Writer, fangirl, uncool mom. My latest - Good Town, a historical novel of my mother's memoirs of Nazi Germany, is now out! https://teapawt.org/t.co/TNOeAjPPMw
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Release Day for Good Town is here! Thanks to everyone who helped me bring this to fruition. @KirkusReviews says it's "An evocative, engrossing depiction of the devastating choices and consequences of the World War II era." #HistoricalFiction #Kindle amazon.com/dp/B0BYDZDQS3/
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Wishing all my friends in the United States of America a happy National Cat Day. We don't have a National Cat Day in the UK, but we do have a National Cat...
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Wonderful news: Murera has given birth to a baby girl this morning! Her daughter entered the world bathed in the light of a near-full moon, perfect in every way. We’ve named her Mwezi, which means moon in Swahili.
Murera chose to give birth in her stockade, the place that has been her nighttime sanctuary all these years. Her delivery couldn’t have been more seamless – in fact, by the time the Keepers heard the rumbles and rushed to her side, it was all over! Mother and baby are doing very well, while Mwana is already proving to be an excellent and attentive big sister.
More to come, but we're filled with joy and wanted to share Mwezi’s first moments with you. (Word is already out amongst the elephants – this morning, every wild-living Umani orphan showed up to meet the newest member of their family!)
Congratulations to our extraordinary Murera: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/o…
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IN MEMORY OF JESSE ADAMS 🕯️
On October 25, our dear friend and rescuer Jesse Adams, founder of RainCoast Dog Rescue Society, was killed in an FPV drone attack while evacuating animals from Kramatorsk.
Hundreds of animals are alive thanks to him.
We’ll never forget you, Jesse❤️🩹
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💔 IN MEMORY OF JESSE ADAMS — A TRUE HERO FOR ANIMALS 💔
It is with enormous sadness that we have learned of the tragic death of Jesse Adams, founder of RainCoast Dog Rescue Society in Canada, who lost his life while carrying out an animal rescue mission in one of the most dangerous areas of Ukraine.
Jesse dedicated his life to saving animals, even when it meant putting his own life at risk.
We first came to know Jesse in 2021, when Afghanistan fell to the Taliban. Jesse and RainCoast were among the extraordinary organisations that came together to assist KSAR with the evacuation of 285 cats and dogs, helping many find loving forever homes.
Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Jesse travelled to the border to help fleeing families and their pets, providing veterinary care, supplies and assistance getting animals to safety.
He returned repeatedly, undertaking increasingly dangerous missions.
Most recently, Jesse worked alongside Animal Rescue Kharkiv, rescuing hundreds of animals from devastated frontline communities under constant threat from drones, missiles and artillery.
These were extraordinary acts of compassion and courage in the face of unimaginable danger.
Jesse knew the risks. He knew every mission could be his last. Yet he continued because he believed animals caught in conflict deserved protection just as much as those living in peace.
Those of us working in animal rescue in conflict zones understand and accept these risks. But few possess the courage to repeatedly travel towards danger when everyone else is trying to escape it.
Jesse was one of those very special people.
His death is a devastating loss to his family, friends, RainCoast and the international animal rescue community.
Our hearts go out to everyone who knew and loved him, particularly the Ukrainian rescuers who worked alongside him.
His legacy lives on in every animal he saved and every rescuer he inspired.
Rest in peace, Jesse. The world has lost an extraordinary human being, and the animals have lost a true champion. 🐾💔
With love and deepest respect,
Louise and everyone at War Paws
#JesseAdams #RainCoastDogRescue #WarPaws #Ukraine #AnimalRescue
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A Vancouver Island man has been killed in Ukraine as he helped to rescue animals and the people who refused to leave them behind in an active war zone.
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Cuando los brasileños se dieron cuenta que Musk y Zuckerberg estaban manipulando el algoritmo para interferir en elecciones de su país se volcaron hacia las RRSS y la llenaron de videos de Lula elaborados con IA.
Fenómeno social a estudiarse por décadas.
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Jared Goff says hi to a group of sisters who taught him at Marin Catholic High School
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It’s International Snow Leopard Day! Thanks to Keeper Ricky we’re able to give our followers an up close look at Sarka, our snow leopard cub, exploring the Himalayan Highlands. Our snow leopards’ naturalistic exhibits provide opportunities for exploring, climbing, & more! (1/5)
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Daniel, a team member at Shoppers True Value Hardware, sleeps on the job, leaves food lying around and lets his co-workers clean up after him. But the owners let it slide, especially since many customers come in just to see Daniel—the store's cat. on.wsj.com/4yw2jOy
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Pope Leo had surgery to remove part of his lung, which was found to be cancerous, and within 4 days was on the phone with Vladimir Putin to broker peace deals.
We have an American hero on the world stage right now, and he is the Vicar of Christ.
Speaking by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Pope Leo XIV expresses his "deep concern about the grave humanitarian situation in the city of Oleshky, in the Kherson region," and calls for a ceasefire to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid.
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This is what the people of NYC looked like in 1911
That year, New York was home to about 4.8 million people, and four in ten of them had been born in another country, many in the Russian Empire, Italy, Germany and Ireland. They spoke different languages and kept different traditions, but they had all come to build a life in the same city, and you can see it in how they carried themselves.
People took real pride in how they looked in public, and for men, a hat wasn’t optional: the hard felt bowler, or derby, was worn by bankers and laborers alike, swapped for a flat straw boater in the warmer months, while wealthier men still wore top hats. Most wore a loose, long jacket called a sack suit, with a collar and tie, even on an ordinary weekday.
For women, it was long skirts that brushed the ankles and enormous wide-brimmed hats piled with feathers, ribbons and veils. The everyday uniform was a skirt and a shirtwaist, a crisp blouse cut like a man’s shirt. And 1911 was the year a new fashion arrived from Paris: the hobble skirt, so narrow at the hem that women could barely take a full step in it.
Looking at these people, you can’t help but wonder when we stopped dressing for the world outside our door...
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As Russia murders Ukrainians civilians and attacks civilian targets... Trump lifts sanctions. To cover for his own disastrous decision to go to war in the Middle East.
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A CHICAGO-BASED ROM-COM?
WE ARE SEATED.
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Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences. Everything that is good begins “with the Spirit” and thus possesses a breath, a dynamism and a sense of communion that, once experienced, are engraved upon the heart. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Hear ye, hear ye! We have a Fat Bear Week winner!
This year’s Lord of Lard, Earl of Girth and Commander in Beef is... Bear 89 also known as Backpack!
