Just looked up the bird. I love it! Definitely unique.

These jays will never stop being one of the most beautiful birds I’ve yet to see. Some day we will meet. 😁

I love the eye markings. 💜

TIL of hybrids.

Ha! I didn’t realize this was a thing! I just assumed I was the worst birder in existence. I’m so glad to feel a little less alone. 🤣

That seems so… open and obvious. Is that normal placement?

Ha! Amazing! And now I wonder if perhaps there’s more?! 😁

🤣 Thanks. I needed the laugh this morning. This is a great SNL skit.

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Wait. What?

😦

This is a wonderful horror. 💜

“People think that when you’re mentally ill, you can’t think straight, which is insulting,” she told the Guardian. “I understand the fears that some disabled people have about assisted dying, and worries about people being under pressure to die… But in the Netherlands, we’ve had this law for more than 20 years. There are really strict rules, and it’s really safe.”

She embarked on intensive treatments, including talking therapies, medication and more than 30 sessions of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). “In therapy, I learned a lot about myself and coping mechanisms, but it didn’t fix the main issues. At the beginning of treatment, you start out hopeful. I thought I’d get better. But the longer the treatment goes on, you start losing hope.”

After 10 years, there was “nothing left” in terms of treatment. "I’ve never hesitated about my decision. I have felt guilt – I have a partner, family, friends and I’m not blind to their pain. And I’ve felt scared. But I’m absolutely determined to go through with it.

Honestly and genuinely, I’m glad to see all that she has put into this decision and glad the state is allowing it. Now she doesn’t need to cause further pain to others through a traumatic suicide and she can gain the peace she’s been longing for.

Each day, so many lives are snuffed out of existence without a second thought. She has given this an incredible amount of thought, time, and work.

Rest in peace, Zoraya. 💜

P. S. There’s thousands of live today that want to live. They don’t want to die. And yet their lives are taken away in an instant. Perhaps we should focus on saving them rather than making someone like Zoraya feel even worse.

Hah! This is super cute! 💜

Trunk Monkey Mobile would have been better. 🐒

An incredibly moving moment that this person will never forget. 💜

I recently read and really enjoyed The Left Hand of Darkness. It’s crazy that she wrote such a book back then. Now I’m longing for more books like this.

Today, I’m on (a rare) vacation (yay!). I’m reading through her Earthsea books. When they ended sooner than I expected, I realized they were intended as young adult books. It’s not as in depth as other fantasy, but I’ve enjoyed them nonetheless.

Makes unfortunate sense. I was also hoping somebody figured out how to liberate it, but I imagined it might be highly tied to the Google app.

• ChatGPT 3.5 isn’t bad.
• Copilot is… undecided.
• Gemini I think I like the best in the realm of free AI, but I need to use it in a separate browser (Firefox nightly) and would prefer an app or even a PWA.

Anyway, I felt confident this was the case but people surprise me with how they can manage freeing apps and/or providing separate frontends altogether.

This is the best thing. Evar!

I hope this is used responsibly by folks here, but it turns out that you can leave comments on the art piece to encourage Abby. I believe it’s screened by her parents first, of course. Here is the link: https://www.artsonia.com/museum/comments/default.asp?art=123418418

I honestly wish there was some way to convey to the artist how far reaching their art has become through shared stories such as this.

UPDATE: there is: https://lemmy.ca/comment/9075144

I love it. 💜🏳️‍🌈

A powerful piece of art by which the overreaction by a sad few only further illustrates its truth.

May the Darkness be exposed to the Light. May the Sickness be healed.

Who lost it? I bet they feel pretty silly now.