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sidewalk chalk drawing of a mouse reading a book while sitting in the curl of the tail of a dinosaur who is also reading a book

Nadine and the Very Large, Very Small Book Club

Well, there ARE immigrants who sneak in, fool everybody and then take over - it's just not the majority of them.

I did read up on it - Otto Kotzebue is the son of the German writer who's name I recalled. He was a member of the Russian Navy and did two exploratory trips around the globe.
Still no reason to name a Native gathering place after him - but he had nothing to do with Cook.

#OtD 2 Aug 1939 Walter Altmann and Gunther Mann, two Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, were deported from the UK back to Belgium where they had crossed the Channel in a small dinghy which capsized. Both were likely sent to the concentration camps stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9167...

Just looked up Kotzebue on Google maps - seems so weird to me it's in Alaska because he was a German writer - but, as I have just learned, also a diplomat in Russia.
As with everything/-one I feel I should know more about, I will read up on him on Wikipedia:

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ICE Arrested Cross Teen In Workplace Raid, Sent Him South; 150 Rally… Eleven teens stood chained together, side by side before a 150-person crowd, their hands zip-tied and painted red like blood. They were there to…

#ICE kidnapped a New Haven high school student. #NewHaven www.newhavenindependent.org/article/ice_...

playlist # 11 Playlist · temporaryhermit · 17 items

Finally, after about 3 rainy days, got myself off my couch & did my 3/4 of an hour of dancing in my kitchen (stone floor, blinds).
Often can't make up my mind which of my playlists to use - then was pleasantly surprised how good my #11 is & feel so much better now.

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More or less what I did in 2007 (my kid was a bit older and it was in Germany, so less of an existential threat) enjoyed it so much that I had a hard time really trying to get any of the shitty jobs availble.
But I had to relish it secretly, as all everybody ever asked was whether I had a new job.

A Pregnant Texas Teen Died Under Texas’ Fetal Heartbeat Law It took three ER visits before a hospital admitted pregnant teen Nevaeh Crain, one of at least two Texas women to die under the state’s abortion ban.

At her second ER visit, Nevaeh Crain screened positive for sepsis, a life-threatening and fast-moving reaction to an infection, medical records show. But doctors said her six-month fetus had a heartbeat and that Crain was fine to leave.

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Lived without a TV for decades --> totally missed it.

Catching up now.....still puzzled about how voting for MTV awards (and alikes) works....

It's all a question of perspective:

El Salvador approves indefinite presidential re-election The constitutional amendment also extends presidential terms from five years to six and scraps election run-offs.

The constitutional amendment also extends presidential terms from five years to six and scraps election run-offs.

10 Influential Female Directors From the Silent Film Era Back when the film industry was just emerging, gender restrictions hadn’t been established yet. Women could freely seize opportunities to work behind the camera.

In 1926, several decades before Bollywood was even established, Indian actress Fatma Begum made her directorial debut with a big-budget fantasy film. #FlashbackFriday
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Isn't there a lot of crossdressing in Shakespeare dramas ?

(Not to mention all females being played by boys who's voice had not broken yet - but there was a legal reason for that, while the crossdressing within the drama only required dramatic reasons)

YouTube video by Beat-Club Manfred Mann - The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) (1968)

Have heard this a hundred times over the decades.

First time I've SEEN it (and so many others).

(Still does not really make sense to me)

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Probably @suzannacrampton.bsky.social does not intend to add humans to her extensive menagerie in Ireland.
But I am very sure your mother will enjoy her farming content here, on IG and on YT - and maybe they'll become friends ?

I spoke with Andry Romero.

Samuel L. Jackson stars in a new Vattenfall ad for wind power, countering Trump's nonsense tirades against "windmills".

Art museum in Stuttgart, Germany in the shape of a partly transparent cube

Stuttgart, Germany has one of these, too:

Make sure only 'white' people participate, though - all others might find themselves deported to Mecca, or South Sudan, as 'illegal alien enemy terrorists'.

(Just read that there was a viral tiktok trend of Venezuelans posing as Tren de to make fun of the hype -and it was used as 'evidence' by ICE)

Nah - still sore about the not so superintelligent way in which I was suspended from IG by bots.
While I sorely miss checking in on my imaginary friends & loves there daily, I am so not ready to replace them by an imaginary friendship with a chatbot.
Most, while not real friends, were real artists.

'Hell on earth.' A Venezuelan deportee describes abuse in El Salvador prison A Venezuelan man who was deported from California to El Salvador and held at one of the country's infamous prisons recounts his months in custody, recalling meager rations and the torture and beating ...

Jerce Reyes Barrios, a U.S. deportee, told The Times he was haunted by his experience in the Salvadoran prison, where he was repeatedly beaten, forced to drink contaminated water and subjected to other horrors.

@kate-linthicum.bsky.social & Mery Mogollón have more

www.latimes.com/world-nation...

For Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán, 'Wednesday' proves 'weird is beautiful' The actors return for Season 2 of Netflix's hit YA series, which will bring Gomez and Morticia Addams, played by Luis Guzmán and Catherine Zeta-Jones, into focus.

For Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán, 'Wednesday' proves 'weird is beautiful'

Tree against early morning sun

grain field

clouds piling up

blackberry flowers

Keep wondering how those Gazans lucky enough to obtain a sack of flour can turn it into bread without fuel or anything else to burn, possibly not even owning an oven, and possibly no clean water available
I hope your equipment can help there.

Thanks for trying the impossible every day.

I’m so proud of my wife and frequent collaborator @rayayarbrough.bsky.social for her gorgeous rendition of Outlander’s “The Skye Boat Song” at ComicConSD. Ever since she recorded the song for season 1, I knew it was something special.

For the last few years, Wikipedia has been my first stop for everything I felt I needed to know more about.

That is England - but what's next ?

Or maybe somebody made it to Drugwarts.

Read 'Middle East' first........

Silver-spotted Skipper seen yesterday at Aston Rowant nature reserve. The first time I have ever seen one. #Savebutterflies