Recent content by Ellie

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    Has The Israeli Goverment BecomeThe Monster?

    Piers Morgan Interviews Egyptian comedian and surgeon Bassem Youssef. Hillarious, tragic, riveting. (I know, never thouught I'd watch anything Piers Morgan had a hand in, but props where they are due) Part 1 Part 2
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    Has The Israeli Goverment BecomeThe Monster?

    Concluded the risk of becoming the monster is much higher than I thought after I watched the Tantura documentary from Israeli director Alon Schwarz. Hearing former Israeli fighters detail their actions was horrifying. Strong trigger warning: what you hear in this docu cannot be unheard...
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    JK Rowling Is At It Again

    "The destruction of the institute preceded a wider campaign against sexual reform and contraception, which were perceived as a threat to the German birth rate." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft Sounds familiar.
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    Nobody Cares: PRS

    Not on my 2024 bingo card ‘Rats Are Eating Our Marijuana,’ New Orleans Police Superintendent Tells City Council, Adding That ‘They’re All High’ Now gotta go listen to some Frank Zappa.
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    Second Life Rollcall

    Often, but becoming less & less conversational as more & more old friends go missing each year. I still enjoy running around Linden Realms, putting my brain in neutral & letting it sort out stuff while I collect Ls to pay the virtual rent.
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    Has The Israeli Goverment BecomeThe Monster?

    With the current iffy state of mainstream news reporting, I find myself turning to two sources i've learned to respect over the last (mumbles, I forget) years for thought-provoking info on this deadly and heartbreaking conflict. https://www.richardsilverstein.com/ Who taught me the meaning of...
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    Nobody Cares: PRS

    OMGosh, I wish....I sometimes hear much younger relatives spouting magat talking points & have to clamp my mouth shut. My daughter gives me the 'ol stink eye, as even at her age she recognizes the BS.
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    Israel Halts Electricity Supply To Gaza

    I've spent about 2 month total in Turkey. The amount & quality of food we ate suggests to me the country's diet would have had a similar effect on me, had I stayed. And I almost did, after falling in love with istanbul on many afternoons spent stalking its street cats & other animals with my...
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    Nobody Cares: PRS

    I welcome our new French griefers!
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    Nobody Cares: PRS

    I like this. Religion, like attempts to write poetry, should be a path, hobby, or habit one indulges in quietly, for self-discovery, not to bore others.
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    Nobody Cares: PRS

    Pls do! I may respond with some of my moka pot graveyard. Family give me pots they can't figure out or break. I have spare parts sufficient for rest of my life (& the next, should there be one).
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    AI-generated images thread

    Excellent! If you would be so kind as to accept a request, I've long wanted to see David Bowie touring the solar system in that Tesla Roadster, with Nikola Tesla beside him, blasting out 5 Years while smoking a Gauloise cigarette. With Saturn in the background. Please and thank you.
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    Nobody Cares: PRS

    Mostly agree with you; always saw organized religion as the bureaucracy of spirituality, where the original concept(s) were hijacked for personal & political power and convenience. When belief isn't even skin deep and has no traces of the original teachings, that's when it gets nasty or comical...
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    Nobody Cares: PRS

    Even more affordable is my GAT Italian-made stainless steel mokla pot; I own two sizes, baby and granddaddy. I discovered they transfrm reltively cheap local beans into sheer bloody nectar. You can pry them from my cold dead hands.