A reminder that Persia shaped the cultural and political landscape of the Middle East and beyond for over 2,500 years. I mean, that history, culture, knowledge is part of Iranian people. One shouldn’t forget that. We didn’t learn a whole lot about them in US schools.
Billions in foreign real estate deals while serving as head of state.
Billions in crypto deals while gutting regulation of the industry.
Suing his own government and negotiating a settlement funded by the taxpayers.
We're so numb to Trump grifting off the presidency that hardly anyone notices.
Keep Walking The Walk,Mayor Mamdani.......
Russlands Staatshaushalt ist nach vier Jahren Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine schwer unter Druck. Laut Schwedens Militärgeheimdienstchef manipuliert Moskau gar Daten, um seine Wirtschaft besser dastehen zu lassen.
My message to the “senior officials”: boo fucking hoo.
good.
On this day in 1880, a Czech Jewish woman was born. Suffering from dementia, on the 20 Jun 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt where she perished, on the 10 Jul 1942, after being interned for 10 days. Her husband perished in Auschwitz. Her name was Marie Bauerová
Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.
chaos and desecration involving trump? Noooo
A large crowd as always at the weekly march in Tbilisi. Georgians have been protesting in 8+ cities every day for the last 507 days.
Fossil Fuels Are Not The Future….
Bees don't compete. They cooperate, build, protect, and preserve. They take no more than they need. They move in rhythm, intentionally, with quiet trust. In doing so, they create the extraordinary. Perhaps humanity will be reminded of what is possible when we move consciously, with care and together
social desperation - that nails it pretty much. And the other stuff, of course but social desperation seems to override common sense which I think we’re all born with. But that social desperation seems disproportionately rampant in the USA.
ICE is not broken. It's agents murdering people, taking trophies of victims, using illegal tactics, breaking laws, spreading terror, and leaving death cards are not isolated events, outliers, or accidents. ICE is operating exactly as intended.
No. There isn’t.
This black-and-white close-up portrait photograph captures Jannetje Johanna “Hannie” Schaft (16 September 1920 – 17 April 1945), the legendary Dutch resistance fighter known to the Nazis as “the girl with the red hair.” Shown from the shoulders up against a plain, dark studio background, she gazes slightly upward and to the right of the frame with quiet intensity. Her expression is calm yet resolute—lips gently closed, eyes clear and steady—conveying youthful determination and inner strength. She wears a dark, textured knitted sweater with a round neckline, her thick, wavy hair framing her face in soft curls. The tight composition centers entirely on her face and upper torso, creating an intimate, almost contemplative mood that belies the extraordinary courage of the young law student who abandoned her studies to join the Raad van Verzet. She forged identity cards for Jewish families, smuggled weapons and illegal newspapers, and carried out daring assassinations of Nazi officers and Dutch collaborators. Arrested just weeks before liberation, she was executed by firing squad on 17 April 1945 in the dunes near Haarlem. This powerful image stands as an enduring historical symbol of ordinary heroism and defiance against fascism, immortalizing a woman whose short life became a beacon of Dutch resistance.
#OTD in 1945, Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft--𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘳--was executed by the Nazis at age 24.
Law student turned saboteur, she smuggled weapons & assassinated collaborators. Captured weeks before liberation, she faced the firing squad with defiance. #courage #WWII #HistSky
it’s never gonna happen and that will fester in American society.
loved it but not really interested in regurgitation
Who is Franklin Graham? Nevermind. He’s a liar. Don’t need to know about another liar.
Remember this fuck when his name comes on the ballot.
Russia murdered at least 17 people and injured 98 more in a mass aerial attack in Europe last night.
Destroying the russian terrorist state is imperative.
I mean, I ask you: how can you sit there as a human being and not feel like sleaze bag? This really goes beyond my comprehension of anything ever. And then the women sitting there: what the holy fuck were you thinking??? What the fucking fuck are you thinking today???
Um no. The US has been in decline since Reagan took office and Republican agendas have snaked their way through government. And that’s was in the 1980s.
oh come on. Seriously? Then those “loyal dems” are just as stupid as any trump voter. Anyone who has a modicum of rationale would never could never vote for trump or not vote for Harris considering what was at stake. Ever. So give me a friggin break with the genocide thing.
originally from Los Angeles, living in Vienna, Austria
well, exactly. There’s no discussion.
Watch Animations of Two Italo Calvino Stories: “The False Grandmother” and “The Distance from the Moon”
the bottom line is this: you use AI for anything concerned with your writing, you’re cheating and you’re not a writer. Basta. And don’t come with the arguments of technical advancement. Using a laptop is a technical advancement. Chat GPD is using everybody’s else’s work ever. It’s cheating.
The divide between "EVERYONE IN PUBLISHING IS USING CHATGPT" and my own experience of publishing is profound and widening.
I've published fourteen books, hundreds of essays & opinion pieces, some short stories & poems.
I've *never* used ChatGPT or anything like it. Not once. It offers me nothing.
