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"Vanderhorst had been under the influence of MDMA and three litres of vodka she had consumed on the night of the offence last September, her lawyer Michael Hill told the court."
three. liters.
i support women's wrongs
The only crime here was the artist not putting googly eyes on it.
Der 8. Mai war ein Tag der Befreiung. Er hat uns alle befreit von dem menschenverachtenden System der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft.
May 8th was a day of liberation. It freed us all from the inhuman system of National Socialist tyranny.
Richard von Weizsäcker (1920 – 2015), German politician, sixth president of the Federal Republic of Germany
Background: This statement was revolutionary at its time. Until the early 1980s, the (West) German society was ambivalent with regards to the end of World War II. Although it was generally acknowledged that it was the end of a tyrannic dictatorship that had committed unprecedented crimes against humanity, there was still a lingering feeling of defeat present in large parts of the (West) German population instead of gratefulness for the liberation (and the subsequent help from and reconciliation with the nations of the world). This started to change after Richard von Weizsäcker's speech of May 8, 1985, before the Federal Diet of the Federal Republic of Germany. It was a milestone in the West German Vergangenheitsbewältigung, the continually ongoing process of coming to terms with the atrocities of Nazi Germany.
Sooo, because for once I wrote something heartfelt, I'm reposting here what I posted this morning on Mastodon. Long read, so after the break. Includes links to the subtitled speech in question and to the full translated script.
Sharing this powerful, historical speech from former President of the German Federation Richard von Weizsäcker commemorating the 40th anniversary of the end of WWII.
I could not find an Italian translation, so for now English will have to do.
My favorite excerpts:
Nobody will, because of that liberation, forget the grave suffering that only started for many people on 8 May. But we must not regard the end of the war as the cause of flight, expulsion and deprivation of freedom. The cause goes back to the start of the tyranny that brought about war. We must not separate 8 May 1945 from 30 January 1933.
Oh, does it sound prophetic today?
Perhaps the greatest burden was borne by the women of all nations. Their suffering, renunciation and silent strength are all too easily forgotten by history. Filled with fear, they worked, bore human life and protected it. They mourned their fallen fathers and sons, husbands, brothers and friends. In the years of darkness, they ensured that the light of humanity was not extinguished. After the war, with no prospect of a secure future, women everywhere were the first to set about building homes again, the "rubble women" in Berlin and elsewhere. When the men who had survived returned, women often had to take a back seat again. Because of the war, many women were left alone and spent their lives in solitude. Yet it is first and foremost thanks to the women that nations did not disintegrate spiritually on account of the destruction, devastation, atrocities and inhumanity and that they gradually regained their foothold after the war.
Fuckin' PREACH! Why do I have to hear more progressive and acknowledging words from an old, white, German man in the 80ies than I hear today, even from way too many so-called progressives?! MORE OF THIS!
Hitler had never concealed this hatred from the public, but made the entire nation a tool of it
Sounds true today again? Because it is, goddammit.
There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.
Yet here we are today, debating over the definition of genocide (or of child!), while looking away is literally impossible. Some of us will always be disgusting, some of us will always stick our heads in the sand in order to keep our lives undisturbed.
However, anyone who closes his eyes to the past is blind to the present. Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.
And here we are, running a high fever. We've denied the validity of the vaccine called "studying history and learning from it".
On 23 August 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact. The secret supplementary protocol made provision for the impending partition of Poland. That pact was made to give Hitler an opportunity to invade Poland. The Soviet leaders at the time were fully aware of this. And all who understood politics realized that the implications of the German-Soviet pact were Hitler's invasion of Poland and hence the Second World War.
Or: when madmen plainly tell you what shit they're going to do, fucking believe them and don't be an accomplice.
Time and again Hitler had declared that if the German nation was not capable of winning the war it should be left to perish.
Aspiring fascists today don't give a fuck about anything but power, getting it, and keeping it. They don't give a fuck about the people they manipulate in order to grow consensus and grab that power. When (not if) shit hits the fan, the people are going to be sacrificed too.
Our aim is to seize the opportunity to draw a line under a long period of European history in which to every country peace seemed conceivable and safe only as a result of its own supremacy, and in which peace meant a period of preparation for the next war.
And then the EU was born. It's not perfect, it's still but an infant, but can you even start to imagine what our collective European lives would be without it? We would likely still be bickering with each other and entangle in conflicts of all kinds. I want the EU to never forget its roots, dammit.
Transcending party differences, the democrats on the Council gave their answer to war and tyranny in Article 1 of our Constitution: “The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of any community, of peace and of justice in the world.” This further significance of 8 May should also be remembered today.
The Constitution is being shat upon by the current Government. Shame on it.
If we remember how people persecuted on grounds of race, religion and politics and threatened with certain death often stood before the closed borders with other countries, we shall not close the door today on those who are genuinely persecuted and seek protection with us.
Like her or not, Angela Merkel was the last German leader to open the borders in the face of Syrian refugee crisis. I'll always respect her for that. Because of course "Wir schaffen das", Europe is RICH and has the means to help! Our citizens and refugees alike. Merz is pushing repatriations as a means to win the favour of AfD voters, go figure.
We seek friendship with the peoples of the Soviet Union.
Ah, that sweet, sweet perfume of warming relations towards the end of the Cold War. I literally cannot wait to smell this perfume again, once we are done with the current wave of fascist idiocracy.
We are confident that the 8th of May is not the last date in the common history of all Germans.
In just 4 years time, a new, significant common date would emerge: the 3rd of October, Tag der Wiedervereinigung, day of reunification of the two German states. Good things can come, and they do, with communal will and a widespread desire for peace! Hang in there, everyone! Don't shut up, ever!
Yet elsewhere (in the Book of Judges) it is described how often the memory of experienced assistance and rescue lasted only for 40 years. When that memory faded, tranquility was at an end. Forty years thus invariably constitute a significant time-span. Man perceives them as the end of a dark age bringing hope for a new and prosperous future, or as the onset of danger that the past might be forgotten and as a warning of the consequences. It is worth reflecting on both of these perceptions
We are now 81 years away from the end of WWII and 41 years apart from this speech. Two generations past the horror, one generation past the optimism spreading in the 80ies, and the cycle is trying to repeat itself. But we have broken it once, in choosing to merge in the EU instead of remaining completely separated and isolated countries, and this has given us security and prosperity. We can fucking do it again! Send the nazis worldwide back to their corner! Make it shameful to be one again! FUCK 'EM AWAY FROM THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE EVERYWHERE!
From our own history we learn what man is capable of. For that reason we must not imagine that we are now quite different and have become better. There is no ultimately achievable moral perfection – for no individual and for no nation. We have learned as human beings, and as human beings we remain in danger. But we have the strength to overcome such danger again and again.
HELL YES we can!
Hitler's constant approach was to stir up prejudices, enmity and hatred. What is asked of young people today is this: do not let yourselves be forced into enmity and hatred of other people. (…) Learn to live together, not in opposition to each other.
I feel we have stopped teaching this, at some point, if we ever even properly started. This is both an individual responsibility of parents, and a collective responsibility of nations through their educational systems. Children are a blank page to fill up with color, not with gothic black letters.
On this 8th of May, let us face up as well as we can to the truth
In a world swamped in lies and fabrications, truth still matters and ultimately prevails.
Full English text here.
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This is true btw
the podcast If Books Could Kill has a really great episode on the original book and its legacy! just a bunch of misogynist evangelical bullshit really
I want to clarify something kind of important because this kinda used to be my field. The concept that people express and feel love in different ways, and that this might lead to misunderstandings, IS something with scientific merit. The idea that there are just five and we know what they are is NOT. The idea that people have a primary love language is NOT.
In science, we have a saying. All models are wrong, but some are useful. That’s how I see the love languages framework. It is inherently flawed, but some of its concepts are useful. Communicate with your partner what makes you feel loved and understand what makes them feel loved. Understand how your partner shows love. There is immense value in that. But don’t over-index on which one of the five you are. That part doesn’t matter.
#love languages#really reblogging for that last comment though#“all models are wrong but some are useful”#the concept is sound but the specifics are uhhhh not (via @mad-madam-m)
This goes for your parents, friends, and any human relationship too, really.
I wouldn't have a good relationship with my mom today if I never understood her "love language". And that "love languages" are partly hereditary: her parents weren't able to say I love you or to indulge in hugs, kisses, and the likes, se she never learned that language.
She expresses her love through unsolicited advice (take the umbrella, dress warm, exert yourself less etc) and offering financial support.
My grandmas expressed their love through preoccupation for me and my future (when are you going to graduate? When are you getting married? When are having children?).
Sadly, these were all things young me interpreted as a lack of faith in me, criticism, manipulation, you name it.
Generational harm which took me a long time to recognize and undo. My brother didn't and is now stuck in a reality in which our mom doesn't love him and he's cut her off. It's not true, but that's what he believes. Both he and mom suffer immensely because of it.
Seeking escape
Those of you who notice such things will know that in a little less than two weeks, it's going to be a year since @petermorwood departed this plane of existence.
As the date's been getting closer, I'm becoming increasingly clear (due to mood swings and sleep disturbances and other such stuff) that it would be a really good thing for me if I don't have to live through this first anniversary of his loss anywhere near the house where he breathed his last.
For that day, and ideally a couple/few days on either side of it, I really need to get away from here.
So that's my plan, if I can get all this to come together (with everybody's help). ...It's not like any brief escape will get the pain to stop, you know? That's years away... if ever. But at least this move will prevent a short-term crisis, and allow me (after the really painful day has passed) to start getting back to what around here now passes for "standard operating procedure"—meaning writing, and doing other work, and getting on with the rest of the current form of life—as quickly as possible.
What I have in mind is to spend the days on either side of May 9th—and the day itself—as far away from the cottage as physical issues will allow me to travel. Let's think of it as a long weekend, an hour or two's flight away. To manage that, though, I need to boost sales at the Ebooks Direct store over the days to come. If the necessary funds manifest themselves over the course of this week, I'll have time to make the necessary arrangements.
So can I get those of you who see this post to reblog it, and bring the Ebooks Direct store to people's notice as widely as possible? ...As numerous ebook bundles are available at discount prices. (There are more than show in the slide below: that's just a snapshot of how the front-page carousel looks.)
...And if none of these appeal (or if you've got them already and want to give them to somebody else): hey, there are gift cards! (I finally managed to get these things organized correctly...) 😅 They come in per-bundle versions, or in a number of cash values to suit your preference.
Finally: if you've already got too many ebooks, or otherwise just prefer to drop a little something into the kitty to help me escape for a few-ish days, here's my Ko-Fi.
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...So let's see if this can be pulled off. And for all your past help, and assistance to come: thanks, friends. I appreciate you so much... as your voices, heard daily, are pretty much all that makes the local silence bearable.
Thanks again.
We love you, Diane ❤️
Did people memorize numbers before mobile phones?
I remember three phone numbers. The phone number we had for most of my childhood, my parents' phone number when they moved to a new place after I grew up and the phone number I had when I was age 4 to 6 years old, which I remember my mother drilling me on over and over because I came from the free range generation when I could wander around the neighborhood unsupervised and she wanted to be sure I had the phone number so I could tell a responsible adult if I got lost or in trouble and needed to call her to get home.
Pre-cellular era I had many, many numbers memorized. From my home number (which is still permanent in my brain, including with area code changes over the years), 256-TIME for time and temperature, I had my 3 closest friends numbers memorized, both my parents work numbers (once my mom was no longer an operator - used to be we could dial 0 and ask for Betty and get transferred to her) and the local radio station to request songs.
Currently, aside from the childhood number I have my/my spouse's cell number, our old home landline which doesn't exist, and my MIL's landline which also no longer exists, and a handful of work related numbers that share the same area code-prefix (###-###-).
For someone who is absolute garbage at math, I am good at remembering numbers, but that went with my coast guard job as a radioman - not only frequencies to remember but safe combos and door lock combos.
I still remember my grandparents' phone number. they had it from at least the 30s (was written on my dad's baseball glove, still using the mnemonic for the first two digits, pre area code) until the house was sold after my aunt died in the oughts. And I remember my parents' phone number which worked from 1967 until my mom died - but I don't really remember any of the phone numbers we had in the various places we lived until this one. I bet the kids do: we taught them a singsong to remember one number when they started school.
anyway those days are gone. I want to remember a number now, it goes somewhere in the Notes app.
I knew the phone number of our landline growing up. I had maybe five phone numbers of close friends memorized as a teenager. For the rest, this is why we had teeny tiny books to write phone numbers in and carry around with us, and Rolodex files next to the phone in the kitchen.
My parent's landline is the one number I'll always remember. I use it as a PIN sometimes because I know it's never going away.
I don't think I had other numbers memorized. I used to write them down in my school diary, which had a phonebook section at the end just for the purpose.
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Healthy men are neither sore losers nor insufferable winners.
Grace, grace all around.
~ Some Reflections Upon Marriage: With Additions, by Mary Astell, 1730
Centuries old incel advice.
GUYS they’ve put “Improbable Cause” up on Paramount+ with the subtitles from “Through the Looking Glass” and it’s GOLD.
REBLOG IF YOU'RE 40 OR OLDER :)
Let people know you're here!!
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And honestly, I was so excited about turning 40 I started declaring myself 40 yo when I turned 39!
It's the damn best age so far.
REBLOG IF YOU'RE 40 OR OLDER :)
Let people know you're here!!
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How is Tumblr not ablaze with Angine de Poitrine?!
For once, a genuinely funny comment section too.
Goddammit Tumblrrrrr
I typed up a whole ass essay on why I think Men are crying over a gay Klingon and then posted it to a random community instead of my timeline.
Could not copy it in one go before deleting it, so it is now permanently gone.
I think the sum of things was: Men are crying over the death of their culture, struggling to adapt to the new one, and blaming Star Trek (and anything "woke") for their inability to change.
Sigh.
starting to hear more and more people say they "wouldn't know what to do without chatgpt", and in my head I tell them without chatgpt, they would probably be using their own brains as god intended
I still don't know what to do with ChatGPT. Never felt the need for it. Anything I hear or read about it creeps me the fuck out.
What would anyone do without it? Exactly what everyone did before: just fine.
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But that's a pandoro! Wars have been fought over the difference between the two.
This is a picture from the Curiosity Rover on Mars showing Earth from the Perspective of Mars. You are literally looking at your home from the Perspective of another planet. Epic times indeed
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