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I’m lying here in the dark, waiting for the sun to rise and thinking about the Fortingall yew.

Experts place its age at around 5,000 years old. A path leads towards it, and along the way, stones mark the events in human history that it has seen. It’s seen a lot. Too much, maybe. It looks tired.

And yet stones are not remembered this way, though they have seen more.

#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Scotland #UK #Climate #Sustainability #Books

@GeePawHill Imagine being the flimsy weirdo who decided to keep working for the DOJ after hearing such a request.

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@_elena @randahl it works in the Netherlands.

Questo baco nell'orecchio è colpa del DJ di sabato sera al Largo Venue 🙂

Flamin' Groovies – Shake Some Action

From the album of the same title, 1976

https://song.link/y/QsuF2tKilBo

#FediRadio #PowerPop #FlaminGroovies

@burnoutqueen french multiprecision

C'est la même chose avec le droit d'auteur, qui a longtemps servi les mêmes objectifs de censure et de surveillance. Sa protection semble désormais caduque, maintenant que le pouvoir se fonde explicitement sur le pillage et le mépris du copyright.

@rominator I'm interested to hear what you think about them

@fonolog mooi! cc @mfenner

had jij misschien @rogue_scholar ook al gezien?

@randahl And thinks he did a good job. Like at least Putin and King Jong know that they aren't doing a good job, they just don't care. Trump legit thinks he has improved America and deserves a piece prize.

@heidilifeldman removing Stephen Miller from office is a first step. Delivering him to the Hague would be better.

This jump, by all the worst #Tories to #ReformUK , tells me that Reform has got, or is about to get, a big injection of cash from the same camps as #maga

This does not fill me with hope for the UK.

…It is obtuse to imagine that Europe’s options are fundamentally the same as they were pre 1945, or to imply as Kagan does that the reason for the disintegration of European empires was just some pragmatic choosing USA prosperity and nothing to do with who had oil and who, relatively speaking, didn’t.

And it is wilfully blind not to even mention that while all of what is to come plays out, the biosphere itself is destabilised

In het kader van de #2016 trend: mijn stukje op Neerlandistiek precies 10 jaar geleden. Over de potentie van weblogs voor het wetenschappelijk publiceren. Weblogs zijn minder populair dan toen – maar ik geloof er nog steeds in.

https://neerlandistiek.nl/2016/01/het-weblog-als-wetenschappelijk-tijdschrift/

@randahl

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/03/29/saudi-crown-prince-socially-acceptable-war-criminal-enjoys-us-tour-hosted-americas

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/05/trump-and-the-crown-prince/682813/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-16/saudi-crown-prince-is-said-to-plan-meetings-with-apple-google

https://theintercept.com/2018/04/24/mohammed-bin-salman-mbs-saudi-arabia-yemen-war-crimes/

The guy who accepted #PrinceBonesaw 's investment money to develop AI state surveillance tech...

https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/saudi-prince-mbs-silicon-valley-east-palo-alto-12799624.php

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2018/04/07/Saudi-Crown-Prince-discusses-joint-projects-with-Apple-s-Tim-Cook-

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5616043-stewart-trump-tech-ceos-saudi-ties/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour

RE: https://mementomori.social/@juergen_hubert/115965643004991197

I called #Trump a fascist when I first watched him on The Apprentice, but retroactively he had always been a fascist.

currently waiting to present in a virtual ANC (local government) meeting. apparently at the last meeting there was a horrific zoom bombing and in response they disabled the chat, to the dismay of citizens/residents.

"surely there's a way to moderate zoom chats" I say to myself. this tech is 15 years old and moderation is such a fundamental feature.

Nope. NOPE! but they do have an AI assistant they push all the gd time

why. whyyyyy

27 January 1939 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Margaretha Beatrice Swartberg, was born in Groningen.

In October 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her mother Maria Sara and younger sister Judith Josephine. Most probably they were murdered together in a gas chamber after selection.
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▶ A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

@neil why can't people simply be decent, if not even nice to each other? *Sigh*

Pokemon - Season 1 Episode 55 - Pokemon Paparazzi
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Caption: We really need you
to capture this Pikachu.

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