Snow protects gardens but trees need help - All For Gardening
Shoveling in single-digit temperatures after the colossal winter storm last weekend, I dumped mounds of snow onto my garden beds, knowing it would protect myGardening (All For Gardening)
China Executes 11 Members of Myanmar Scam Mafia - Slashdot
The BBC reports: China has executed 11 members of a notorious mafia family that ran scam centres in Myanmar along its north-eastern border, state media report.yro.slashdot.org
Some favourites from a recent visit to Museum Belvédère. We especially wanted to go to see the "Always the Sea" exhibition featuring works by Faroese painter Sámal Joensen-Mikines, but there were also some other works that I really liked.
Artists:
1-4: Samal Joensen-Mikines
5: Jan: Altink
6-7: Egbarta Veenhuizen
8-9: Jan Mankes
10: Margriet van Weenen
#Art #Paintings #Exhibition #ArtExhibition #BelvédèreMuseum #MuseumBelvédère #Oranjewoud #Kunst #Schilderijen #SámalJoensenMikines #Faroese
EXO struggles with the musical magnitude of ‘REVERXE’ – El Estoque
Veteran K-pop boy band EXO released its eighth full-length album “REVERXE” on Friday, Jan. 19, marking the ensemble’s return to the public eye as a unit afterBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Peter Tatchell was arrested yesterday at the pro Palestine march for carrying a sign saying "Globalise the Intafada"
#PeterTatchell has said: “The police claimed the word intifada is unlawful. The word intifada is not a crime in law.
“The police are engaged in overreach by making it an arrestable offence.
“This is part of a dangerous trend to increasingly restrict and criminalise peaceful protests.”
reshared this
related: a story on the radio this morning about the banning of posters at Queen Mary University which said “Stop the genocide” and have been deemed ‘antisemitic’.
Discussed from 23:05 in at bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002qrdz… with Dr Yasmin Fedda, a Palestinian, and Professor Anat Pick, an Israeli
Sunday - Church funding, pilates in a mosque, the latest in the ‘quiet revival’ debate - BBC Sounds
A look at the ethical and religious issues of the weekBBC
I have transcribed the initial exchanges with Anat Pick, from ‘Sunday’, BBC Radio 4, 1 February 2026, from 23m:33s to 26:50.
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002qrdz
The segment also includes exchanges with Yasmin Fedda, a statement from Queen Mary University, and continues for another 3-and-a-half minutes.
Sunday - Church funding, pilates in a mosque, the latest in the ‘quiet revival’ debate - BBC Sounds
A look at the ethical and religious issues of the weekBBC
The University’s angle is apparently a zero tolerance approach to ‘permanent’ political statements in order to “ensure that individuals are not discouraged from expressing themselves freely within the law”.
They took a similar position in Feb 2024 my.qmul.ac.uk/media/myqmul/Sta… [pdf]
Quite how expressing oneself factually through a poster is deemed ‘permanent’ and unacceptable but allowing an author to express similar sentiments *on their own organisational website* is not ‘permanent’, is beyond me
qmucu.org/2024/03/01/qmvoices-…
QMVoices: From the River to the Sea: a Cry for Freedom and Equality
Context and clarification for the slogan ‘From the River to the Sea’.qmucu.org
Il volto di #Meloni su un #angelo in una basilica romana.
Monsignor Daniele Micheletti, Rettore del Pantheon e della Basilica di San Lorenzo in Lucina: "Anche Caravaggio per dipingere le sue Madonne e Giotto negli affreschi della Cappella degli Scrovegni si ispiravano a personalità del loro tempo e gente del popolo, inclusi prostitute e committenti"
Fonte lastampa.it/politica/2026/01/3…
Il volto di Meloni su un angelo in una basilica romana. La premier ironizza, imbarazzo in Vicariato
Un decoratore volontario ha riprodotto le fattezze della premier durante i restauri del monumento a Umberto II di Savoia nella basilica romana di San Lorenzo i…La Stampa
Danke Sabine Maur für diese wichtige Rede.
Die Verfolgung transgeschlechtlicher Menschen endete nicht 1945.
Zwischen NS‑Ideologie und bundesdeutscher Gesetzgebung bestehen erschreckende Kontinuitäten: medizinische Pathologisierung, staatliche Kontrolle über Körper, Zwangssterilisationen, Zwangsscheidungen und jahrzehntelange institutionelle Diskriminierung.
Erst 2011 fiel der Sterilisationszwang. Erst 2024 endete die Pflicht zur Zwangsbegutachtung. Die heutige transfeindliche
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#lgbtq
A declassified FBI memo released on 30 January states that US President Donald Trump was “compromised by Israel,” that Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad agent, and that a Jewish religious movement, Chabad Lubavitch, had coopted Trump’s presidency.
The FBI memo was written in 2020 as part of an investigation into improper domestic or foreign influence over the US electoral process.
thecradle.co/articles/fbi-memo…
🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
FBI memo concludes Trump 'compromised' by Israel, new Epstein Files show
The memo alleges that the Chabad Lubavitch movement sought to 'coopt' Trump and that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was the 'real brains' behind the presidencythecradle.co
english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/…
madamasr.com/en/2026/02/03/new…
Only 12 Palestinians permitted to return to Gaza Strip since Rafah crossing opened | Mada Masr
Sabah al-Raqab is one of only 12 Palestinians who have been able to return to the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing since its partial reopening on Monday. She left Arish in the morning with a group of about 50 people.Nadia Salem (Mada Masr)
Three takeaways from Elche 1-3 Barcelona
Barcelona dominated, but did not demolish Elche last night at Estadio Martinez Valero last night when they faced off on Matchday 22 of La Liga.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Damit sich auch andere Tier- und Pflanzenarten wieder in den Walderalmteichen wohlfühlen können, müssen die Teiche jedes Jahr gereinigt werden. Bei der Aktion werden die Algen und Wasserlinsen mit Keschern aus den Teichen gefischt und beiseite geschafft.
Was wird dadurch bewirkt?
Durch die Reinigung der Teiche können wir den Lebensraum zahlreicher Pflanzen und Tierarten erhalten.
karwendel.org/biotoppflege-wal…
#karwendel #naturparkkarwendel #alpen #naturschutz
Biotoppflege Walderalmteiche (leider ausgebucht)
Durch die Biotoppflege der Walderalmteiche können wir den Lebensraum zahlreicher Pflanzen und Tierarten erhalten und so Bergmolche, verschiedene Libellenarten und zahlreiche andere Teichbewohner fördern.Marina Hausberger (Naturpark Karwendel)
Der 🦫 ist im #BergischenLand angekommen.
In #Radevormwald gibt es eine etablierte Kolonie. Am
Waldbrölbach arbeiten sie sich grade stromaufwärts nach Osten.
Die Effekte für die Biologische Diversität sind dramatisch (gut).
Quelle: Biertringen mit den lokalen Berufsnaturschützern.
Israeli forces wounded two Palestinian children during a raid on a refugee camp near Ramallah late Saturday, amid a series of separate attacks by illegal Israeli settlers on Palestinian property across the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian sources.
WAFA said Israeli troops stormed Jalazone refugee camp north of Ramallah, sparking confrontations with residents during which soldiers fired live ammunition.
aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/pales…
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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
Palestinian children injured in Israeli raids, as illegal settlers step up attacks in West Bank
Army fire injures teens near Ramallah while illegal Israeli settlers target homes and livestock in separate incidents - Anadolu Ajansıwww.aa.com.tr
I was born in London & lived there for 35 years... but when I moved out, first to the South West & now after moving for work, retired in the North West, it became increasingly clear that our country's cultural class think pretty much everything happens in London (if one goes by the reviews - from restaurants to art museums - or featured events).
Certainly there is some (grudging, spasmodic) coverage of the regions but our cultural class seem to find crossing the M25 quite difficult!
i want a bumpersticker that says “i’d rather be asleep and dreaming”
or “my other car is me asleep and dreaming”
or “i don’t care about your honor student, i only care about being asleep and dreaming”
U.S. health care — it’s déjà vu all over again — Close to Home
It was 23 years ago when my late husband, Dr. John Shearer, published a Close to Home column in The Press Democrat advocating a single-payer national healthBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Israeli forces conducted a raid in the West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday, Jan. 31, utilizing heavy machinery to block streets, Anadolu reports.
The report said Israel has intensified attacks in the West Bank during two years of genocide in the Gaza Strip, with assaults continuing in the form of killings, destruction, displacement and settlement expansion.
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