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A dishwasher. The other times I sit by the fire and offer them passing ghosts some coffee.

Blog : https://simsa01.wordpress.com/
Sharon Wrobel, "Over quarter of families suffer from food insecurity, as living costs jump – study" www.timesofisrael.com/over-quarter...

The repercussions of the latests war(s) for Israel are dramatic.
December 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Beatrice Achterberg, "Solange die AfD rechtsextreme Signale duldet, bleibt ihr der Weg in die Mitte versperrt" www.nzz.ch/der-andere-b...

Und ich hatte schon die Hoffnung, die @nzz.ch würde wenigstens einmal ihre AfD-affine Haltung zurückschrauben. Pustekuchen.
Warum die AfD keine Mitte-Partei wird, solange rechtsextreme Signale toleriert werden
Sie wollen mitregieren, doch Deutschlands grösste Oppositionspartei scheitert immer wieder an der klaren Distanz zu NS-Anspielungen. So macht sie es ihren Kritikern leicht und verbaut sich alle realis...
www.nzz.ch
December 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Sahra Wagenknecht geriert sich gerne als Mischung aus Rosa Luxemburg und Hannah Arendt. Nur hat sie dafür weder die intellektuelle Kompetenz und Raffinesse, noch das moralische Standing. In allem was sie tut, verrät sie sich als biedere neo-stalinistische Propagandistin, als Putin-Omi.
December 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The U.S. question NATO? Ok. But then expect to vacate all your bases in Spain, Italy, and Germany in particular. No more ability to project power, logistics, personnel into the Middle East, Northern Africa, Caucasus, Afghanistan, etc. So, Trump, if you want to weaken the U.S., just go ahead!
December 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
This www.youtube.com/watch?v=knI3... is the most convincing piece of speculation why Half-Life 3 is indeed going to be announced at The Game Awards on December 11. And it all comes down to a garden gnome! I'm sold.
December 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Juliane von Mittelstaedt, "Chance vertan" spiegel.de/ausland/frie...

"Ein palästinensischer Staat ist kein Sicherheitsrisiko für Israel. Die Abwesenheit eines palästinensischen Staates ist es."

Eine weitere realitätsverweigernde antisemitische Hetze im Spiegel. Juden=Täter, Palsi=Opfer.
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(S+) Meinung: Kommentar zu Merz’ Besuch in Israel: Eine vertane Chance
Statt das deutsche Dilemma bei seinem Besuch in Israel ehrlich anzusprechen, hat Bundeskanzler Merz den leichten Weg gewählt. Eine Rolle bei der Lösung des Nahostkonflikts wird Deutschland so nicht sp...
spiegel.de
December 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Why should I not think that Angela Merkel has been a Russian puppet right from the start of her chancellorship (2005)? Everything she did benefited Russia and Putin. Everything. You think Trump is a Russian asset? Try Merkel instead.
December 7, 2025 at 6:10 AM
www.thejc.com/life/the-non...

Happened to me as well, online and in real life. Lost a lot of acquaintances on X, Mastodon, Bluesky. Esp. people of liberal stance. In RL, carrying a Magen David, I wasn't served in a bakery, shunned in a supermarket, received hard stares.
The non-Jewish Israel supporters who have lost friends over Gaza - The Jewish Chronicle
Ever wondered who would be today’s Righteous Among Nations? We talk to the steadfast allies who have fallen out with their nearest and dearest over the Jewish state’s war on Hamas
www.thejc.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
♪ Mahaleo, "Hay Hay" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew58...

From the same concert, Paris, 2027. And as the audience explodes, so does the band. :-)
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
♪ Mahaleo, "Vololona" www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aD3...

One of my favourite songs of this Madegassy super band. It's taken from a life concert in Paris, 2007, and the audience is so in sync with the musicians. Wonderful. Great that there are subtitles now, I never knew what this song was about :-)
VOLOLONA Mahaleo Live @ Olympia
YouTube video by Mahaleo Officiel
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Illustration by J. H. Brown, from Spectropia: or, Surprising Spectral Illusions, Showing Ghosts Everywhere, and of any Colour (1863).

Source: @yale.edu / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/3ad93c6c-c3a2-4c40-b388-b1c8b40640f8

#illusion #halloween #spirituality #clouds #ghosts
December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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I think 40 is a good age to transform into a forest goblin.
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Haters will say there’s no beauty in a chemical attack.

Tbilisi, Georgia, late 2024

📷 Reuters/Irakli Gedenidze
December 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
♪ Almudena Rubio (voz) y Isabelle Laudenbach (guitarra), "Pajarillo verde" (Canción popular venezolana) www.youtube.com/watch?v=McAU...

Beautiful! Rubio's sparkling voice, in duet with the second voice of Laudenbach's articulate guitar play. Both lend light-heartedness as well as depth to the song.
Almudena Rubio - Concierto San Nicolás 2020
YouTube video by Embajada de España en los Países Bajos
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
♪ Almudena Rubio (voz) y Lucas Vázquez, "Historia de tres amigos" www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQGh...
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
♪ Almudena Rubio (voz) y Marcel Bagés (guitarra), "Anita, la miliciana" www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e4W...
December 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
♪ Almudena Rubio (voz) & Joris Van Waesberge (guitarra), "Canción de soldados" youtube.com/watch?v=KMjO...

Written by Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio. Interpretation, arrangement, and rendition are splendid!
Canción de soldados (Con Joris Van Waesberge)
YouTube video by Almudena Rubio
youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Patrick Wintour, "More than 200 leading cultural figures call for release of jailed Palestinian leader" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Not just that the petitioners praise a convicted mass murderer. The Guardian doesn't even report why he got 5 life sentences. Unbelievable.
More than 200 leading cultural figures call for release of jailed Palestinian leader
Group including Margaret Atwood, Ian McKellen and Richard Branson sign open letter to free Marwan Barghouti
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Russia’s Big Gamble Just Fell Apart - Now Everything Changes youtu.be/_xjz5qGavb0?...
Russia’s Big Gamble Just Fell Apart - Now Everything Changes
YouTube video by Ukraine Matters
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Vittoria Benzine, "The Special Effects Maestro Behind ‘Alien’ and ‘E.T.’ Gets a MoMA Tribute" news.artnet.com/art-world/mo...

I'd love to be there.
The Special Effects Maestro Behind ‘Alien’ and ‘E.T.’ Gets a MoMA Tribute
On the centennial of Italian film giant Carlo Rambaldi, MoMA is screening 15 of his films every day for two weeks.
news.artnet.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Wonder if @wordpress.com has some shady deal with #AI clusterfucks because I see strange accesses to a variety of posts of mine. These accesses make no coherent sense, so it looks like content scraping and AI feeding to me.
December 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
"On the Record" video.i24news.tv/video/bright...

Ariel Oseran interviews Ehud Olmert who is very critical of the Netanyahu government's policies.

Thank you to i24News to broadcast an interview that so openly runs counter to its more conservative and national security stance.
I24NEWS VOD
i24NEWS VOD. Here you can find all our 4 channels live streams : English, Hebrew, French and Arabic. Also our latest videos, breaking news flashes, full shows and special editions
video.i24news.tv
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Oh, a new book by John Bellamy Foster (author of "The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth"):

"Breaking the Bonds of Fate: Epicurus and Marx" (2025) monthlyreview.org/9781685901233/

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December 1, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I wonder if Netanyahu's plea to President Herzog for a pardon in the current investigations is solely about the bribery and corruption charges or whether there is some clause asking for a general pardon to shield him from possible future investigations re: the Gaza Strip war.

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December 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM