Late Boomer contemporary with Silent Spring, the book.
I'm here to find information and links, not to find followers. ;)
Recently, I've been boosting a lot. Be warned!
30 years of post-viral syndrome, more or less like #LongCovid
--> intellectual abilities limited and very varying, aches more constant,
--> ultimately disability pension.
Home: formerly Scania, now Gran Canaria.
Write in Swedish & English,
speak some Spanish & German,
read Finnish & Dutch,
French is forgotten.
Frank Martela, philosopher and psychology researcher who studies the fundamentals of happiness:
Here are 3 things we never do
For five years in a row, Finland has been ranked the No. 1 happiest country in the world. A Finnish philosopher and psychology expert shares the habits that make people in Finland so exceptionally satisfied with their lives.
Quoting Helen Lewis:
Most voters, and even most normie party members, are pragmatists. They are willing to extend more grace to politicians than the critics of those politicians would like.
So railing against Starmer’s pivots, hidden lever-pulling and intentional vagueness is railing against him doing politics—and on the evidence of the polls so far, doing it well.
Thanks to @euan!
https://helenlewis.substack.com/p/the-bluestocking-starmers-secret
Quoting @euan:
Tremendous article about Keir Starmer by Helen Lewis where she does a superb job of summarising his leadership to date.
Quoting Lewis:
there’s now a muted acceptance even among the most fervent EU fans that imminent rejoining is not on the cards (witness how the Remainiacs podcast renamed itself Oh God What Now, which was the sound of the final nail being hammered into that particular coffin.)
https://helenlewis.substack.com/p/the-bluestocking-starmers-secret
@jackLondon @adde @janehalsey London's semi-imperial role, bossing 25 members if only agreeing with Berlin and Paris, can not be recovered.
A Very Good Effect of Brexit, if you ask me.
Suddenly "lesser" members, as e.g. Romania and Poland, started talking with eachother - on ministerial level/civil service level.
when writing a comment, or an original toot, in the web interface one changes the language flag here:
#Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, quote:
We must be clearly aware: there can be no normal relations with this #Russia. Like many Russians, we want to see a peaceful and democratic Russia that is not a threat to its neighbors.
But let us have no illusions - we live in a different reality. That's why it must be a task to strengthen our common security against Russia on a permanent basis.
#Ukraine also defends the freedom of #Europe.
https://closetheskyoverukraine.com/latest-news/there-can-be-no-normal-relations-with-today-s-russia
Via @noelreports:
Unconfirmed!
Ukrainian military journalist Volodymyr Zolkin, with reference to his sources, reports that as a result of yesterday's attack on Engels,
5 TU-95MS were damaged,
17 soldiers killed,
26 wounded
(3 of them in serious condition),
and the control tower was destroyed.
Source, in Ukrainian:
https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/109584990431920734
Attached: 1 image Ukrainian military journalist Volodymyr Zolkin with reference to his sources reports that as a result of yesterday's attack on Engels, 5 TU-95MS were damaged, 17 soldiers killed, 26 wounded (3 of them in serious condition), and the control tower was destroyed. Unconfirmed
There's a transcript.
But the speech is well worth listening to!
