Dr C Weissenberg

Must have been … annoying … to have had to put something like this together only to have had to destroy it a few weeks later.

One feels the ’has gone too far’ brigade have this stock response for pretty much any question.

In relation to Kitchener camp, I’ve read much of what little was written postwar about the Pioneer Corps as it relates to German refugee soldiers. They were kept behind in France for 2/3 weeks after the main retreat - to destroy vehicles, ports, armaments - so possibly not.

AAAAAAAAAAH

Mog 😍

there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists

Small slice of banana

As he gets more elderly, Bear gets more forgetful.

Ah - you mean reflexive post-truth!

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“I say who is a human.”

—Stephen Miller

I was kind of relieved to read the alt text, tbh

Thought this was still your stomach flu.

Kritik am neuen „Heizungsgesetz“: „Es ist Wahnsinn, was da beabsichtigt ist“ – BUND Saar entsetzt über Heizpläne Vergangene Woche hat die Bundesregierung in Berlin Eckpunkte für ein neues „Heizungsgesetz“ vorgestellt. Seitdem hagelt es Kritik – auch vom größten saarländischen Umweltverband.

„Die Preisexplosionen bei Öl oder Gas, die wir jetzt erleben, sind etwas, wovor Umweltverbände, eigentlich die ganze Umweltszene, immer gewarnt haben.“

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Buzzards on the Cotswolds EAC

And a flock of buzzards above the garden 🥰

Spring.

Warmth and sunshine.

Sigh

And no - I don’t much like war.

A tailor, I think, in Sunderland, & a Kaufmann in Upper Silesia.

Both grandfathers were dead before I was born.

Both fought in WWI: one for Britain; one for Germany.

My German opa was killed in the Holocaust; my British grandfather died from long-term lung damage from WWI trench gas, I was told

What a wonderful object to have.

One of my husband’s uncles trained with the mouse man, so we have two mouse bookends and a mouse lamp stand - and I don’t imagine he would ever be without them.

You’re so fortunate to have such things to keep family memories close and - solid.

Information, fun, thoughts, connections, family history, philosophy, news, views, can’t sleep, sports, books, work, retirement, politics, oh yeah - and more philosophy!

This is dreadful, truly.

Some days I can’t believe that what’s happening with the US is real. It seems so pointless, so cruel - I don’t even have the words for what this is.

And leaves us all frighteningly exposed and vulnerable.

For what.

Yet be well assur’d
You put sharp weapons in a madman’s hands.

I’ve been so sorry to read your posts on this - what a horrible thing to happen. I hope you’re doing ok.

Beautiful - such an emblem of springtime.

Overnight, our family’s synagogue, Temple Emanu-El in Toronto, was targeted by gunfire. The building was damaged but no injuries reported. Disturbing it took place on #Purim, which celebrates Queen Esther who saved the Jewish people from massacre at the hands of Haman in ancient Persia (Iran).

Judge restores lawmakers’ unfettered access to ICE detention facilities It was U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb's third time blocking or limiting DHS's efforts to prevent unannounced lawmaker visits.

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Interceptors are expensive and slow to produce, especially when compared with the relative speed of cheap ballistic missiles and drones.

This quote nails it:

“They can chuck garbage at us for substantially longer than we can chuck Lamborghinis at them.”