In meiner Nachbarschaft wurde vor rund acht Wochen eine Verkehrsinsel umgestaltet und im Zuge dessen auch ein neues Schild aufgestellt wo vorher keines war. Soeben hat es zum fünften mal jemand umgefahren.

The Alchemist who has Achieved Illumination. From the alchemical manuscript Clavis Artis, a work pseudo‑attributed to Zoroaster. Date: late 17th–early 18th century (this copy c. 1738 AD). Medium: watercolor illustration in a manuscript on paper. Collection: Biblioteca

Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩 The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse! This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology

Am 4. Dezember erhält Sophie von der Tann den Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis – eine der wichtigsten Auszeichnungen im deutschen Journalismus. In meinem neuen Video stelle ich die Frage: Wird hier wirklich kritische Berichterstattung geehrt – oder einseitiges Framing zum

'He has a point, but he's too blunt.' From the start, a key tactic of the gender identitarians has been linguistic prescription, and it's proved shockingly successful. Trans activists' shibboleths and euphemisms have been allowed to penetrate the upper echelons of our culture

Mein Artikel in der FAZ Mit keiner Seite gemein? Warum Sophie von der Tanns Beiträge zu Nahost nicht preiswürdig sind Von Esther Schapira zeitung.faz.net/data/551/reade…

🚨🚨Breaking: Internal documents reveal Hamas infiltration of top international NGOs. In internal Hamas documents published by NGO Monitor, Hamas officials describe assigning “guarantors,” who act as formal liaisons between Hamas and major NGOs such as Doctors Without Borders,

This should be front page news in every country in the West. Absolutely incendiary revelations. It won’t be.

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ℹ️ Sophie von der Tann: Selbstversicherung einer Branche Medienversagen: Worum es bei dem Streit um die Korrespondentin eigentlich geht. ▶️ Per Mail an alle Abonnenten. Ohne Bezahlschranke. steady.page/de/u-m/posts/8…

Out now: Oliver Vollbrecht Theoretiker has written about Islamism and Queer Activism as the two sides of the same hyper-sexed coin. And quoted Horkheimer and Marcuse while at it. cafeamericainmag.com/hyper-sex-isla…

A Palestinian artist who praised the October 7 massacre has been selected to decorate Norway’s new Government Quarter. The last one was blown up in a terror attack on 22 July 2011. The circle is complete: destroyed by a terrorist, now adorned by someone who glorifies terror.

Yay!

Ich möchte das mal zusammenfassen, nicht nur, weil die Wahl der aktuellen Bundesregierung ja nicht besonders lange her ist und weil mich dieser kurze Post von Lilly wirklich aufwühlt. Warum? Weil die offenbar in Wahrheit gar nicht existierende Welt, in der ich zu

„Denn Kritik wird zwar formal bearbeitet, doch das Ergebnis steht oft längst fest. Oder schlimmer noch: Kritik wird gar nicht erst ernst genommen, sondern schlicht abgetan. Might makes right.“ cicero.de/kultur/hanns-j…

snowball fight, italy, ca. 1400

Tomorrow, and tomorrow -- Ian McKellen analyzes Macbeth speech (1979) youtu.be/zGbZCgHQ9m8?si… via YouTube If you care at all about Shakespeare watch this superlative master class and deep analysis by the phenomenal McKellen - great teacher as well as actor

'Japanese Lanterns.' (1930) During the interwar years, Eric Slater borrowed motifs from the Ukiyo-e masters of woodblock printing Hokusai and Hiroshige, and finessed them for his own means; the final flowering of a tradition of British printmaking until a revival in the 1980s.

This small carving of a water bird was created 33,000 years ago and was found in the Hohle Fels cave in Germany.

'Girl in a black headscarf.' In the 1870s, Wilhelm Leibl moved to the Bavarian countryside to paint villagers as he saw them, work that was greatly admired by Gustave Courbet. 'I paint human beings as they are, so the soul is there.'