ckoppelman

@ckoppelman.bsky.social

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Computer programmer, progressive, Jew, mediocre ukulelist. Adams Morgan, DC. I like transit and urbanism, but not like *that*. Also like public education and public spaces. Views are my own. Tables are the DBA's. Two spaces after periods.

This is Rav Abraham Isaac Kook, the father of religious Zionism and Chief Rabbi of British Mandate Palestine.
It's no contest. Absolutely terrifying, mind-bending, apparently harmless but planning who knows what dastardly deeds once the lights go out — the old lady whispering "hush" in Margaret Wise Brown's "Goodnight Moon." Why is she sitting in that chair? Why is she pretending to knit? Why is she pretending to be an old lady? We can see you! You are a rabbit and you don't have hands! Who knows why she wants us to hush? — Jon Scieszka
PETA has documented how pig-tailed macaques are trained, sometimes in “monkey schools,” to climb trees to pick coconuts. When the monkeys aren’t working, they’re often kept chained and transported in cages too small for them to turn around in, according to PETA footage. Many were likely illegally captured from the wild as babies, PETA says. The investigators found monkeys alone and in distress—screaming and pacing repeatedly, a sign of anxiety. Some were missing their canine teeth, removed to prevent injury to handlers, farmers told PETA.
A cute otter trying to come in a sliding glass doorway
Three otters poking their little heads out through a doorway cut like a mouse hole
Protect Trans Health Care Sunday, February 2 at 11:30 Meet at Bruce Monroe Park March at noon to Children's National
Bill and Ted striking a pose with Rufus behind them - hands on their shoulders. From _Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure_.
A still from the cartoon The Noozles: A small flying pink koala bear wearing a dress in the background, a larger grey koala wearing overalls and a t-shirt, and a girl between them. All are happily running down a suburban street.