Francis: The Legacy of a Stalled Reformer He welcomed the marginalized and reimagined the Church’s tone, but his vision was often interrupted in the corridors of power.

"St. Francis was a troublemaker too, and troublemakers rarely make friends in institutions obsessed with power."
sojo.net/articles/opi...

Good morning all, for @alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay
#PerfectLightning
#finches #EastCoastKin #birds #photography i repost this goldfinch for the alt theme. This was my first goldfinch ever such a wonderful bird😊 Have a fine day and new week ✨️

6 little birds perch on branches of a downed tree. They are Mountain Bluebirds. The males are a strong blue while the females are more of a brown with blue highlights.

Today's #BirdoftheDay theme is #FourorMore. These are Mountain Bluebirds and the photo was taken just after sunrise. #wildlifephotography #nature #EastCoastKin 🪶

Printbin black and white featuring birds perched on telegraph wires coming from a central post in different angles against a white sky

'Star of Starlings' by Fiona Watson, contempory artist and printmaker #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring two women running with backs to the viewer into an area with trees in snow

Annette and Angela, Lustgarten, 1982 by photographer Sibylle Bergemann #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

Iran: An Uprising Besieged from Within and Without Three perspectives on the uprising that began in Iran on December 29, 2025, and the forces that threaten it from within and without.

my worried Iranian diasporic friend recommened this article in English that is the complex assessement on #Iran

es.crimethinc.com/2026/01/07/i...

Can't have a garden birds theme and not post a Robin photo. This is Marilyn. #BirdOfTheDay #gardenbirds #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

You see here the North Sea with crusing waves on the beach during up coming tide. In different colours from the sea going from white to blue and to green 💚

The snow is gone here so here is photo from the North Sea on the coast from Noordwijk for #TidesOutTuesday #EastCoastKin #zeldenzomooigezien #mobilephonephotography #sea #reflections
Have a fine day all✨️

365 Challenge No. 1 - 2026 publish daily old unpublished pics
Day 12 - Duart castle, Mull, Argyll, Scotland 2012
More at fotosbyfaj.com
#fotosbyfaj #faj365challenge2026 #photograph #blueskykin #duartcastle #isleofmull #argyllandbute #Argyll #scotland #landscape

Three annual planers of year 2026, each decorated full with Kuromi Stickers

哇哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈差生文具多之Hello2026

Today marks the 6th year since the passing of Alex Chow Tsz-lok.

A lot has changed since his passing, but may he rest in peace knowing that his memory and his struggle lives on.

One of the aspects of the repression in Hong Kong is the criminalisation of mourning.

An example of the harassment,
Today Bryant went to where Alex Chow Tsz-lok fell to pay his respects & was stopped, not allowed to leave flowers & questioned by police.

Re-news HK www.instagram.com/p/DQy4_sliO-7

出大太陽，陽光熱和的日子，
打赤膊進到太陽光裡，把自己曬發燙，
不知幾快活。

沒有太陽，黯淡、濕冷的時候，
把自己想像作那隻陸龜，作那隻半水龜，
想像晴天大太陽，燦爛、溫暖，
想像龜龜自己，爬進溫暖、明亮陽光裡，
不知幾快活。

#十一月

演員范冰冰主演的一部新電影「地母」，想看。

影片「地母」在殖民遺恨、土地爭端和民間信仰背景下，講述馬來華人故事⋯⋯
等一下！殖民遺恨、土地爭端、民間信仰背景下馬華故事——
果不其然，今年早些時候觀看那部「五月雪」，出自這位導演曁編劇，張吉安。

一些窗外

LindenBaum branch with yellow and green leaves, scene of autumn

several red leaves spotted on the trunk of oak tree, scene of autumn

An orange furry, across flying.
Hey you! Which genre bee?
Landing gently, on my balcony.
Oh, you ladybug naughty🐞!

（photos unrelated

哇哈哈哈哈哈哈哈好可怕喲救命🤗

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Pope Leo in first major document: Love for the poor is not optional for Christians “I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor,” Pope Leo XIV states in his first m...

“‘I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor,’ Pope Leo XIV states in his first magisterial document …” www.americamagazine.org/vatican-disp...

I think of Hong Kong's political prisoners often -- and am sure others do too. On hot summer days, I worry that they are baking in their cells. On cold winter days, I worry that they feel like they'll freezing. And this past October 1st, I realised Jimmy Lai (77) is older than the PRC (76). Etc.😔

Don’t usually have a problem with “anti-government” but it could be misleading here. We don’t have to wonder what drove the protests — they had 5 clear demands.

You could say HK’s housing is symptomatic of the system they opposed but this is just a wire piece. “Pro-democracy” might’ve been clearer.

🎊Congratulations 🎉

昨夜看威尼斯影展最佳女演員頒獎片段，辛芷蕾很美，趙濤很好。
因我目前學緊義大利語，我更留意聽、儘量追現場鏡頭給到的，台上那位義大利語漢語的現場翻譯，一位非常出色的女譯員，伊東亞面孔許是華裔。

這位女譯員，先聞其聲，敏捷準確的譯介表達，流暢動聽的義大利語女聲，漂亮！太棒了👏🏻🌟

歐洲確實好遊玩，只是費腦子。
歷史，文化藝術，宗教民族，哪哪都是知識點，還特密集。
（地理地質，氣候水文，植物植被，候鳥留鳥及獸類且不論。

或許就北歐稍無腦輕鬆點？🤪

Photo pf a large group of women in blue football strips posing together on a grass field, some wonen standing in a row while others are sitting on the ground in front

The Afghan women's football/soccer team, who relocated to the UK to escape the Taliban's removal of female rights, including exclusion from all public life #WomensArt #AfghanWomen

Digital pencil illustration on toned paper background of an antique hand-cranked gramophone with a big bell-like speaker out of which is emerging the open-mouthed head of a shark. From way down inside the shark’s gullet is entering a speech balloon as the shark sings the words ‘Maybe it will happen today.’

If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery

Young Chinese Scholar Missing Since 2018 After Conducting Research on Uyghur Culture Feng Siyu, a young scholar from Zhejiang, was once admitted to 17 of the world’s top universities and celebrated in Chinese media as an exceptionally gifted student. Yet since her arrest in 2018, this...

Young Chinese Scholar Missing Since 2018 After Conducting Research on Uyghur Culture.

Feng Siyu, from Zhejiang -- since her arrest in 2018, this promising young scholar has vanished without a trace.

HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA. AUG 22, 2025.

hrichina.substack.com/p/young-chin...

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Thanks for coming back 🎙️
Have just listened to this latest episode this morning 👻

好大！
這不🉐️香一跟頭哇？
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