lapiness

lapiness

@lapiness.bsky.social

Citizen of Earth. Made in Germany. Equality advocate, designer and the world is my home, just trying not to trip over it!

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Raniero Mancinelli, 86, has been a tailor for about 70 years. He made the robes that welcomed the Pope today. You can read about him in the National Catholic Reporter (check the links in the IG handles below). IG sistersreport and ncronline

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Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. - Anne Frank

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Breaking News: A federal prosecutor interrogated the The New England Journal of Medicine — which is considered the world’s most prestigious medical journal — in what its editor described as a “vaguely threatening” letter.

nytimes.com‘Vaguely Threatening’: Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical JournalThe New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.

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Giving a zoom lecture on the architecture of Chicago's South Side for the Wilmette Public library Monday evening. Sign up and check me out. Because in addition: "Bey will offer an exclusive sneak peek into his upcoming book project focusing on the West Side of Chicago."

wilmette.libnet.infoLee Bey: Southern Exposure (Virtual)Join us for an evening with Lee Bey, acclaimed architecture critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and ABC7 Chicago, and author of Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side.

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Probably worth a bit more attention than it is receiving. “With the ongoing bleaching it’s almost overwhelming the capacity of people to do the monitoring they need to do...that this most recent, global-scale coral bleaching event is still ongoing takes the world’s reefs into uncharted waters."

theguardian.comMore than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on recordAn ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should be fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist says

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“The latest tourist horror story to come out of Trump's America is from German friends Charlotte Pohl, 19, and Maria Lepere, 18, who claimed they were detained after landing in Hawaii from New Zealand.“ 4/21/25 www.ladbible.com/news/us-news...

ladbible.comYoung tourists deported from US after not planning their trip well enoughGerman tourists Charlotte Pohl and Maria Lepere were detained and then deported from Hawaii by US border forces after not booking accommodation for the trip

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“Famed AI researcher [Tamay Besiroglu] launches controversial startup [Mechanize] to replace all human workers everywhere” Besiroglu “did, however, clarify to TechCrunch that ‘our immediate focus is indeed on white-collar work’ rather than manual labor jobs that would require robotics.”4/19/25

techcrunch.comFamed AI researcher launches controversial startup to replace all human workers everywhere | TechCrunchEvery now and then, a Silicon Valley startup launches with such an “absurdly” described mission that it’s difficult to discern if the startup is for real

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“Americans think they’re so special with their orange celebrity president. Well guess what? We have our own celebrity version of Don the Con. Meet Yolk Hogan, the leader of the Literal Party. -Literal Party Press Statement Photo: Yves Adams

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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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Replying to @rbreich.bsky.social

I asked Chat GPT to tell me the equivalent of Musk giving away 1 million dollars. “So, giving away $1 million for Elon Musk is like a person earning $100,000 giving away 50 cents.” .50 f’n cents. He dropped $12.50 on this election. Sick and disgusting how rich he is.

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