Karin

After the Thin Man (1936). I love the first one but I've always thought this second installment was the best of the series.

It can be hard for trauma survivors to think about big picture goals, when our main goals for years have been in the ballpark of "survival" & "stability."

Not to mention that goal setting necessarily involves letting ourselves hope-- which can feel to many survivors like a trap.

WAS FÜR EINE GESCHICHTE BITTE, was für eine unendlich mutige Frau: Selma van der Perre.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Tweet from Ella Devi: canvassing for @ZohranKMamdani in the east village today and the actor who plays dr. strugis in young sheldon is in my canvassing group!! Photo of Ella with another canvasser and Wallace Shawn

On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable

Ein Foto von ihm. Er hatte weiße Haare, trägt eine große Brille, und in den Armen hat er zwei seiner Marionetten.

Walter Oehmichen (* 30. Juli 1901) war Schauspieler und Regisseur. Er gründete 1948 das Marionettentheater „Augsburger Puppenkiste", das mir viele schöne Stunden meiner Kinder bescherte, da ich jede Sendung sehen durfte. Er starb am 2.November 1977


Once you realise Huel is bro-coded Slimfast, the universe becomes absurd in a way there’s no rowing back from.

Imagining Sisyphus tactical.

#rosahellblaufalle

On Trans Parent Day, we celebrate both trans parents and parents of trans children.
We offer valuable resources like 'I’m Trans: How Do I Tell My Parents?', 'I’m a Trans Parent: How Do I Tell My Children?', and 'My Child’s Trans' to help guide families through these journeys.
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Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop.

“If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???”

Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.

If you can do French, you can elevate your English vocabulary. If you can do German, you understand more of English grammar. If you can do Latin, you can recognise so many new words and expressions. If you can do languages, not only do you discover the world, but you discover your own language too.

And the winner of the absolutely best Halloween costume ever goes to:

Es gab ihn wirklich den „Hungerkost-Erlaß“ des Bayerischen Staatsministers des Inneren von 1942. Die Essen psychiatrischer, nicht arbeitsfähiger Patienten wurde durch eine Wassersuppe ersetzt, die fast ohne Nährwert war. Nach 3 Monaten waren die meisten so behandelten tot.

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025)
written and directed by Mary Bronstein
with Rose Byrne, Conan O'Brien, Danielle Macdonald, Christian Slater and A$AP Rocky

5/5
Oscar worthy performance by Rose Byrne. Really liked A$AP Rocky‘s character as well.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Friendly reminder that Republicans are garbage, entirely devoid of empathy, compassion, or honor. They are terrified little babies who are filled with hate, scared to death of anything they don't understand. And they don't understand most things, because they are also deeply incurious.

Star Trek Strange New Worlds hasn't even had it's muppet episode yet and it's already got tough competition. The Count as the Borg Queen is ending me.

Great read from @iandunt.bsky.social on whether Starmer should stay or go, including the mystery of how, if you’re launching a popular climate, energy, and growth strategy, why wouldn’t you stage a press conference on it?
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...

Foto eines Mannes und dreier Frauen bei der Arbeit in der Haribo-Fabrik

Heute ist #Halloween! Wir nehmen das zum Anlass, um in unserer #Darchinger100-Reihe eines der Fotos zu zeigen, die Jupp Darchinger 1958 in den heiligen Hallen eines großen Bonner Süßwarenunternehmens anfertigte:

Das tolle: diesen Optimismus-Bias kann man bei Hummeln hervorrufen, indem man eine neutral gestimmte Hummel (unsere Testhummel) mit einer gut gelaunten (der "Vorführ"-Hummel) in Kontakt bringt. Dabei ist es wichtig, dass die Testhummel die andere Hummel sehen kann! Im Dunkeln klappt das ganze nicht!

A surprisingly moving #thread on the reuse of military architecture.

Do not forget the ALT text

Thanks for the ear worm.

Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B In a landmark public health achievement, WHO has validated the Maldives for eliminating mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of hepatitis B, while maintaining its earlier validation (in 2019) for…

Maldives eliminates mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B. No babies were born with HIV or syphilis in 2022–23, and hepatitis B has vanished among children. The WHO is calling it a “triple elimination,” the world’s first of its kind. buff.ly/lH7h3BW
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Generative KI setzt lediglich Wörterreihen nach Wahrscheinlichkeit zusammen. Oder anders ausgedrückt:

MONKEYTRUCK (2025)

„We will have to“ klingt wie eine Drohung. „We may be able to find …“ ist ein Angebot.

Prunella Scales was a queen of comedy with a passion for classical theatre The actor best known as TV’s Sybil Fawlty dazzled over five decades on stage, in roles from from Shakespeare to Alan Bennett

This reflection on Prunella Scales has been put up by The Guardian, and her son, Samuel, reckons she'd have loved it. Definitely worth sharing here:

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Abject terror’: survey shows 84% of trans people feel Britain is unsafe YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK

In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
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LUCASARTS PRESENTS
Columbo in:
SCUMM of the Earth
#pixelart