Dad’s dad was a civil servant, mom’s dad was a journalist and at one point a foreign affairs analyst for Esso 😬
06.03.2026 12:02
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Dad’s dad was a civil servant, mom’s dad was a journalist and at one point a foreign affairs analyst for Esso 😬
I love that Leviticus contains instructions on what to do if your house gets leprosy.
It’s okay, God is still calling you by name!!
Talique its lent
It remains ridiculous — really indicative of how he flatters elite self-conception — that Yarvin is treated as a serious thinker by any serious people.
The Diameter Of The Bomb The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded. And around these, in a larger circle of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered and one graveyard. But the young woman who was buried in the city she came from, at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably, and the solitary man mourning her death at the distant shores of a country far across the sea includes the entire world in the circle. And I won’t even mention the crying of orphans that reaches up to the throne of God and beyond, making a circle with no end and no God.
amichai.
i think we have to reckon with the possibility that it does not matter for the Trump administration if the U.S. economy or security is harmed by the Iran war, so long as they are less harmed than other countries. Relative power or prosperity may matter more than absolute.
I am reminded of research that name changes in the social security system could correctly identify 90%+ of trans people, as most American names are gendered and most trans Americans change their names from one strongly gendered name to another.
Sounds like someone else read that paper.
This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.
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whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could
a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people
If it wasn't patently obvious before: the US and Israel have wildly different aims, and Israel's approach (decapitate anything that looks like a potential political power base) is currently winning. Their target "regime" is anarchy.
*NETANYAHU: AIM IS ALSO TO CREATE CONDITIONS FOR REGIME CHANGE
The immense overmatch of US airpower can shatter a state whose regime is run by corrupt or fanatical incompetents that have already shredded whatever is left of popular support, infrastructure capacity and economic life.
It is not in any way enough to shape what comes next.
“Where in Berlin do you live?”
“Oh, a neighborhood where a friendly neighbor asked me what language I was speaking with my mom when we were talking in English.”
I worry they see those political earthquakes as redounding to the benefit of the far right, so it’s all roses for them.
I did notttt because the proprietor had just tried to rip off my mom
A blue and white China plate with a gold rim. It depicts a bald man with glasses in a robe bent at the waist to inspect a large glass orb.
new orb ponderer discovered at a Berlin flea market
A color photo of the planetarium from maybe the 70s. I
Photo from 2015 - with ads taking up the window frontage.
Amendment to my alt text on the second photo: the planetarium-aquarium does still exist, but unfortunately renovations and modern ads have robbed it of its particular MCM charm.
The Lenin museum, a long hall with lots of framed photographs and ephemera, plus statues and the like.
Black and white photographs of Tampere, a mill town on a rapids between two lakes. Photographs are an aerial shot of the industrial quarter, plus two photographs of the historic workers’ cultural heritage: the planetarium and theater. I believe that the planetarium no longer exists.
And finally where would we be without a highlight of Tampere, Finland’s industrial heartland and an important part of Lenin’s history? (The Lenin museum in Tampere has since been renovated and redesigned around the historical complexity)
Black and white photographs of boys in a sauna, and a family car camping. Text in German is about how nature is close to the city, so families who can afford it have country houses that “naturally have a sauna”
Very 1971 color photograph of three young people with a dog looking out from a high rock at a landscape of lakes, forests, fields. The text says in German “forests and lakes offer an ideal vacation.”
Emphasis also on Finnish nature, wholesomeness, sport.
A black and white photo of a train. Text in German says “transportation center in Helsinki. The new airport was finished in 1969. From Helsinki the electrification of the train is beginning.”
I know what you sickos like.
@jmkorhonen.fi you may like this
Finnish men logging: moving logs around rivers while standing on them, and loading logs onto a tractor trailer.
Black and white Photos of rolls of paper produced from Finnish forestry; men navigate in a low boat through a fleet of floating logs. The text describes how the canals, lakes, and rivers of Finland serve as passages for the logging industry.
A black and white photo of hydropower, a river rushing over a dam; the text boasts of the 1500 hydroelectric dams in Finland
In a color photograph, a metalworker is working in a foundry. It’s a striking photo with the molten gold and red in the foreground and the worker in navy in the far back corner.
Coverage of industry and raw materials processing, much of which continues to cause ecological damage.
A color photograph of Sámi people in traditional clothes starting a fire.
In black and white, a Sámi family sits next to a tent with a reindeer on the ground with them. There are two children and everyone is wearing traditional clothing, with patterned trim, fringes, pompoms, and patterned knitwear.
A couple photos of Sámi people, too - mostly emphasizing reindeer herding in the text. (I am not including the text because it may contain outdated and offensive language.)
Three photographs of nice looking modern building, the East German embassy in Helsinki.!
East German companies are at a trade show in Finland, and people are looking at skis in a sports museum. It is all very MCM.
Also a heavy focus on architecture, including Aalto, and the trade and amicable relationships between Finland and the DDR.
Two black and white photos of students protesting the war in Vietnam and another black and white photo of a workers monument silhouetted against a modern office building.
Perhaps an expected focus on opposition to the U.S. and the industrial workers. Recall that Finland at this time was just coming to GDP per capita parity with Japan and the UK, as its export focus and trade with both the Soviet bloc and Western Europe helped its economic development.
A map of Finland in German in a pale blue, white, and. Mach. It has really great typography and small icons to represent things about Finland (an old church, a cottage in the woods, a running person).
the graphic design here is really choice.
A color photograph cover of lakes and islands with, in an all-lowercase sans serif font, “finnland” printed on it in white.
I found this amazing 1971 DDR book about Finland, which is fascinating both for the little glimpses of Finland at this time and for the framing used by the state-owned publishing cooperative. I’ll start with a couple photos and pick up tomorrow if needed.
Screenshot of a reel “I hate the world we live in today because why am I scared just to take my kid to the park”
Comment on the reel: Live in your own home? Buy a big Rainbow swingset!! Sandbox etc. Thats what I did. My children played on their own swings and rock climbing wall...as a child, we rarely went to the park. We had our own backyard playground!
Comment on the reel with 1.1k likes: “it’s because you’re not packing mama”
Man peoples brains are totally cooked
As the German kids say, das crazy