It is often said that you can't do good journalism when space is extremely limited and time is pressing. Yes, you can.
Source: the Guardian Live-Stream: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/20/president-trump-inauguration-swearing-in-timing-schedule-live-updates?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-678e8df68f08cc962d775391#block-678e8df68f08cc962d775391
[#]journalism #media #DemocracyMatters
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The #Guardian has a #factcheck for the felon's #speech: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/20/president-trump-inauguration-swearing-in-timing-schedule-live-updates
[#]InaugurationDay #democracyMatters #resist #USpol
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"The Treasury Department released the Monthly Treasury Statement for December, showing the United States borrowed $2.0 trillion in calendar year 2024, $711 billion in the first three months of fiscal year 2025, and $87 billion in December."
Keep that in mind when doing some maths: https://americansfortaxfairness.org/musks-11-billion-tax-bill-big-news-just-10-wealth-increase-far-year/ (article of 2021, still symptomatic)
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Perhaps today would be a chance to start with some historical reading? For example, how the Americans worked in Denazification after 1945? Or do we start earlier, with the huge treasure trove of all the Resistance documents against the Nazis, whether openly or underground? You find a lot of international items ... in the USA: https://www.loc.gov/
[#]LearningFromHistory #DemocracyMatters #Resist #USA #histodon #Resistance
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I am now doing something completely unbelievable, unruly and conspiratorial. I'm switching off social media and my mobile phone and meeting up with friends in a completely analogue way, without data collection and without filming our lunch.
Have a wonderful Sunday, Monday will be bad enough! 😎
[#]SocialMedia
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It's so cold in winter that Mr Orange is afraid of freezing his ass off. Meanwhile, burning locusts are falling from the sky, sorry, it's raining nasty toxic space junk.
And the moral of the story: Beware of toxic losers gaining power, indulging a cult of ash shower.
[#]realityFiction #miniSoap #fairyTaleForAdults #resist #saveDemocracy
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub Day 17: What are your biggest fears for the writing world in 2025?
I fear that #reality could overwhelm us with the most abstruse, surreal, sick, and evil plots of politics and society, the likes of which I can't even imagine in my nightmares. I fear that the reality of the news could feel like such a weird parallel universe that writing fiction would become impossible for me.
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The price per bottle for the cheapest #oliveOil (store brand) has broken through the barrier of 10 E today. Plus huge increases for electricity and supplementary health insurance. The oil is only one example of very bad surprises I had while shopping today. What was once normal food for everyone is becoming a luxury.
Bear in mind that olive oil was the most common and widely used oil in France
https://www.e.leclerc/fp/huile-d-olive-vierge-extra-1l-rustica-3564700001042?srsltid=AfmBOop394zXEvlKONkoqsc2mGcMpVUAAuw5Q8WJDVEEh1x1G275jny3
[#]inflation #CostOfLiving #France #PriceIncrease
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Reality feels more and more like a false parallel universe. I've just realised how serious it is. I was scrolling through my stream rather inattentively and saw this photo: https://mastodon.online/@libe@amicale.net/113843328276658089
My first thought: This is not live footage from yesterday's vote of no confidence, is it? It took me some moments to identify it as a theatre scene of Julius Caesar.
It shocks me that the most unimaginable images become imaginable.
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If this photo makes you smile: https://mastodon.online/@eclectech@things.uk/113820353525225768 - following @eclectech is an absolute must!
[#]FollowFriday #follow #NaturePhotography #scribbles #moodboost #FeelGood #naturelovers #smile
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France: SMIC horaire pour artistes en 2025: 11,88 Euro.
Minimum hourly wage for artists in 2025: 11,88 Euro.
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To this day, colleagues make fun of Suzanne Simard's research into #fungus #tree relationships. As an advocate of #SciComm, she has also 'dared' to write a book in generally understandable imagery. The ideas of the #WoodWideWeb are often ridiculed.
Other scientists do research instead of laughing: They found #RNA molecules as possible 'language' of #soil #fungi ▶️ https://mastodon.online/@botanyone@botany.social/113837219906689097 by @botanyone
[#]mycorrhiza #soilLife #biology #trees #plants #botany #ecology #sporespondence
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Das ist mir jetzt zum ersten Mal passiert: Ich hab ein deutschsprachiges Posting nicht verstanden. Es hagelte nicht nur von Slang, weil da Zeug 'recoverbar' oder 'breechbar' war, sondern auch vor allem von #Anglizismen, die garantiert was anderes heißen sollten als die Wörter im Englischen bedeuten.
Could you write only in English please? Oder Finnisch. Dann könnt ich die Maschinenübersetzung anklicken. 🤣 Yours truly, e Multisprachschwätzerle im Hilflos-Mindset. 🤭
[#]Sprachen #Vokabeln
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Decentralised: I could handle a #blog and #newsletter on my website with Wordpress. But I can't get comfortable with WP for quick writing.
Is there a good, EU-based simple solution like #Substack (publish+community+paid content) with a free basic program? Without a bunch of tech stuff? What I found so far always had a snag somewhere. Any tips? (No US-forms please, you know why!) @writers
[#]blogging #writerCommunity #publishing #blogger
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Can you hear the ice giggling? It parties wildly at night with stones and rocks and hugs the tarmac.
And then you can hear it everywhere: when the big Twolegs lurch and stagger, when they scream and squeal as they pick up speed.
"World domination for rocks", giggles the ice. "Homo sapiens can't even walk properly! The world is ours!", whisper the stones and the tarmac. If you are completely still, you can feel their vibrations. 🤫
[#]ice #winter #anthropocentismSucks #microfiction #moreThanHuman
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I was up too early in the morning ...
[#]fullmoon #moon #WolfMoon #morningSky
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They cut on #HumanRights, delete #DEI + climate.
"All the major Wall Street banks and several big money managers have quit industry groups that seek to use their financial clout to cut carbon emissions."
This article names it "conservative/MAGA": https://archive.ph/trana but in historical comparison, it is anticipatory obedience to fascist ideologies. An extremist regression. Don't forget the official EU motto: Unity in diversity!
[#]diversity #equity #inclusion #corporate #climateCrisis #TESCREAL
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🧵 My car has made itself cozy on the back of a large trailer and is being taken into town. I have a cup of coping-coffee. :blobcatcoffee:
Did I mention that the Cremant I wanted to toast the New Year with had been undrinkable? It had tipped over during fermentation. NO, this is not an omen for the year 2025! Neither for Mondays! No no no! 🧙
In 10 min I can phone what happened, if they have a battery and when I can get my car back ... edit: well, tomorrow morning. It was indeed the battery.
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🧵 Just for me some waiting music. 😁 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kobdb37Cwc
[#]MondayMotivation #Ommm
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🧵 The problem isn't Fri the 13th,it's Monday the 13th. 🤫 I'm waiting for the mechanic from the city because my car has stopped every talk. Just before a super important appointment that I've been waiting half a month for.
No, the evil battery didn't warn me before. No, we don't have the luxury of public transport. No, I can't do a 40 km cycle race over the mountain pass with a yodelling sciatic nerve. BTW there comes something bad from the mountains - weather. 🥶
[#]MondayMood #IDontLikeMondays
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