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Vergessene Schienen in der Stadt: Zwischen Natur und Nostalgie
Tief verborgen unter einer Decke aus Asphalt, Schmutz und wilder Vegetation, schlummern die stillgelegten Gleise, die einst durch die Werftstraße, den Norder- und Süderhofenden bis zur Husumer Straße das Stadtbild prägten. Für die Einwohner sind sie entweder unsichtbar oder längst zu einem gewohnten Anblick im städtischen Panorama geworden.

Vergessene Schienen in der Stadt: Zwischen Natur und Nostalgie | förde.news
Tief verborgen unter einer Decke aus Asphalt, Schmutz und wilder Vegetation, schlummern die stillgelegten Gleise, die einst durch die Werftstraße, den Norder- und Süderhofenden bis zur Husumer Straße das Stadtbild prägten.

I realized today that when the leader of the Official Opposition and currently most likely next PM of Canada visited my town last week on his "Axe the [Carbon] Tax" tour, he did so by holding a rally at the local aviation business.
That corporation's primary purpse is fighting wildfires made worse by climate change.
Most intentionally tone deaf rally in the history of rallies or a conspiracy of global proportions?
🤦‍♂️ 🔥

Ukrainian consul visits Polish border after reports of protesters blocking buses: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/11/ukrainian-consul-visits.html

Memory, nostalgia, personal
Today I've reached the part of Szczecin that I haven't visited for 15 years or so. I have to say: memory is interesting.
I only had minimal recollections before, some place names I've visited, some associations, maybe a few rough visual memories. Looking at the map helped uncover a bit more but not much.
Today, walking (unknowingly following a similar route), memories returned in bulk. "I've been here before", "I totally forgot about these plane trees", "I remember this fence", "we sat somewhere over there". Even some images returned.
I was hit by nostalgia too. After all, all that was important to me. I was in love, and for the first time in my life everything was going just right. These were the good memories.
So what's the issue? Perhaps it is that it's easier to cherish good memories when the present is good as well, or at least you're convinced that it's going to go in the right direction. Perhaps you need precisely that to avoid perceiving these memories as the good old days that are never coming back.
Or perhaps it's an autism spectrum thing. Perhaps these memories will always represent attachment to a person that's no longer a part of my life. Dreams that didn't come true. Good times that has passed, and that I didn't cherish as much as I wish I would. Memories made together that remain important to me, but not to anyone else. And these memories that I've lost, though they remain present at the edge of conscience, reminding of their existence, but ever unreachable.
#ActuallyAutistic

In Vienna, where I will take the night train to Braşov in Romania. Visited the Albertina Modern museum. Not too large, which is great. Exhibition focusing on diversity. Now having goulash and beer at Cafe Hawelka. Then possibly cake. #Interrail

Newsflash: Traveling internationally makes you more internationally minded.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/12/06/americans-who-have-traveled-internationally-stan…

Americans who have traveled internationally stand out in their views and knowledge of foreign affairs
Roughly three-quarters of Americans (76%) have visited at least one other country, including 26% who have been to five or more.

Alabama harvested the organs of inmates without consent, families say | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/alabama-harvested-the-organs-of-inmates-without-consent-families-say/

“The #geology of Shinkolobwe is described as a freak of nature,” says Tom Zoellner, who visited Shinkolobwe in the course of writing Uranium – War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World. “In no other mine could you see a purer concentration of #uranium. Nothing like it has ever been found.”
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The forgotten mine that built the atomic bomb
The DR Congo’s role in creating the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was kept secret for decades, but the legacy of its involvement is still being felt today.

Two of the white horses carved in the hills of southern England; again from my dad's photos from 1980. The more obvious one is the Westbury horse, from about 1780, while the outline one is the Uffington White horse from somethime between 1380-550 BC.

“The #geology of Shinkolobwe is described as a freak of nature,” says Tom Zoellner, who visited Shinkolobwe in the course of writing Uranium – War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World. “In no other mine could you see a purer concentration of #uranium. Nothing like it has ever been found.”
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The forgotten mine that built the atomic bomb
The DR Congo’s role in creating the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was kept secret for decades, but the legacy of its involvement is still being felt today.