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Traveler, cook. videographer, musician, organizer, communitarian, retired scientist.
Caregiver for a spouse with dementia.
The world needs more concertinas.
Places I have a connection to: #Florida #CentralIlinois #PacificNorthwest #Maui #TheLowCountries #EmiliaRomagna #Toscana #Calabria
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RT: @anadoluagency Global Sumud Flotilla activist Dr. Margaret Conolly condemns Israeli interception of aid ship and calls for sanctions on Israel
➖ ‘What we experienced in the last three days was barbaric, cruel, ugly and violent. I never saw such ugly, ugly control by an army’
➖ ‘They are
In some ways, getting older is kinda nice. Not expecting to find anything of interest in the kitchen, I ambled to the refrigerator. Fully prepared to settle for yogurt and cereal, imagine my delight when I discovered the coconut creme pie I ordered and then promptly forgot about Wednesday.
Surprise pie!
#Britain would not be able to rejoin the #EU on the special terms it enjoyed in the past, veterans of the Brexit negotiations have said.
“There is a strategic need for the #EU and the #UK to work together, but I don’t think there would be an appetite for opening up new decades of #British exceptionalism,” #GeorgRiekeles, a former adviser on the EU’s #Brexit taskforce, said. “The price of re-entry would be membership on normal terms.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/18/no-tailor-made-deal-uk-eu-brexit-officials-rejoin
Activists close the traffic in Piccadilly Circus demanding the release of #PalestineAction Prisioners
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYcllHpMChB/?igsh=MXd5OXc3NXZ5cDFkMA==
1,971 likes, 245 comments - s.1948x on May 17, 2026: "ACTIVIST SHUT DOWN LONDON IN PROTEST OF THE UK’s CONTINUED TRADING WITH ISRAEL AND COMPLICITY IN THE GENOCIDE. The UK Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has granted two new licences for the export of military equipment to Israel, including an £8.7 ($11.85) million licence covering “components and technology for targeting equipment”, the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has revealed. The licences were issued despite the British government’s September 2024 suspension of such exports over fears they would be used in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. CAAT’s analysis of UK export licensing statistics for the fourth quarter of 2025, published on 30 April, found that the UK issued export licences worth £20.5 ($27.9) million in total for transfers to Israel during the quarter- MAY 2026 @caatuk 16/05/2026 📍 PICADDILLY CIRCUS".
We are falling so far behind. While our 'tech' industry makes an infinite variety of spyware, the rest of the world is building 400 kph trains.
Every dollar you don't spend at a corporation is a dollar they can't use against you.
That's factually incorrect. Hegseth is Secretary of Defense, regardless of his illegal attempt to rebrand the office.
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