Dave Barry: Roger and Elaine — Fred Harris

This remains one of Dave Barry's all-time funniest columns.

It's about communication between men and women:

Roger and Elaine
www.fredcharris.com/blog/2022/5/...

Former Matador Is Gored to Death Before Annual Bullfight in Spain

I'll just leave this here:

Former Matador Is Gored to Death Before Annual Bullfight in Spain
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/w...

✨☁️✨Venice series Cntd ✨☁️✨ Slava Ukraine ✨🙏🏼✨ An artist stands upon the bridge painting the View from Ponte dell'Accademia ☁️ a slogan pinned to her coat reads 'Russia kills artists, art cannot be blind' several portrait photos of murdered artists cover the rest of her back...

☁️☁️ Venice Noire Cntd ☁️☁️

Venice in fog! With my new to me Plaubel Makina 67W &TRIX400

☁️💀The Art of Protest💀☁️
See ALT!

#slavaukraine #protest #scape #venice #travel #urbangaze #photography #streetphotography #classicmono #blackandwhite #loadfilm #italy #film #analog #bnw #FotoDeFer #believeinfilm

Bicycle fishing - removing discarded bicycles from the canals - is a popular tourist attraction in Amsterdam

Bicycle Fishing in Amsterdam
dutchamsterdam.nl/BicycleFishing

#amsterdam #bicycles #bikes #canals #streetphotography

The Passover Plot The dark legacy and ongoing body count of an ancient anti-Semitic myth

For centuries, Jews have been accused of preparing their Passover food with Christian blood. “Dismissing all of this as ancient history would be comforting,” @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social wrote in Time-Travel Thursdays in 2024. “But it’s not.”

'I wanted to change her mind': Tears of friend of gang-rape victim who died by euthanasia, aged 25 A friend of the gang-rape victim who died by euthanasia turned up at the Spanish hospital an hour before her death, hoping to convince her to live.

'I wanted to change her mind': Tears of friend of gang-rape victim who died by euthanasia, aged 25

The new Trump coin will have an eagle on the back. Here are some better options | Dave Schilling The real defining image of this presidency should be the bank statement of the average American citizen

How to devalue the US dollar even more:

The new Trump coin will have an eagle on the back. Here are some better options | Dave Schilling | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Archived: archive.ph/Dd4Vw

It’s Not Trump. It’s America.

(It's the cult-like belief that 'America is the best, most wonderful country on earth')
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...

Shouting insults at people is not evangelism.
archive.ph/0f1LE

Never heard of the offshore radio station The Voice Of Peace?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7St-...

#OffshoreRadio #VoiceOfPeace

The Voice of Peace - Aiby Nathan YouTube video by z7651

Junior Campbell - Help Your Fellow Man
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4tI...

Offshore radio fans will recognize the intro from The Voice Of Peace jingles:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD2a...

#OffshoreRadio #VoiceOfPeace #jingles

My sincerest apologies to everyone on a diet... but I just baked these Seriously Fudgy Homemade Brownies - again 😋😇

Highly recommended recipe:
bit.ly/SeriouslyFudgyHomemadeBrownies

#brownies #baking

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done

The Atlantic
bit.ly/TrumpDoesNot...

#Trump

Fact Check: London man misidentified as street artist Banksy Some media outlets and others online have misidentified photos of a London man as the British street artist Banksy. The man, George Georgiou, is not Banksy.

Fact Check: London man misidentified as street artist Banksy
www.reuters.com/fact-check/l...

DJ Tom Anderson on the condition of the ship when it was still afloat (a miracle of itself at the time)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqBc...

#RadioCaroline #OffshoreRadio #MiAmigo

The London Evening News of March 20, 1980 reports on the sinking of Radio Caroline's radio ship Mi Amigo during a gale.

46 years ago...

The mast of the Mi Amigo remained visible for years (KLM pilots pointed it out to passengers), and finally disappeared underwater in late July 1986.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FieB...

#RadioCaroline #OffshoreRadio #MiAmigo

Trump is dismantling democracy at 'unprecedented' speed, global report finds Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.

Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat. n.pr/4uG99Am

Enjoy this Radio Mi Amigo tribute station:
www.radiomiamigo.international

#radio #oldies #RadioMiAmigo

Tomorrow... 46 years ago the Radio Caroline's radio ship the Mi Amigo sank off the Essex coast during a force 10 gale.

Tomorrow... 46 years ago the Radio Caroline's radio ship the Mi Amigo sank off the Essex coast during a force 10 gale.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKmo...

#MiAmigo #RadioCaroline #OffshoreRadio

2012 A Film About Kids And Music ( SANT ANDREU JAZZ BAND dir JOAN CHAMORRO) YouTube video by Joan Chamorro

One of my favorite jazz bands - and its fantastic story:

2012 A Film About Kids And Music (Joan Chamorro's Sant Andreu Jazz Band) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqjt...

#jazz

Good Morning, Amsterdam!

#Amsterdam #sunrise

Zelfde probleem met veel systemen, zoals gebruik maken van o.a. Microsoft. In de USA zijn privé gegevens veelal te koop - en natuurlijk een speelbal van de politiek. Nederland, en vele andere landen, zijn lang veel te naïf geweest wat de USA betreft.

Yivi: nieuwe manier van inloggen Nijmegen doet een proef met Yivi. Yivi is een nieuwe manier om in te loggen. Met Yivi kunt u bewijzen wie u bent, zonder dat u onnodige gegevens deelt.

Inderdaad. Lastig. Wellicht is dat systeem in Nijmegen een optie (Yivi)
www.nijmegen.nl/diensten/pri...

87% of Dutch residents would stop using DigiD if US takeover goes through A survey has revealed that 87 percent of Dutch residents would want to boycott the digital identification system DigiD in the event of a US takeover.

The USA cannot be trusted:

87% of Dutch residents would stop using DigiD if US takeover goes through
www.iamexpat.nl/expat-info/d...

It’s the Music You Hear All Day, Without Ever Noticing

It’s the Music You Hear All Day, Without Ever Noticing
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/m...

#music #sync

They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE Thomson Reuters, best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, provides an investigative tool to immigration enforcers. Its Minnesota employees want that to stop.

When Thomson Reuters employees learned that their company was providing ICE with investigative software, they mobilized. More than 200 Reuters employees have signed a letter asking that the company not renew the ICE contract when it expires in May.

Sting - Sounds Like Art - Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - ARTE Concert YouTube video by ARTE Concert

In "Sounds Like Art," where music meets visual arts, 17-time Grammy Award-winning singer Sting engages in a dialogue with paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Judith Leyster at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Us...

#Sting #Rijksmuseum #Amsterdam

🧥
HEB JIJ MIJN
BRUINE GIACOMO JAS?
Mijn jas is per vergissing verkocht door de nieuwe eigenaar van de stomerij op het Haarlemmerplein.
De jas is mij heel dierbaar en ik zou hem heel graag terug-kopen.

#straattaal Haarlemmerdijk - Amsterdam.

#mantel

Indertijd was de Damstraat nog "een der beste Winkelstanden van Amsterdam."

Damstraat 30, Amsterdam In de late 19e eeuw zat hoedenzaak Henri J. Bleij op de begane grond. Indertijd was er ook een beeldje met een hoed boven de ingang. Zie Ronald Klip's Amsterdam op de Kaart

Damstraat 30, Amsterdam

In de late 19e eeuw zat hoedenzaak Henri J. Bleij op de begane grond.

Indertijd was er ook een beeldje met een hoed boven de ingang.

Zie Ronald Klip's Amsterdam op de Kaart:
amsterdamopdekaart.nl/1850-1940/Da...

#Amsterdam #Damstraat