@corlin Ayup.
An abandoned UNRWA school that was used to fire rockets at Israel 48hrs ago.
Which prompted the IDF to issue an impending strike/raid warning 24hrs ago.
Iranian proxies don't give advanced warning. They just fire randomly into crowds.
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While in the surf today, I found a blue darner dragonfly strugglingโit was upside down with its wings stuck to the surface of the water.
I scooped it up and carried it to shore. It huddled in the shelter of my hands for long minutes as it seemed to rest. Almost imperceptibly the tiny water droplets on its wings dried, and it finally flew away.
I probably looked crazy to observers, but it felt important to give this tiny life a chance.
(*stock photo)
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@poemblaze Here's her original.
https://youtu.be/Ve6PSCUOYvE
#humor
Around the house I'm known as the medium order cook. I'm not that short and I'm not that fast.
In the 1938 Cary Grant & Katherine Hepburn film "Bringing Up Baby" there is a scene where Grant's character resorts to wearing Hepburn's very frilly/fuzzy bathrobe because she sent his clothes out to be dry cleaned. Someone visits while he's wearing it and asks why. Grant ad-libbed the reply "I just went gay all of a sudden." It is the first film use of close to the modern sense of the word. It had started being used in within the gay community in the 1920s, but wasn't commonly known in 1938.
Hi @WhiteRose ๐
General Grant
1866 Ulysses S. Grant named 1st General of Army
1868 US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah & Idaho)
Jack London to the Gold Rush
1897 Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories
1917 Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1918 Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, California
@VelvetDuchess Just being silly.
Itโs been said a lot alreadyโand itโs going to need to be said a lot more through November and potentially for the next four to eight yearsโbut the attacks being leveled against Vice President Kamala Harris this week are just staggeringly sexist, misogynistic, and racist...
#election2024
@VelvetDuchess Does a Velvet Duchess need to be dry cleaned? ๐ค ๐
#Christian. Theoretically a #poet. #Genealogy nut. ๐บ๐ฒ(๐ฎ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ฌ๐ง๐ฉ๐ช) Theoretically a photographer of #birds. But now I have a dog, George, whom birds flee.