Jackie Ramo

Photo taken in my garden with my new phone. Makes me wonder why I hung on to the previous one for 5 years

its daylily season

Ongoing research maps how the pandemic accelerated the rise of online misogyny, especially through “manosphere” influencers and far-right rhetoric. Brianna Wiens, Nick Ruest and Shana MacDonald write.

Baltimore Oriole. Not in the mood for sharing

Red poppies in the garden

Why Germany's Baerbock is unfit to be the new UN general assembly president

The tree peony is putting on a real show this year.

As pressure mounts, can Israel prove its claim that Palestinians are used as ‘human shields’ amid growing evidence the orders come from the top aje.io/nywr14

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Bloodroot. didn’t manage to catch the bees in the photo but they were there.

I saw advice to buy extra cans of food when you’re at the grocery store to donate to the food bank. I want to politely nudge you to give the money directly to food banks (or to mutual aid groups if you know of any). We can usually stretch a dollar farther than a dollar’s worth of canned goods

Out in the garden with my new helper David finishing up the winter pruning. Got everything bundled and ready to go to the street for Thursday pickup.

Thousands of shoes laid out in Dutch city of Leiden in memory of children killed by Israel in Gaza. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4dznck

Wishing our pup, Jazz, a Happy 15th Birthday.

"These 15 medics and first responders were heroes. They ran towards danger. They served their people. They believed in the sanctity of life, even in a place where life is constantly under siege. Their memory should be sacred." — #AJOpinion by Ahmed Najar ⤵️

After the snow ice and rain of yesterday it was a beautiful day to spend in the garden. Picked up all the garbage in the front garden, brought the pots out to the patio, trimmed a few clematis and had a look at what was coming up.

A day late for April Fool

Hamas has agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal it received two days ago from mediators Egypt and Qatar, the Palestinian militant group's chief said reut.rs/4iKnaGJ

“Even now in my ears, the bullets are bouncing off the door next to me, into the walls next to me,” Al-Wahidi said. interc.pt/42p9cEo

Palestinian artist and community organizer Dorgham Bassam Qreiqea, 28, was killed in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza City amid the onslaught of Israeli airstrikes last Tuesday, March 18.

Mark Carney vowed that there would be a 'broad renegotiation' of the trade agreement between Canada and the US, as his country aims to reshape its economy and seek 'reliable' trading partners. www.ft.com/content/6e09...

So trying to get my old demented do to eat, she has not eaten in two days. She will be 15 in 2 weeks and seems bright cheerful and happy but with no appetite.

The lovely Jazzy, actually this is an old photo as she is very scruffy and off to the groomers today. Right now she is staggering around the house high on drugs cuz she hates the groomer.

Spring is almost here, time to do that late winter pruning. Raven Tree Care did a great job. Sadly my Beech has canker.

Life with a demented old dog. She had me up from 1;30 to 2 am. Started with a drink, downstairs, outside, back in, wander about, outside, back in, wander about, gave her a half a children’s gravol, upstairs and back to bed. Took 10 minutes for her to settle so I could go back to sleep.

"I will wear my persona non grata as a badge of dignity." South African ambassador Ebrahim Rasool who was expelled from the US in a row with President Trump’s administration has arrived home to a raucous welcome and struck a defiant tone over the decision aje.io/5edf6u

Welcome to all our new followers! 💚

Unnamed orchid 2nd bloom in 8 years but this year there will be 3 blooms

Happy Spring

🌱 "A garden is a revolution in motion." -Anonymous

Lovely day to garden. Nothing much just cutting down the clematis as Summer Snow grows 30 ft a season. Half done

Canuckle 1039 3/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 🔥 streak: 1 www.canucklegame.ca

“You know times are strange when pizza commercials are speaking not of gooey cheese and spicy pepperoni but international trade policy.”

#insects Not just bees and butterflies: beetles and other brilliant bugs are nature’s unsung pollinators theconversation.com/not-just-bee...

Spring is arriving

A weekslong Israeli military operation across several West Bank cities has displaced roughly 40,000 Palestinians from their homes, in what historians and researchers say is the biggest displacement of civilians in the territory since the Arab-Israeli war of 1967. nyti.ms/3QkUV4P

Watching the news makes me think most have missed a solution for Gaza. Let's move the survivors of genocide into the Israeli squatters settlements and house them while the Gaza part of Palestine is rebuilt.

www.npr.org/2025/01/18/n...

Dreaming of Summer