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Marius Loots @mariusloots.bsky.social · 1h

Cars actually stopping for pedestrians is a repeated surprise each time we visit. And I've always found it strange overseas* where there is almost no acknowledgement of strangers passed on the street.

France, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland. Especially Sweden stood out.

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Marius Loots @mariusloots.bsky.social · 4h

Not sure how relevant it is, I can share some detailed photos from uniforms in Vienna. It's amazing the intricate needle work to get those designs.

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South African Researcher @saresearcher.bsky.social · 16h

A grim chapter in Namibia's history: iol.co.za/sunday-tribu...

A grim chapter in Namibia's history

This grimmest of periods is examined in the re-issue of the book, A History of Namibia by Marian Wallace (Hurst, 2025). First published in 2011, it remains an insightful survey of Namibia, providing t...

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Marius Loots @mariusloots.bsky.social · 15h

Recently visited Vienna. Definitely worth it, don't know how it compares. Add a day trip to Mauthausen + Cemetery of the Lost, and you have a bit more than just the tourist dives.

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Marius Loots @mariusloots.bsky.social · 15h

The wife took History of rock and roll as a credit gaining subject. She still uses the knowledge in the most obscure moments.

Marius Loots @mariusloots.bsky.social · 15h

Now I want a couple :-)

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Marius Loots @mariusloots.bsky.social · 17h

I can do vegetarian if needs be for visitors. The wife has big time iron issues with a sprinkling of IBS so we can't even contemplate going vegetarian.

Marius Loots @mariusloots.bsky.social · 17h

And it started to rain. My tree leaf lapa only works for so long...

Leaves of a tree against the back drop of the sky. There is smoke visible in one corner.

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Marius Loots @mariusloots.bsky.social · 17h

Time to meat.

#braai #barbeque #food #fire

Pieces of meat on a grill above a fire. There is a t-bone steak, some kebabs and wors.

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Marius Loots @mariusloots.bsky.social · 17h

Wild animals? I thought there was only one of you?

They do seem to be more like cats and not dogs. Really enjoy the snippets you share. Our cats just don't perform for the camera.

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Marius Loots @mariusloots.bsky.social · 18h

I don't have this as a problem (very small fish in this pond), but I'm going to keep the strategy in mind.

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Marius Loots @mariusloots.bsky.social · 19h

Thiel did most of his growing uo in the US.

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah. Almost forgot…

Release the #EpsteinFiles!

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Jamie Schler @lifesafeast.bsky.social · 22h

Friends, if you cannot afford to become a paid subscriber to my Substack, I totally understand. I’m there, too. But if you want to help me out and support me and my work, becoming a free subscriber and sharing my posts absolutely helps! And is truly appreciated. And never hesitate to reach out. 💜

Jamie Schler @lifesafeast.bsky.social · 1d

It's the beautiful beginning of apple season so I'm here to share a few of my traditional French apple recipes and the interesting stories behind them.

Starting with the history of the apple in France and recipes for 2 excellent apple cakes!

jamieschler.substack.com/p/2-french-a...

2 French Apple Cakes

Not so forbidden fruit

jamieschler.substack.com

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jhstoo @jhstoo.bsky.social · 21h

Time to read up on the Fugitive Slave Act and the antebellum Resistance.

Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 1d

This kind of kidnapping, whether it's otherwise law-abiding undocumented workers, or 🇺🇸 citizens, ICE thugs act like they get a bounty per head (they already get a $50K signing bonus), these goons would have been slave catchers back in the day.

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Bynum Demands End to ICE Raids After U.S. Citizen Allegedly Abducted by Masked Agents
Bynum compares ICE’s conduct to U.S. Marshals hunting down Black Americans under the Fugitive Slave Act.
By Anthony Effinger
October 09, 2025 3:34PM PDT

One of the ICE agents who apprehended Frank Miranda, a U.S. citizen, on Oct. 2, 2025 (courtesy of Frank Miranda). (Frank Miranda)

U.S. Rep. Janelle Bynum (D-Ore.) called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop abducting her constituents, a week after ICE agents apprehended a Milwaukie man born in California on his way to work and detained him for part of the day.

“These ICE raids are reminiscent of the Fugitive Slave Act, when the U.S. Marshals would hunt down and kidnap Black Americans,” Bynum said in a statement. “That was a dark and shameful time in our nation’s history—we must not allow that to repeat. Masked federal agents aren’t welcome in our state and they can’t keep kidnapping Americans.”

https://www.wweek.com/news/2025/10/09/bynum-demands-end-to-ice-raids-after-us-citizen-allegedly-abducted-by-masked-agents/

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Jamie Schler @lifesafeast.bsky.social · 21h

Life is either boredom or whipped cream. - Voltaire

The most fun thing about researching the history of whipped cream is discovering that for centuries before it became a topping, whipped cream WAS the dessert!

jamieschler.substack.com/p/creme-foue...

Crème Fouettée, Crème à la Chantilly

“It’s only whipped cream.”

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 2d

Wellness influencers are killing people. Paloma Shemirani was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which 80% of people survive, at age 22. She was dead within 7 months because dietary changes and coffee enemas didn’t work. Her airway collapsed under pressure from a tumor and she died at age 23.

Wellness influencers are literally killing people

YouTube video by Dr. Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

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Marius Loots @mariusloots.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it's South Africans... :-)

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 1d

Checking my 'great ideas' notes from the pub last night and the one new item is "Dr Butter's Boardroom Bones" - a velvet bag of scrying bones, for you to throw on the table and consult yourself every time a colleague says they "asked chatGPT and..."

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The Sassiest Semite @littlemisslizz.bsky.social · 17d

Stop doing Nazi shit if you don’t want to be called a Nazi. Easy peasy.

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Marius Loots @mariusloots.bsky.social · 1d

Photos or it didn't happen*.

*I think this is the obligatory internet response :-)

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Jamie Schler @lifesafeast.bsky.social · 1d

It's the beautiful beginning of apple season so I'm here to share a few of my traditional French apple recipes and the interesting stories behind them.

Starting with the history of the apple in France and recipes for 2 excellent apple cakes!

jamieschler.substack.com/p/2-french-a...

2 French Apple Cakes

Not so forbidden fruit

jamieschler.substack.com

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 2d

God what I would give to sleep as hard as these little guys

An incredibly asleep ferret. A true honk shoo ass baby

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Marius Loots @mariusloots.bsky.social · 1d

As you mentioned elsewhere here, the bar is not very high these days... For anything.

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