Sweet Peas & Savory

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Random notes from a 5th floor cottage garden in Berlin

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Your daily affirmation:
There's nothing stopping you from making this the weirdest day of the week.
Die Tagesschau titelt "Cannabis bleibt am häufigsten konsumierte Droge" und ich frage mich, wie es der Alkohol wohl zu den Nahrungsergänzungsmitteln geschafft hat.

Findet die Frau! Gestern Spargelfahrt, heute Reformgipfel. Bei Spargel & Schnitzel sitzen fast alle, die über unsere Zukunft entscheiden: Söder, Linnemann, Klingbeil, Miersch, Arbeitgebervertreter, Gewerkschafter. Die Hälfte des Landes fehlt.

Auflösung: Hinten rechts. Das Foto ist kein Ausrutscher. Die Sherpa-Runde, die das Reformpaket der Koalition verhandelt: Sechs Männer. Auf dem Tisch: Rente, Pflege, ...
Worum es geht, trifft Frauen besonders. Die Hälfte des Landes gehört an den Tisch.

TOMORA - THE THING (Official Visualiser)

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2RAUMWOHNUNG - Wir trafen uns in einem Garten (Official Video)

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Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time (Official HD Video)

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How the fuck do we recover from this all out assault on our environment and values? How are these pricks still not guaranteed to lose the next election and how much more damage can they inflict before the election?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/595012/opposition-warns-reforms-open-up-conservation-estate-to-sale-as-government-pushes-on
#NZPol
Opposition warns reforms open up conservation estate to sale as government pushes on

The opposition warns the legislation opens up 60 percent of conservation estate to sale, and changes how current Treaty settlements are interpreted.

RNZ

So the Dems held a public hearing today, in which an elected US official legitimately said:

"“[Our] report uses evidence obtained by our investigation, including and most importantly bank records, that show how [prosecutor] Alex Acosta’s sweetheart deal let Epstein build a global network using enablers to bring in women who he could then exploit and abuse,” Garcia said."

You even hear about it? Because somehow that's BELOW THE FOLD in every paper I just googled.

Starmer at risk because he pushed Labour to be ‘new Conservative Party’

Author Oliver Eagleton explains why British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is fighting for his job.

Al Jazeera
Kickstarter is banning projects that include "sex acts or implied sex acts", blames Stripe. This will prevent (eg.) many sex education projects from fundraising there. Just a reminder that Stripe is happy to process payments for Hackenkreuz-branded, fourteen-words-reciting Nazis on Substack. https://old.reddit.com/r/kickstarter/comments/1szj78e/big_changes_for_campaigns/ #kickstarter #substack #stripe