The 2022 Mobile Photography Awards (MPA) recently announced the winners who had taken pictures on mobiles and tablets. Some pretty incredible photos!
The Lichtenstein Castle in Germany.
The Sonoran Desert in Arizona.
Photograph titled “Fog and Sunbeams.”
A winter shot of Niagra Falls.
Aerial shot of Kimberly Coast in western Australia.
See all the winning photographs here.
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Luvs a happy ending!
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From Daily Mail:
“Bloomberg raised eyebrows with an op-ed telling Americans earning less than $300,000 to eat less meat and cut back on chemotherapy for pets to beat spiraling inflation.
The business news outlet’s tweet that promoted the story also pointed out, ‘nobody said this would be fun,’ with scholar Teresa Ghilarducci’s article offering some very dark advice.
In the widely-mocked piece, headlined ‘Inflation Stings Most If You Earn Less Than $300k,’ Ghilarducci, a NYC-based labor and retirement expert, suggests switching to vegetables as a way of avoiding inflated meat prices.
‘Though your palate may not be used to it, tasty meat substitutes include vegetables (where prices are up a little over 4%, or lentils and beans, which are up about 9%),’ she writes. ‘Plan to cut out the middle creature and consume plants directly. It’s a more efficient, healthier and cheaper way to get calories.’
And for new pet owners, Ghilarducci advises ‘to rethink those costly pet medical needs’ by cutting back on cancer treatments for much loved furry-friends.
‘It may sound harsh,’ she lectured. ‘But researchers actually don’t recommend pet chemotherapy — which can cost up to $10,000 — for ethical reasons.’
Ghilarducci also tells readers to reconsider public transportation to avoid gas prices, pointing out that public transportation prices are only up 8% compared to 38% for gas.”
This list of how you can lower your standard of living goes on here.
How about switching to policies that avoid America becoming the next Venezuela?
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Russian model Gretta Vedler, 23, murdered for insulting dictator Vladimir Putin.
From the New York Post
Gretta Vedler , a Russian model who called Vladimir Putin a “psychopath,” was found dead in a suitcase a year later after disappearing. Vedler’s disappearance came a month after posted an anti-Putin rant on social media.
“Vedler’s ex-boyfriend Dmitry Korovin, 23, has confessed to strangling her to death before driving her 300 miles to the Lipetsk region and abandoning the body in the trunk of a car,” the Daily Star reported. Korovin said he slept in a hotel room with her body for three nights before placing it in a newly bought suitcase.
Gretta ‘s social media posts showed that she was concerned over his crackdown on protests and what she saw as a desire to forge a bigger Russia.
“I can only assume, in my opinion, clear psychopathy or sociopathy is seen in him. For psychopaths, it is important to constantly experience a sense of fullness and sharpness of life, so they love risk, intense experiences, intense communication, intense activity – an intense and dynamic life,” she wrote, according to the Daily Mirror.
‘Given the fact that Putin went through a lot of humiliation in childhood, he could not stand up for himself due to his [slight] physical form, it is not surprising that he left after law school and joined the KGB,’ she wrote.
‘Such people are timid and fearful from childhood, afraid of noise and darkness, strangers, so traits such as caution, restraint, and lack of communication are developed early in their character.
She told her followers: ‘For psychopaths, it is important to constantly experience a sense of fullness and sharpness of life, so they love risk, intense experiences, intense communication, intense activity – an intense and dynamic life. Maybe he really wants to enhance the integrity of Russia and sincerely wishes the good for the Russians. But can he really do anything?’
She made clear she had grave doubts. ‘I think you know the answer to this question yourself,’ she posted.
Korovin told investigators that he kept posting pictures and messages on the model’s social media in an attempt to make friends believe she was still alive. He told interrogators that he slept in a hotel room for three nights with her corpse which he put in a newly-bought suitcase.
But a male friend called Evgeniy Foster – a blogger in Kharkiv, the Ukrainian city blitzed by Russian forces – became suspicious and found a friend in Moscow to file a missing person case. This triggered a search which eventually located her body. A video from Russia’s Investigative Committee shows Korovin allegedly demonstrating how he killed the model, and making a full confession.
~ Grif
P.S. Anyone who thinks this is just a coincidence, raise your hand.
Right.
Me neither.
Here’s the pic:
About the pic: Lizzo is a rapper who is proud of being fat, and is lauded for her “body positivity”. In a recent video, she celebrates having put on more weight, calling her fat acceptance “unconditional self-love”. (New York Post)
You know the drill:
This contest will be closed at the end of Tuesday, March 22, 2022.
To get the contest going, here’s my caption:
“Body positivity”: a new euphemism for heart attack, cancer and diabetes.
For the winner of our last Caption Contest, go here.
See also “Being overweight ages your brain“.
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Our writers dutifully voted for their #1 and #2 captions. Each #1 vote is worth 4 points; each #2 vote us worth 2 points.
And the winner, with three #1 votes and one #2 vote, totaling 14 points, is:
Here is the winning caption:
Come on now Binkie. The ice cream and preteen girls are this way.
So much strength being communicated here… pic.twitter.com/yfY5dCuEcm
— Danny De Urbina (@dannydeurbina) February 2, 2022
GregB and greenworx, with one #1 vote, and vett with two #2 votes, totaling 4 points each, are in 2nd place. Here are their captions:
GregB: “Come along with me, Joey. It’s time for a diaper change and a nap.”
greenworx: “Joe performs the Washington ‘shuffle’ which represents far more than the obvious.”
vett: “Come along Joey, it’s nappy nap time now. You can play President with them again tomorrow.”
Brian Heinz and truckjunkie are in 3rd place, each with one #2 vote and 2 points:
Brian Heinz: “No, Bengie. We’re not playing ring around the podium. So come on before they figure out you are as dense as you look. Hurry dear.”
truckjunkie: “Plenty of ‘ammunition’….”
For all the other caption submissions, go here.
I am running out of caption pics. You can help by submitting interesting pics that you think would be great for our caption contests, by emailing them to me to:
FOTM4ever@outlook.com
Thanks!
Be here later today for our next very exciting Caption Contest!
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