Siobhan Hoffmann Sønderborg

Norfolk. A pump or truck. But that's because my partner is a firefighter. I think most people call them fire engines in the UK.

cowboys on horses chasing a giant rubber ball, looks like they were playing pushball

'Arizona cowboys play sports to pass the time in Phoenix, 1955. Photograph courtesy Black Star, National Geographic Creative'

I have developed an obsession with something I cannot have.
If you ever go to Canada you must all try Uttoffea Cashew Dark. I wish I'd never learned of its existence.

Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment

Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief

- António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

God, that's so... Ergh.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Sarah Kendzior on Trumpland’s Criminal Distortions of American Reality It is common to hear that Americans no longer inhabit a shared reality. To a large extent this is true, especially in an era of social media manipulation, but we did not share a reality in simpler …

From THEY KNEW, excerpted here in 2022: "It became reasonable to believe that a critical mass of people in power were either criminals, pedophiles, or traitors, or that they were being blackmailed, bribed, or threatened by a criminal, pedophile, or traitor."
lithub.com/sarah-kendzi...

Watching 'Mary Poppins' as an adult really er... Hits different.

A Mandaic curse bowl in the Royal Ontario Museum. It has a spiraling Mandaic text that leads to an encircled x at the center.

This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.

ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.

Canesten.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Someone has messaged me on here. A perennial reminder that I do not read my dms...

I feel like he would have been gentlemanly in either scenario.

That's metal af, V.

I found a really nice yak wool jumper for pennies on Vinted (with a small hold in it which I am fixing with bright red wool) and have resolved not to buy any new clothes this year.

Battle badgers.

Doing art badly is good and sacred

Yeah. "Bad luck."

i love european olympics opening ceremonies. the second the ioc names a european host city the prime minister calls the culture minister into their office and says "find me your strangest homosexuals. give each of them a period of our great nation's history, a kilo of cocaine, and Ten Million Euros"

And here we end the @PalaisGalliera's Worth: The Inventor of Haute Couture exhibit. In 1952, Roger Worth retired after the house merged with the House of Paquin two years earlier. Both houses ended their couture line in 1956. The house was then sold to various other brands, but

This is why philanthropy doesn't work.

This isn't new. TCM is entirely based on this idea.

Yeah. I get it. I'm going through some difficulties of a parental nature too. The overwhelm is like... A carved channel that keeps getting carved deeper, huh. Fwiw, I'm really sorry this is so hard. There's no avoiding it. But I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Sending love.

Ah, Christ... That's so so hard. There's no other way I can put it. The void is, I suppose, inevitable. It means something significant (that I'm not expressing very well), though. Do you have people around you who will be with you?

I'm so sorry.

This. This.

I’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.

out of curiosity, because somebody will be able to do this, what would 8 guineas in 1964 be in today's dosh, accounting for inflation etc?