herons when birding because they hit you with the “fuck you starin at” pose
Feeling every bit as chilly as this heron this eve
#Birds
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Humans need other human beings to survive. I'm sorry that this makes some people lose their shit but it's one of the key truths of life.
November 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Wake Up
Without saying Bulls on Parade, fav Rage Against the Machine song?
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Real ballers know Hedda Gabler !
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This is as close to an emotional support YouTube clip as I have
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Pen and paper?
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM