84 yr old Andrew Lester will stand trial for the shooting of #RalphYarl a black teen who's "crime" was ringing the wrong doorbell.

#Thursday (via ABC News)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=absss4RXfys

Little Child Runnin' Wild

#EarWorm #Thursday

How many dads throw their backs out on #ThrowBackThursday?

#tbt #TBThursday #Thursday #dad #DadJokes

You can also find me on the BlueSky fediverse!
https://bsky.app/profile/alfatrion.bsky.social

I don't have any invites yet, nor know how to acquire any.

I'm still cool with keeping THIS party going tho!

How's everyone's #Thursday?

Good morning
It’s almost the weekend.
©Jamie Lipman
#Flowers
#Flora
#pink
#Thursday
©Jamie Lipman

Honey touches the tongue, activates a cell, and sends a signal. All in one-tenth of a second. In one hundred milliseconds. A hundred camera flashes. A hundred flaps of a fly's wings. Receptors bind to the memory of a substance that's already slipping away.

https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/moments

#reading #writing #amwriting #art #poetry #writingcommunity #books @bookstodon #thursday

"They never noticed him at school, they tell me
He kept himself to himself
He used to sit and stare up at the ceiling
Hermann loves Pauline
They never noticed him at school, they tell me
He suffered poor health
He used to vacantly stare out the window feeling under

Why do you do what they tell you?"

--Super Furry Animals - Hermann ❤’s Pauline
#GoodMorning #Thursday #NP #NowPlaying #SFA #SuperFurryAnimals #Music #PsychedelicRock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njhQ23ZKjFU

Off my game and a little late today, but this week's newsletter went out first thing yesterday morning.

Link below if you'd like to give it a read:
https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/moments

#reading #writing #amwriting #art #poetry #writingcommunity #booms @bookstodon #thursday

@Kuestentroete Guten Morgen! Ja, so etwas ähnliches habe ich mich bei dieser Variante des Schilds auch gefragt. Bzw war es da eher der Eiskaffee, weil 30 Grad. Ob es in der Cantina in Mos Eisley auf Tatooine Kaffee gibt? Wer weiß das schon. Oder weist der Wegweiser doch einfach nach Tunesien? 🤔
Aber ich war, so scheint es, doppelt so weit weg von New York wie du. 😁

#photography #TravelThursday #fotografie #donnerstag #thursday #beach #summer

You wrap yourself in thick layers. Sheets of plastic. Polyethylene film. Air-filled hemispheres in regular intervals. Shock resistant pockets of tension in uniformed rows. Isolating barriers of protection in neat, even half-globes. A concerted effort to hold back the world. It makes it difficult to move and hard to breathe. But, you'll never shatter. Never break. You'll never feel anything...

#reading #writing #art #poetry #blog #amwriting #books #thursday @bookstodon

We were full of thirst.
Tongues of water and flame,
Reaching for something

#reading #writing #amwriting #art #poetry #haiku #thursday @bookstodon

"As humans, we so often feel helpless in our own smallness, yet still we find the resilience to do and make beautiful things, and this is where the meaning of life resides." - Nick Cave

https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chatgpt-making-things-faster-and-easier/

#reading #writing #blog #art #thursday @bookstodon

THIS 👇🏽

Remember that because this has been LONG overdue.

#Thursday #Trump 🖕🏽

"If you believe that you're perfect, then somebody else must be responsible for your failures."

#Thursday 🥤

There are patterns that govern our lives. Postulates that outline what we think to be true. Methodologies. Beliefs. Strategies. Assumptions. Master narratives and grounding principles. Our own personal unified theory of being in the world.

And then, there are moments when we discover that all of our itemized presumptions don't mean shit.

https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/life-is-cumulative

#reading #writing #art #poetry #amwriting #blog #books #thursday @bookstodon

Something happens when you feed a thread through a needle. When you sit cross-legged counting breaths. When you learn every lyric to a song. Something happens when you give your awareness to things that happen gradually. To the sure strum of a chord, to good books, to writing, to words. Things that need time to proof. Things that rise and bake. The things that make you wait.

https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/slow-things

#reading #writing #art #poetry #amwriting #blog #books #thursday @bookstodon

Spend long enough in the quiet and you question all the noise. The vying for attention. The vanity. The vapidity. All marketing and personal brands. Somewhere in the silence we learn the value of speech. The merit of choosing words. The virtue of saying nothing. The power of presence and authenticity.

#reading #writing #art #poetry #blog #amWriting #books @bookstodon #thursday

There are things that are bought and sold that can never be owned. Things taken that cannot be kept. Things possessed that one can never truly hold...

https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/less

#reading #writing #art #poetry #amwriting #books #blog #thursday

Guten Morgen 😃☀️🌞 meine Mastoherde 🐘 🖖🤗🥰.

Wünsche euch einen schönen 13. Juli mit dem #AstronomyPictureOfTheDay - Webb's Rho Ophiuchi
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (STScI), Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

Noch 172 Tage bis zum Jahresende. Lasst euch nicht ärgern und kommt gesund durch den Tag.

Grüße von der #SuedlichenWeinstrasse #GutenMorgen #BomDia #GoodMorning #Photography #Donnerstag #QuintaFeira #Thursday #Fotodonnerstag #FollowerPower

You make plans. You plot, you plod, you arrange. But somewhere in your gut, you can feel the fates smirk and scheme. A spinner, an alloter, a cutter, each crack their knuckles in turn, nod to one another, and set to work...

https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/fate

#reading #writing #art #poetry #amwriting #books #blog #Thursday @bookstodon