Slavenka & Obi: May 2024

Friday, May 31, 2024

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The jury in a Manhattan courtroom found Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying documents related to hush money paid to an adult film actor, Stormy Daniels, shortly before the 2016 presidential poll.

Donald Trump claimed his presidential election campaign had raised a record amount of money since his historic criminal conviction on Thursday, in a rambling, nearly 40-minute press conference on Friday morning that criticized everyone from the judge to the current president, Joe Biden.

Thursday, May 30, 2024

Summertime painting by Michele Mozzone

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Josh Heuston , Kelly Maree

Kelly Maree’s portrait of the Heartbreak High actor Josh Heuston is among Archibald prize 2024 finalists.

Nancy

Dreamwave, Nick Prodromou

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When breakfast is two minutes late 🙀

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Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Spring cleaning with Frog!

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Calling the Rain

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Young Indigenous Raramuri people dance during a sacred Yumari ceremony to ask for rain and good crops.

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Record breaking heatwave hits Delhi

Temperatures in Delhi have soared to record highs of 49.9C as authorities warn of water shortages.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD), which reported “severe heatwave conditions”, recorded the temperatures on Tuesday, saying they were nine degrees higher than expected.

Temperatures are rising and the clock is ticking.

What if the solution to these problems lies, in part, in our gardens and other green spaces?

Not that gardening can stop climate change, but what if gardens could connect us with the natural world, make us more aware of the destruction all around us?

What if we rise up, garden by garden, park by park, balcony by balcony and do something – anything – to help a bee or a butterfly or a bird or a hedgehog?

What would our world look like if more of us were tuned into the life systems that support us?

Monday, May 27, 2024

Flock of 100 feral chickens torments village.

The clucking nuisance of about 100 feral chickens has left residents of a Norfolk village spitting feathers, with locals claiming the birds destroy their gardens and keep them awake.

Dwellers in Snettisham, Norfolk, have said their life is being made “hell” as the chickens swarm in from a nearby wood.

It is unclear who owns the land the chickens live on, but villagers believe numbers have soared recently. Read more

Mondays.

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Medievalist Matt

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Naito Oru and a tribute to Flaco

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Sunday, May 26, 2024

Invisible Poem

Incidental Comics

Cannes reflections

Adèle Exarchopoulos poses at the photo call for the film Beating Hearts at the 77th international film festival

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The first time ever a Croatian film has won the Palme d’Or award

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent, a film by Croatian director Nebojsa Slijepcevic, who is also the author of the script, on Saturday won the Golden Palm award in the short film competition programme at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.