Apparently the correct term is flipper. Apologies.

Who WHO WHO is surprised by this?!

Me whenever I have to communicate with other human beings #anxiety

We didn’t have pancakes today, cause my daughter cooked a Lunar New Year feast, with our families traditional meals — which were her Grandad’s lentil soup and her Opa’s Schnitzel mit Kartoffelbrei und Gurkensalat. We made and burned wished for the year.

Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras. This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.

Fatal ist mir das Lumpenpack, Das, um die Herzen zu rühren, Den Patriotismus trägt zur Schau, Mit allen seinen Geschwüren." Heinrich Heine 

i bet she tells people she doesn’t ski

The only way to make Darjeeling taste like a normal cup of tea, really.

🇩🇪 🌹 From Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin, no one is safe when Germans celebrate carnival. But Russia's president is not laughing. Jacques Tilly, head float designer for Duesseldorf's parade, is on trial in absentia in Moscow, accused of spreading false information ➡️ u.afp.com/S6Gu

Whatever party you support, there's no denying this is a highly effective political message. After years of seeing Farage grifters dominate the online war with media-savvy ads paid for by billionaires, it's great to see Greens knocking them off their throne with such authentic, positive messaging.

The FT literally broke the story he’s accusing them of ignoring.

periodic reminder of the existence of Hipster Ipsum (hipsum.co), an extremely useful filler text generator for when you're drafting a grant proposal that has physical page limits as opposed to word counts my preference is Hipster with a shot of Latin

Posting here in case anyone is interested in a workshop for freelancers in Würzburg (in German). It's not completely 'kostenfrei', but I'm not making money from it. My idea is to share the costs for room hire etc. www.linkedin.com/pulse/unters...

Husband just said we need to find a Fliegenleser when we get the bathroom done. So that’s what a tiler is called from now on in this house.

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

Because these days, we can all use some beauty in our lives. Natalie Christensen, photographer. What a nice body of work. nataliechristensenphoto.com

Anyone in Dundee remembers the Jif Lemon Tree prank at the Tay Bridge tollbooths? My dad used to tell amazed visitors who commented on the lemons growing in Dundee that it was due to the Gulf Stream. 🍋

It took literally 8–10 times as long to turn in-person lectures into high-quality online provision during the pandemic. I was working 100-hour weeks JUST on teaching, ON TOP of home schooling my son. I tried my absolute best. I burnt out in April 2022. The moral injury of these lawsuits is severe.

Happy Presidents' Day. This was from 2009, when we invited our American neighbours over to celebrate Obama's inauguration. I still remember the morning after the election. My lovely neighbour almost vaulted over the fence, she was so excited.

Gently suggested changing 'aging yet experienced teacher' to 'mature and experienced teacher' might be more polite. The challenges of nuance when writing in a foreign language!

#6 Cologne At the helm of this year's Cologne parade ... bagpipes. Obviously.

Cooles Device - fährt in nullkommanix hoch ohne vorher irgendwelche 450 GB-Updates zu laden.

A reminder that if you live in England or Wales & were born between 1970-1990 – or even before 1970 – you can help protect your community by getting the MMR vaccine free from your NHS GP now. I did last year. www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

Ok, am I going crazy or why is this a radical, new idea?! I just assumed this was standard that trains and buses were timed at interchanges. ‘Under the proposals, services would run to hourly, easy‑to‑remember schedules, with buses timed to meet trains at key interchanges’

Measles vaccinations weren't given in the UK when I was a child. The illness was common and horrible. Nearly everyone I know had it. I don't personally know anyone who died from it, but a contemporary does. We all vaccinated our kids. Adults who missed it can and should get an MMR free on the NHS.

Today seems to be admin day. I've renewed my local residents' parking permit and the scooter insurance. The second one is always a bit of a pain to sort out, because we now have four scooters of various sorts, so I have to check the details carefully.

🧵 It's street #carnival in Germany. The 3 largest parades in Cologne, Dusseldorf, & Mainz are live on TV (12pm). Their floats are known for their political commentary. They're #cartoons on wheels. I shall watch all 3 programmes & take screenshots of the funniest or most hard-hitting ones for you. ⏬️

If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

Tell you what I’m OVER: The patronizing framing of feature stories marveling at how moms are throwing down right now for their communities. Come on. They’re constantly doing this emotional labor, planning, and work. It is not a stretch to assume their *skills* can be put to use on a larger scale.

Note how he's not presenting any ideas, nor telling people why they should vote for him. He's just insulting everyone else.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Health officials are racing to contain a growing measles outbreak in London, which has struck down dozens of young children and affected 7 schools and a nursery. UKHSA has warned an outbreak across London could see 40,000 - 160,000 cases: www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

A recreated Roman watchtower from Burgsalach on the German frontier. Similar structures existed across the Gask Ridge in Perthshire

Stuttgart will seinen Bahnhofsplatz umgestalten und präsentiert erste Ideen. Ich verstehe nicht, warum Stadtplaner immer noch am Konzept „Steinwüste“ festhalten. Paris plant mit einer 4 Grad heißeren Stadt & entsiegelt wo es nur geht. In 🇩🇪 Städten plant man häufig so, als gäbe es kein Morgen. Warum?

Went to an amateur theatre production of Educating Rita in Würzburg tonight. By an association that puts a couple of shows a year on in English. Most of them not native speakers - this was just two actors, so a lot of text to learn. Very impressive.

My brother Garry has dementia and is currently lost somewhere in the Chester area. If anyone should spot him please call the police on 999. We'd appreciate reposts. @shitchester.bsky.social

The Grüne in Würzburg are running fantastic ads laying out their vision for the city. In this video, they propose turning a city centre car park into a vibrant oasis for people, not vehicles. youtu.be/RygpLQFkNTc

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

I had articles posted on the Gates Foundation blog many years ago. They all disappeared. I had screenshots of them thankfully, but there’s a lot of stuff I wrote in the early years that’s just gone.

Had one of those tidy up random crap days today. The tea drawer is no longer covered in tea crumbs, I’ve cut back the dead plants on the balcony, and tidied the hall dresser (total dumping ground for crap).

Hate to add to the national stereotype, but this is not just an Edeka thing. Better butchers make roses out of salami and black forest ham. This is amateur hour. 😁

Watch👇Rep AOC (D-NY) connect the dots on income inequality and the rise of authoritarianism, and MAGA Republicans say she’s just a bartender. I’d like to see one of them pontificate on this subject for 2 minutes, ain’t happening. #TrumpAffordabilityDisaster

The Fife end of the Tay road and rail bridges seen from Broughty Ferry Castle on what seems like the first sunny day in months! 📷📸🎞️

Hearts appear throughout the natural world, in leaves, flowers, seed pods and unfolding fronds. A small gathering of botanical hearts for St. Valentine’s Day. #ValentinesDay

There are people who were born abroad who didn't even realise or claim their British citizenship that are having to cancel travel because of this bullshit. Britain is a ridiculous, small-minded little place. www.tf1info.fr/internationa...

Die deutsche Sprache ist sehr ausdrucksstark. Heute auf Englisch müsste ich "rainy weather" oder "bad weather" oder "inclement weather" sagen. Aber auf Deutsch darf ich inbrunstig "SCHEISSWETTER!' rufen.

A message from your ZX Spectrum.

25 years ago I got a year 10 English class to come up with brand names for new medicines during a creative writing project. So far 13 of the names those 14 year olds developed are used on drugs. I bet the pharmaceutical companies paid naming consultants so much for them.

This was me the other evening when out for a walk. Hoping now one would ask why I was taking a photo of their house. But just look at the light in the stairwell.