I would smash this with hammers if it did this shit anywhere near me
06.12.2025 12:20 โ ๐ 50 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0@sweetpeabalcony.bsky.social
Random notes from a 5th floor cottage garden in Berlin
I would smash this with hammers if it did this shit anywhere near me
06.12.2025 12:20 โ ๐ 50 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0Complex Carbohydrates
by Gemma Correll!
weirdo @JackPosobiec reacts to netflix possibly buying warner bros: โThey're going to make Looney Tunes gay They're going to make everything gayโ
bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok
06.12.2025 01:54 โ ๐ 11784 ๐ 1587 ๐ฌ 489 ๐ 257When Paul woke, he couldnโt move. A tent surrounded him, too foggy to see through. The humidity was supposed to help, but in the damp darkness he felt only fear. In a scene that predates the Matrix by 50 years, he was one kid in a sea of many, each in a metal pod and plugged in to machinery. #Polio
05.12.2025 00:48 โ ๐ 64 ๐ 26 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 6The painting of a British artillery battery being shelled, where soldiers appear dehumanised and insect-like. The colour palette is muted; โdim through the misty panes and thick green lightโฆโ A Battery Shelled 1919 Percy Wyndham Lewis
โA society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegianceโ
Pat Barker
Regeneration
#BookWormSat
๐ผ๏ธ A Battery Shelled 1919
Percy Wyndham Lewis
Tarragon can be used in omelettes and scrambled eggs with great advantage to the omelettes and scrambled eggs. And if you put a leaf of it into a bottle of vinegar the vinegar will greatly benefit. #gardening
06.12.2025 12:16 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Jozef Sekalski (1904-1972)
Polish Church with Pine Cones.
Wood engraving on paper.
View from landside of impressive stone built castle on elevated rocky outcrop beneath blue sky. Round tower at left corner, large square tower in centre with more substantial buildings to right. A road passes viewpoint, curving round to right. On left is walkway with fenced, grassy area part of which is cricket ground. to left of road is a house
#CastleSaturday
View of Bamburgh Castle from beach is classic, but pretty impressive from land side too, perched on volcanic dolerite. C5 Celtic Britonic fort>Anglo-Saxon fort>Norman castle>property of monarch>various nobles post Civil War>Armstrong family w much restoration.
+ cricket ground below.
Illustration zweier Bereitschaftspolizisten, die die heilige Familie mit dem Christuskind ausweisen. Textzeile: Deutschland ist, wenn du feierst, dass die Flรผchtlingsfamilien endlich abgeschoben werden.
SPD und Union haben mit Hilfe der AfD bestimmt, dass die Regierung jetzt nach eigenem Ermessen festlegen kann, was ein sicheres Herkunftsland ist. Zum Ausgleich haben sie den Rechtsbeistand fรผr Abzuschiebende gestrichen, obwohl viele Abschiebungen rechtswidrig erfolgt. Sie nennen es Beschleunigung.
06.12.2025 12:10 โ ๐ 491 ๐ 221 ๐ฌ 25 ๐ 13Chives those little brothers of the onion are so accommodating that they can be grown even in a windowbox in a city. #gardening
06.12.2025 12:13 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0$20 billion could end homelessness in the US
$40 billion could end hunger globally
Both would still only cost 3/4 of what Meta blew on Mark Zuckerbergโs obviously bad ideas because nobody would tell him they were stupid because heโs worth over $200 billion because he doesnโt pay his share of taxes
Undaunted Veteran Stands Up to MAGA Bullies
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Mark Kelly Rocks. He is a ๐ฏbadass. We need a lot more like him in Congress. They would whip our government into shape and eject the dead wood and parasites that have infested the White House and Pentagon
#BlueCrew
A rainbow over Totnes, today.
Turns out the end of the rainbow is actually in Totnes. Makes sense. The knitwear was always a massive clue.
06.12.2025 11:54 โ ๐ 64 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Windgeschwindigkeiten von bis zu 88 Kilometern pro Stunde und starke #Regenfรคlle:
รber #Griechenland herrscht eine der schwersten Unwetterlagen seit Jahren. Und die #Regenfรคlle dauern an.
In mehreren Regionen Griechenlands gibt es #รberschwemmungen.
Chervil will serve the same good purpose and has the additional attraction of meaning โthe leaf that rejoices the heart.โ It can be made to rejoice the heart also in soups and stews. #gardening
06.12.2025 11:43 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Eyvind Earle (1916-2000)
A Winter Scene, 1968.
#Serigraph
"The Trump administrationโs vision of American greatness is making the country poorer, weaker, and meaner. The new strategy document will do its own little bit to accelerate that process."
06.12.2025 10:32 โ ๐ 293 ๐ 96 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 1I listened to this one earlier today and it was a fantastic episode - really learned a lot from it! Definitely worth a listen ๐
06.12.2025 00:44 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
Released on this day in 1980: Do Nothing/Maggie's Farm #TheSpecials
youtu.be/0S1BC0XVB6s?siโฆ
youtu.be/ao4hgMusufA?si๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ
Nur zur Bewusstmachung: Alles was einst nach 1949 international angeblich erlernt und eigentlich vereinbart wurde, wird heute wieder vergessen und rรผckgรคngig gemacht. Ein neuer Zyklus der barbarischen Entzivilisierung hat begonnen, nur mit noch mehr Technologie und Ressourcen.
05.12.2025 06:41 โ ๐ 425 ๐ 134 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 7Deep blue glass vessel shaped like a stylized animal with four legs, a pointed snout, and decorative ridges along its back, resembling a whimsical pig.
One of my most favourite glass vessels: A marvellous Roman vessel in the form of a pig, made of blue glass. It was used to hold ointment or perfume.
Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD
๐ท Rรถmisch-Germanisches Museum Kรถln
๐บ #archaeology
SCOOP: The Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect told the FBI he believed in 2020 election conspiracy theories.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
So the party of no more soft cuck wokeness just watched their sleepy dictator receive the biggest participation trophy of all time
05.12.2025 20:27 โ ๐ 97 ๐ 25 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 1George Orwellโs Six Rules for Writing Clear and Tight Prose
04.12.2025 17:01 โ ๐ 23 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 3"Man muss die AfD inhaltlich stellen"
Ja, und wo geht das besser als in einer Verhandlung vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht? ๐
Evil corporation saying war crimes are good for business is something from the Onion.
04.12.2025 12:37 โ ๐ 449 ๐ 106 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 1this shit is just beyond parody, man
05.12.2025 17:33 โ ๐ 25812 ๐ 5672 ๐ฌ 6073 ๐ 4190Screenshot from The Onion, originally published October 9, 2002. Headline: Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches for Grandkids Below it, a photo of a plate with multiple deconstructed sandwiches balanced precariously, vaguely resembling a Frank Gehry building.
Frank Gehry, 1929โ2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
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