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New Day Cafe - Saturday: Still Life & Video. [1]
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Date: 2023-01-28
Dear Newdists, how the heck are you all?
I feel numb. This CNN article says that Tyre Nichols was a son and also a father. He loved sunsets. He loved skateboarding, photography and also meeting friends for coffee at Starbucks. The faces of his mother, step father, and of Ben Crump, and his colleague standing behind him, pretty much told me everything I needed to understand.
I avoided seeing the video (both of them). I didn’t watch it because I’ve seen the others. They are wrenching, and increases my fears about the people I love.
I thought after George Floyd’s death, and all that transpired that summer, that things might change. However, the facts are that citizen deaths by police have increased:
US law enforcement killed at least 1,176 people in 2022, making it the deadliest year on record for police violence since 2013 when experts first started tracking the killings nationwide, a new data analysis reveals. Police across the country killed an average of more than three people a day, or nearly 100 people every month last year according to Mapping Police Violence. The non-profit research group maintains a database of reported deaths at the hands of law enforcement, including people fatally shot, beaten, restrained and Tasered. The preliminary 2022 total – a possible undercount as more cases are catalogued – marks 31 additional fatalities than the year before. In 2021, police killed 1,145 people; 1,152 in 2020; 1,097 in 2019; 1,140 in 2018; and 1,089 in 2017. The earliest data goes back to 2013, when journalists and racial justice advocates began counting these fatal incidents on a national basis. A database run by the Washington Post, which tracks fatal shootings by police, also shows 2022 as a year with record killings. ‘It never stops’: killings by US police reach record high in 2022 — The Guardian.
I’m finally starting to believe that the police and policing itself, in America, is impervious to change. They like their power too much, and enjoy the carnage too much.
What are your thoughts, Newdists?
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Was a very odd week. Some weirdo kept calling my land line at 2am and hanging up as I got there to answer it. I lost my cell phone. I found my cell phone. I lost the phone recharger, I found the phone recharger. You’re getting the drift, right? Yeah. I have been painting though, so that’s something.
How about you — did you do anything that was good and brought you pleasure this week?
First — which one?
For me it’s a toss between #2 and #3. It depends on day and mood…
The Cafe kitteh —
Imma going with Henry ...
x Who knows what this duck is called? 🤔🦆 pic.twitter.com/ofQivCITJj — Carl Bovis (@CarlBovisNature) January 27, 2023
x Musk Lorikeet in the garden this morning... first time I've seen one here... probably won't be the last time going by the way it hopped into that apple! #SouthWestVictoria #Australia #Ozbirds #birds #birdwatching #BackyardBirds #WildOz pic.twitter.com/ezE9jk9LhN — Kerry Vickers (@kerrybv1) January 28, 2023
x I believe this to be the best photograph of a dog ever taken in human history. pic.twitter.com/0dU8Lb2g9Z — LuSea (@Lu_Sea_Em) January 26, 2023
x A Fuscous Honeyeater fresh from a bath at Joan's waterhole in Ararat. Jan. 21. They twist 180° after take-off so that when they enter and exit water, they're facing the security of their perch. #BirdsSeenIn2023 #SouthWestVictoria #Australia #Ozbirds #birds #birdwatching pic.twitter.com/3XSpg21aOV — Wayne Suffield 🇺🇦 (@chalambar) January 26, 2023
x Weekly gosling video! ❤️❤️ It appears that Canada Geese goslings start exhibiting their evil, cobra chicken tendencies at an early age. Here, the gosling parade has to wait while 4 goslings peck the hell out of each other. 🤣🤣 #geese #babybirds #goslings #birding pic.twitter.com/gi7LGSbDw8 — Mike's Photos and Videos of Beavers (@MDigout99) January 25, 2023
x An Adelie Penguin comes to say hello (volume up)…a species which is in serious decline in some areas of the Antarctic pic.twitter.com/IzDmMsxels — David Steel (@SteelySeabirder) January 26, 2023
x One of four Port Lincoln parrots that came into the backyard of where I'm staying today. I love the water droplet in this shot. pic.twitter.com/2O9VngOioJ — Sandy Horne (@SandyHorne61) January 27, 2023
x Tiny trumpets 🎺 pic.twitter.com/h0kI5hW6rj — San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance (@sandiegozoo) January 27, 2023
Newdists, please grab a plate of food, a cuppa and join us in the thread.
Still Life
x Minoan " Palace style " vessel, 15th c.BC. NAMAthens. pic.twitter.com/EHXbg9XXQQ — Ioannis Tz (@tzoumio) January 28, 2023
x A beautiful #Roman gold necklace, set with amethysts & small emeralds. It was made around 1700 years ago, & has survived in beautiful condition, perhaps as part of a hoard. The original owner was lucky to own such a nice piece of jewellery! #RomanArchaeology pic.twitter.com/WCbsKFjBsd — Dr Jo Ball (@DrJEBall) January 26, 2023
x At the edge of the universe
Is where you’ll find me
Drifting, swirling
Inhaling the possibilities of what could be pic.twitter.com/Cgwm26g18C — Jessica Moore (@DopplerJess) January 25, 2023
x GM
The Salt Painter - minting on @SuperRare this week.
Shot on these salt fields, but with a twist 👀 pic.twitter.com/KrlTpHV9hw — Rakesh Pulapa🦉💎 (@rakesh_pulapa) January 23, 2023
x Gm! pic.twitter.com/woUxUBQuNf — PHLY 🌊 Phil de Glanville (@PHLYimages) January 25, 2023
x Clearly Paradise pic.twitter.com/EQHcNNRD62 — Arwin ☀️☀️ Sky Vibes✨✨ Check out my SuperRare 🧡 (@LevinsonArwin) January 21, 2023
New Day Cafe is an Open Thread.
What do you want to talk about today?
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