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RE: #Boycott or economic blackout, #GeneralStrike, and #TaxStrike are escalations. Get in the streets and stay there. This is like a bouncer putting someone's arm behind their back and moving them.
Sometimes people try to slip out of that and fight back. Imagine if a bouncer just let themself get pummeled because they weren't ready, even after the belligerent asshole telegraphed it. A lot of bouncers take martial arts, not because they use it as a first response but because they want to be ready for those edge cases.
Armed revolution is like a bouncer getting down to brawl and calling in their buddy with the zip ties and bear mace. It's not something anyone starts with, or anyone wants to escalate to, but some people can't take a hint and are incapable of doing what's best for everyone.
Always know your next step (even if you hope you don't have to take it).
Imagine if a bouncer was just like, "oh, I asked him nicely but he told me to fuck off. I guess the creep who's punching random people and pissing in the corner runs the bar now."

Preparem-se para novas crises financeiras parecidas com a do subprime, que estes idiotas não aprenderam rigorosamente nada.
https://expresso.pt/economia/sistema-bancario/2026-07-17-maria-luis-albuquerque-prep…

The Architecture of Abandonment: What the Billionaire Bunker Tells Us About the Coming Century
There's an old saying in the theatre that if you see a gun in the first act, it will be fired in the third act. We are seeing the same drama play out in our real lives as the Billionaire Oligarchs of the world load their Doomsday bunkers in the act one, and we, the unwashed and unknown, prepare for its firing in act three.

The Architecture of Abandonment: What the Billionaire Bunker Tells Us About the Coming Century | David Boles, Blogs
There’s an old saying in the theatre that if you see a gun in the first act, it will be fired in the third act. We are seeing the same drama play out in our real lives as the Billionaire Olig…

Push-Benachrichtigungen sollen elektronische Patientenakte attraktiver machen
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Push-Benachrichtigungen sollen elektronische Patientenakte attraktiver machen
Die elektronische Patientenakte erhält neue Funktionen. Versicherte können sich künftig per Push-Nachricht über Aktivitäten in ihrer Akte informieren lassen.

Looking forward to this tonight at ANU. Daughter is hoping to finish work in time to meet me there. She's having a bonkers week so it could be a bit iffy.
But as it's her birthday this week and Mothers' Day on Sunday, we'll find time on the weekend to eat, drink, and be merry nonetheless.
Meet the author - Antoinette Lattouf | Australian National University

Meet the author - Antoinette Lattouf
Journalist and human rights advocate , Antoinette Lattouf, will be in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on her new book Women Who Win. Celebrating Courage, Conviction and Change, a gripping journey through women who defied expectations and shattered cultural and legal barriers – usually while being cast aside and asked to calm down.

This November, California voters will weigh what could become America’s first-ever tax on net worth.
The Billionaire Tax Act,
a ballot initiative put forth by health workers after Donald Trump blew holes in the state Medicaid budget,
would impose a one-time tax of 5 percent on personal wealth exceeding $1 billion.
With polls indicating majority support,
tech oligarchs have threatened an exodus
and crafted competing measures,
bankrolling them to the…

How to tax a billionaire
America's oligarchs guard their hoards jealously—but there may be a way in.

Today I found out - from The Rest Is Entertainment - that Suede were touring the USA with The Cranberries as their support act when the single Linger was released, and it was such a hit that they had to swap billing with Suede relegated to the support slot.

I've finished reading Simon Winder's "#Germania" a while ago, but I've been slacking with the review. This is a book about the history of #Germany, in the wide meaning of word. However, it's not your boring detailed history book. The author takes us on a deeply personal journey across German landscape, across tiny towns and great forests, Schlosses, churches and monuments, and uses that as a context to bring the country's surprisingly interesting history to light. And honestly, it works — it is deeply enjoyable, to the point of making me wonder if one day I should actually move to Germany, get a Bahncard 100 and start exploring myself.
I didn't quote the book here, but if I were to choose one quote that really resonated with me, it would be:
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Solitary tourism is something that everybody should indulge in. Of course it is a fraudulent solitude because its enjoyment comes from its limited duration and having a cheerful, only very temporarily abandoned main base area. […] And then, suddenly, I am in Vienna, standing in the shadow of a monstrous, derelict flak tower, and completely alone. The virtue of solitary tourism is its infinite ability to absorb boredom. I often find myself almost crippled with anxiety that the companion or companions on a journey might be finding everything wholly without interest, would rather be eating somewhere else, are secretly angry that we have wound up walking down this street rather than that, are contemptuous of my own interests. Solitary tourism cauterizes all this: if a museum is boring beyond all measure there is no pressure to feign interest, you just leave. I am perfectly happy, in a zoned-out way, to crisscross a town, walking for hours, just for the off-chance something curious might be round the next corner – indeed in the confidence that there will always be something curious (there always is). But for each street, each bar, each folklore museum to be converted into an inter-human negotiation creates an entirely different dynamic.
[…]
Quite possibly the pleasure of this way of life would be much reduced in some other countries, particularly more insistently gregarious places such as Italy. German culture puts a high value on temporary solitude of a stagey kind. Perhaps this is its great gift. In some moods I think there is no need to do anything other than read German writers from the first half of the nineteenth century – a sort of inexhaustible storehouse of attitudes flattering to those who just like sometimes to be left alone. Everyone must have at least a part of them that wants to live in a stairless, doorless tower as a sort of intellectual Rapunzel, setting aside, at least in part, the complicated sexual frisson laid out by such an idea. Germany really is thick with ivy-covered turrets and the promise of solitude (Kepler staring at the planets above Prague, Faust conjuring demons) – the great majority presumably built in the nineteenth century in response to the whole literature devoted to the subject. There is one turret in Lübeck, built onto a city guard tower of just outrageous fakeness, which would do me for life.
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(Simon Winder, Germania)
And if you follow me, you have evidence that the part about crisscrossing towns is so true: the best things I've posted here I found by complete accident, especially the murals.
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