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Ava Roth Collaborates with Insects to Create ‘Kintsu-Bee’ Ceramic Vessels
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This classic Swedish cake was originally named grön tårta (lit. green cake), due to its typical green-colored marzipan decoration. The recipe was first published in a 1948 edition of Prinsessornas Nya Kokbok, and it originally consisted of sponge layers coated in vanilla-flavored buttercream which were then topped with a thick layer of whipped cream and marzipan.
It became increasingly popular in the 1950s, and it soon became known as prinsesstårta. This classic is a staple at every special event in Sweden and is commonly found in most pastry shops. Modern varieties are usually dome-shaped and come with an additional layer of raspberry jelly. src.: https://www.tasteatlas.com/prinsesstarta ref photo.: Ulrika Pousette
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Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run is your f----- mouth."
In 1972, Neil Young held his firstborn son, Zeke, as "Heart of Gold" played on every radio in America. But within months, doctors delivered a difficult truth: Zeke had cerebral palsy. A milder form, they said. He would adapt. And over time, he did.
Then came 1978.
Neil had married Pegi Morton the year before. Together they welcomed their second son, Ben. For a brief moment, everything felt right again.
It didn't last.
Ben wasn't developing the way babies should. The doctors' verdict was devastating: severe cerebral palsy. Quadriplegic. Non-verbal. He would never walk. He would never speak a single word.
Two sons. The same diagnosis. A condition not supposed to strike the same family twice.
In his memoir Waging Heavy Peace, Neil didn't hide behind metaphor. He admitted he was shattered — consumed by rage, lying awake drowning in questions with no answers, feeling like the universe had singled him out for punishment.
But he didn't retreat. He walked into his studio at Broken Arrow Ranch and began tearing everything apart.
He layered synthesizers over guitars. He ran his voice through vocoders until it sounded robotic and alien. He wasn't chasing a trend. He was trying to communicate what it felt like to love someone who couldn't communicate back.
The result was Trans, released in 1982. Critics were baffled. Fans were angry. Geffen Records sued him for delivering music that was "uncharacteristic" and "uncommercial."
Years later, Neil explained the truth behind every distorted note. When you listen to Trans, he said, you can hear him saying something — but you can't quite make it out. Words filtered through so much processing they become unintelligible. Someone is clearly trying to reach you, but the message won't come through.
That, he said, was exactly how it felt to sit with Ben every single day.
Trans was not a musical experiment. It was a father screaming across a silence that could not be broken.
Neil also built something more tangible. Because Ben couldn't use standard train controls, Neil designed a large adapted button Ben could activate with his head — enough to blow the horn, switch the tracks, control the trains. In those moments, Neil said, Ben wasn't disabled. He was just a boy having fun. This work eventually grew into a partnership with Lionel, revolutionizing model train technology for enthusiasts everywhere.
In 1986, Neil and Pegi co-founded The Bridge School in Hillsborough, California — built for children with severe speech and physical impairments the education system had written off. To fund it, they launched the Bridge School Benefit Concert at the Shoreline Amphitheatre. That first night, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Don Henley, Crosby Stills & Nash, and Robin Williams all showed up. The concert ran annually for thirty years, raising millions and giving hundreds of children a voice.
Ben attended the school, learned to use assistive communication technology, and later founded Coastside Farms — a certified organic egg farm he runs using customized communication devices. The boy the world assumed would never do anything built a business, travels on tour with his father, and, in Neil's words, serves as the spiritual leader of their group on the road.
Pegi Young passed away on January 1, 2019, after a battle with cancer. She was 66 years old. The school she built still stands, still teaches, still transforms lives. jambase
Neil once said Ben taught him you never give up. It cannot be too hard.
Every strange, misunderstood note on that 1982 album was a father refusing to let silence have the last word. And every egg sold at a California farmers' market is proof he was right to keep trying.
Love is not a feeling you have. It is what you build when feelings are not enough.
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