Her Voice Is Unlike Anything in Opera

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A book cover which carries a photograph of the Sun en-blueing the Earth's atmosphere as our planet rotates widdershins towards it.

Read about the Hidden Imam and his sidekick Jesus. Just like Longe Ranger & Tonto rounding up the bad guys. . Free pdf:

Here's the link: shiism.hds.harvard.edu/sites/g/file...

A book cover which carries a photograph of the Sun en-blueing the Earth's atmosphere as our planet rotates widdershins towards it.

Read about the Hidden Imam and his sidekick Jesus. Just like Longe Ranger & Tonto rounding up the bad guys. . Free pdf:

I went to the Garda Station in rural County Cork to obtain their stamp on my passport application.
The Guard on duty asked for ID which I wasn't carrying.
"Not to worry" said he, "I'm sure you know it's yourself right enough."

Bennett School of Public Policy Airbus for AI: A global strategy for public value creation Joshua Tan Brandon Jackson Robin Berjon Diane Coyle

The Airbus model offers a clear precedent for how nations can collaboratively build advanced, competitive, and publicly accountable technological capabilities. An Airbus for AI can link together model builders across several labs into a sustainable commercial entity, ensuring that AI development reflects democratic values, advances scientific progress, and delivers broad economic benefits rather than concentrating wealth and power in a few dominant overseas firms. With the incoming surge of public investment into AI and increasing political urgency, now is the time to act.

Interesting and readable 2025 Policy Brief by Joshua Tan, Brandon Jackson, Robin Berjon, and @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social arguing for the establishment of "an Airbus for AI": publicai.co/airbus-for-a... (26p PDF, with main conclusion below).

A picture of th planet Mars; sunlight reflects its reddish surface against the black space in which the planet moves.

crookedtimber.org/2026/04/20/o...

Doug Muir (Crooked Timber): TLDR: one of Mars’ moons may periodically tear itself apart, turn into a system of rings around the planet, and then put itself back together.

We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem.

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List of birds

List of birds.

10 minutes just now with the fantastic Merlin bird-sound analyser on the landfill areas and in Lees Hall Woods in Gleadless Valley, 2km from Sheffield city centre. (Only the Oystercatcher seems to be a dud, possibly due to noise from the adjacent DumpIt site.)

Is that Mount Fuji over there on the right?

London’s Marble Arch, a triad of arches

Apropos of nothing, did you know London’s Marble Arch is not a victory type thing, but actually was designed as the entrance to a renovated Buckingham Palace? The architect was fired after this for being too extravagant and ballooning the renovation cost to an insane amount

Roy Orbison There Wont Be Many Coming Home YouTube video by Roy Orbison Preservation Society

If they all came back but one, he was still a mother's son

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That’s the Pits.

Central to Iranian Shia Islam is the Hidden Iman. Look it up.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ABCD. This black skimmer fits I think. When I have the opportunity to photograph these beauties, I make as many images as I can while they do their fishing. #photography #wildlife #ECK #bird #BirdsInFlight #Nikon #Z8 #NaturePhotography #Floida

A blue, tan, and white Eastern Bluebird against a blurry tan background. 📷 Dreamcatcher

Eastern Bluebird

Wondering what's up with the wind...

Image containing a text quotation, with the grey silhouetted profile of a man like Jung lighting his pipe, in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from James Hillman, The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling, reads: WizzyWig: “[Y]ou find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived.”

“You find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply...”

~ James Hillman.

IHIP News: Trump Admin ATTACKS REDDIT to Get User's Data that SPEAK OUT Against HIM?! YouTube video by I've Had It

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🌿☕ Morning 🌄 up early doors in search of moths

I hope you enjoy 📸 🦋 🦋 🦋

Did you know moths are incredibly diverse, outnumbering butterflies 10 to 1 with over 160,000 known species

Around for over 190 million years possessing amazing adaptations like camouflage & sound jamming to evade bats 🦇 🌿

EROTICA: THE STATE WE’RE IN Welcome to the new DSW site/blog/general manifesto! It seemed like a good idea to have everything erotica/fiction/sexuality under one roof, so to speak, so if you’ve found this page via either of t…

It's about 10 years since I set up my website. This is the first post I made on it... dirtysexywords.com/erotica-the-...

Opinion | Change Your Dreams. Change Your Life.

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The podcast revolves around an incident which took place in the 1980s. I remember reading about it in the Guardian back in 1984. The scandal in the 90s, I recall, was a guilt-by-association episode--prompted by BNP literature being found at an address which the Arastasia group had recently left

This new piece by @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social about Cuba as it is - as against as it is sometimes imagined - is well worth reading. (No paywall.)

Tremendously depressing read. Also: proper reporting.

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Naw, its probably one of them Red Kryptonite hallucinations.

Archaeologists in the Holy Land just uncovered a 3,000-year-old Israelite tablet…

It reads: “Iran is only weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.”

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Assume Nothing - The Secrets of St Brides - Episode 1: The Silver Sisterhood - BBC Sounds A mysterious new school opens in a remote Irish village, but all is not as it seems.

I gave a listen to this recently:

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The DC Superman turned 80 in 2018.