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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2025-11-22 01:03 pm

Picture Diary 109

Picture Diary 109

 1. Have a strawberry

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2. The party faithful

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3. Sunset

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4. Two Women

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5. Satori

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6. The President is leaving office

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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2025-11-22 08:25 am

Holding Things Together

 The larger and livelier a group becomes the more likely it is that trouble will arise and cliques will form. We get around 15-25 people attending worship at our Meeting House on a Sunday and around 10 on a Thursday. People drop in, people drop out. I make it my business to know the names and a little of the background of everyone who shows up but sometimes memory fails. We're at a level where unity becomes hard to maintain- and I'm aware of hairline cracks that could become fissures.

At area level- where Quakers from Meetings spread across half of Sussex from Seaford to Rye try to find common ground- there is undisguised disharmony. Ailz is at a get together this afternoon which will be dealing with the bugger-up that occured last Sunday. She says our visit to Bunhill Fields has helped her put things in perspective. When you're  walking across the unmarked graves of nearly 100 people who died for their faith in the ghastly prisons of 17th century London the dissension and hurt we're experiencing seems not so very important.....
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-11-22 01:25 am
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Philosophical Questions: Morals

People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.

What are the biggest moral dilemmas your country is facing now?


Privacy, body autonomy, democracy, and climate change.


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disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-11-21 11:53 pm

Political Rant.....

A Great Big W.T.F.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

86 Democrats Join GOP in Voting for ‘Very, Very Stupid’ Resolution Condemning Socialism

“House Minority Leader Jeffries voting with the GOP in favor of this resolution is showing his ultrawealthy donors exactly who he fights for,” said one progressive leader. “It’s not the people.”

Julia Conley
Nov 21, 2025


https://www.commondreams.org/news/democrat-socialist
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-11-21 10:46 pm
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Today's Smoothie

Today we made a smoothie with:

1 cup Pom pomegranate-blueberry juice
1 cup Brown Cow vanilla yogurt
1 banana
1/2 cup frozen strawberries
1/2 cup ice

The result is bright red-violet and on the thin side.  It has a deeper fruit flavor from the pomegranate -- a nice fall smoothie. 
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disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-11-21 08:20 pm

W.T.F. News.....

She must have something planned.......
Or she's rat jumping from a sinking ship......

Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces Surprise Resignation from Congress, Saying She Refuses to Be a 'Battered Wife' to Trump

The Georgia congresswoman announced that she would resign her seat in a video posted to X on Nov. 21

By Amy McCarthy


https://people.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-announces-surprise-resignation-from-congress-11855129?hid=7f1109a25d2362f31854399df255b82ba78f015e&did=20562516-20251121&utm_source=ppl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ppl-breaking-news_newsletter&utm_content=112125&lctg=7f1109a25d2362f31854399df255b82ba78f015e&lr_input=758ad690760192cf49795c3f52223721cac5324e3e862e41c5d4db73a4d43f32&campaign=15801416
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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-11-21 09:58 pm
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Life with two kids: Limited Musical Choices

We have a Spotify family account, so I thought I'd add Sophia to it.
Turns out that because she's under 13 she's incredibly limited in the music she can have access to, and has to be in the special kids app.
So, YouTube for music it is!

(Seriously, they didn't even have the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack. Utterly useless.)
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-11-21 02:59 pm
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Science

Light has been hiding a magnetic secret for nearly 200 years

New research shows that light’s magnetic field is far more influential than scientists once believed. The team found that this magnetic component significantly affects how light rotates as it passes through certain materials. Their work challenges a 180-year-old understanding of the Faraday Effect and opens pathways to new optical and magnetic technologies.
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-11-21 02:18 pm

Birdfeeding

Today is cloudy, rainy, and cool.

I fed the birds. I haven't seen any activity today.

The birdbaths are already full from the rain.

EDIT 11/21/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I've seen several sparrows and house finches at the fly-through feeder, which is basically a little roof over a tray of seed. I can see why they'd prefer it today.

EDIT 11/21/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

I am done for the night.
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disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-11-21 10:25 am

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Today is a special, and a bit sad, day.

Today dad would have turned 100.

Happy Birthday Wishes are going out to you dad.

You are missed a lot


Be Kind 8
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cmcmck ([personal profile] cmcmck) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2025-11-21 12:44 pm

A walk along the River Teme

The Teme runs through Ludlow.

We crossed Dinham bridge again and you can see Ludlow castle in the background:



More pics! )
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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2025-11-21 07:47 am

Bunhill Fields 2

 Bunhill Fields is the Westminster Abbey of English nonconformity. There are some very famous people buried here.

The Victorians honoured John Bunyan with a catafalque and recumbent effigy.

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Daniel Defoe gets an obelisk-. Again it's Victorian.

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Just to the right of the obelisk is one of Blake's two gravestones. It says that he and his wife Catherine are buried nearby.

Two gravestones?

Yes. A while after that first stone had been erected someone did some research and believed they had found the exact spot. Hence this- which is 20th century...

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"I give you the end of a golden string
Only wind it into a ball
It will lead you in at Heaven's gate
Built in Jerusalem's wall."
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote in [community profile] followfriday2025-11-21 01:38 am
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Follow Friday 11-21-25

Got any Follow Friday-related posts to share this week? Comment here with the link(s).

Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die".
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-11-21 01:20 am
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Follow Friday 11-21-25: Knitting

Today's theme is Knitting.  You might also like my Hobbies: Knitting post with resources.

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-11-20 10:13 pm
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-11-20 09:56 pm

Poem: "Trying to Be Better"

This poem is spillover from the October 2025 [community profile] crowdfunding Creative Jam. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] readera. It also fills the "Do you trust me?" square in my 10-1-25 card for the Fall Festival Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by [personal profile] janetmiles. It belongs to the Frank the Crank arc in the Big One thread of the Polychrome Heroics series. It follows "The Clearest Signal" and "Set on Continuous Improvement," so read those first or this won't make as much sense.

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-11-20 08:45 pm

Poem: "Set on Continuous Improvement"

This poem is spillover from the October 2025 [community profile] crowdfunding Creative Jam. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] readera. It also fills the "Dark Side" square in my 10-1-25 card for the Fall Festival Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by [personal profile] janetmiles. It belongs to the Frank the Crank arc in the Big One thread of the Polychrome Heroics series. It follows "The Clearest Signal," so read that first or this won't make as much sense.

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