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Exploring, failing, backtracking, just to identify the only viable path forward. And then scarred, stumbling forward into the future. Learning.
Boring and steady. Knowing little and questioning a lot. Mostly harmless.
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This is an experimental scrapbook space. A collection of stuff I want to keep in a form somewhere on the spectrum between a blog and a shoe-box full of scraps, cut-outs, quotes, links and reading notes and sometimes my own silly thoughts about them.
Perhaps it might be of marginal interest to others too, but I don't care that much.
Joined Jan 2021
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It’s okay to walk away from toxicity, regardless of the source.
– Robin Stern, Gaslighting explained
Just caught this in the morning on DLF Kultur while walking the dog. Now listening to the YouTube mix playlist. This band deserves more attention. At least in my musical world…
Faithless: God is a DJ
God is a DJ
– Faithless: God is a DJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ltoAcZrjBw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhSB8EEnCAM
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Number of letters in each European Country in their alphabet.
https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/167046136459/number-of-letters-in-each-european-country-in
Sparks - “This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us”
A timeless classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUJ_ifjKopM&list=OLAK5uy_kIW6QsFaG_m4VfRhE70r9_WU0V69iwZj8&index=2
The aim of parenting is ultimately to be left behind.
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Chef’Special - Afraid Of The Dark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP7CPfj-N98
there’s a monster under my bed and it grows when I forget
Not that I particularly like this style of music, but the piece goes into a collection with All Time Low: Monsters. Both feature storyline around “monsters” in lyrics and in a way are about the same topic.
Worth keeping.
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RT @NickBuckleyMBE
This Bishop is in real danger - she can move in any direction.
Which German party has the best answers to the challenges of the future? - a reflection on the general elections
So we had general elections in Germany. I would say, not much of a (great) surprise (at least not to me), despite all the chatter in media and public. I checked some basic stats at https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2021-09-26-BT-DE/index.shtml and one interesting thing stood out there for me.
The response to the question: Which party has the best answers to the challenges of the future?, FDP scored only 9% of positive responses.
This question is actually a hidden test for people’s perception of how progressive/conservative a party is (has answers to challenges of the future = is future-oriented vs. does not have answers to challenges of the future = is rather backwards looking/status-quo conserving).
No surprise, the Greens are perceived as very progressive (have answers to questions of the future), followed by Socialists and the Christian Democrats. Also not surprisingly, AfD is perceived as a super-conservative party, which is their whole point. But I would not expect FDP to end almost on par with AfD(!) being perceived as so strongly conservative party. After years of trying to look “hip” and young, they are perhaps loosing their mojo? Despite their current relative success in the general elections. Or is it perhaps so that their electorate are young, hip and affluent conservatives? Which would indicate that there are plenty of such in Germany and thus the country is doing quite well overall.
Exploring, failing, backtracking, just to identify the only viable path forward. And then scarred, stumbling forward into the future. Learning.
Boring and steady. Knowing little and questioning a lot. Mostly harmless.
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This is an experimental scrapbook space. A collection of stuff I want to keep in a form somewhere on the spectrum between a blog and a shoe-box full of scraps, cut-outs, quotes, links and reading notes and sometimes my own silly thoughts about them.
Perhaps it might be of marginal interest to others too, but I don't care that much.
Joined Jan 2021
