Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

Tick Tock ! 🤞

Fascism!: The US Army Publishes a Pamphlet in 1945 Explaining How to Spot Fascism at Home and Abroad It's not hard to see right now. www.openculture.com/2023/06/fasc...

We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat

2027: US invades UK. PM calls it 'an admirable takeover which should be celebrated for its boldness'.

I never had a Walkman and Blockbuster wasn’t available where I lived, but I checked off all the other items.

This is blatantly illegal. A president can’t go into the oil business and then decide where to spend the money. We are completely untethered from our founding document with a lawless president and a Republican Congress which has abdicated all Constitutional authority.

Despicable cowardice. As an aside, Greece is a member of the UN security council and the Greek PM said that "now is not the time" to determine the lawfulness of US actions in Venezuela.

Λίμνη Κουρνά, προς το αντλιοστάσιο για όσους ξέρουν, μετά από μια βδομαδα βροχής. Είκοσι χρόνια, πρώτη φορά βλέπω τόσο λίγο νερό.

He misspelled “Greece strongly condemns the recent illegal actions”

Is it 2028 yet?

Meanwhile, in our nick of the Hunsrück woods, -9° feels really cold. At least the air quality is good.

I could never actually grasp why I didn’t like podcasts, but this nails it down neatly. 😂

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

Et Dieu créa la femme… 😢

Happy Festivus!

Στον Ομαλό Χανίων σε ένα από τα πιο φυσικά μέρη της Κρήτης στήνουν ένα φαραωνικό χριστουγεννιάτικο δέντρο με τόνους σίδερα, εκεί που αισθητική του Δήμου βίαζει την φύση και το περιβάλλον. Ξεφτίλα εντελώς και τόσα λεφτά πεταμένα. Δεν έχω λόγια.

Happy winter solstice!

The reason you should all read this book is that it is the only existing historical account of the fall of German constitutional democracy, written in real time, as it happened, from within Germany, by a German lawyer. The parallels are uncanny.

A little solace that I’m not the only disappointed/disgruntled iOS 26 user. If only there was a safe way to undo it.

This is both disgusting and expected. The Scumbag-in-Chief

Waiting now in the passenger hall in Igoumenitsa. Haven’t seen a farmer all day. Ferry due to leave in an hour. Sometimes you just need a bit of luck.

This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.

We made it to Igoumenitsa without a farmer’s scratch. Apparently some action is expected around 19:00.

Not much traffic on Olympia Odos towards Patras past Corinth. No farmer blockades (yet).

All I want for Xmas. 🙏

The US government is now a mafia organization.

wise words

Live your myth in Greece

Σε όσους είναι με τη μεριά των αγροτών που κλείνουν τους δρόμους, τα αεροδρόμια κλπ τους εύχομαι μόνο να χάσουν την επόμενη πτήση.

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

NOW you’re telling me December 8th is a cursed day?!?! 😱 https://greekreporter.com/2025/12/08/december-8-a-cursed-day-for-the-town-of-chania-in-crete/

The pressing question now is: will the ferry sail tonight from Iráklio to Piraeus? #shakyseas #shakyplans

RIP Frank Gehry

First snow on the Dikti mountains. Not much but it’s a start.

Sick!

Found this on my extended Sunday morning walk. The total surface is about 4-5 times as much. Anyone knows what this is/will be? #inquisitivemindswanttoknow

So, got macOS Sequoia up an running again, ferociously obliterating every trace of Tahoe, had some incompatible library problems with Mail (83,000 messages) and Photos (16,000) and iCloud syncing, but digging in the deep dark bowels of the macOS file system remedied that as well. Very rewarding.

After some weeks of use, I’m sooooo put off by the latest versions of macOS, iOS and watchOS that I’m preparing to downgrade them all to the previous version. Steve Jobs would have fired everyone involved in this monstrosity.

The only “peace plan” that makes sense is the one from Sanna Marin, Finland’s former Prime Minister: “The way out of the conflict is for Russia to leave Ukraine. That is the way out of the conflict.”

This should be a quote about aging: "Just because I carry it well, doesn’t mean it’s not heavy"

Funny how I feel the same about Tim Cook

You have to wonder if elected Republicans ever get tired of Trump constantly threatening them every single time they don’t do exactly what he wants them to do.

Presenting you: 10cc, possibly the most underrated band of the seventies. These guys -- each one of them -- could do a.n.y.thing, vocals, a gazillion of instruments, song-writing, directing, producing, the whole damn lot. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Not confusing at all. Now you can watch Apple TV on the Apple TV app on Apple TV. 9to5mac.com/2025/10/14/e...

Interesting read: Internal documents obtained by Solomon reveal the EU urged Greece to launch a vaccination campaign against sheeppox. Athens refused — and now the country faces one of its worst livestock crises in decades. wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

I hear there is a Nuremberg in Pennsylvania.