gingerbeard @_gingerbeard__

A "dove release" at a wedding or funeral is a death sentence for the birds. The white "doves" sold for releases aren't doves. They're domestic white pigeons bred to be small and pretty, with no survival skills outside a coop. The cheaper DIY versions (Ringneck Doves, King Pigeons) can't even find their way home. Nearly all of them die within days. Even professional releases with trained homing pigeons lose birds every time. Hawks take them in the air. Cars hit them when they land exhausted. They collide with windows. There are lots of ways it can go sideways for them. Rehabbers pull them in with broken wings, raging trichomoniasis, and bodies so emaciated they can't stand. One described a release pigeon whose throat infection had hardened so completely it distorted the shape of his skull. There is no version of this where the birds "fly away and live happily ever after." That's the marketing. The reality is a domestic animal traumatized or killed for a 15-second photo.

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@BrettHollander Were you rushing or were you dragging? Pretty cool he was at the Yard

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This one broke me today.💔 A 38 year old nurse and mountaineer named Saleheh Akbari and her husband Ahmad Khodaei opened their home to wounded protesters who were too scared to go to hospitals on Jan 8 and 9, because the regime was hunting them down. They treated them. Hid them. Saved lives. A few days later, on January 12, security forces raided their house. Ahmad wasn’t home yet, so they waited. When he walked in, they jumped him and started beating him. Saleheh threw herself between them to protect her husband. They shot her in the heart. Point blank. Right in front of Ahmad, and their little 8 year old. She died in his arms. The grief destroyed him. Ahmad couldn’t carry it. He wrote one last letter to his wife, said goodbye to the world and posted it on his Instagram. He took his own life. Two hearts that only wanted to help people, gone. Because they dared to show humanity in a regime that has none. This is what bravery looks like in Iran. And the world keeps scrolling. Share this. Their story deserves to be heard. 💔

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@heynavtoor @threadreaderapp please unroll

"what a shame to be 42 years of age not completely covered in scars. they're the evidence of a life fully lived." i love shrinking so much, man, what a show 🥹

Low pressure, fun days at work? Getting to play your songs instead of swinging a hammer? Yeah go entertain old ladies, make a few bucks, and pay for your kids colleges. Nothing wrong with being a working artist. Let’s stop being so shitty to one another.

Vince Langman @LangmanVince

2 months ago

Wow! "Sugar Ray" is doing gigs at pavilions in theme parks. Sad!

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@vincentdonofrio Agreed. I’d be surprised if this is the first time you hear this, but if Blood Meridian were ever adapted into a film - you would be perfect as the Judge. It was my thought when I read the novel. (As an aside: if Ridley Scott gave up on adapting it, it will never be made)

@hiitsmemooneh Javid Shah 🇮🇷

If you're under 53 years old, you have never once been alive while a human was farther than 250 miles from Earth. Tonight, four astronauts are heading 252,000 miles out. That's a thousand times farther than any person has gone in your lifetime. The 250-mile ceiling is where the International Space Station floats. Every astronaut since December 1972 has been stuck in that zone. Spacewalks, science experiments, cool photos from orbit, sure. But nobody left the neighborhood. The last crew to go farther was Apollo 17. December 1972. Nixon was president. The internet didn't exist. Cell phones were 11 years away. The youngest member of that crew is now 90 years old. The farthest any human has ever been from Earth is 248,655 miles. The Apollo 13 crew set that number in 1970, and they didn't mean to. Their oxygen tank blew up, and the emergency route home took them farther out than anyone before or since. Tonight's crew will break that record on purpose. And the crew itself. Victor Glover becomes the first Black astronaut to leave Earth's neighborhood. Christina Koch becomes the first woman. Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian fighter pilot, becomes the first non-American to do so. When they come home, they'll slam into the atmosphere at 25,000 mph, faster than any human has ever traveled. The Moon's south pole has ice. Water ice, sitting in craters so deep that sunlight hasn't hit them in billions of years. A 2024 NASA study found way more of it than anyone expected. You can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which gives you rocket fuel, breathable air, and drinking water, all made on the Moon instead of hauled up from Earth. George Sowers at Colorado School of Mines calculated that Moon-made fuel could shave $12 billion off a single trip to Mars. The Moon is a gas station on the road to Mars. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced last week a $20 billion plan to build a permanent base at the South Pole over the next seven years, with landings every six months. China is developing its own lunar lander and spacesuit, aiming for a crewed landing by 2030. The Artemis program has burned through $93 billion so far, and the first actual surface landing is penciled in for 2028. There's a real question of who gets there first this time around. Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon in December 1972 as part of Apollo 17. He's 90. Asked about it this week, he sounded pretty relaxed. "Mars is attainable," he said. "We're humans. That's what we've always done."

NASA @NASA

2 months ago

We're going around the Moon. Come watch with us. Artemis II's four-astronaut crew is lifting off from @NASAKennedy on an approximately 10-day mission that will bring us closer to living on the Moon and Mars. The launch window opens at 6:24pm ET (2224 UTC).

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BREAKING🚨: This is might be the most important photo of this century taken by @AJamesMcCarthy “We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

@ontine9neo Amazing. I’m punching the air that the algorithms have kept Japan and USA apart until now. This is golden 😂 I have to say that you are brave. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned to “never trust a fart.”

オナラがよく出るタイプの人間です。 昔はコソッとスカしたけど、１年ほど前から「クールな顔でサラッと放屁した方がバレないのでは？」と思い歩きながらペッペッと音も構わず小出しにしている。 うまくいっていると思っていたが、 先ほど息子から「ママはよく歩きながらオナラする」と言われました。

@kiuiboys44 That is awesome! You would love the car clubs here.

The night cherry blossoms in Japan are breathtaking.

@pika_nekopanda Good morning! It’s nearly 9:30pm in Delaware, USA (2 hours from Washington DC). The past 24 hours has been the best on X in a long time. Today was great. Baseball season is back in full swing ⚾️

これって あり？なし？ 色々と詰まりすぎるね

@risa_s_lisa Good morning ☀️ ☕️

@hujimari This is stunning. Bucolic and peaceful ☺️

Dear Americans, If you’re throwing a BBQ, you need sake too, don’t you? I love beer—absolutely love it—but if we’re going to share food and good times, I want you to know Japanese sake too. Sake is made from rice and koji, through fermentation.

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