well played

Heh :))

Several people with signs like this at the Boston Marathon today

Mom of a gay daughter and a trans daughter and a young man too - i salute your activism and wish you a happy birthday spent in the way that makes you happiest.

He is a remarkable human being. 🖖

100% einverstanden

If I were a Catholic, I’d be thinking something like ‚don’t let the door hit you on the way out‘, only a LOT ruder..

I can’t believe it needs to be said - ffs

Putin schickt kinderlose Frauen zum Psychologen: „Eines der seltsamsten Geburtenprogramme weltweit“ Immer radikaler versucht der Kreml, im Krieg Russlands Bevölkerungsschwund aufzuhalten. Doch hinter der staatlichen Kontrolle über Frauenkörper steckt noch mehr.

„Nationalismus und Imperialismus, darin sind sich viele Forschende einig, gehen in autoritären Staaten fast immer auch mit staatlich propagiertem Sexismus einher. Putin, der sich … selbst gerne als starker, muskulöser Mann präsentierte, ist da keine Ausnahme.“

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Toller Erfolg. Geht aber leider in Deutschland nicht. Weil Deutschland ist ja keine Insel. Oder wie Giffey abschätzig gegenüber den Niederlanden bemerkte: „Berlin ist eine Großstadt!!!“

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Hannah Arendt, als ältere Frau, sie schaut entspannt in die Kamera, hat eine Zigarette in der Hand, trägt eine Bluse und dazu eine Kette Foto: © IMAGO/Bridgeman Images)

„Niemals war unsere Zukunft unvorhersehbarer, niemals waren wir so sehr von politischen Kräften abhängig, denen man nicht zutrauen kann, dass sie den Regeln des gesunden Menschenverstands und des Eigeninteresses folgen - Kräfte, die wie purer Wahnsinn erscheinen."
Hannah Arendt
Guten Morgen


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I am personally glad to have the maudlin original replaced with this in my head! Am imagining Panis Angelicus given the same treatment and smiling..

Thank you! Now they should please give Panis Angelicus (sp?) the same treatment!!

Moment of silliness

Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater.

This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning.

Never doubt your power to change the system.

Cover of George Takei's autobiographical graphic novel They Called Us Enemy showing a line of people entering an internment camp as a young George looks back, breaking the fourth wall.

Friends of the Sacramento Library is offering these free for AAPI month

I have read so much work like this, but this might be the single most painful one because, well, everything is local.

I drive through Florin often (It's now South Sacramento), SF is where my mom lives, his dad was my age when

Congrats and Enjoy! 🖖

That makes two of us! 🖖

I keep thinking of the very nice young Syrian man who did my trans daughter’s hair and made her feel welcome. He is a Syrian refugee in Berlin who was going to visit his mother and family in Beirut, who’d moved on from here. He would have arrived just a few days before all hell broke loose.

Fabulous!

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals have secured a majority government, winning all three of Monday’s by-elections and full control of the House of Commons.

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Comic in two panels with a clear drawing of a male doctor in one and Jesus in the other. Both panels have little empty squares in the top left corner where you put a check mark in. The title over both panels is: Cognitive Assessment Test - Question: Please Identify the Doctor.

lmao

The message left by Pope Leo XIV in the guestbook of the Great Mosque of Algiers: “May the mercy of the Most High keep the noble Algerian people and the entire human family in peace and freedom.”

Good on them!

Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5 | WDR Symphony Orchestra & Cristian Măcelaru YouTube video by DW Classical Music

PLAY IT LOUD

youtu.be/91EyYvG7sl8

hugely corny moment when everyone very solemnly sang the national anthem then Magyar left and We Are The Champions started playing from the speakers and honestly: everyone loved it, if now isn't the time to be corny then when is

In Springsteen’s words: everybody has a Hungary heart

Absolutely correct