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@MThaastrup Fantastisk find - og flot sæt!

@Koefoed Åh nej - det lyder forskrækkende og ubehageligt. Godt at det endte godt og at de har styr på det fremadrettet. Gode tanker sendes herfra.

Happy 19th birthday to my bicycle. I take absolutely no care of you. I leave you out in the rain. I ram you through snow and mud and up and down kerbs. I make you drag stuff too heavy for you. I rarely remember to feed you with oil and air. I fling you onto trains and into hedges and into any space you fit, or don’t. And yet you always work, cost little to maintain and nothing to run. And you give me easy exercise. And I will never be too old not to think Wheeee! as I freewheel you downhill.

A gift-giving ceremony where strangers exchange resources, both physical things and help. You say what you want and what you can give. A spare phone. To learn to play the guitar. Flower seeds. Help to repair something.

Kudos to the good people who organise events like these and open them up to everyone. Open-source community. The opposite of enshittification. The opposite of oligarchy.

Speaking of community, thanks to @dukop & @seraf for spreading the word.

#Aarhus

https://dukop.dk/da/event/al-blomstring-er-gensidig-gave-ceremoni/7816/

@tanyakaroli Idyllisk - man kan både se og høre freden. Enjoy!

@anport I assume Canadians abroad carry maple leaves everywhere now and wave them at passers-by so that nobody mistakes them for US citizens.

'How delightful. The MAGA and Measles ship is in town.’

Overhead at the harbour as a group of cruise ship passengers passed by, cameras and tourist brochures in hand, speaking loudly with American accents.

@tanyakaroli Lately, each day feels like One Of Those Weeks. Sleep, yes. 'Sov godt' til os alle sammen!

The first 11 days of this week have felt long. I can't believe it's only Tuesday. Tuesdays are more tedious than Mondays. They lack the drama of being the weekday that killed the weekend. For two years in the early 1980s, I had double Maths on a Tuesday morning. I still hold a grudge against Tuesday. Here's a picture of a boulder I saw once and think about often. My comfort boulder. It doesn’t care about human affairs or fascists or climate collapse or tariffs or Tuesdays.

@anport Tillykke med fødselsdagen!

@tokeriis Enig. Det er faktisk unikt, som man ikke kan sige om mange steder, man kalder for 'unikt'. Jeg elsker også, at campussen er flettet ind i midtbyen og ligger frit og mødekommende for alle og enhver. Mange universiteter gør det modsatte. De viser med arkitekturen, at det er et lukket land, hvor de ikke-priviligerede ikke må befærde sig. Der er høje mure og bombastiske portaler og indgange, hvor man skal bevise, at man må komme forbi. Modsat AU.

@EvilCartyen @SorenMRiis @MThaastrup

@MThaastrup Du er der! Du skal bare krydse vejen. Den er lige præcist direkte overfor Stakladen - vi er bare på den modsatte side af ringgaden, ved siden af Aula-indgangen.

And the Nobel Prize in Bike Ramps goes to Aarhus University

#Bike
#Aarhus

Glædelig mandag. Gingerly stepping into a new week in our fast-moving & turbulent world, wondering what it will bring. Here's a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you well.

“I discovered that words like ‘LGBTQ’, 'people of color', 'woman' and 'diversity' had completely disappeared from their sustainability report for 2024.”

Business journalist Iben Schmidt read Lego’s latest annual report and sustainability report ‘and they’ve basically been scrubbed clean of inclusion and diversity.’

Et tu, #Lego?

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/lgbtq-og-diversitet-er-forsvundet-fra-legos-aarsrapport

@tokeriis @SorenMRiis Jeg går ud fra, at det er den fransk-vin boykot, du mener, når du nævner en begrænset effekt udover folks feel-good faktor? Boykotten og sanktionerne mod apartheid-regimet i Sydafrika i 80erne var af en helt anden størrelse, både hvad effekten, omfanget og 'problemstillingen' angår, vil jeg mene. Jeg ville ikke sammenligne dem selv.

@SorenMRiis Fransk vin var senere, hvis jeg husker korrekt - først i 90erne?

Boycotting the Californian wine, choosing the South African wine: a Gen X timeline.

"What did you do during the war, Great-Auntie?"

"Why, I took photos in the supermarket and tooted them, child."

Playing Boycott Bingo at the supermarket. ‘Jackpot!’ come the cries from different aisles as the Sort Stjerne (the black star) confirms that our favourite snack, our preferred coffee beans, those loo rolls on special offer, are European. And therefore Not American.

#Denmark
#Boycott
#USPol