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Mousterpieces
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Sounds delicious… must check if I can catch a sample here!
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Just looked it up, and wow, that area feels steeped in secrets and strange happenings. Which reminds me that I’m way behind on my favorite weird series on the History Channel… definitely time to catch up!
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Oh dear. Is she irritated by the little wound, perhaps licking or scratching?
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The Appalachian X-files… love the lore. When traveling in Egypt, I met perfectly normal people in contact with blue beings and fuzzy apparitions in the corner of their bedroom.
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Yup. Feline safety protocol 24/7 😉
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Murderers
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Top-tier Caturday spot. Luna knows how to idle in style.
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One bite, and you’ll forget you ever had them.
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Yes, the voices that shaped a certain kind of moral clarity and intellectual depth are disappearing. With each loss, the world feels a bit more adrift. I’m sure every older generation has felt this same ache in its own way, but it doesn’t make it any less poignant when it’s our turn to feel it.
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Arghh! I had successfully suppressed the memory of reading about it years ago.
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It’s wonderful that your bond to the land continues through such dedicated family farmers.
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😥
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Such a timeless and powerful cycle. The rhythm your land keeps under your care is truly grounding.
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Happy 65th, dear Marya! You’ve earned your senior title with wisdom and style. Wishing you a great year ahead, full of grandkids, books, and many, many slices!
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Today is my 65th birthday. I’m officially a senior citizen although I’ve been an old soul all my life. I’m quite comfortable here. The littles were discussing which kind of cake I should have and they each named a favorite. I told them they’re all correct because Nana just loves cake! 🎂🎶❤️
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Thanks K. I think Finland’s approach today is shaped by history and necessity. They‘ve had to understand Russia‘s tactics intimately, and to build smart resilience as a matter of survival. Maybe once America fully reckons with what was done to it, it may choose an all-of-society path as well.
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they build public immunity to it, with education and responsible institutions trusted by the public. So I think the US doesn’t need to restrict speech to fight propaganda, it should invest in media literacy, rebuild trust in institutions, and treat critical thinking as a form of civic defense.
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Other countries are moving in the same direction. Sweden created a national Psychological Defense Agency. The Baltic states fund independent Russian-language media and teach digital civics. The throughline: inoculation works better than reaction. Those countries don’t beat propaganda by banning it,+
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Kids learn how to spot emotional manipulation and false narratives. Teachers are trained with help from journalists, fact-checkers, and government agencies. It’s not just about detecting lies, it’s about cultivating *habits of thought* that make people less susceptible in the first place.+
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Some European gov‘ts have done a good job resisting Russian propaganda, not by playing whack-a-mole with fact-checks, but by building longterm resilience. Finland stands out here, with media literacy taught in schools from a young age and a strategy that treats information defense as a civic duty.+
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Yes, and I really do appreciate how much Biden achieved with a razor-thin majority. But was there ever a serious effort to sell court reform to the public, media, or Congress? (I have a background in issue management and gov‘t relations, and I never saw signs of a coordinated strategy.)
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Yes, Biden ran on traditional governance, but he failed to grasp how much the country had changed, especially after the insurrection. I was naive enough to think, at the start of his term, that he’d create a cabinet-level post to tackle the propaganda wave. I was genuinely puzzled when nothing came.
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Totally agree with your take on the Supreme Court’s infamous role in where we are now. Still, it’s fair to ask if the Biden administration could’ve done more. I remember that early commission on court expansion, term limits, and judicial stripping… an inconclusive report, and then… crickets.
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Agree. I still see such reporting on domestic and EU issues here, and it’s more valuable than ever. But reflections on Trump and the U.S. largely miss the mark. Too much sanewashing, helped by the cultural and language barrier, and remnants of our former admiration for traditional U.S. leadership.
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/2 His hesitations, especially on Ukraine, made America look constrained and fearful. And that indecision echoed here in Germany too — we were never going to go further than the U.S., and that left us all lagging when resolve and vision were most needed.
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I still feel incredibly raw about Biden’s presidency. There was so much goodwill, sincerity, and a genuinely humane vision. He is a fundamentally good person — and that mattered to so many of us after what came before. But that moral clarity didn’t translate into bold, decisive leadership. /2
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Just came across this cautionary tale along those lines.
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And Sophie knows how to tug on mine. 😏
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/2 The propaganda machine metastasized under their watch, destroying brains across the country, and they never quite diagnosed the scale of what was happening.
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I also can’t help thinking about how much of this moment was enabled by the fact that the Biden administration, for all its decency, never managed to hold Trump or his enablers accountable — not in court, not in the media sphere, not in the public imagination. /2
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Our hearts are connected by an invisible bond. In German, I call it our Herzbändchen. 😉
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Thank you for the Caturday vibes! Sophie rolled right into the weekend.
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Odd Musk comment.
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I love your idea of identifying multiple birds in real time, so I looked up the app. While it’s originally for North America, it now also covers birds worldwide. There’s a regional pack, which includes birds of Germany and Lower Saxony… looks like I have a new project. Thanks so much!
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Thanks for sharing these precious moments. I can almost hear the gentle layers of song drifting through your garden. It brings me joy just imagining your morning symphony.
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🙏
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So subtle, I love it. And so very you to pick up on it. ☺️