A #family is denied #choice

#Smith, #woman from #Georgia was declared brain-dead in February She was 9weeks #pregnant, #abortions are allowed till 6, so she's kept on #life-support without rights as mere vessel
Her son thinks she's alive
Her fetus has #health issues if he can be born, he probably will be severely #disabled
Her family is retraumatized every day!
Has to pay for #medical expenses without any choice

#birthcontrol #usa #ethics #medicine #injustice #protest

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Georgia hospital keeping brain-dead woman alive due to abortion ban, family says

A pregnant woman declared brain-dead has been kept on life support for months to comply with Georgia's strict anti-abortion law, family members say.

^{Jeff Amy, Sudin Thanawala and Geoff Mulvihill | The Associated Press (NBC New York)}

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Cinestill 400D
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#filmphotography #フィルム写真 #底片

There is an end for everything

In 2012, Pope Leo XIV Slammed the Media for Its Liberal Bias and Promoting Abortion

From Lifenews.com

More than a decade before he was elected and addressed the media as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV had spoken about evangelisation amid modern media in an address that is still accessible, a Vatican expert spotlighted this week.

In 2012, then-Father Robert Prevost gave an address at a Synod about evangelisation convened by Pope Benedict XVI, Sandro Magister explained in a May 13 article for his blog. The address considers how several Church Fathers responded to the non- and anti-Christian media of their time, which in turn provides insight for evangelising amid the present-day’s media culture.

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Magister described then-Fr. Prevost’s remarks as “astonishing, for the acuteness of the diagnosis of the mediatic distortions of today’s society, but even more for the reference to the Fathers of the Church — from Augustine to Ambrose and Leo the Great to Gregory of Nyssa — as teachers brilliant in taking up the challenges of communication of their time, and therefore in understanding how to best evangelize the society of the late empire.”

In his address during the 2012 Synod on Evangelization, then-Fr. Prevost said that mass media in the West “is extraordinarily effective in fostering within the general public enormous sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the Gospel; for example, abortion, homosexual lifestyle, euthanasia.”

Mass media may be tolerant of religion when the latter does not directly contradict the media’s positions on ethical problems, but if religious leaders do speak out, the media label their messages “as ideological and insensitive in regard to the so-called vital needs of people in the contemporary world,” he said.

In order to effectively evangelize against media-created ethical falsehoods, catechists and religious leaders need to develop better understanding of laboring amid the current media climate, he urged.

Church Fathers were successful in evangelizing “in great part because they understood the foundations of social communication appropriate to the world in which they lived,” then-Fr. Prevost said. “Consequently, they understood with enormous precision the techniques through which popular religious and ethical imaginations of their day were manipulated by the centers of secular power in that world.”

Magister shared the full text of the address, which can be accessed here.

LifeNews Note: McKenna Snow writes for CatholicVote, where this column originally appeared.

#catholicChurch #media #PopeLeoXIV

Step 1: Post that we are urgently hiring a software developer.

Step 2: Reject your application within days and tell you that you are awesome, but we went with someone else.

Step 3: It has been 4 weeks, and the job posting is still up.

Step 4: Keep the posting up for several more months while loudly complaining about the lack of qualified candidates and how hard it is to hire in this market 🙄

South Korea wins in $9 trillion nuclear power revival
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-05-15/south-korea-wins-in-9-trillion-nuclear-power-revival-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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#DropSea: Nel fantastico mondo di Abarat

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Nel fantastico mondo di Abarat

Era rimasto lì, nello scaffale, per qualcosa come dieci anni, poi, mentre stavo a ragionare su quale lettura far seguire all'ultimo romanzo...

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This is the kind of thing they wouldn't even put in a terrible satirical movie about the dumbing down of America.

RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xzlvs…

Food stamps are one of the most cost effective programs ever devised. Not only do you feed people who need it, which is the most pro-life thing I can think of, but the money goes to stores, truck drivers and delivery personnel, and farmers.

For every dollar spent on food stamps, $1.50 to $1.79 in stimulus to the economy is generated.

This is both stupid and cruel.

Republicans Outdo Themselves in Food Stamp Cuts - The American Prospect
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Republicans Outdo Themselves in Food Stamp Cuts

House Republicans plan to cut a staggering $300 billion from SNAP, far more than they’d originally planned.

^{Emma Janssen (The American Prospect)}

Ramadan Among the Rubble in Gaza: A Collection of Stories

In attempts to understand those continuing to practice their faith whilst surviving horrors, we heard from several people at several Ramadan events in Gaza, including Gaza City and Khan Younis.

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Ramadan Among the Rubble in Gaza: A Collection of Stories - UNICORN RIOT

The holy month of Ramadan was stained by genocidal acts perpetrated by Israeli forces for the second year in a row in the bombarded Gaza Strip.

^{niko (UNICORN RIOT)}

Another article that highlights how our data is sold and repackaged to institutions whose intentions may not align with our own.

#ice #airlines #transportation #security #surveillance #privacy #usa #civilliberties #data #flights #travel #tech #news

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@classicalmusic

Antonio Casimir Cartellieri (1772 – 1807)
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"Clarinet Quartets"
Consortium Classicum
(Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm 2002)
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#NowListening #ClassicalMusic #music #ChamberMusic #GermanComposers #BohemianComposers
#AntonioCasimirCartellieri

Cartellieri: Clarinet Quartets, Vol. 1

Anton Casimir Cartellieri · Album · 2002 · 11 songs

^Spotify

The video game website Polygon was founded in 2012 by Vox Media and while it still exists, it's vastly changed as a result of being sold to Valnet a couple of weeks ago, with the majority of staff being laid off. @aftermath.site's @nathangrayson.bsky.social spoke to former staff, some of whom had been there since the beginning, about why their time at the site meant so much to them. "Sometimes it’s tough to work in something fun like games, because when the world crumbles around you, it all starts to feel a little meaningless," said Ryan Gilliam, former guides producer. "But — stupid as it sounds — I always tried to tell myself that, with our guides, we were helping people enjoy their hobby a little more, and make their game time a little more relaxing. I wasn’t making a difference in my 9 to 5, but in my head, there were people who were making a difference who would come home and try to relax for a few hours before getting back out there. And in those moments of relaxation, they’d pull up a Polygon guide for 'Persona 5' classroom answers, or a walkthrough on how to get the latest 'Destiny' Exotic. I don’t know if that ever happened, but the thought always made me smile."

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#Videogames #Gaming #Entertainment #Media #Journalism #GamesJournalism #Polygon

A Fond Farewell To Polygon, From The People Who Worked There - Aftermath

"It was a good website. I doubt I'll ever find a place like it for the rest of my career"

^flip.it

The trees' reflections green the wader's creek.

#birds #wildlife #nature #photography

NEW: DHS wants 20,000 National Guard troops to help with migrant deportations. Will they be transporting, securing, or even arresting people? What could go wrong?

npr.org/2025/05/15/nx-s1-53996… #press

Size Doesn’t Matter: Middle-Market Lenders Stress Their Value
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-15/size-doesn-t-matter-middle-market-lenders-stress-their-value?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business @business-bloomberg

Windsurf launches SWE-1, its first family of software engineering AI models, claiming its largest model matches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4.1, and Gemini 2.5 Pro (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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Vibe-coding startup Windsurf launches in-house AI models | TechCrunch

Windsurf, a startup the develops popular AI coding tools, announced the launch of its first-ever frontier AI models.

^{Maxwell Zeff (TechCrunch)}

I'm not sure what I've made but I like it.

#artbtadhd #draw #drawing #draweveryday #dailydrawing #sketch #sketchbook #art #mastoart

Newark mayor says arrest at ICE detention center meant to ‘humiliate’ him
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/15/newark-mayor-ice-arrest-trump-administration-court-hearing/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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The movement is growing for protected bike lanes on Valencia Street south of 23rd Street 👏

Join our movement now at ValenciaForward.org — signing the petition only takes a few taps and less than a minute, and it's impactful!

Thanks Streetsblog SF for covering our movement!

@notjustbikes Hey!

There are plans to completely redo the area around the central train station in Stockholm and I was just amazed at how much of the planned improvements are from removing cars.

The website is in Swedish but its worth taking a look if you're interested.

centralstadenstockholm.se/plat…

Platserna

Välkommen till Centralstaden - mer Stockholm att älska...

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