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Ukrainian western cities in flames: overnight Russian attack targeted Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/ukrainian-western-cities-in-flames.html

Mass evacuations in flood-hit Punjab hit 300,000 following alerts by India https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/mass-evacuations-in-flood-hit-punjab-hit-300000-following-alerts-by-india/

Mass evacuations in flood-hit Punjab hit 300,000 following alerts by India
SHER SHAH, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say nearly 300,000 people have been evacuated in the past 48 hours from flood-hit areas of eastern Punjab province, bringing the total number displaced since last month to 1.3 million. Authorities on Wednesday were struggling to divert overflowing rivers onto farmlands to protect major cities, as part of one […]

Thousands–Including Many Visitors–Volunteer in Taiwan to Help Flood Victims Following Typhoon https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/thousands-including-visitors-volunteer-in-taiwan-to-help-flood-victims-following-typhoon…

Thousands Including Visitors Volunteer in Taiwan to Help Flood Victims Following Typhoon and Flood
Heading southward in extra trains, the volunteers included two Ukrainian women who had lived in Taiwan for 9 years.

Navigating the herd.
(There were 170 highland cattle, sometimes just a few inches away... quite a few blocking the path with their calves and feeling agitated so we had to navigate/bypass through the talus fields higher up, giving these beauties more space...)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

Für 72 Milliarden US-Dollar: Netflix kauft Warner Bros.
Es ist ein Mega-Deal in der Entertainment-Branche: Netflix will die Filmsparte von Warner Bros. inklusive HBO Max für 72 Milliarden US-Dollar kaufen.
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In melancholy, the spirits are carried away by an agitation, but a weak agitation that lacks power or violence, a sort of impotent upset that follows neither a particular path nor the aperta opercula [open ways], but traverses the cerebral matter constantly creating new pores. Yet the spirits do not wander far on the new paths they create, and their agitation dies down rapidly, as their strength is quickly spent and motion comes to a halt: ‘non longe perveniunt’ [they do not reach far]. A trouble of this nature, common to all delirium, does not have the power to produce on the surface of the body the violent movements or the cries to be observed in mania and frenzy. Melancholy never attains frenzy; it is a madness always at the limits of its own impotence. That paradox is explained by the secret alterations in the spirits. Ordinarily, they travel with the speed and instantaneous transparency of rays of light, but in melancholy they become weighed down with night, becoming ‘obscure, thick and dark’, and the images of things that they bring before consciousness are ‘in a shadow, or covered with darkness’. As a result they move more slowly, and are more like a dark, chemical vapour than pure light. This chemical vapour is acid in nature, rather than sulphurous or alcoholic, for in acid vapours the particles are mobile and incapable of repose, but their activity is weak and without consequence. When they are distilled, all that remains in the still is a kind of insipid phlegm. Acid vapours, therefore, are taken to have the same properties as melancholy, whereas alcoholic vapours, which are always ready to burst into flames, are more related to frenzy, and sulphurous vapours bring on mania, as they are agitated by continuous, violent movement. If the ‘formal reason and causes’ of melancholy were to be sought, it made sense to look for them in the vapours that rose up from the blood to the head, and which had degenerated into ‘an acetous or sharp distillation’. A cursory glance seems to indicate that a melancholy of spirits and a whole chemistry of humours lies behind Willis’ analyses, but in fact his guiding principle mostly reflects the immediate qualities of the melancholic illness: an impotent disorder, and the shadow that comes over the spirit with an acrid acidity that slowly corrodes the heart and the mind. The chemistry of acids is not an explanation of the symptoms, but a qualitative option: a whole phenomenology of melancholic experience.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Late February in my (first) freshman year and I am literally flunking out of the University of Michigan’s Residential College because I hated it so I set up a cot in some high school friends' dorm room across campus and didn’t attend any classes so why not hitchhike to Boulder and back over the week-long winter break. Here we are with our thumbs out, beginning our trip on State St. in front of the Michigan Union.
People, Nebraska is fucking cold in February.

This summer, Mikhail Loshchinin set out for Russia on a motorcycle with German plates, reaching the border in Latvia on July 1.
At the Ubylinka checkpoint on the Russian side, he presented his Russian passport.
According to his mother, Olga, he didn’t use his Belgian passport because of the urgency of the trip and to avoid needing a visa.
Russian border guards examined Loshchinin’s phone and likely discovered his many contacts in Ukraine.
After holding him for several…

Belgian-Russian dual citizen charged with treason after trying to visit father in St. Petersburg following a heart attack
A 48-year-old man with dual Russian and Belgian citizenship has been charged with treason in Russia following an attempt to visit his father, who recently suffered a heart attack. Mikhail Loshchinin’s family is scattered across Europe. He has lived in Germany for the past several years, working as a database administrator in Luxembourg. His mother is in Poland, his father is in St. Petersburg, and his sister is a Ukrainian citizen. Mikhail also has many friends in Ukraine, i…

Konkrete Verhandlungen: Netflix will Warner Bros. kaufen
Gehört HBO Max bald zu Netflix? Der US-Streaming-Dienst und Warner Bros. verhandeln eine Übernahme der Filmsparte.
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"Avatar 3": Exklusiver Filmausschnitt für Meta Quest macht Lust auf VR-Kino
In zwei Wochen startet "Avatar: Fire and Ash" in deutschen Kinos. Auf Meta Quest gibt es vorab eine Filmszene mit tollem 3D-Effekt zu sehen.