Mrs Margaret Waldemar-Spoon
@jadisnoir.bsky.social
Obviously, that’s my nom de plume.
Translator NL and FR into EN-UK // feel free to reach out if you need a HUMAN translation
On a Grand Tour of life…
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Panya means ‘mouse’ in Swahili. It’s also the name of our newest grandbaby! Hours after giving birth, ex-orphan Panda returned home to introduce her daughter to the people who raised her. In fact, it was a real family reunion: We had 54 orphans, ex-orphans, and wild-born babies in attendance.
December 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Panya means ‘mouse’ in Swahili. It’s also the name of our newest grandbaby! Hours after giving birth, ex-orphan Panda returned home to introduce her daughter to the people who raised her. In fact, it was a real family reunion: We had 54 orphans, ex-orphans, and wild-born babies in attendance.
To the little shit that just lit a firework on our street and sped off on a fatbike: every dog on our street hates you and will make your afterlife a misery.
December 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
To the little shit that just lit a firework on our street and sped off on a fatbike: every dog on our street hates you and will make your afterlife a misery.
Otrivine and salgam have been deployed. I will not give in to this cold.
December 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Otrivine and salgam have been deployed. I will not give in to this cold.
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To the irritation of some other European capitals, Paris has withheld any details on the institutions holding the world's second biggest accumulation of immobilised Russian state funds on.ft.com/4pUtSxa
December 8, 2025 at 6:14 AM
To the irritation of some other European capitals, Paris has withheld any details on the institutions holding the world's second biggest accumulation of immobilised Russian state funds on.ft.com/4pUtSxa
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Doctor here.
PSA:
A reminder that BY FAR, the worst & deadliest cartel in history was..
The Sackler Cartel.
Billionaires.
Fines, no jail time.
Actual narcoterrorists.
American citizens.
PSA:
A reminder that BY FAR, the worst & deadliest cartel in history was..
The Sackler Cartel.
Billionaires.
Fines, no jail time.
Actual narcoterrorists.
American citizens.
December 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Doctor here.
PSA:
A reminder that BY FAR, the worst & deadliest cartel in history was..
The Sackler Cartel.
Billionaires.
Fines, no jail time.
Actual narcoterrorists.
American citizens.
PSA:
A reminder that BY FAR, the worst & deadliest cartel in history was..
The Sackler Cartel.
Billionaires.
Fines, no jail time.
Actual narcoterrorists.
American citizens.
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The Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede c. 1670, by Jacob van Ruisdael, preeminent Dutch Golden Age landscape artist (1628-1682); master of dramatic river and coastal views, with large skies and brooding clouds; inspired Constable, Turner and Van Gogh.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
December 8, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede c. 1670, by Jacob van Ruisdael, preeminent Dutch Golden Age landscape artist (1628-1682); master of dramatic river and coastal views, with large skies and brooding clouds; inspired Constable, Turner and Van Gogh.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Yep, I should be sleeping but all pistons are firing in my brain as per usual.
a woman is standing in front of a pink flower
ALT: a woman is standing in front of a pink flower
media.tenor.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Yep, I should be sleeping but all pistons are firing in my brain as per usual.
And it’s not as if I can just pop into the bookshop this week and ask the owner as he’s a tad temperamental and the sign on the door reads “Mostly closed”.
December 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
And it’s not as if I can just pop into the bookshop this week and ask the owner as he’s a tad temperamental and the sign on the door reads “Mostly closed”.
Argh. Heard something classical in a bookshop and now I can’t identify it. And my humming skills must be subpar because Shazam et al have no idea what it could be.
December 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Argh. Heard something classical in a bookshop and now I can’t identify it. And my humming skills must be subpar because Shazam et al have no idea what it could be.
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars or Trek, LOTR, or Marvel.
December 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars or Trek, LOTR, or Marvel.
The advantage of going to dinner at 5 pm - because the 7 pm slot of all my favourite restaurants is taken by the out of townies - is that you can vegetate in cosy clothes at home in front of telly after a constitutional.
Pizza and pastiera, if you must know.
Pizza and pastiera, if you must know.
December 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The advantage of going to dinner at 5 pm - because the 7 pm slot of all my favourite restaurants is taken by the out of townies - is that you can vegetate in cosy clothes at home in front of telly after a constitutional.
Pizza and pastiera, if you must know.
Pizza and pastiera, if you must know.
What’s next? Someone walks out with the ML?
Water leak at Paris Louvre Museum damages books at Egyptian antiquities department | The Straits Times
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Water leak at Paris Louvre Museum damages books at Egyptian antiquities department
Poor pipe conditions were blamed for a leak that damaged around 400 rare books. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
www.straitstimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
What’s next? Someone walks out with the ML?
Sigh.
Wang, who goes by the stage name Zi the Mentalist, recently posted an X-ray on Facebook showing the chip lodged between his thumb and index finger, along with an admission that he has absolutely no idea how to access it anymore. “I’m living my own cyberpunk dystopia life right now,” he wrote
Magician Had an RFID Chip Implanted in His Hand—Then Forgot the Password — VICE
Missouri magician and molecular biologist Zi Teng Wang thought he’d spice up his act by incorporating a little bit of a cyberpunk dystopian vibe. So, he implanted an RFID chip into his hand that he co...
apple.news
December 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Sigh.
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Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems …
December 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems …
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For #AncientSiteSunday this fabulous aerial photo of the Acropolis at #Athens - a site I would love to be right now!
📷 Christos Kapoulas
#Greece
🏺
📷 Christos Kapoulas
#Greece
🏺
December 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
For #AncientSiteSunday this fabulous aerial photo of the Acropolis at #Athens - a site I would love to be right now!
📷 Christos Kapoulas
#Greece
🏺
📷 Christos Kapoulas
#Greece
🏺
My widowed grandmother arrived in the UK with her two sons (Irish with a UK passport and two sons who spoke French, Italian and Arabic). She worked in a shirt factory. Both my dad and uncle became successful CEOs. In fact, my uncle is still happily working at 82.
December 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
My widowed grandmother arrived in the UK with her two sons (Irish with a UK passport and two sons who spoke French, Italian and Arabic). She worked in a shirt factory. Both my dad and uncle became successful CEOs. In fact, my uncle is still happily working at 82.
There is a certain slant of light
Winter afternoons
That oppresses like
The heft of cathedral tunes
Heavenly hurt it gives us
We can find no scar
Winter afternoons
That oppresses like
The heft of cathedral tunes
Heavenly hurt it gives us
We can find no scar
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
There is a certain slant of light
Winter afternoons
That oppresses like
The heft of cathedral tunes
Heavenly hurt it gives us
We can find no scar
Winter afternoons
That oppresses like
The heft of cathedral tunes
Heavenly hurt it gives us
We can find no scar
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The only time Article 5 of the NATO Treaty was invoked was to defend us, not for us to defend Europe. European soldiers and civilians died fighting with us and working next to us in Afghanistan. Europe was not attacked on September 11, 2001.
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The only time Article 5 of the NATO Treaty was invoked was to defend us, not for us to defend Europe. European soldiers and civilians died fighting with us and working next to us in Afghanistan. Europe was not attacked on September 11, 2001.
Whenever anyone mentions the Reform muppet, I always remind them that he went and applied for a German passport immediately after Brexit. Don’t let people forget.
December 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Whenever anyone mentions the Reform muppet, I always remind them that he went and applied for a German passport immediately after Brexit. Don’t let people forget.
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Vicepremier van Polen geeft technofascist Musk een klap op z’n bek:
December 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Vicepremier van Polen geeft technofascist Musk een klap op z’n bek:
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Same, Frosty. Same.
December 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Same, Frosty. Same.
This story is batshit crazy.
A Michigan man died of rabies after getting a kidney transplant from another man who died of the virus, only the fourth instance in nearly 50 years in which an organ donor passed the virus to a recipient, federal officials said.
Kidney Recipient Dies After Transplant From Organ Donor Who Had Rabies
Only four donors have transmitted rabies to organ transplant recipients since 1978, according to federal officials.
nyti.ms
December 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This story is batshit crazy.
“When I visited Auschwitz many years ago, someone in our group said that this is what happens when extremism flourishes. Our tour guide replied: “This place is not explained by extremism. It is explained by conformity.”
Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
Thank God for Bluesky
Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.
iandunt.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
“When I visited Auschwitz many years ago, someone in our group said that this is what happens when extremism flourishes. Our tour guide replied: “This place is not explained by extremism. It is explained by conformity.”
Hogarth Press/Omega Workshops yesterday #bibliophile
December 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Hogarth Press/Omega Workshops yesterday #bibliophile
Great. In a household of dual nationalities, my significant other now has to worry about that too. It would be nice if the U S of A could just become normal again.
December 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Great. In a household of dual nationalities, my significant other now has to worry about that too. It would be nice if the U S of A could just become normal again.