Everybody wants to make a game about running a small business when what we SHOULD be doing is making a game about running an office of public infrastructure. i don't WANT to spend every day "making money at my cute cozy shop" i want to run a cute cozy POST OFFICE or BUS STATION or WATER TREATMENT PLANT

More than 2,000 schoolchildren from Mariupol in total are expected to attend camps in St. Petersburg this year.

From the very first sessions, children were also taught to develop respect and love for the country that seized their home city.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/06/30/mariupol-children-undergo-pro-russian-indoctrination-at-st-petersburg-wellness-camps-a89602

#Ukraine #Russia

In 1934 the Nazis ended birthright citizen ship in Germany.

Jews, Roma, Black Germans, communists, trade unionists, and others were stripped of citizenship entirely. Their assets stolen and they were rounded up, they were thrown into vans by government agents and disappeared.

Seems familiar somehow. Remind me — what happened next?

Meanwhile, right now, in America….

DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalization-trump-immigration-enforcement

De Europese legers hebben geen financieel probleem. Ze hebben een probleem met samenwerking en efficiëntie. https://www.groene.nl/artikel/de-magische-vijf-procent

Nice to see the Royals involving themselves in climate change chat ahead of COP30, finger wagging at the world about how we should all do more. William saying "But these goals will remain out of reach unless we move from promises to action - grounded in respect, equity, and shared responsibility."

This coming from a family of wealth hoarders who could completely eradicate homelessness in the UK 36 times over and still have nearly a billion pounds left over. They could implement a universal basic income bringing many more minds to the fore to tackle actual problems rather than their own poverty and despair. Refocus the nation from fast food and fast culture into something more sustainable and meaningful. Instead he just makes empty soundbytes so he can look like he cares and is doing something important. Like watching a whole load of people fall to their death, whilst flapping his arms at them in encouragement.

'If we save the sea, we save our world', he says. He owns the fucking sea. The Crown Estate owns the territorial seabed out to 12 nautical miles and around half of the foreshore around England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Why doesn't he do something about it. Instead of appearing on telly to tell other people what to do. Noone cares about anything or anyone. Until the people who can take action do take action, how do they expect others will? William talking about equity and shared responsibility..... does he even understand how that sounds to the rest of the world?

Anyway wooooosaaaaaaah, hurrah! Saturday! Let's get out there and do this! I missed my run this morning due to sleeping, so am going to attempt to go out during the day instead in this unbelievable heat like an idiot. Hooray! Hope you're all fab. Sorry for the moan. Bastards though, all of them. X

#QT https://social.coop/@foolishowl/114762519986061548 this is like, my default state

To whom does a child belong?

That depends on where you’re from.

Do kids in your family belong more to the mother's side or the father's side?

Find out what people across 39 African countries say, in Afrobarometer’s latest survey in this week’s issue of The Continent.

Mijn kijk op slijmen tegen Trump in De Volkskrant vandaag

Groetjes uit Hongarije!

Waar we op bezoek bij de burgemeester van Budapest, óók een andere burgemeester tegenkwamen. 🙌🏽 💜

#budapestpride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Volop Westerse misverstanden over de oorlog in Oekraïne. Bij een gesprek met Anne Applebaum in De Balie. https://chrisaalberts.nl/2025/06/28/volop-westerse-misverstanden-over-de-oorlog-in-oekraine/

Aid is dead. Grandma is not. But taking her pension to build a road might kill her. https://continent.substack.com/p/how-to-fund-african-development-and

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Detox Doodles!

This is a habit of drawing something every time I feel the urge to scroll unnecessarily. It helps stop the bad habit and start a new good habit of sketching daily!

This page is all about ducks, who are just silly!

#art #duck #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #InkArt

Kindergarten children dropped seeds in the crack of the sidewalk to see what would happen

In a world inundated with technology and digital distractions, it’s easy to lose sight of the simplicity and charm of nature.

A recent guerrilla gardening experiment by kindergarten children reminds us of nature’s resilience and its ability to flourish in the most improbable spaces.

The children did an experiment in guerrilla gardening by dropping seeds into sidewalk cracks and observing the results. At first glance, it might have appeared to be a fruitless endeavor – what could possibly […]

https://streetartutopia.com/2025/06/26/kindergarten-children-dropped-seeds-in-the-crack-of-the-sidewalk-to-see-what-would-happen/

Nestled among the mossy rocks of an unnamed moorland, this peculiar geological formation seems almost alive—an uncanny eye carved by time, water, and weather. Though naturally formed, the stone bears a striking resemblance to a reptilian or amphibian eye, complete with a dark central pupil and a ring of mineral-stained coloration radiating outward. The basin, likely shaped by centuries of rain collecting in a shallow depression, becomes a reflective pool that enhances its illusion of sight.

27 June 1925 | A Czech Jew, Martin Wels, was born in Karlovy Vary.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 6 September 1943. He did not survive.

The smaller Fairphone 6 introduces swappable accessories https://www.theverge.com/news/692248/fairphone-6-smartphone-repairable-modular-accessories-murena

Two rainbow flags were sewn for the 1978 Gay Freedom Day parade. Each was 18 metres long. The original flags were lost for years. A fragment of one was rediscovered in 2020, and is now displayed at San Francisco's GLBT Historical Society museum.

The standard demands for a peasant revolt for thousands of years of human history have been: erase all debts, destroy the records of their existence, and redistribute the land. Did you know that when you say "tax the rich" that you're asking for something half-assed and moderate in the grand scheme of history?