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Friday 16 February 2018

Table for One

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DSC06978 | by noppadol.maitreechit

DSC06978: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 6 February 2018

DSC06978 | by noppadol.maitreechit

DSC06978: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 6 February 2018

DSC06978 | by noppadol.maitreechit

DSC06978: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 6 February 2018



Residents of Raqa, once the IS group's de facto Syrian capital, are desperate to return home, but many are being maimed and killed by unexploded and sometimes insidiously hidden mines Photo Delil Souleman: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 15 February 2018

Table for One (Raqa 2018)

An exploding cabbage 
growing in your back
yard ruins is a hard
thing to love
without reservations 

Residents of Raqa, once the IS group's de facto Syrian capital, are desperate to return home, but many are being maimed and killed by unexploded and sometimes insidiously hidden mines Photo Delil Souleman: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 15 February 2018



Residents of Raqa, once the IS group's de facto Syrian capital, are desperate to return home, but many are being maimed and killed by unexploded and sometimes insidiously hidden mines Photo Delil Souleman: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 15 February 2018


Residents of Raqa, once the IS group's de facto Syrian capital, are desperate to return home, but many are being maimed and killed by unexploded and sometimes insidiously hidden mines Photo Delil Souleman: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 15 February 2018

 

 #Syria  Life so full of blood. #EasternGhouta Photo @abdfree2 #AFP: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 15 February 2018
 


19-year old Nikolas Cruz has confessed to killing 17 people at his former high school in Florida as the FBI admitted it had received a tip-off about the gunman yet failed to stop him.: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 15 February 2018
  
Meet the North Korean fans! #PyeongChang2018 #winterolympics2018 #SouthKorea: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 15 February 2018
 

#Egypt Women wearing veils look at the Great Pyramids of Giza. #Cairo #Archaeology Photo Khaled Desouki #AFP: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 15 February 2018
 

#goodnight A Sri Lankan street vendor sells prawns at the Galle Face Beach in Colombo. Photo Oshara S. Kodikara: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 15 February 2018 

Like a village (PyeongChang 2018)

Much
as in Brueghel the rink n
all, like a tale of olde 
told by an idiot 
an olympic village 
full of village idiots
named shaun and Kimi
is a hard
thing to love
without reservations
but at least no mass
school shootings so far
in this commercial break
on this zero visibility morning
it's very windswept here on the course this morning carol
we'll be having the lost in the snow event
today
maybe
where is tarkovsky 



Ladies' Slalom Race- CANCELED- High winds blow on the course as the Slalom skiers have their morning inspection at the Yongpyong Alpine Center in PyeongChang, Korea. The race has been rescheduled for Friday. (Thursday night in USA). #Olympics @nytimes @NYTSports: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 13 February 2018 

 
I don't see anything about this in the manual #ua1175: image via Erik Haddad @erikhaddad, 13 February 2018



A Geoffroy's Monk Saki is seen at a zoo in Lima, Peru Photo Guadalupe Pardo: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 15 February 2018

Untitled | by noppadol.maitreechit

[Untitled]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 8 February 2018

Untitled | by noppadol.maitreechit

[Untitled]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 8 February 2018

Untitled | by noppadol.maitreechit

[Untitled]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 8 February 2018 

2018-02-08_12-26-18 | by Chris Tuarissa

2018-02-08_12-26-18 [Jakarta]: photo by Chris Tuarissa, 6 February 2018

2018-02-08_12-26-18 | by Chris Tuarissa

2018-02-08_12-26-18 [Jakarta]: photo by Chris Tuarissa, 6 February 2018
 
2018-02-08_12-26-18 | by Chris Tuarissa

2018-02-08_12-26-18 [Jakarta]: photo by Chris Tuarissa, 6 February 2018
Apprehension

But honey badger don't care
Sniffing the air

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Mellivora capensis (Honey Badger) (Prague Zoo): photo by Matej Bat'ha, 2007

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Mellivora capensis (Honey Badger) (Prague Zoo): photo by Matej Bat'ha, 2007
Honey Badger
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Honey badger (Mellivora capensis): photo by Jaganath, 2006

Most fearless Animal In world Eats Everything
Has a sweet tooth
And the sharpest sense of smell
On the savannah

Honey badger
So courageous so dangerous nothing
On the savannah will come
Within a thousand yards
For dread of being ripped to pieces
Honey badger fears no other natural creature
 
Honey badger is skilled with tools
Honey badger will log-roll delicately balancing
On hind legs standing
On spinning log patiently fishing
With long scimitar claws
A choice kingfisher fledgling
 
From dark ceiling rafters
Of subterranean cave
In Basra
It is said honey
Badger having already eaten will kill you anyway
Not in order to eat you
 
But for simple animal joy 
Of tearing off your testicles
With exquisitely 
Sharp honey
Badger teeth
To honey badger
 
World is a snack 
Waiting to happen
An hors d'oeuvre
A canapé
And your red remains but so much biped
Splat
 
On a rock
Solitary and nomadic
Roaming a 300 mile radius beneath the Southern Cross
Thinking only
Eat bite tear rip
Eat few
 
Things more terrible than the sight
Of honey badger trapped and sniffing and pacing about within the blind
Walls of the zoo enclosure
Honey badger rages against this confinement and goes half mad but is subdued
And waits 
And bides his time as though it were not time but freedom
 
A different kind of freedom A freedom in raging against the condition waiting staying alert
Being ready for The time of Return 
The biped will be gone from the savannah
Again 
Reading the hours as though back on the savannah  
As on a sundial 
 
A lizard waiting on a rock
Another kind of time
Honey Badger reading the hours
By the falling shadow crawling slowly across the zoo dirt
Of the bars of the tall cage 
That confines him



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Mellivora capensis (Honey Badger) (Prague Zoo): photo by Matej Bat'ha, 2007

Private Lives of Celebrity Lookalikes | by J. Ward

Private Lives of Celebrity Lookalikes | #98 Antonio, aka Prince, Apartment, Sherman Oaks: photo by J Ward, 12 January 2015
 
Private Lives of Celebrity Lookalikes | by J. Ward

Private Lives of Celebrity Lookalikes | #98 Antonio, aka Prince, Apartment, Sherman Oaks: photo by J Ward, 12 January 2015

Private Lives of Celebrity Lookalikes | by J. Ward

 Private Lives of Celebrity Lookalikes | #98 Antonio, aka Prince, Apartment, Sherman Oaks: photo by J Ward, 12 January 2015

L1001544-leshukonskoe2017 | by Emil Gataullin

L1001544-leshukonskoe2018 | Leshukonskoe, Arkhangelsk region, Russia, 2018: photo by Emil Gataullin, 11 February 2018

Untitled | by Sakis Dazanis

* | by Sakulchai Sikitikul

[Songkhla, Hat Yai, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 13 February 2018

* | by Sakulchai Sikitikul

[Songkhla, Hat Yai, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 13 February 2018
 
* | by Sakulchai Sikitikul
 
[Songkhla, Hat Yai, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 13 February 2018

. | by ngravity

[Solna, Stockholm]: photo by Dimitris Makrygiannakis, 24 January 2018

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[Solna, Stockholm]: photo by Dimitris Makrygiannakis, 24 January 2018

. | by ngravity

[Solna, Stockholm]: photo by Dimitris Makrygiannakis, 24 January 2018

valentine's day muricasm: and the blind shall lead them (angel wings optional)
 

It's only February, and there have already been at least four shootings at middle and high schools in the United States so far this year: image via CNN @CNN, 14 February 2018 

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Students are evacuated by police from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, after a shooter opened fire on the campus.: photo by Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, 14 February 2018

Shooting At High School In Parkland, Florida Injures Multiple People
 
Police officers led students out of the school after the shooting on Wednesday.: photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images, 14 February 2018

Shooting At High School In Parkland, Florida Injures Multiple People

Police officers led students out of the school after the shooting on Wednesday.: photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images, 14 February 2018
 

The shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, is now among the 10 deadliest mass shootings in modern US history: image via CNN @CNN, 14 February 2018   

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Shooting At High School In Parkland, Florida Injures Multiple People  
Today, Florida and the rest of the country are in a state of mourning. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School will remain closed for the rest of the week.: photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images, 14 February 2018

 Shooting At High School In Parkland, Florida Injures Multiple People  

Today, Florida and the rest of the country are in a state of mourning. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School will remain closed for the rest of the week.: photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images, 14 February 2018

 
The day was almost over and students were puzzled because the fire alarm was going off a second time. Then the gunshots began, and students ran for their lives. Here are the words of some of those who went through the shooting in Parkland, Florida.: image via CNN @CNN, 14 February 2018

School shooting Florida

There's *always* a tweet: image via Shaun Usher @ShaunUsher, 5 February 2018



These @olsongetty pics from the market meltdown are like Renaissance art: image via Frank Chung @franks_chung, 6 February 2018


These @olsongetty pics from the market meltdown are like Renaissance art: image via Frank Chung @franks_chung, 6 February 2018

 
These @olsongetty pics from the market meltdown are like Renaissance art: image via Frank Chung @franks_chung, 6 February 2018


These @olsongetty pics from the market meltdown are like Renaissance art: image via Frank Chung @franks_chung, 6 February 2018
 

#DowJones plunged more than 1,000 points, the second-worst in history. Photo: @spencerplatt1: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 14 February 2018


 Fashion show inspired by #MeToo opens in New York with models sporting angel wings handcuffed to men in pig masks: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 9 February 2018

Shot into the sun at a tremendous speed! (like Renaissance art)

You want to know whether it's ok to come strapped to lockdown? Or even like, required? 
Absolulutely!   That's like, a major yesss!
Mommy my teacher said angels' wings are kind of pinchy
and angels don't like wearing them on red carpets any more

because I forget why. Mommy can I do my nails blue for lockdown.
Mommy Juice!  I want Juice! Juice!
Shut up and get in the back of the fucking SUV goddamit.
Mommy! Mommy! Jimmy Joe stole my AR again and this time she won't even pretend to give it back!

Your AR is locked up in that cabinet where I put it. The ammo's in there too. The key
is right there on the table where I left it for you this morning.  Just clean up
when you're done this time, OK?  Don't come pouting back to me. We only bought it for you 
for your graduation because you're so special and you need something to protect yourself

and I'm your mom and I love you very much.
 

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Tang Lanfang and her husband Huang Fusheng have been married since 1958: ‘I think our marriage is still fresh because we believed in forgiving and understanding each other’: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 14 February 2018

‘On our first date, I waited at a meeting place for an hour. It turned out she had been advised by her mother and older sister to be late for an hour to see whether I was serious about her’: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 14 February 2018
 
 
Korea's Lee Jing-yu cries after her team lost to Japan at #PyeongChang2018 Photo Brian Snyder: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 14 February 2018 

 
Flynn the bichon frise fetches the 'Best in Show' prize at the Westminster Dog Show #WKCDogShow: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 14 February 2018
  


Yuto Totsuka of Japan is assisted by medical staff after crashing during the men’s halfpipe final in #PyeongChang2018 Photo Brian Snyder: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 14 February 2018  
 

This reaction tells you they knew they had done it #PyeongChang2018: image via AFP Sport @AFP_Sport, 14 February 2018

Broward Hospital Prepared For Shooting Vicitms

GRAPHIC WARNING: Three photographs, provided to Reuters by a Buddhist village elder, capture key moments in the alleged massacre of 10 Rohingya Muslim captives in Myanmar: image via Reuters TV @ReutersTV, 9 February 2018



Children playing by road near school house, iowa or Kansas [?]
: photo by John Vachon, c. 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Three children playing "hide and seek" in a forest (Versteckspiel im Wald)
: Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim (1808-1879), n.d., oil on tinplate, 17 x 20 cm

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Children's Games (detail: "Hide and Seek")
: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559-60, oil on wood, 118 x 161 cm (Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna)

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Children's Games (detail: "Blind Man's Buff"): Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559-60, oil on wood, 118 x 161 cm (Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna)


Children's Games
: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559-60, oil on wood, 118 x 161 cm (Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna)


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Blind-Man's Buff [sic]: artist unknown, before 1830, published by Paul Jarrard and Sons (London, England). Print made within the lifetime of King George IV of England (12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830); image by Daderot, 30 April 2008


Blind Man's Buff
: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, 1788-89, oil on canvas, 269 x 350 cm (Museo del Prado, Madrid)


Blindman's Buff (detail): Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1775-80, oil on canvas (National Gallery of Art, Washington)

 Students hold their hands in the air as they are evacuated by police from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, after a shooter opened fire on the campus. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

Students hold their hands in the air as they are evacuated by police from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, after a shooter opened fire on the campus.: photo by Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, 14 February 2018

  Students hold their hands in the air as they are evacuated by police from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, after a shooter opened fire on the campus. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

Students hold their hands in the air as they are evacuated by police from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, after a shooter opened fire on the campus.: photo by Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, 14 February 2018

Shot into the sun at a tremendous speed! (like Renaissance art)

Summer was very great. No, summer... You want to know whether it's summer?
Sumer was OK. Sumeria was my favourite stop. We were there last year for Fashion Week. Autumn was very great. Winter, we got out our skis and...
six inches of powder
in the hills above the village, and the mothballs in the drawer are keeping

uour trusseau virginal
meant to say your trousseau virginal the neurology again
start again it's fashion week it takes
the tragedy of the victim is the foam on the lips of the gold medal winning village idiot who can't get over it Ay where are the songs of sping* where are they

*sping JK To Autumn ms

NY Fashion Week Marc Jacobs

Guests walk to their seats during the Marc Jacobs fashion show during Fashion Week in New York, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018.: photo by Andres Kudacki/AP, 14 February 2018

NY Fashion Week Marc Jacobs

Guests walk to their seats during the Marc Jacobs fashion show during Fashion Week in New York, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018.: photo by Andres Kudacki/AP, 14 February 2018

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