Julia Klöckner hat angewiesen, dass zur diesjährigen Pride Parade in Berlin keine Regenbogenflagge auf dem Bundestag weht. Nun wurde auch die Teilnahme der Bundesregierung an der Pride zurückgenommen.
Ich sag’s nur, damit am Ende von euch niemand sagen kann, ma hätte ja nichts ahnen können.
16.06.2025 15:33 — 👍 5252 🔁 1685 💬 188 📌 81
Can’t help but feel that we are living in an era of overwhelming anti-intellectualism on every front, with AI being the corporate vanguard of this cultural emptiness.
29.05.2025 22:20 — 👍 585 🔁 144 💬 8 📌 5
I didn't know UCC College Christmas had such a long tradition
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Rule of law being abolished in the name of fighting supposed anti-semitism, chapter 1000.
01.04.2025 20:57 — 👍 40 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 3
In 1922, under the heading "The Scandal of Ulysses", The Sporting Times paper reviewed the complete edition of James Joyce's novel Ulysses just published in Paris.
01.04.2025 12:29 — 👍 37 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 2
Dass in deutsche Talkshows immer noch Menschen sitzen, die behaupten, Trump sei kein Faschist, denn er sei ja von der Mehrheit der Menschen gewählt, ist absoluter Wahnwitz. Was ist denn das für ein Faschismusbegriff?!
22.03.2025 08:54 — 👍 2711 🔁 566 💬 100 📌 21
A quote from Borges' essay 'The Divine Comedy' and the North Sea Poets logo in the right hand corner.
From Jorge Luis Borges’ essay ‘Poetry’ 🌊
#NorthSeaPoets #CommonplaceBook #PoetryCommunity
20.03.2025 19:00 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Ash Wednesday
George Mackay Brown
Remember, man, that thou art dust.
The earl kneels, the ash of the end is written on his brow.
A captain of ships kneels, to be put in mind of a death in a far port, or at home, or on a rock of the sea.
And the boy that holds cinders for the priest,
His forehead is smeared,
Who wears a coat of fourteen Aprils.
The lady of Paplay
Thinks, most mornings, she will live forever; kneeling now
Is touched with the grave-stoor.
The ploughman folds sun-grained hands,
He tilts his face
To the dust drained of warmth and light.
Fisherman, the spindrift
Will wash the ashes from you tomorrow.
Still you remember, between two waves,
St Peter and the fire of his denials.
And the old bishop, ‘I know this,
One God-ground deed or thought
Endures, when the circle of diamond-and-gold on my finger is dust.’
In the kirk of Magnus
Stood a multitude of islanders, death-farers, that day,
Hungry, after, for panis angelicus.
And unto dust thou shalt return.
Remember, man, that thou art dust.
The earl kneels, the ash of the end is written on his brow.
A captain of ships kneels, to be put in mind of a death in a far port, or at home, or on a rock of the sea…
—George Mackay Brown, “Ash Wednesday”
from TRAVELLERS (John Murray, 2013)
#AshWednesday #poem
05.03.2025 12:31 — 👍 57 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 0
Wir sind nicht verdammt. Wir haben es selbst in der Hand.
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