In a sleight of hand you may have missed, Danielle Smith's government just made changes to the industrial carbon tax that seriously undermine the intent of the MOU she just signed with Mark Carney. #ableg #cdnpoli #climate/more See this interview for the details: youtu.be/qSmhI0wALFM?...
Ello sweet and lovely Friendos 
I hope you're all doing well. 😊 I've been awake for a while now, as my body was not allowing me more than 6 hours of sleep. I'm so exhausted and done with thesw terrible muscle pains. 😔
I did some cardio at the gym. Worked on my puzzle a bit. I made today's blog post. And I just uploaded about 30/35 snaps of 🇻🇦 Vatican City to my Flickr account. I need to write my journal Toot in a bit. But first, I'll lay down for a while with my book.
I wish I had more energy... I want to do loads of things bit I just feel so tired. Ugh... 😔
Hope you're all having a good weekend! 
💜 🍀 🐾
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The Rise and Fall of the Second Largest Empire in History by Thomas J. Craughwell, 2010
How Genghis Khan's Mongols Almost Conquered the World
Emerging out of the vast steppe grasslands of Central Asia in the early 1200s, the Mongols, under their ferocious leader, Genghis Khan, quickly carved out an empire that by the late thirteenth century covered almost one-sixth of the Earth's landmass from Eastern Europe to the eastern shore of Asia.
#books
#nonfiction
#history
#empires
#Mongols
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European Empires From Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960 by V.G. Kiernan, 2024
New edition of a trail-blazing history of imperial warfare
Victor Kiernan offers a ground-breaking, truly global history of the violence of empire. European Empires from Conquest to Collapse deftly surveys the fighting forces and military engagements of the Great Powers, from the British in India to the scramble for Africa.
#books
#nonfiction
#history
#empires
#imperialism
#colonialism
Why Empires Fall by John Rapley & Peter Heather, 2023
Rome, America and the Future of the West
What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist, both experts in their field, investigate. Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet.
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#nonfiction
#history
#empires
#imperialism
#colonialism
#AncientRome
#America
Honduras Plunges Into Post-Election Turmoil as Electoral Official Alleges “Monumental Fraud”
José Luis Granados Ceja
Dec 06, 2025
Days removed from Sunday’s presidential vote, and still without a clear winner, Honduras’s post-election crisis became more contentious after a member of the country’s electoral authority denounced “monumental electoral fraud” on Thursday evening.Marlon Ochoa, a representative for the Libre Party on the three-member National Electoral Council (CNE), alleged coordinated and deliberate electoral fraud carried out by the other council members, Cossette Alejandra López-Osorio of the National Party and Ana Paola Hall of the Liberal Party.
Honduras Plunges Into Post-Election Turmoil as Electoral Official Alleges “Monumental Fraud”
A member of Honduras’s electoral authority says deliberate manipulation and internal sabotage compromised the general election vote—complicating a razor-thin race marred by U.S. interference.José Luis Granados Ceja (Drop Site News)
For context:
Libre is a third party that was formed in 2011. They're a coalition of leftist groups, and are democratic socialists.
In 2012 and 2013, at least 18 of their pre-candidates, candidates and staff were murdered.
In 2013, they lost the almost certainly fraudulent presidential election to the right-wing National Party candidate - Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado, the narcotics trafficker who was just pardoned by Trump.
Elon Musk adds to Donald Trump’s widening rift with the European Union, after EU fined his social media platform X
London | Elon Musk has added to strains in trans-Atlantic ties by calling for the European Union to be torn apart after the bloc fined his social mediaBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
A glorious mix of fried vegetables in yoghurt – indeed exquisite, and direct from Istanbul (via #Ottolenghi's #PlentyMore).
Most of the veg are deep-fried*, but don’t let that put you off as it is indeed glorious. It works well with baked, roasted and grilled veg as well.
They are coated in a minty yoghurt dressing and topped with a herb oil.
*They'd be great air-fried instead.
#Food #FromTheKitchen #FromTheArchives #Vegetarian
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FOOTMAN'S MAWND. An artificial sore made with unslaked lime, soap, and the rust of old iron, on the back of a beggar's hand, as if hurt by the bite or kick of a horse.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons
(most) pines not native ... and a bit of a fire hazard, ecological nightmare
Wind farm? Yes please
they are probably going to be harvested anyway so makes sense placing a wind farm there.
The farmer is a hypocrit!
California Gardening: Perfect Potting Mix for Healthy Plant Roots - All For Gardening
You’ll see why peat moss, perlite, decomposed granite, and pumice help aerate roots, speed drainage, and create the exact texture citrus prefers. AGardener (All For Gardening)
You're going to miss
this someday, I
whisper to myself as
I'm shot in the butt
with a nerf gun while
unclogging the toilet.
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.Sarah Betancourt (GBH)
36 years ago today, I lived in Calgary. My daughter was 2, with every bit of potential to do whatever she wanted with her life. My partner was a woman working in a non-traditional job -- one which occasionally found her pissing off some misogynist wingnut. My sister was an engineer.
And these 14 women were students, preparing to do things that would change the world. Until they were murdered by someone who believed they shouldn't be allowed to do that.
Lest we forget.
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Good Morning Tiny Dancers.
A pleasant hour or so having coffee with the BFF at a different cafe coz the usual one is closed (rude). Coffee okay, bit milky.
Am home to do a work. Dad has decided my brother and SIL can have the etchings in the loungeroom that Mum did but I know my brother already has one copy of one of them, so at least I get to keep the horse.
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I have a hidden sketchy book/scrap book with some nice prints in it they can't have.
I hate generative AI with a passion and don’t believe there’s any legitimate use case for it.
The biggest reason for my hate for it though, is that it disillusioned me about the average person’s ability of imagination.
I thought everyone had some sort of imaginary world that they just kept hidden because of insecurities or the world punished them too much for being dreamers.
Generative AI sort of proved to me that even people I thought were intelligent and imaginative were just plain boring and mundane. These AI products are all so so sterile and utterly boring. We even call its output “slop”. Yet people seem captivated by it.
It really shook my faith in humanity.
#AI
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Dust In A Telescope's Eye Could Blind It To Earth 2.0
Hot exozodiacal dust can thwart our efforts to detect exoplanets. It causes what's called coronagraphic leakage, which confuses the light signals from distant stars.Universe Today
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