Christmas ships on Lake Union, Seattle, Washington 12/24/25 📸 Atomic Aerials

About 3 years ago, I came across a video clip in which a Venezuelan introduces a Swede to Venezuelan food. As I love food, find culutral encounters interesting and also have been to Venezuela and eaten arepas, I was curious and watched: youtu.be/v6YEc5Xh-OY?...

US bringing up "Christian Civilisation" nonsense? Quickly roll out pictures of adorable, regional mosques from Central & Eastern Europe (Poland & Georgia).

Germany in the 1920s -especially Berlin- was such a vivid cultural place. The majority of people lived in economic misery, though. (There had been a steep rise during the last part of the 19th century, which, I just learned, caused feeling cocky&entering WWI overconfident just to lose twice/all)

A town hall in a German village having turned itself into an advent calendar.

Seattle Christmas Lights

Robin of the Day: Smoky Robin 📷 Lars Petersson

Found a place nearby, and easy to reach by public transport, which makes me feel like being at the top of the world and at the edge of infinity

Had meant to share this one: (but the other one is great, too) youtu.be/qOw44VFNk8Y?...

If you need a good laugh and, like me, have not seen this yet although it's 6 years old (YT algo just introduced us): (it's funny even if. like me, you get half of it as you are not Indian) youtu.be/b8wPO9W4g20?...

What a line-up !

I can see Elon wants to make our planet beautiful like Mars. I'd prefer it if he just emigrated, though.

Last time I posted this (on my IG account, when I still had one) was Oct 8 2023. Feel like maybe I should repost it every day. youtu.be/zJTPV2clKZs?...

Wondered the other day: What is more (or less) - what public libraries pays to authors of books or what Spotify pays to musicians ? (Then again, nobody gets rich from public libraries)

On the one hand, the internet never forgets anything. On the other, social media are private property and any account can be suspended in seconds and deleted forever, as users have no rights.

Belated congratulations, #JamieCampbellBower - you've made it !!!! (with your acting, though, not with your music, but still) You deserve it - you have done so many different things, and all of them so well. AND I finally know how Dr Hook looked like-no internet back then- youtu.be/KuvfIePDbgY?...

yes, it's that marvel of the arctic; the wonderful snowshoe hare!

October rollercoaster magic at a great amusement park in the Southwest of Germany: www.instagram.com/p/DP-z7I3jvBy/

Because I can't repost on IG (yes, I gave in and got a new account) and putting links in comment sections there got my former account suspended - and because this is so good I feel I HAVE to show it to more people, I just try over here: www.instagram.com/p/DP4ze4xkuz-/

Blyth's Frogmouth (Batrachostomus affinis), female. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Perlis #Malaysia @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social #birds #nature #wildlife

Walk across & along the Neckar river near Stuttgart, Germany the winter before last:

If you need something to pick you up, have a look at 'thing', of WEDNESDAY fame, visiting Seoul, Korea: youtu.be/ATpl1Em3fAs?...

It's one of the hottest weeks of the year here in South Germany. Yesterday I woke up at 2 am and used that to take the first tram in the dark. At every stop when I looked up from my book, I saw Wednesday/Jenna Ortega look back at me. Then I had a wonderful walk on a path I had never walked before, .

Yes, it's all misery in the US & spreading (but HOW did DC get it's crime rate so far down?) and I could watch the 3rd clip my son sent me to conivince me AI is great - but watching Jenna Ortega and Tim Burton and Emma Myers in Seoul is so much more fun: youtu.be/DaqIVHapNT0?...

Not really a portal into another world - but it sure does look like one:

Nadine and the Very Large, Very Small Book Club

#OtD 2 Aug 1939 Walter Altmann and Gunther Mann, two Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, were deported from the UK back to Belgium where they had crossed the Channel in a small dinghy which capsized. Both were likely sent to the concentration camps stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9167...

#ICE kidnapped a New Haven high school student. #NewHaven www.newhavenindependent.org/article/ice_...

Finally, after about 3 rainy days, got myself off my couch & did my 3/4 of an hour of dancing in my kitchen (stone floor, blinds). Often can't make up my mind which of my playlists to use - then was pleasantly surprised how good my #11 is & feel so much better now. open.spotify.com/playlist/66P...

At her second ER visit, Nevaeh Crain screened positive for sepsis, a life-threatening and fast-moving reaction to an infection, medical records show. But doctors said her six-month fetus had a heartbeat and that Crain was fine to leave. buff.ly/KsvDPeY

It's all a question of perspective:

The constitutional amendment also extends presidential terms from five years to six and scraps election run-offs.

In 1926, several decades before Bollywood was even established, Indian actress Fatma Begum made her directorial debut with a big-budget fantasy film. #FlashbackFriday discover.hubpages.com/entertainmen...

Have heard this a hundred times over the decades. First time I've SEEN it (and so many others). (Still does not really make sense to me) youtu.be/klWzVuxdygg?...

I spoke with Andry Romero.

Samuel L. Jackson stars in a new Vattenfall ad for wind power, countering Trump's nonsense tirades against "windmills".

Nah - still sore about the not so superintelligent way in which I was suspended from IG by bots. While I sorely miss checking in on my imaginary friends & loves there daily, I am so not ready to replace them by an imaginary friendship with a chatbot. Most, while not real friends, were real artists.

Jerce Reyes Barrios, a U.S. deportee, told The Times he was haunted by his experience in the Salvadoran prison, where he was repeatedly beaten, forced to drink contaminated water and subjected to other horrors. @kate-linthicum.bsky.social & Mery Mogollón have more www.latimes.com/world-nation...

For Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán, 'Wednesday' proves 'weird is beautiful'

I’m so proud of my wife and frequent collaborator @rayayarbrough.bsky.social for her gorgeous rendition of Outlander’s “The Skye Boat Song” at ComicConSD. Ever since she recorded the song for season 1, I knew it was something special.

For the last few years, Wikipedia has been my first stop for everything I felt I needed to know more about. That is England - but what's next ?

Silver-spotted Skipper seen yesterday at Aston Rowant nature reserve. The first time I have ever seen one. #Savebutterflies

Waiting on that mad scientist origin story that starts with, “Well the grant got canceled so...

Sounds like a great idea. The valuable/expensive travel(l)ing time I have lost looking for toilets...and by now, on top of it all, like so many people my age with heart problems, I have to take a diureticum to remove fluid from my lungs...which makes travel(l)ing/visiting events even more difficult

PERSON OF THE DAY. 27 July 1921. Frederick Banting of the University of Toronto announced that his medical research team had proved the hormone Insulin could regulate blood sugar. It allowed DIabetes, up until then a terminal illness, to be effectively controlled.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. The last photo of Jimi Hendrix, taken the day before he died by Monika Danneman in Notting Hill, London (1970).

War is terrorism. Every terrorist has an agenda. Neither do I have a universal solution, nor am I am powerful, so you can just ignore me. Still, it often seems to me that those who assume they have found ultimate solutions commit the worst crimes to achieve them.

Part of a 🧵 Too good to not repost.