Gaele L Mackie

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The End of Doggerland

Some time ago I posted an item about Doggerland which is not, as you might imagine, a theme park devoted to outdoor sexual activities, but an area now submerged beneath the North Sea that connected Great Britain to continental Europe during and after the last glacial period. About 12,000 years ago at the start of the Holocene Era, it is thought that the area now covered by the North Sea looked something like this:

http://telescoper.blog/2026/03/26/the-end-of-doggerland/

The End of Doggerland

Some time ago I posted an item about Doggerland which is not, as you might imagine, a theme park devoted to outdoor sexual activities, but an area now submerged beneath the North Sea that connected…

In the Dark
Grumpy rabbits. Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme, Flanders ca. 1350. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KA 16, fol. 53r.
#medieval #MedievalArt

Live updates: Iran receives 15-point US ceasefire proposal, Pakistan officials say

An Egyptian official involved in mediation efforts between Iran and the United States described the 15-points put forward…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #donald-j-trump #iranwar #Israel #MiddleEast #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/451285/

@telescoper It was pleasing to read that in Grenada, the city of his birth, the Park Federico Garcia Lorca is dedicated to his memory -Wikipedia.

Für eine Milliarde kann man Öl oder Gas kaufen und dies genau einmal verbrennen.

Für eine Milliarde kann man stattdessen einen Solar- oder Windpark bauen, der für Jahrzehnte Energie liefert.

Wer diesen Unterschied verstanden hat, will kein Öl oder Gas mehr. Aus rein ökonomischen Gründen.

#Energiewende #Ökonomie

Ali Larijani, who was killed in airstrikes this week, was one of the most powerful leaders in Iran and seen as a central figure in the country’s response to the U.S.-Israeli attacks that began on Feb. 28, 2026. In the months preceding the current U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran, Larijani was reportedly tasked with shoring up the Islamic Republic’s existence in case of war.

Larijani spoke through an interpreter to FRONTLINE’s Sebastian Walker on Sept. 22, 2025, for our documentary, Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question. This was Larijani’s last on-camera interview with an American news outlet before he was killed.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/ali-larijani-iran-top-security-chief-2025-interview/

#Iran #Trump #GOP #DOD #Russia #Frontline

Ali Larijani, Iran’s Slain Top Security Chief, Spoke to FRONTLINE in 2025 | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series

Ali Larijani, killed in airstrikes in March, was one of the most powerful leaders in Iran. He spoke to FRONTLINE in September 2025.

FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series

RE: https://mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/116227836350375242

BREAKING: Emmanuel Grégoire @egregoire is the PROJECTED WINNER and next
PARIS MAYOR, succeeding Anne Hidalgo (& presumably continuing that legacy). "Paris has decided to remain true to its history” by choosing “the alliance of the left & environmentalists."

Congratulations Paris voters!

The difference between cucumbers and pickles is jarring.
Aliens: "We don't understand why 8.2 billion humans are just standing by while a tiny (tiny!!) fraction of narcissistic, flagrantly benighted terrestrial fucknuggets ruin the planet and risk the future of the species. It makes no sense."