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2 English Terrors, (aka Setter) a Mutt and a Mouse; animals have a soul; ciclista con bici da corsa, not an Italian, only in my heart, injustice makes my blood boil
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First frost of the season.
In the foreground, a red-leaved plant covered in hoarfrost. The background is blurred. This suggests the first night of the season with sub-zero temperatures.
November 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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The final harvest of the year
10 green peppers lined up side by side on a wooden board: Last harvest of the year.
October 31, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Let there be colors.
Hilly landscape covered with trees whose leaves are slowly turning colorful.
October 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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It's that time of year when mushrooms are growing everywhere, and their transformation is sometimes astonishing. Just look at the amazing shaggy mane mushroom (coprinus comatus). Also a little creepy.
The amazing shaggy mane mushroom (coprinus comatus) in the early stage of his lifecycle. A white, barrel-shaped fruiting body pushes its way out of the ground. Stage 2 of the life of the shaggy mane mushroom. The barrel has opend up and now looks like a hat with an black sticky mass at the rim of the hat. 3rd stage: the mushrooms cap starts to dissolve. Black ink-like substance runs down in thick oily strings.
October 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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We The Dogs demand a treat!
From left to right a black dog and two white dogs standing next to each other in my kitchen, looking up to me, expecting their well deserved treat.
October 18, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Cormac Smith on Times Radio w Philip Ingram: 600m Europeans & allies need 340m Americans to fight 170m Russians who cannot defeat 40m Ukranians.
September 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Storm clouds promising rain as they approach the harvested field. #harvest #rainstorm #weather #clouds
Dark rainclouds approaching a harvested field with some hay bales in it, still in the glaring sunlight. A nice contrast, but time to leave before rain an wind kick in.
August 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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The first Kestrel I ever "shot". It took me weeks to figure out where his favorite overlook was and then sneak up on him. My Panasonic DMC FTZ 200 did the rest of the sneaking.
Kestrel sitting on the very top of an oak tree. Background is the cloudless sky, as blue as it can get.
July 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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My uncut backyard, full of flowers, looking like a mountain meadow. It is full of birds, bees, bumblebees, bugs and blossoms. Buzzin everywhere, all day long. Best decision to retire the lawnmower. #nature, #meadow, #garden, #bees, #bugs
My backyard lawn with uncut gras and malvas in the foreground, a birdhouse right of center and lots of dandelions in the back. It looks a little bit like a mountain meadow.
June 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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It's poppy-season!
In the middle of a grain field, numerous poppies bloom in fiery red.
June 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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This morning I saw a Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus) chasing an aeroplane. Kind of.
A Marsh Harrier and a jetplane in the same frame. With a little good will it looks like the bird is chasing the plane.
May 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Deep-dive panel analyzing #Trump retreat on his #tariffs

*How and why he blinked (Hint: no one buying US bonds)

*Division among his advisors

*Trump's possible criminal act w insider info on stock market

*And taking apart "economic nonsense" of a Trump propagandist

#China #EU
April 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Dissecting #Trump tariffs assault on world

"Trump doesn't understand economic basics. Some statements aren’t lies. He just can’t comprehend properly, for example, thinking tariffs can replace income tax.

But that doesn’t matter to Trump or his advisors. All that matters is they want to be bullies"
April 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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scottlucas.bsky.social
W France 24:

"That was dumbest, most economically illiterate I have heard in my life.

It was filled w lies and distortions. President of US was speaking nonsense, and biggest nonsense of all was that #tariffs can replace income taxes and that they can lead to economic growth.

They won’t"

#Trump
April 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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scottlucas.bsky.social
14-min analysis:

*Reality: No longer an alliance between US and #Europe

*Threats of #Trump and his “attack dog” #JDVance to #Greenland, #Canada, and #Panama as well as their general shakedown of #tariffs

*How Trump’s posture as wanna-be autocrat and bully is sapping US power around the world
March 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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#Putin demands removal of #Zelensky Gov't before agreeing to any halt of #Russia invasion

"It is still not clear with whom to sign certain documents, and it is still not clear what power they have, because tomorrow other leaders will come...through elections"

#Ukraine #UkraineWar
March 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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#UkraineWar, Day 1,129: Europe to US --- Don't Lift Sanctions on #Russia

#Ukraine #TrumpRussia

eaworldview.com/2025/03/ukra...
Ukraine War, Day 1,129: Europe to US - Don't Lift Sanctions on Russia - EA WorldView
Europe's leaders implicitly urge Trump Administration not to lift sanctions on Russia until Moscow ends its 37-month invasion of Ukraine.
eaworldview.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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As a small child in the early 70s, a song was played in my friend's house. It was breathtaking. I was told it was “Astronomy Domine” from Pink Floyd's 1967 debut album Piper at the Gates of Dawn. For me, it immediately opened the door to a whole new world of music. Thanks Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd.
March 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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#Russia reportedly strikes #Ukraine energy infrastructure 8 times since March 18, when #Kremlin supposedly accepted a Ukraine-US proposal for a halt to the attacks

#Zelensky aide: "Moscow is a city built on lies, no surprise to anyone in Ukraine"

#UkraineWar
March 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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In latest appeasement of #Kremlin, #Trump Admin withdrawing from int'l organization investigating #Russia leaders for crimes of aggression v. #Ukraine

Admin will also cut back work of Justice Department's War Crimes Accountability Team

Ukraine investigating 150K+ possible #RussiaWarCrimes
March 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Some thoughts on the growing billionaire demographic.
March 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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scottlucas.bsky.social
Seeking prize of call with #Putin, #Trump says "We are already talking about dividing up certain assets"

Envoy Witkoff: Talks w Putin “positive” and “solution-based”

No details given of response to #Russia demands

#Macron: "Not up to Russia to reject #Ukraine requests on security"

#TrumpRussia
March 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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"Ukraine is sovereign. If it asks allied forces to be on its territory, it is not for Russia to accept or not" - President Macron.

Several more points from President Macron's interview yesterday, ahead of the virtual "coalition of the willing" meeting:
March 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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#Trump 's State Department terminates program transferring evidence to European law enforcement of #Russia abductions of #Ukraine children

Humanitarian Research Lab, using tools such as satellite imagery and analysis of open-source technology and biometric data, identified & located abducted minors
March 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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EA-Times Radio VideoCast: What Happens If #Putin Rejects #Ukraine -US Ceasefire Proposal?

#UkraineWar #TrumpWar

eaworldview.com/2025/03/puti...
EA-Times Radio VideoCast: What Happens If Putin Rejects Ukraine-US Ceasefire Proposal? - EA WorldView
Evaluating what could happen in likely event that Vladimir Putin rejects Ukraine-US proposal for 30-day interim ceasefire of Russia invasion.
eaworldview.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:51 AM