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Then in 2011 those trolls the Dutch built seven bridges in one town that were all designed to look exactly like the imaginary banknote bridges. They even painted the bridges the same colors as the banknotes.
So now the EU banknotes depict the bridges of Spijkenisse, South Holland. (pop. 72,500)
🌸💦PETAL RAFTS🛶🩷
Towards the middle of April parts of the canal beside the Philosopher's Path (哲学の道) become a river of petals.
The phrases 'hana-no-ukibashi' (花の浮橋 'floating bridge of flowers') and 'hanaikada' (花筏 'flower raft') both describe water thick with petals.
I learned a new word today, cryptogyny.
I’m going to have to sit with it for a bit.
It’s not that I was unfamiliar with the context. Practically anywhere you care to look there are women whose work has been ignored, hidden or stolen. Women who’ve not been given the credit they deserved, or very quickly been dropped.
I mean, I really would like to know why I never learned about Emmy Noether in school, right next to Albert Einstein, even though he recognised her genius.
Cryptogyny. Use it when you need to.
https://olivia.science/cryptogyny/
Via @olivia
It was so great to meet Hannah Spencer today in Denton and talk about both of our Bye-Election campaigns. Hannah has proved that a message of hope in the face of hate, and positivity can really resonate with people. That doesn’t mean ignoring serious issues or abandoning your values, but bringing solutions instead of just negativity.
#GortonAndDenton #DublinCentral #VoteGreen #TheDublinWeDeserve
"AI Large Language Models , or LLMs, can do nearly all the things humans can do with language [...] Except the one thing language was expressly intended to do: convey meaning."
For viable organizations, it's vital to curate meaning at all levels.
https://reclaimedsystems.substack.com/p/ai-is-degenerating-human-ecologies
"The amount of untaxed wealth hidden offshore by the richest 0.1 percent exceeds the entire wealth of the poorest half of humanity (4.1 billion people), according to a new Oxfam analysis published on April 2, 2026, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Panama Papers."
The consequences are as predictable as they are devastating:
we see our public hospitals and schools starved of funds,
our social fabric shredded by rising inequality,
and ordinary people forced to shoulder the costs of a system rigged to enrich a tiny few.
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/governance/untaxed-wealth-hidden-offshore-by-richest-01-surpasses-entire-wealth-of-the-poorest-half-of-humanity-oxfam
Oxfam’s new analysis reveals that untaxed offshore wealth held by the richest 0.1% now exceeds the entire wealth of the poorest half of humanity, exposing how tax havens fuel extreme inequality and urging global action to tax the super-rich and end secrecy.
@catsalad
Pirates never played accordions
🏴☠️🚫🪗
(Because they hadn’t been invented yet)
Accordions were invented during the 1800s Industrial Revolution at the same time as the telegraph, steam engine and the typewriter
100 years after the Golden Age of Piracy 1600s–1700s
So every pirate movie with an accordionist is a science fiction movie with a time-travel sub plot 🚀⌛️
Rachel Burch
Mark Dominus
Camellia Tea Ceremony
Matt Weagle
kit
Another Angry Woman
Janet Horner
Chuck Darwin
AccordionBruce