Dr Iris Sutter G
@IrisSutterG
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Book on #Kindertransport | functional family of 6 2/3 | what ghastly history book chapters we‘ll be occupying | inactive on X until new owner
Alpine triangle A-D-CH
Joined January 2017
Hugh Grant raising “awareness for the use of a good moisturiser” in the best self-deprecating fashion that British humour can come in 😄
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Earth is now subtended by a layer of elastic non-time akin to a global unconscious wherein past, present, future occupy one unmediated plane. Objects lose dimensions. Everything’s recorded, nothing remembered; culture’s a thing to nibble at, to graze on.
nytimes.com
A Times critic argues that ours is the least innovative century for the arts in 500 years. That doesn’t have to be a bad thing.
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The EU’s found the highest rate of disinformation of all major platforms on X. Horrors as in 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 show the cost of abolishing checks & balances, viz terrorists/bad actors profiting. Unforeseen by click-chasers: the unspeakable in pursuit of the unreliable
theguardian.com
He took Twitter, sacked staff and reduced its checks and standards. Now, in this time of crisis, it’s clear why that matters, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Gilleleje: Denmark's seaside town that saved Danish Jews https://t.co/cOvo0cTQTl
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This October, a fishing town on the Danish Riviera remembers one of the greatest collective acts of resistance of World War Two: its role in the flight and escape of the Danish Jews.
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Adidas chief exec: Kanye West ‘didn’t mean what he said’ with antisemitic comments. FFS — Let’s not go down the “in dubio pro reo” route because there is not the tiniest shred of dubio here.
theguardian.com
Bjørn Gulden said West, who praised Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, wasn’t ‘a bad person – it just came across that way’
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Trump could win without the electoral or popular vote, if enough electoral votes were uncounted/uncertified. Then a “contingent election” would take place, guaranteeing a GOP victory and Trump presidency. It doesn’t matter who votes. It matters who counts.
theguardian.com
In a ‘contingent election’, he could lose the popular vote, electoral college and all his legal cases and still end up the legal US president
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Notes from a civilised country…
@theAliceRoberts This is one of the two sewage plants in Copenhagen. It has the capacity to clean sewage water from 750.000 people. It's so effective that people can bathe safely in the harbour. The waste is used to make biogas, supplying 60% of the gas needed in Copenhagen. Pure win win.
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‘We never stopped protesting’: Iran’s youth take freedom fight underground. “Everything we do in these night protests is considered normal for teens in the west – like women dancing, singing, not wearing a scarf – yet we have to do them in secret.”
theguardian.com
Students tell of secret acts of defiance ahead of the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody
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Forever chemicals linked to higher cancer odds in women. Exposure to chemicals used in thousands of household & industrial products seems to increase odds for ovarian & certain other cancers, incl. a doubling of odds for melanoma, US govt-funded study says
theguardian.com
New research finds evidence that exposure to PFAS and phenols increases odds of certain ‘hormonally driven’ cancers for women
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Labour will seek a "much better" Brexit deal with the EU, Starmer says, but not re-join. 🥱 Oh, we’re back in “cake-and-eat-it” unicorn territory 🥱
bbc.co.uk
The agreement is due for review in 2025, which the Labour leader says is a key moment to reset relations.
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I scoff at the idea of punishment for swearing (“Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government”) or that we are too delicate to read anythg unasterisked, yet I’m pleased swear words still contain some trace of taboo
theguardian.com
Adverts, MPs and newsreaders have all been caught in the act… But are we losing our understanding of context and how language evolves?
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#WorldAfroDay One step towards more inclusion in schools is ensuring black pupils in particular aren’t discriminated against because of their hair or reprimanded over braids, or the 93% of black people in the UK who’ve faced hair-related microaggressions.
theguardian.com
I fought my school for the right to wear the hair I was born with. Now I work as an ambassador for change, says BSc student Ruby Williams
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Isaacson spreads 🇷🇺 messaging by echoing Musk; vaccine sceptic JRogan is “knowledgeable”; Musk’s humour—he took the w out of the Twitter sign because… “tit”—has “many levels”. Focusing on unreliable narrator Musk’s POVs and his acolytes distorts the story
theguardian.com
Walter Isaacson’s insight-free doorstop makes at least one thing clear: the richest man in the world has a lot of growing up to do
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Srebrenica: A scientist's long quest to name the dead Now, nearly 30 years after the killings, Dragana Vucetic is determined to identify the last of the dead - a task that seems all the more pertinent amid increasing Serb denial about what really happened.
bbc.co.uk
A forensic anthropologist tries to put names to the last 1,000 unidentified dead of a Bosnian War genocide.
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Chile marks military coup as divisions continue During the 17 years of military rule under General Augusto Pinochet that followed, 40,000 people were detained, tortured or forcibly disappeared. More than 3,200 were executed.
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The left-wing government has condemned the 1973 coup but the opposition accuses it of fuelling divisions.
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Germany’s inglourious Bavarian “The flyer shouldn’t be dismissed as a youthful indiscretion”, the Central Council for Jews said. “Its content must be rejected in strong terms, especially considering our Erinnerungskultur is under siege from the far right.”
politico.eu
A Nazi scandal roiling Bavarian politics signals many Germans are tired of being sorry.
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This is why even walking past a “Desigual“ shop makes me uncomfortable 😄
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Ukraine: Holocaust Ground Zero Details the beginning of the mass execution of Jews under Hitler. The “missing missing” were murdered by Nazi death squads in large numbers in many places, so finding out how many and where or their names is almost impossible
theguardian.com
This distressing documentary outlines in a clear and accessible way the beginning of the mass execution of Jews under Hitler’s regime. Vital viewing
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