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Palestine must be free! Let's dance beneath the diamond sky With one hand waving free. No unsolicited DMs, please. Living in French Catalonia

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Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 6d

Two Europeans and an American identify the deepening fissures in the EU.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSKS...

EU Parliament Member EXPOSES Craziness Of EU Elites | M. Schulenburg & J. Sachs

YouTube video by Neutrality Studies

www.youtube.com

Reposted by Destiny Jones

Idealistic Pragmatist @justip.bsky.social · 1d

I am actually reading the “Curbing Traffic” book for the first time, but this paragraph feels like a more articulate version of what I say on here every time someone talks about “enforcement” as a solution to traffic woes.

In an attempt to satisfy their dual and conflicting purposes, District Access Roads are calmed to 40 km/h (25 mph) and incorporate important pedestrian safety elements and segregated cycle tracks, with careful attention to the design of side streets, crossings, and intersections. The desired speed is achieved not by passively posting a sign (the police can't be everywhere, and drivers will travel as fast as they feel comfortable), but by actively engineering means that force drivers to slow down and
pay attention, such as brick medians, narrow lanes, and textured paving. Dutch police actually do very little traffic enforcement. If too many drivers speed on a street, it is deemed a design failure and sent back to the drawing board.

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Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 14m

What threats has Putin made to EU?

Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 2h

I voted to remain in EU and live in an EU country.
I currently consider it unwise & imprudent for the UK (where I still vote) to try to rejoin EU while warmongering Ursula vd Leyen & Kaja Kallas are at the helm.

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Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 5h

Ah! "reverse engineered" is the expression I was looking for...

Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 7h

Why Musk's sudden interest in British towns and villages?

Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 7h

Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 18h

Didn't China buy an earlier iteration of Nvidia?
No matter... it will have been disintegrated (or whatever the process is called) by now, and China will be working on an upgraded upgrade...

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Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 19h

It's quite old-plate photographic in some ways - frozen, no movement...

Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure the present is being especially kind...
Tucker Carlson gave him a proper drubbing, not long ago.

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Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 1d

I spend longer on this site than on the other, but I will continue to visit the other while those whose communication I enjoy remain only there.

Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 1d

Not strictly true.
While I spend longer on this site than on the other, I will continue to visit the other while those whose communication I enjoy remain only there.

Reposted by Destiny Jones

Kris Dundon @krisd1950.bsky.social · 1d

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Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 1d

That should alarm everyone.

Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 1d

Taxes can also help drive the economy! And can contribute to much-needed redistribution of wealth...

Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 1d

I may dredge a few more from my memory... like

There once was a lady from Exeter
so pretty that men craned their necks at her.
One was even so brave
as to take out and wave
the distinguishing mark of his sex at her.

Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 1d

I have to say that it was my very dear departed lover who imparted that gem... I doubt it was penned by him... but he did mix with some very adept wordsters, back in the day...

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Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 1d

When Titian was mixing rose madder,
His model posed nude on a ladder.
The position, to Titian,
Suggested coition,
So he leapt up the ladder and had her.

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Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 2d

Two heartwarming & serendipitous reminders of my faraway youth 🙏

In Pl Rḗpublique I greeted a guitar-strumming acquaintance - who proceeded to serenade me with Elton's Your Song
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlPl...

After walking on air all the way home, I came across this interview. What a woman!

Elton John - Your Song (Top Of The Pops 1971)

YouTube video by EltonJohnVEVO

www.youtube.com

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Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for your explanation.
I weep for US "democracy"...
I know it's not great in Europe either; but at least our politicians don't harp on about it - as if it really still existed...

Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 2d

Not American but from what I can tell, it seems pretty easy to research the funding of any candidate.
Seems to me that no decent democrat (from any party) should vote for anyone accepting AIPAC (or adjacent) funding...

Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 2d

Great hopes from another desperate continent 🙏🏼

Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 2d

No good just lazily railing against "republicans and conservatives".
Each one in each constituency must be named & shamed according to what they have been recorded as saying.
And the person standing in your constituency needs to be positive about better policies to improve people's lives...

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Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 2d

Agree generally - but only a very few EU countries have shown any independent thinking:
-Italy's dockers 👏👏👏🏽
-Spain
-Austria???

Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 2d

Quite right too.

Destiny Jones @destinyjones.bsky.social · 2d

Them's the breaks in this neoliberal capitalist world.
It stinks.
We all know there's a better, fairer option - but on the other hand, very few helpful, decent people can/want/afford to run for office...