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28 March 1926 | A Czech Jewish girl, Edita SpitzovΓ‘, was born in KolΓ­n (in the middle).

She was imprisoned in Theresienstadt Ghetto on 8 February 1942 and deported to Auschwitz on 26 October 1942 together with her mother Anna (b. 1893) & father Eduard (b. 1886). None of them survived.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts

#Jewellery picks of the day:

➑️ @Silverworker - Silversmith creating jewellery, publishes video tutorials on making each piece

➑️ @agoss1 - Jewellery designer from Canada, works with silver, brass etc

➑️ @mathcampbell - Artist & jeweller, works with gold, silver etc

➑️ @smallwildshop - Creates tiny ceramic animals and other cute little things

➑️ @laurelincraft - Makes suncatchers & decorations from copper, natural stones etc

➑️ @skaly - Artist creating music, poetry & handmade jewellery

In this week's podcast, I dug in to the old saying "my sufficiency has been suffonsified." Once you start looking, it's everywhere!

Plus, Valerie Fridland looked at the long-ago origins of tax words. Did you know the Rosetta Stone contains text about taxes?

READ: grammar-girl.simplecast.com/ep

LISTEN: pod.link/173429229/episode/5e5

#GrammarGirl #podcast #linguistics
#familect #oldsayings

As promised, I now #OpenCarrySuperglue with this little pin on my jacket. Context: the City of #Munich has decided on a ban for 7 climate activists to carry (not use!) superglue in their pockets. If they do carry superglue, they will be fined 1000€.

In solidarity with the activists from @AufstandLastGen I hope we can make these pins the summer must-have fashion trend :)

I've made the decision I am going to post here more frequently than the "every few days" frequency I've been at, so this may be your cue to either get on board if you're not already, or depart, depending on how much of me you want in your feed.

I don’t need my daughter asking me if a mass shooter is going to go into her school to try to kill her, her classmates & her teacher.

I was speechless yesterday, all we could say was, hopefully it won’t happen.

Mass shootings are having a harmful effect on our kids mental health.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) apprehended a border guard from the Chernihiv border guard detachment who attempted to pass on information to the Russian Federation regarding the defense of Ukraine's northern borders. The occupiers were particularly interested in the combat orders and the plan of action for the engineering and technical setup of the state border.

@kennethb

The people here in the US who cheered Trump on before 2016, because they just knew he'd make things bad enough it would lead to lasting change.
Yeah, how's that working out for all of you?

The fight is on.

I was sitting outside drinking my coffee and enduring the constant nudging of Charlie and the irritating bark of Ben - they wanted to go for their walk, I took what should have been a bunch of good photographs of birds moving around the feeders. But as usual in the morning I forgot to check my camera settings which were set for shooting the moon last night.

On of the scenes I witnessed was these two pigeons fighting. They were pecking at each other very forcefully. Most of the photos had blurred movements but this one somehow came out okay. I'm pretty sure they're both male pigeons.

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #pigeon #RockPigeon #RockDove #dove

I said I'd logged off for the night but I'm logging back on to share the news that in less than 12 hours we hit $100,000 to support the Texas Observer team. Here's an update from @jamescanup (former fundraiser for TXO) on why we are increasing the goal to $200K in the hopes it will convince the board to keep our doors open.

We're so immensely grateful to everyone who has donated or shared already. 🀠gofundme.com/f/laid-off-texas-

@TexasObserver

I donated, and I subscribed, for what good that does. But if the board sees a spike in subscriptions, showing they can sustain - hopefully they'll change their minds?

Our understanding is $200K would allow us to keep the doors open for 1-2 months and give us enough runway to make a very compelling argument to the board that the publication has value. We hope it will also allow us to publish our upcoming issue, largely focused on #ReproductiveHealth, if the board allows it. We continue to seek larger donors, grants & benefactors that will help us sustain the publication long term.

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