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sandra_*_peters@meemsu.bsky.social |
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... Arch villanelle. Landlocked in southern Germany via California & places Canada. Je suis bilingue. Soon to somewhere Dublin. …
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sandra_*_peters
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All the SCOTUS non-anglo-non-Protestant, non-propertied, non-male justices basically slammed the door behind their ‘DEI ticket’ and going forward, in a real originalism concept of the US would be removed from the bench. Can’t see how expanding the court would resolve corruption 2/2
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sandra_*_peters
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I think it’s naive to frame the SCOTUS immunity decision as anything less than *every* presidential official act is above the law. That electing a Democrat potus forever is the solution. One-party unpopular government of any kind goes against majority rule and plurality, aka multiculturalism EDI 1/2
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southpaw
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Chief Justice Roberts decrees the end of DOJ independence in an offhanded sentence on page 20.
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Mitchell Epner
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It is worse than that. Today's Trump immunity decision does not even try to ground itself in the text of the Constitution. If it had, the Impeachment Clause made clear that the Framers believed a President *could* be criminally prosecuted after he left office. They're engaged in pure partisanship.
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sandra_*_peters
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Will bottom up media even be allowed to publish openly under an anti-democratic regime? I’ve noticed foreign media asks questions & publishes what local media cannot, in a few countries where I’ve lived.
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sandra_*_peters
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No idea what the meanings of the latest SCOTUS immunity ruling are. I’m just reminded my dad once told a young me the US is a weird place bec any idiot can own a gun & border officers could deny entry to POTUS if they wanted to. He died this Jan, so I can’t ask him what he now would think.
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sandra_*_peters
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The checks and balances of the US system does not at all track onto the Canadian constitutional monarchy, where the PM isn’t directly elected by voters, King Charles has no power in Canada and his representative has to prorogue a duly elected government when requested by the Canadian PM.
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Teko
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For those keeping track at home, in the past week, SCOTUS has ruled: • Government bribes are legal as long as they're received *afterwards*. • The courts and SCOTUS now oversee all federal agency power, not the president • The president has absolute immunity for "official acts"
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sandra_*_peters
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That sounds like Bavaria where local police who came to sort a parking lot fender bender weren’t wearing badges/IDs. I asked for their ID for my records & why no badge. He said they don’t want ‘someone’ coming to their houses. I clarified, yes, someone equals ‘antifa’.
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sandra_*_peters
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This person captures the entire experience ascholarlyskater.com/2024/06/24/t...
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sandra_*_peters
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As milking any cash cow would be. Permission to keep making money from the Book of Kells once its home is closed for restoration was an easy call, I guess.
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sandra_*_peters
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Isn't that a temporary structure?
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sandra_*_peters
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Without those uppity servants and commodities, management wouldn’t exist. Neither would AI and its potential to automate the excess out of managerial hubris :/)
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sandra_*_peters
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German journalists seem to more easily hold foreign powers to account. On domestic issues, they seem to rely on (partnering with) foreign outlets to expose corruption.
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Popehat
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When I saw Biden at a fundraiser early this month, he sounded tired and a bit feeble, particularly contrasted with Obama talking right next to him. But the choice between enfeebled and a narcissistic sociopath surrounded by younger narcissistic sociopaths is not even a little difficult.
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sandra_*_peters
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AI could solve the overpaid regular staff problem, by automating much of their work. Then we could get back to the core education function and pay faculty staff better.
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sandra_*_peters
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I think my point is the GOP, Heritage + Originalist crowd are reverting to family/private property concepts of liberty that resembles what is in the link I posted above. Revolutionary America didn’t invent a new political world as much as it seized the right to not be taxed without representation.
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sandra_*_peters
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I was focused more on the narrow legal meaning of liberty, which loops to the idea that only those with private property could participate in something resembling democracy. Which might relate to concepts of freedom, but I’m not a scholar of 1600s England when these ideas were hotly debated.
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sandra_*_peters
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‘Liberty’ is an interesting term, not a synonym for freedom I thought it was and if we’re living in an ‘originalist’ theorizing context, it’s something to add to add to all this critical thinking www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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sandra_*_peters
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The hostile takeover of the GOP by the son of an immigrant & his anti-immigrant new-monied elitism is anti-American irony at its best. But we don’t live in literary fiction. We are subject to political realities, and all the reactionary anti-democratic oppression that comes if Trump presidency 2.0
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sandra_*_peters
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Emergency preparedness is a better use of time open.substack.com/pub/thomaszi...
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sandra_*_peters
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(They’re not; it’s a pro-China + by extension Russia profiteering stance, but imagine how much less hate crimes the EU would experience if they were. I just wanted to try the sleaze of spin & disinformation.) Quote from recent Politico China Direct newsletter 2/2
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sandra_*_peters
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Catching up on newsletter reading. Hungary is pro-open borders! 1/2 “It’s something important to avoid that Europe is closing the doors, we need to keep the doors open,” Bálint Ódor, Hungary’s ambassador to the EU.
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sandra_*_peters
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Good timing, I’ve been wanting to see this. It’s not available in my region yet but Dublin’s calling us next week :)
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Bluesky Safety
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We also have two safety tooling improvements rolling out now in the latest release (1.87):
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kottke.org
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The White Death. John Green teamed up with Kurzgesagt to talk about tuberculosis. “In the last 200 years it killed a billion people — way more than all wars and natural disasters combined.” [kottke.org]
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sandra_*_peters
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Late night discussion about why former east Berlin neighbourhoods have greater Covid denial & less testing than former West Berlin + migrant background areas. Covid in wastewater similar across the city & higher than this time last year. So much for once having a DDR physicist-trained chancellor.
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sandra_*_peters
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Ford’s responsible for JBS??
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sandra_*_peters
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This is a fascinating discussion. Have you heard Jordan Peele say he finds the difference between the two is the music? screencraft.org/blog/you-sla...
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sandra_*_peters
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Agree. We're going through another bout of covid thanks to a conference where not going affects career, but the brain/cognitive effects of having, ignoring covid is disturbing, especially in the academic 'smartest people in the room' spaces I inhabit.
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sandra_*_peters
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Good to know. I relocated to Bavaria in 2020 so I only know it from a covid pov. People can seem frantic or tightly wound, and I do wonder if life pre-covid I don't understand makes some behave like they've lost their minds now.
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sandra_*_peters
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No idea. Calgary can be odd, in that on residential streets, if you stand close to the road & look like you might want to jaywalk, a car is likely to stop for you to cross. I don't know if it's bec they think you'll throw yourself in their way for an injury claim.
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sandra_*_peters
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Out-of-lane oncoming city traffic?!! Good thing only your tire and wallet were hurt. Happened to me once, in Toronto. In Calgary, after some time stuck in traffic the car in front reversed into me.
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sandra_*_peters
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Cataloguing, culling, packing books. This one made me pause and wonder why any in the new voting generation chooses or rewards oppression and cruelty. Info in ALT
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sandra_*_peters
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His is the inauthentic party that came in second in MEP elections. He grew up in west Germany and by parochial standards is considered a foreigner the former east Germany welcomed once he relocated and settled in reviving pride in Nazis.
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sandra_*_peters
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“Everything for Germany” was the slogan once engraved on the knives of Nazi storm troopers. By reviving such phrases, Mr. Höcke’s opponents say, he has sought to make fascist ideas more acceptable in a society where such expressions are not only taboo, but illegal.”
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sandra_*_peters
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Looking forward to the first Parliamentary Visual Artist Laureate announcement.
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sandra_*_peters
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Altho many just look to the Ford brothers of Ontario and momentarily rage against that cartel. Or are we still calling such corruption dynasty? Mafia?
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sandra_*_peters
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Yes, royal assent. Like Spain, Norway, Denmark, but with the luxury of having the monarch on the other side of an ocean and the presence of mind when looking south to ask, wtf?
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sandra_*_peters
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Bill to establish March 11 in Canada as Pandemic Observance Day is one of the bills to receive royal assent before the House adjourned for the summer. It’s the right thing to do. Many died or were disabled, as hard as that might be to face if living with survivor bias, or contrarian agitprop.
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sandra_*_peters
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I’m at the point in my European living experiences where I have to ask can ethnonationalist first countries ever be considered welcoming to newcomers, and why don’t more Europeans care about stopping Russia’s crusade in its biggest land war in Europe since 1945?
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sandra_*_peters
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These 3 have done everything anyone could to integrate & each been here over a decade. I’ve listened to enough of the episodes to know they are fairly even-handed in their comments.
It’s clear things aren’t improving in Germany & it’s not the fault of foreigners.
40percentgerman.com/decades-from...
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sandra_*_peters
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I was just thinking about the spelling in Siobhán McElduff's example and what you provided ... Seeing both examples, I got a sense of the ballad's meaning but also a sense of how it kind of was pronounced.
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sandra_*_peters
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Adding that corpas to my toolbox. For medieval-early modern research I spent a lot of time at dil.ie
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sandra_*_peters
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Pleasure!
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sandra_*_peters
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I expect any of them would respond to an email cry for help :)
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sandra_*_peters
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Drs Dr Ken Ó Donnchú, Aidan Doyle or Sorcha Mairead Nic Lochlainn at UCC might be able to help. They work in translation, linguistics, poetry in Gaelic. Aidan teaches 'The Social and Cultural History of the Irish Language, 1200-2000'.
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sandra_*_peters
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Pre-relocation research, poking around smartdublin.ie, its data sets, looking for pollution (I found a 2011 noise dataset). Not even the D8 health-focused smart district has data or initiatives re air pollution x health. This is perplexing. We have no choice but to breathe smartd8.ie
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sandra_*_peters
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If you haven't, do read some Katie Hale, she has a new novel coming out July 4 (halekatie.com), she is an all round generous person, and her poetic sensibility has to this 'new worlder' an authentic transatlantic appeal, e.g., www.palettepoetry.com/2021/11/10/t...
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sandra_*_peters
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When I travel, I make a point to visit the central library (what others might call their main city public library). This remains my absolute favourite youtu.be/nm-dD2tx6bk?...
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