Sylvia Woodcock
@ta-b3ntal3s.bsky.social
Often writing, drawing and painting in order to alleviate the obsession with reading absolutely everything, especially long and little-known novels by women.
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The U.S. needs allies and Alliances. These alliances were a key to America’s success during the Cold War. We needed them during the Cold War, we need them now!!
America’s strength isn’t rooted in power alone, but in our allies across Europe and around the world. Weakening those ties weakens us. In a world of rising authoritarianism, partnerships remain one of our greatest strategic advantages.
December 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The U.S. needs allies and Alliances. These alliances were a key to America’s success during the Cold War. We needed them during the Cold War, we need them now!!
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"Camilo" is harvesting pomegranates in Firebaugh, CA. "We earn minimum wage. It's very tiring work. We climb up and down ladders with a heavy sack of fruit. We then rush to empty the sack into the bin. Today was a good day as the ground wasn't wet from the rain." #WeFeedYou
December 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Camilo" is harvesting pomegranates in Firebaugh, CA. "We earn minimum wage. It's very tiring work. We climb up and down ladders with a heavy sack of fruit. We then rush to empty the sack into the bin. Today was a good day as the ground wasn't wet from the rain." #WeFeedYou
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There is a watchdog!?. . . Who knew!!! 🤷🏻♂️
BREAKING: Pentagon watchdog finds Hegseth's use of Signal to share details of airstrike posed risk to U.S. personnel, AP sources say.
Pentagon watchdog finds Hegseth’s use of Signal posed risk to US personnel, AP sources say
The Pentagon’s watchdog has found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information about a military strike against Houthi militants in Yemen.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
There is a watchdog!?. . . Who knew!!! 🤷🏻♂️
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Today in History:
December 3, 1984
A cloud of methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India, causing an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 deaths and over 500,000 injuries.
December 3, 1984
A cloud of methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India, causing an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 deaths and over 500,000 injuries.
December 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Today in History:
December 3, 1984
A cloud of methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India, causing an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 deaths and over 500,000 injuries.
December 3, 1984
A cloud of methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India, causing an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 deaths and over 500,000 injuries.
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“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”
— Bertrand Russell
— Bertrand Russell
December 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”
— Bertrand Russell
— Bertrand Russell
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Yesterday’s WaPo story (“kill them all”) is significant and deserves serious scrutiny. If true, the order is a textbook case of war crimes.
For an explanation, see 👇
Attacks against Persons Hors de Combat
ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...
For an explanation, see 👇
Attacks against Persons Hors de Combat
ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Yesterday’s WaPo story (“kill them all”) is significant and deserves serious scrutiny. If true, the order is a textbook case of war crimes.
For an explanation, see 👇
Attacks against Persons Hors de Combat
ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...
For an explanation, see 👇
Attacks against Persons Hors de Combat
ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...
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It’s not a great deal if you don’t need it. And especially this year, others really need support. So for all of us who have enough, let’s refuse to get sucked into the holiday shopping frenzy and share instead of shop. We don’t need more stuff, we need communities where all our neighbors are safe.
November 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It’s not a great deal if you don’t need it. And especially this year, others really need support. So for all of us who have enough, let’s refuse to get sucked into the holiday shopping frenzy and share instead of shop. We don’t need more stuff, we need communities where all our neighbors are safe.
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"Arnulfo" shares, "These are heads of broccoli that I've harvested. I've been working in the fields of CAs Central Coast for 21 years. I plant and grow broccoli, lettuce, cauliflower, and other vegetables you probably will see on your #Thanksgiving tables." #WeFeedYou
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"Arnulfo" shares, "These are heads of broccoli that I've harvested. I've been working in the fields of CAs Central Coast for 21 years. I plant and grow broccoli, lettuce, cauliflower, and other vegetables you probably will see on your #Thanksgiving tables." #WeFeedYou
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Mom and cub stopped by to check us out where we watched, breathless from the buggy. Some bears are very curious of the large, white box full of people with clicky things.
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Mom and cub stopped by to check us out where we watched, breathless from the buggy. Some bears are very curious of the large, white box full of people with clicky things.
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told U.S. Senators that the peace plan Trump is pushing Kyiv to accept is a “wish list” of the Russians and not the actual U.S. plan.
Oh Good God! Now it makes sense!!!
😳😳😳🤬🤬🤬
apnews.com/article/ukra...
Oh Good God! Now it makes sense!!!
😳😳😳🤬🤬🤬
apnews.com/article/ukra...
US senators say Rubio told them Trump’s Ukraine peace plan is Russia's 'wish list'
U.S. senators critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war say they spoke with U.S.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told U.S. Senators that the peace plan Trump is pushing Kyiv to accept is a “wish list” of the Russians and not the actual U.S. plan.
Oh Good God! Now it makes sense!!!
😳😳😳🤬🤬🤬
apnews.com/article/ukra...
Oh Good God! Now it makes sense!!!
😳😳😳🤬🤬🤬
apnews.com/article/ukra...
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So much freaking “winning” that we are dizzy 🥴!
November 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
So much freaking “winning” that we are dizzy 🥴!
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“It is sad that often, to be a good patriot, one must be the enemy of the rest of mankind.”
— Voltaire
— Voltaire
November 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“It is sad that often, to be a good patriot, one must be the enemy of the rest of mankind.”
— Voltaire
— Voltaire
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for the humanity left in us 🖤
November 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
for the humanity left in us 🖤
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They voted for America’s “Golden age”!
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
They voted for America’s “Golden age”!
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squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
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Mexico’s president on Tuesday ruled out allowing U.S. strikes against cartels on Mexican soil, a day after Trump said he was willing to do whatever it takes to stop drugs entering the U.S.
apnews.com/article/mexi...
apnews.com/article/mexi...
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejects Trump's offer of military intervention against cartels
Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has firmly rejected the possibility of U.S. intervention against drug cartels a day after President Donald Trump again said he would support it.
apnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Mexico’s president on Tuesday ruled out allowing U.S. strikes against cartels on Mexican soil, a day after Trump said he was willing to do whatever it takes to stop drugs entering the U.S.
apnews.com/article/mexi...
apnews.com/article/mexi...
Thank you for this posting of article.
Just curious, what is the distance between dehumanizing journalists by calling them "piggy" to carving them up in some backwater embassy?
Or El Salvador, Guantanamo, Nigeria?
The entire civilized world wants to know.
Your country really needs to get its shit together and fast.
Or El Salvador, Guantanamo, Nigeria?
The entire civilized world wants to know.
Your country really needs to get its shit together and fast.
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Thank you for this posting of article.
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But the point (there is a point) is, people fetishise the idea over the hard work of plotting and character development and research and internal consistency and just writing the fucker, because the Idea is the sparkly magic bit.
And this is what makes them put value in the AI prompt.
And this is what makes them put value in the AI prompt.
November 19, 2025 at 7:50 AM
But the point (there is a point) is, people fetishise the idea over the hard work of plotting and character development and research and internal consistency and just writing the fucker, because the Idea is the sparkly magic bit.
And this is what makes them put value in the AI prompt.
And this is what makes them put value in the AI prompt.
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the idea is not all that counts. the idea is nothing at all until it has been lassooed, corralled, mutated, shuffled, blended with other ideas, and then expressed over the medium of however many thousand words that you have selected and arranged as best you can. the idea is a promise, not a book.
November 19, 2025 at 7:54 AM
the idea is not all that counts. the idea is nothing at all until it has been lassooed, corralled, mutated, shuffled, blended with other ideas, and then expressed over the medium of however many thousand words that you have selected and arranged as best you can. the idea is a promise, not a book.
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Helena Schjerfbeck ( 1862 – 1946), Finnish modernist painter #WomensArt
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Helena Schjerfbeck ( 1862 – 1946), Finnish modernist painter #WomensArt
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Wolf steals bait, is this a new discovery of animals using tools?
Video from the coast of British Columbia may be the first documented instance of a wild wolf using a tool, according to the researchers who published it on Monday.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Video from the coast of British Columbia may be the first documented instance of a wild wolf using a tool, according to the researchers who published it on Monday.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Have wild wolves learned to use tools?
Video captures a lone female pulling crab traps out of the water, but does it count as tool use?
www.science.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Wolf steals bait, is this a new discovery of animals using tools?
Video from the coast of British Columbia may be the first documented instance of a wild wolf using a tool, according to the researchers who published it on Monday.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Video from the coast of British Columbia may be the first documented instance of a wild wolf using a tool, according to the researchers who published it on Monday.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Well, it looks like my website, reboundpress.com, is up and running again and Square is processing payments from book sales so all processes are back online ... Phew!
ReBound Press
Canadian Indie publisher of high-quality Canadian mysteries!
reboundpress.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Well, it looks like my website, reboundpress.com, is up and running again and Square is processing payments from book sales so all processes are back online ... Phew!
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I hope everyone has the kind of November 18 you wouldn’t mind repeating indefinitely
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I hope everyone has the kind of November 18 you wouldn’t mind repeating indefinitely
interesting observation.
For reasons I needed to watch Its a Wonderful Life again last night.
Will do a thread closer to Christmas about it, but next time you watch it, remember this:
Both Capra and Stewart had just come back from WW2. Consider every directing, script and acting decision with that context in mind.
Will do a thread closer to Christmas about it, but next time you watch it, remember this:
Both Capra and Stewart had just come back from WW2. Consider every directing, script and acting decision with that context in mind.
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
interesting observation.