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Slavery was legal; the Underground Railroad was not. The Holocaust was legal; hiding people from the Nazis was not.

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

But since we are there, having some uses for accessibility does not make it accessibility tech because accessibility includes thoughtful, transparent affordances for safety, wellbeing, privacy, and autonomy.

Because to repeat my point, “adhd influencers are sliding into promotion Claude to ‘fix disordered brains by uploading all of your data archives” into the platform.”

Now that is the point. It is a true statement. Anything else you infer is probably about you and not me or what I said.

I personally know people who say all kinds of things. Whether it is a “boon” or not for someone is irrelevant to the point.

They attacked the burn treatment center in Tehran before unleashing the fires of hell on the city. They are truly the epitome of all evil in this world x.com/UnboundedVoi...

MeToo pushed a few big-name bad actors out of their positions, but it did very little to grapple with the systems and the cultures and the people that empowered those bad actors and allowed them to operate with impunity.

And that (dying in bed of old age) applies, of course, to all Holocaust victims.

He went out for vermouth and sometimes came home late, and tipsy, which made his wife, who had other plans, quite angry. He liked to go on holiday, enjoyed a nice life, avoided conflict, was systematic and reliable. He was not an exceptional man and deserved to die in bed, of old age.”

These stories are mostly missing in the history of Auschwitz, and yet I believe they are important. Karasiewicz, a petty criminal, was turned into a brutal man by the Nazis -- and his own choices. Yet others, who played a similar role, like Leon Siwy, walked free after the war.

... that his mother, who witnessed the story as Family Camp prisoner herself (from the December transport), thought about it a great deal. But then she refused to speak in support of Karasiewicz.

In the 1960s, two things happened: first, the Polish writer Kozielewski, who met Karasiewicz in prison, wrote that short story.
Second, Karasiewicz could apply for clemency, and needed letters of support. He reached out to Věra's cousin who also lived in Vyškov. Her son, my friend Josef, recalled...

After the murder of the September transport, Karasiewicz tried to commit suicide, but the SS had him rescued. He turned even more brutal. A few years after the liberation, he was arrested, put on trial, and sentenced to a long term sentence for his brutalities in Auschwitz.

But when Věra realized Frank could only save her, not her mother, she begged off. Supposedly, she asked her boyfriend how to make a quick end of it in the gas chamber. "You have to breath deeply," so his reply, which gave the title to an eponymous short story by Ryszard Kozielewski.

Like many other prisoner functionaries, Karasiewicz visited the Family Camp in search of women. Here he met, and fell in love, with Věra Polláková from Vyškov. In March 1944, hearing what was in store for the September transport, he planned to use the gold he stole to spirit Věra out of the camp.

Frank Karasiewicz was a "criminal" prisoner from Warsaw. In Birkenau he served as one of the block elders in the Men's Camp. He was a young man and he became quite brutal in the camp, so much so that he received the nickname "The Bloody Frank."

Several dozen of prisoners were exempt: medical personnel, identical twins on whom Josef Mengele was experimenting, patients in the infectious wards, women who were lovers of the prisoner functionaries or the SS. Erich Kulka was able to bring in his wife Elly and her/their son Otto Deutelbaum.

woman dressed carefully in a fur stands in a countryside with her hair tucked into a hat and smiles at the photographer. Copyright Terezín Memorial

8 March 1944 remains, most probably, the day in history when the most Czech citizens were murdered.
Though not all of those on the September transport were Czech: a few hundred were stateless Jews.
Among them was Schura Grimmann, a Hamburg hairdresser.
www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de/en.php?MAIN_...

Today, 82 years ago, the SS separated half of the Theresienstadt Family Camp, the BIIb section of Auschwitz Birkenau. Those 3700 people who arrived six months earlier and were still alive from the original 5000 were sent to gas chambers and murdered.

our culture, which views #adoption as a way to build a family that *just happens* to be non-gestational, won’t reckon with the implications of the facts that to be an adoptive parent is to raise another family’s child and that children, even infants, have rights & histories like everyone else.

and I think it’s appropriate to point out on International Women’s Day that the often horrendous trauma that birth mothers suffer from being caught up in the #adoption industry is a moral stain on our society that no one wants to talk about.

Albanese’s policy on Iran makes us complicit in the collapse of international rules The Albanese government has stood by as the foundations of the international order were destroyed

Here’s me in the Guardian today.

The Aukus submarine pact has dragged Australia into the Trump administration’s illegal war on Iran in all but name. This was all entirely forseeable.

A white cat playing with a coloured ball with a long red string. A black cat lies nearby. Background is silver.

'Playing cats' - Takahashi Hiroaki, ca. 1930.
#Caturday #JapaneseArt

Moor Hawk is a watercolour painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851), created around 1816. It is part of The Farnley Book of Birds, a series of ornithological studies Turner produced while visiting his friend Walter Fawkes

The sun is behind me.
Nothing has changed since I began.
My eye has permitted no change.
I am going to keep things like this.

Hawk Roosting
Ted Hughes 1960

🖼️ Turner
#BookWormSat

#US already finding out what #Putin 's "russkiy mir" is about : no truth, no friends but readiness to pounce wherever convenient.
Get a taste of fickle 🇷🇺...
#StopRussiaArmUkraine 🇺🇦

'I'm still punk' I whisper to myself as I order compression knee sleeves to try and relieve pain

Tom Stevenson · Iran, Week One It is tempting to frame the attack of 28 February as a spectacular aberration, an act of criminal aggression that could...

‘Countries that claim to oppose unprovoked wars have, with the commendable exception of Spain, welcomed this one.’

@tomstevenson.bsky.social on the war on Iran:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

YouTube video by Current Affairs The Iran War Is Unfathomably Depraved

'I cannot understand how a place where children learn can be bombed like this'

youtu.be/ibupd6w90DY?...

An old, old being amidst beeches, beasts and barrows in the New Forest...

Our 7th #darkspringtide tale brings us to Hampshire during the Wars of the Roses where we meet our Lady of the Stags, which makes this a proper #bookwormsat story today!

Read it below.

🎨 Warwick Goble

City authorities have not granted permission for this year’s Women’s March to take place in Bishkek. It was the one public protest that had always been permitted in Kyrgyzstan albeit under quite a bit of surveillance in recent years