@sundogplanets wow the faq is a jawdropping masterpiece of wishful thinking..

Museums across the world are scrambling to react to a spate of thefts
that has left them in a state of shock.

Last year’s break-in at the Louvre,
by a gang who gained access using a furniture lift and took €88m (£76m) worth of French Crown Jewels,
is thought by experts to have inspired copycat crimes.

While French police believe that they have caught the culprits, treasures including a tiara have not been found.

In August, objects were stolen from museums in Sicily, Vienna and Villena in Spain.

This week, thieves targeted the former home of another 19th-century Frenchman, the artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
After cutting a hole in the fence outside the property near Nice, two men escaped with two paintings.

From the Pink Panther films to Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen,
heists have long been a source of fascination in popular culture.
There is something mythic about the gang of thieves seeking riches.
Sometimes they are portrayed as plucky Robin Hoods,
illicit brotherhoods pitting their wits against the citadels of ultra-wealth.
Last year’s Tuner offered a new twist on the genre: a safe-cracker with super-sensitive ears.

But the excitement that spectacular thefts generate in real life, as well as in fiction,
must be balanced against realism about their effects.

For the Louvre, last year’s raid was a reputational disaster that led its president to resign.

For smaller museums such as Renoir’s house, they are closer to an existential threat.

The pictures stolen on Tuesday were on loan from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris;
⭐️national collections will stop lending to regional museums if the risks are judged too high. 

Experts warn that “smash and grab” raiders have learned to operate within the window of a few minutes that it takes police to arrive after an alarm sounds.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/11/the-guardian-view-on-art-heists-dont-believe-the-hollywood-hype?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#violence #leEtat #directAction

morning

I have many regrets in life, one of which is refusing to learn to drive almost 20 years ago (and in all the intervening years since). But since I can't rewrite the past I just have to overcome that fear now...

Ich bin noch nicht bereit für diesen CfP. Warum ist der so früh?

Per resistere al peggio che rischia di prevalere, in particolare nella “sua” Europa, sarà utile e importante fare vivere la sua memoria nell’unico modo possibile: con nuove lotte di libertà, da parte di persone (non importa di quale orientamento politico) che siano ispirate dalla tenacia — la chiamava “tigna” — con la quale difendeva la democrazia liberale dalle vecchissime, tragiche illusioni spacciate dai nuovi demagoghi.

Grazie Emma.

The more Apple makes announcements,
the more I want a Linux phone

Becker to Salah in 9 seconds.
https://youtube.com/shorts/3d5QIoYHfx0?si=i0EMzO5masqiYn48

#LFC

@idzie This is what recliners are for.

If all goes well I should have my learner's permit in under two weeks and I'm TERRIFIED

Thanks to @daringfireball for sharing the Easter Egg! https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/117254333576563752

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

born to "awawa, awa, beep, awawa"

forced to "as per my last email"

@sundogplanets Oh yes but because ASl is my second language I feel like I'm not as good or creative a swearer as I am in English. Also I was breathless because my lungs are bags of stupidity and dysfunction. Also i remember what it's like to be that cold my grandparents live in Montana in the US and I went to visit them in winter and yikes!

@siracusa @benmattison no it’s not, it’s a TV show. It’s also not two separate words. If there were a physical location that was a centre of sports and spelled that with two words, it would be referred to in running text as “the … Sports Centre”, like this is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Sports_Centre