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[🎬🧁Ⓥ 🎶 🌍 @LarenaP]

It’s such a cool spot. I certainly hope that @PamGrier is getting a fair cut.

[Anthony Valadez 🎈 @anthonyvaladez]

“Daniel”
Pico + Washington Blvd.
Shot x edited on my iPhone.

[🎬🧁Ⓥ 🎶 🌍 @LarenaP]

Yep! I’m polite to everyone and everything. Dogs, cats, I thank my car… 🤣

[trash jones @jzux]

thinking about my ex who always said please and thank you when he asked chatGPT a question and when I asked him why he said “when it becomes sentient and powerful it will remember who was polite”

[🎬🧁Ⓥ 🎶 🌍 @LarenaP]

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[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

When I was a little boy, the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a surprise attack, and thousands of U.S. servicemembers perished. As a nation, we were stunned. And we vowed to strike back. Revenge was understandably on everyone’s mind, including many Americans of Japanese descent who opposed the emperor and were peaceful and law-abiding U.S. citizens and residents.

In its zeal to exact that revenge, however, the U.S. government overreacted, out of fear and bigotry. They targeted everyone who happened to look like the people who had carried out the attack. Those of us who had done nothing wrong were forced to pay the consequences for the decisions of others far away and disconnected from us. We were interned for years, in open-air prisons, while America went off to fight Japan, Germany and Italy.

It’s so important that we carry the lessons of the past through to today. Merely because one group commits atrocities and acts with depravity does not mean vast hundreds of thousands or even millions of others should be lumped together with them and made to suffer. We must never paint with the brush of justice and retaliation too broadly, or the toll of human suffering will rise immeasurably.

[🎬🧁Ⓥ 🎶 🌍 @LarenaP]

@NovenaCarmel Congratulations!! 💯🙌🏾 🥳✨

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[🎬🧁Ⓥ 🎶 🌍 @LarenaP]

It’s one of my faves of hers as well! And, I happened to win 2nd place in an airband contest at my Uni performing this song. ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏻

[G Mac @7Gmac7]

Gen X summarized in a video..

[🎬🧁Ⓥ 🎶 🌍 @LarenaP]

@anthonyvaladez CUTE!!! He looks like a fabulous hang buddy 🥰

[🎬🧁Ⓥ 🎶 🌍 @LarenaP]

@raulcampos managed to keep me parked, dancing in my car to Underworld. I even stayed as the song played underneath the ad and station ID. I don’t care what my neighbors think. 😆
That was a champion touch, Señor DJ! 💃🏽💃🏽

[🎬🧁Ⓥ 🎶 🌍 @LarenaP]

@vanessa_giselle @MarkBrooksArt @notcapnamerica OMG!!! Look at you!! Fantastic job @vanessa_giselle 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[🎬🧁Ⓥ 🎶 🌍 @LarenaP]

@ReginaKimWrites Congratulations Regina!!! 🎉✨💓

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

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[🎬🧁Ⓥ 🎶 🌍 @LarenaP]

@gdcribbs 💗 that must be quite a difficult blow to recover from. Sending you and your former foster healing, love, and support. 🙏🏽

[Ben Meer @SystemSunday]

8 minimalist habits for a clutter-free 2023:

[jim rose circus @jimrosecircus1]

A 150 ft. Iceberg passes through Iceberg Alley, in Newfoundland, Canada.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

This is how classically trained musicians beautifully battle on stage https://t.co/rUz7NBmYIk

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

This is how a simple cardboard could have made our childhood so much better https://t.co/p9NlIw45b3

[SAULT @SaultGlobal]

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