Katharina Dröge, "in Köln starben am Hitze Wochenende 120 Menschen... Herr Bundeskanzler, beginnen sie endlich mit Klimaschutzmaßnahmen... Zuallererst müssen Sie die Gesetze von Wirtschaftsministerin #Reiche stoppen, sie sind ein Brandbeschleuniger für die Klimakrise..." youtu.be/xUEVz2vmVU0?...

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Boring but important question - Do I know any UK soliciter or lawer with knowledge of contract law who would consider looking at a lease contract pro bono for a radical bookshop?

Husband came back from a canoe trip on the river. ‘Ich hab den Bieber gesehen. Der Seggl!’. Which led to a conversation about whether ‘Seggl’ is Fränkisch or generally from southern Germany (maybe even Austria and Switzerland?)

Länger arbeiten, früher sterben. Reformpaket der Bundesregierung.

This makes a lot of sense to me. I’ve always sat by the water when I needed to think or when I was upset. The sea in Dundee, the lake in Geneva, the river in Würzburg. It calms me.

How much do you spend a month on groceries? We are 4-5 adults (vegan daughter gets some of her own produce, but uses store cupboard basics, washing powder etc; we often cook extra portion for MIL, kids’ partners). Just checked and we now spend well over €1000. Much much more than a few years ago.

I used this yesterday when trying to persuade a Scottish friend that coming to Wurzburg for a Burn’s Supper in January was not a good idea.

The local Sommerloch topic is the Canadian geese that have invaded our parks and bathing areas. What’s your area’s Sommerloch topic?

Damn

This is lovely. Here’s a great one for non-German parents cause it sounds delightfully naughty in English - Butterkeks! (Pronounced Boot-er-cakes).

The Clacton by-election is the perfect ‘Sommerloch’ topic. Literally, summer-hole, this is the silly season when parliament isn’t sitting and news organisations have to fill their schedules with random stuff.

fascinatingly* the French news is translating "Count Binface" as « le Compte Tête-de-Poubelle » rather than « Visage-de-Poubelle) which is, in fairness, more accurate (his entire head is a bin, not just his face) typical British media not asking the important underlying questions * ta gueule

binface vs farage vs lawrence fox is like el classico for “different ways your mate’s dad could end up taking the divorce”

America’s leading export is now metaphors for America, which they are producing in ever growing numbers.

The book that this is from is well worth a read - the art of persuasive writing.

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

#Zelenskyy 10 von 10 😅

Sarah Ward is a UK-based textile artist, weaver, and founder of Lark & Bower and The Aviary Studio who is renowned for her "off-loom" woven rock and stone art #WomensArt (via L.Young FB)

Don´t know why, but we have a giant rhino in our church St. Moritz, Halle Saale. 🤔😇

How are they going to fit all this into 11 mins?

I was back in Immigration Court this week, this time for the hearing of a sweet little three-year-old girl, I’ll call her Estrella. She’s been in federal custody, separated from her family for more than 10 months – even though her mom lives here in NYC. The cruelty is truly mind-boggling. 🧵

need you all to see this deeply indescribable cooking video

This is so powerful. Inspired by the March of a Thousand Robes in Poland, retired and sitting judges in the United States walked down the streets of Columbus, Ohio to stand up for the Rule of Law. #JusticeinMotion

- Open Instagram - Go to your profile - Tap the three lines in the top-right corner - Scroll down to the Sharing and reuse section - Toggle off "Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta" for Posts and Reels

Käthe Kollwitz conveyed deep emotions in her work – love and peace, grief and anguish. I stood before this sculpture for ages, tears in my eyes.

This is Lucie. She likes to moo, so you can imagine why this herd of cows mistook her as one of their own. And vice versa. 13/10 for all (TT: luciewoos)

Sign gone up in our riverside park with slightly dodgy English translation. Must phone the city and offer my services. I’d do it free just to avoid Fremdschämen at the bad translations.

Tiny sample, so I hope it’s not indicative of how little we know about how much tax we pay.

New joy unlocked: reading about Count Binface - Graf Mülltonnengesicht, comte Face de Poubelle, il conte Binface etc etc - in European papers.

Ich bin wütend, ich bin traurig, ICH BIN SO WÜTEND. Union und SPD planen eine Reform der psychotherapeutischen Versorgung, die für viele Psychotherapeut:innen existenzbedrohend ist und die Versorgung von Millionen Menschen gefährdet. (1/13)

While I’m asking for advice - can anyone point me in the direction of Scottish school data/child protection policies re kids’ usage of school email addresses? Can they access these emails at home on private devices? What safeguards are put in place? Any filters?

Question re copyright and AI. A team member used ChatGPT to create line drawings from images from the internet to make postcards for a non-profit project. He says that gets around copyright restrictions. Anyone know? (I still don’t think it’s ok, but need legal basis to challenge him)

I promise I won't turn into one of those people whose entire feed is RTs but please - this will NOT disappoint. I've watched it dozen times already.

Half past midnight and this is the view from Whitley Bay looking out over the North Sea tonight! Mind blowing beautiful 😍. Enjoyed a nice 20 minute sit on the beach taking the view in. Because how can you not!

Spending the morning manually rinsing the ‘selfCleaning condenser’ of my Siemens dryer. This involves watching a YouTube video to find the combination of buttons needed to activate maintenance mode, and rinsing repeatedly. Self-cleaning, my arse.

Käthe Kollwitz, 8. Juli 1867 - 22. April 1945, hat sich intensiv mit den schlimmen Lebensbedingungen der Arbeiter in der Weimarer Republik auseinandergesetzt und sie in ihren anklagenden Zeichnungen für die Zeitgenossen festgehalten. Guten Morgen

Munich's new mayor announces a project that turns empty office spaces into housing. To help with the process, a city agency will guide property owners through regs & funding. One conversion into living space for students & apprentices has already started. 5 more pilot projects will follow this year.

I thought the blue non-EU passport was bad. Imaging having his face on your passport!

pawsa de hidratación

Procol Harum’s Denmark performance of “A Whiter Shade of Pale” is regarded as one of the greatest live renditions of the song ever recorded. The band performed with a 72-piece orchestra and a 50- to 70-member choir. Edited for format. Watch the full version on YouTube.

The last week or two, my Outlook has started incorrectly changing the spelling or punctuation of random words, even when I’ve changed them back. Today it was ‘fertig’, which Outlook insisted should be capitalised. It changed it 3 times.

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

Anyone have an idea - neighbour does thing where he flashes a torch out the window - like he waves it out the window in circles - not at the ground, up in the air. Daughter went down to see if he was ok cause she thought he was sending an SOS, but he wasn’t at the window.

The constituency of Clacton has the opportunity to do the funniest thing of all time

ADDENDUM: I think this chart with daily deaths during summer from 2000 to 2026 actually shows best how exceptional the heat mortality has been at the end of June 2026 in Germany (thx to @benfire71 over on twitter for asking the question of summer deaths and triggering the idea for the chart)

The German Stats Offfice (Destatis) just released death data up to 28/6 for Germany These are preliminary (and will still increase a bit) but already now a) Germany saw over 7,500 excess deaths in the weeks ending on 21/6 & 28/6 b) Jun 28 saw more deaths than any day the pandemic in Germany 1/

Some yodeling by Sarah Rüegg at the "Jodlerfest Basel" for your enjoyment! (I had to cut a bit from the beginning because the video was too long for bsky)