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Dovekie aka Little Auk (Alle alle), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, Iceland
Photograph by Christophe Moning
I am so pleased to report that in addition to being absolutely shaped, these guys are also very, very sized.
love it when people in the shut the fuck up train compartment actually do. shut the fuck up.
Leute, zu den Lehren aus der US-Wahl gehört auch, dass beim Wählen Strategie über Ideologie stehen muss. Das ist euch hoffentlich klar.
Für uns bedeutet das: Bei der nächsten Wahl machen wir unsere Kreuzchen bei der SPD. Ohne wenn und aber.
Damit die nächste Regierung einigermaßen vernünftig wird, brauchen wir eine starke SPD-Fraktion. Von den momentan wahrscheinlichen Konstellationen ist die GroKo noch das erträglichste, aber selbst für die GroKo könnte es mit den Mehrheiten schwierig werden. Von Dingen wie Rotgrün oder gar R2G können wir derzeit höchstens nachts träumen.
Ich sage das auch nicht gerne, aber wer eine einigermaßen progressive Partei in der Regierung sehen möchte, der muss dieses Mal SPD wählen.
Ihr habt bis nächstes Jahr, um euch mit dem Gedanken anzufreunden.
Okay alright sorry for all the sudden German politics influx but lemme explain what happened so far and why Germans are losing it a bit:
The tldr? Our government is getting a divorce and it's turning messy with elections being called early and now being called even earlier.
The longer version?
Okay so, groundwork first:
in Germany there is a coalition currently in power called the Ampel(traffic lights) bc the colours of the party are red, yellow and green (or not anymore or for much longer??). They're centrist slightly more left leaning than right leaning. (You could argue about that I am aware). There has been infighting for as long as this coalition has been going on. It is also the first three party coalition since y know, the Last Time.
So. Enough groundwork. The yellow party (FDP) has a finance minister (Christiane Lindner) it's this guy
You will see him in memes I am sure. We don't like him. He's an asshole and has blocked every meaningful change that the coalition had been trying to accomplish. He also got his finance plan blocked by our highest court because parts were against our Constitution.
(.... I am oversimplifying hard here it's actually more complicated than that and not fully his fault, but it's also not the focus)
What WAS the fault though of him and the FDP was that they had a strong position of "saving money at all costs" which made bigger and bigger rifts with the two other coalition partners who were more leaftleaning. The war in Ukraine, Infrastructure, climate change - there were many places that needed more money and Lidner was like naaahhhhh for no fucking reason other than "oh we need to save money!!"
Long story short there have been arguing all the fucking time and therefore have started to lose approval. Drastically lose approval. As on for the first time since the Last Time there is a far right party in charge for part of the country that is also being investigated for being Nazis. (Oversimplifying again).
Which is. Worrying. You know. Especially with Trump now being elected. It has us all a little skittish.
The finance minister has also now been fired.
You see. We were all still trying to stomach Trump winning the US election, when Scholz, in the same fucking evening, fired Lindner.
And not in a polite way. Nah. Olaf fucking Scholz our Chancellor, notorious for saying literally nothing, and with a running joke that he regularly stops existing bc that man Does Not Take Stances, a spine of wet cardboard, delivered this yesterday evening:
(English subtitles by me you already got this far watch it I spent too much time on this lol)
And it is insane alright. For his standards and German politic standards thats the equivalent of calling Lindner a egomaniacal bitch that has only his self interest at heart and can not be trusted.
Lindner and his party have been pulverised in all recent elections. Which means that after he was fired, the FDP completely withdrew from the coalition and all minister from the FDP resigned.
....well all but one who apparently stayed in his positions because he's leaving the FDP over this. What sort of shitty backstabbing kindergarten fight is this. (Jokes aside hes the minister of transportation and says he needs to stay in office in important projects. Which. True. Having minister resigning en mass is not good)
Alright cool cool cool cool. Current situation yesterday is the following:
So. Trump is president. Fuck.
Lindner got fired! Yaaay!
Wait my goverment is now also falling apart! Fuck.
Which all lead to new elections being called in Germany.
Mind you, that's not usual ok. I know other countries have systems where they can call an election whenever but that is not a thing that normally happens here. We have a schedule alright. (Insert obligatory "Germans and their plans and structure" joke)
So new elections are called for spring, nearly a year early. Cool cool cool. With a right wing rising in Germany and deeply unpopular current leadership. On the eve of motherfucking trump getting elected.
Habeck, leader of the green party and one of the few policians in germany I think is vaguely liked by ppl (the general attitude in German politics is less "I like this guy" and more "you are the least shitty choice I guess") has appearently also nearly started crying after the news broke. So. Yeah.
Now. Let's make this shitshow complete,alright?
There is this party. CDU. They had been in charge for a very long time in Germany. Centrist, right leaning, with the afd on the rising even more right leaning than before. Their current leader is Friedrich Merz, as unpleasant as human beings can go.
He has now called for the new election to be not in a few months but like. To be called next week.
In the current climate.
So yeah. if you're German mutuals and friends are currently going through their own stages of grief - this is why.
USA: The Situation 😶
Germany: I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me? 👉👈🥺 *chancellor Scholz fires finance minister Lindner*
Eine Nudel ist ein … – also 'n Ganztag. Man kann im Winter, Sommer; man kann morgens, abends sie essen. Ein Nudel ist ein wirklich ein sehr leckeres Gericht.
Man kann Nudeln machen warm, man kann Nudeln machen kalt. Also man kann in den Lurlaub, man kann bisschen Picknick machen. Man kann abends, morgens essen, wie man gerade Hunger hat.
Dawegen spielt's keine Tageszeit, keine Sonnenzeit, kein Winter oder so – Die Italiener essen es auch jeden Tach. Also ist eine Nudel ein ein, ein Ewigsessen.
Egal, aus was es die Nudel gemacht ist. Egal, wie du Nudel zubereitet wird, jeder hat sein' Geschmack. Einer ist gerade morgens aufgestanden, isst, äh, gerne Nudeln, der macht sich auch morgens Nudeln. Kein bisschen.
Dawegen lass ich auf Nudeln nix kommen. Humor muss sein. Dafür ist ja die humorvolle, italienische Nudeln. Der hat ja auch Humor, der Italiener.
Eine Nudel kräftigt. Eine Nudel kräftigt nicht nur, die hat Energie bringt sie, auch nicht dann noch da fürcht' ich, wenn man die gegessen hat, hat man auch Freude an den ganzen Tach, umso schneller ist man. Ja oder, umso mehr baut man seine Kraft und seine Freude auf: Das ist das Wichtige! Haha! Die Nudel schmeckt, dadrauf kommt's an.
my friend recently found out that her THERAPIST'S OFFICE is family run. like half of the therapists and the like. head therapist? are all related. can't imagine that's good for family or non-family employees
even just a family of therapists sounds like a nightmare but a family of therapists working together… jesus
this is the plot to a German tv movie I just know it must already exist somewhere
Unter: Worte die ich etwa 5mal lesen musste
Duschlampe, Rohrohrzucker, Kreischorverband, Altbaucharme, Hoffensterchen, Nachteilzug, Baumentaster, Ministereoanlage, Wachstube, Sesquipedalophobie...
Bratapfel
Vater, Vater, ich versuche durch Nacht und Wind zu reiten, aber ich bin verdammt dick und das Klatschen von meinen Arschbacken weckt ständig den Erlkönig auf :/
wrote an accidental poem about how i was a film snob when i was 20 and didnt appreciate mamma mia in the cinema. but now that i am old and weak and full of hurt, i do.
it goes like this:
Astern
Astern – schwälende Tage, alte Beschwörung, Bann, die Götter halten die Waage eine zögernde Stunde an.
Noch einmal die goldenen Herden, der Himmel, das Licht, der Flor, was brütet das alte Werden unter den sterbenden Flügeln vor?
Noch einmal das Ersehnte, den Rausch, der Rosen Du – der Sommer stand und lehnte und sah den Schwalben zu,
noch einmal ein Vermuten, wo längst Gewißheit wacht: Die Schwalben streifen die Fluten Und trinken Fahrt und Nacht.
-- Gottfried Benn
John Sinclair number 87. "Schrei, wenn Dich die Schatten fressen" ... Cover artwork by Vicente Ballestar and the cover layout ...
"German fluency" is a fake thing. Because no matter how good you are, even if you are a native speaker, someone somewhere has an accent that will make you say "wie bitte?" repeatedly with increasing desperation each time.
You gotta love Germany
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