Lady Linda

Lady Linda

@ladylg.bsky.social

Island Lawyer who sees - the world is a big crime scene!!!!😥

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"Witnessing such a young elephant lose its life to trophy hunting is a painful reminder of why we cannot allow this to continue.Together, let's demand stricter regulations and an immediate ban on trophy hunting. Our wildlife deserves better. #BanTrophyHuntingNow"

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Katie Bouman was 29 when the world saw its first image of a black hole. At MIT she built CHIRP, an algorithm for imaging from sparse telescope data, and helped turn 5 petabytes into one picture. When her ecstatic reaction went viral, trolls swarmed to give a male peer credit for her work.

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“We made it, friend.” That’s what Harriet Ida Pickens said to Frances Wills on graduation day in 1944. Together, they became the first Black women commissioned as officers in the U.S. Navy. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

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“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost between two spiral arms in the outskirts of a galaxy.” ― Carl Sagan

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Good morning, my friends! My cousin Derek is going through a rough time and needs help. I humbly ask you to do whatever you can. Sharing his link is helpful as well. Thank you all in advance and it's greatly appreciated. 😊🙏🏽❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-hum...

gofundme.comDonate to Help a Humble Black Artist Rebuild, Create & Thrive, organized by Derek SmithMy name is Derek, and I'm the founder of AHBA (A Humble Black Artist… Derek Smith needs your support for Help a Humble Black Artist Rebuild, Create & Thrive

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#ResistanceRoots Marjorie Joyner was born on this day in 1896 in Monterey, Va. As a Black beauty industry executive, she trained thousands of stylists and elevated the profession as a means of economic security for Black women. She used salons as engines for civil rights and political power. /1

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“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge.” ― Carl Sagan

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On Dec 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, AL. A veteran NAACP activist, she was arrested and fined. Her defiance sparked the 381-day bus boycott led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., forcing a SCOTUS ruling that ended bus segregation.🧵 #CivilRights

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Pumpkins get from the fields to our homes for #Halloween Jack-o'-lanterns thanks to the labor of farm workers like these Moorpark CA farm workers who load each pumpkin by hand into the large cardboard box before shipping to cities ahead of Halloween. #WeFeedYou

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Choose kindness whenever you can. You will never know how many people you may impact simply by being kind. #BeKind #Pinks

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“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time.” ― Carl Sagan

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"Elena" works in the green onions in the Tehachapi CA area. "Each box contains 96 bundles. We're paid hourly minimum wage but we must make a minimum of 4 boxes per hour or we will not continue to have a job." #WeFeedYou

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“Practice any Art: music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money & fame but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.” IAN McKELLEN / KURT VONNEGUT

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Apple workers in Western NY will load trailers like these w/up to ten 900lb apple bins, totaling around 5 tons. “Even though my crew does way more than the minimum bins we're required to by our contract, we don’t get any bonuses and our wages were cut this year.” #WeFeedYou

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“The Rhythm of Craftsmanship” Incredible hand-eye coordination of a master upholsterer as he works on a furniture frame with a speed and rhythm that rivals automatic machinery. IG: @realengineerings