My #AltProcess #Kallitype development/printmaking journey is already showing strong parallels to my software dev experience, i.e. a preference for avoiding monolithic frameworks and building more granular, reliable, understandable & controllable tooling myself, and get much better & mor…
Historicus en auteur Jill Lepore: ‘Ik verwacht dit jaar veel politiek geweld in de VS’ - NRC
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/02/07/historicus-en-auteur-jill-lepore-ik-verwacht-dit-jaar-veel-politiek-geweld-in-de-vs-a4919282
Interessante observatie (📸) wat een antwoord geeft op een groot Pro eem wat ik met de Amerikaanse democratie heb.
In het interview wordt de oorzaak landelijk ingevuld. Maar je ziet ook op lokale schaal dat democratie een veel koppig monster ia geworden, wat heel mooi lijkt zolang je er niet mee te maken hebt.
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A long and constructive interview of Gordon Brown on this morning's BBC Today Programme. Even the interviewer, Amol Rajan, managed to limit his customary sneering. Well worth listening to.
Woman in Minnesota fatally shot by ICE agent during raid, video shows (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/07/minneapolis-shooting-immigration-crackdown
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p99#a260107p99
"This is one aspect of what campaigners call “process as punishment”, an approach that now dominates the treatment of protest groups. Even if you are never convicted of a crime, your life is made hell if you dare, visibly and publicly, to dissent." -- @…
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Docs: a Labour thinktank run by a current UK minister hired a PR firm in 2023 to investigate journalists from the Guardian and other outlets to ID their sources (Democracy for Sale)
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusiv…
Guardian faffing around the issue.
The government should clearly overturn Javid's cruel decision to strip this victim of grooming of her citizenship.
But they won't, being on human rights, even worse than the last Tory government.
Ministers cannot go on ignoring the Shamima Begum case, for two important reasons | Shamima Begum | The Guardian
Was man eben so macht am ersten Januar. Ich habe Kaffeebohnen mit Silikon abgeformt. Wenn ich Kaffeeseife mache, dekoriere ich die gerne mit Kaffeebohnen aus Seife. Letztes Mal habe ich sie aus Knetseife von Hand geformt. Das fand ich aber recht mühselig. Heute Abend kann ich mal schauen, ob das mit der Gussform etwas geworden ist.
#SoapMaking
"Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility"
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The UK raises the TV license fee, the BBC's main funding source, from £174.50 to £180 a year from April 1, saying it gives the BBC a "stable financial footing" (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/06/bbc-licence-fee-to-rise-…