I post about books I read and photos I snap while wandering about. Posts in English, dansk and Danglish.
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Last Notes npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub103y…tywc So soothing. Thank you for sharing. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub103y…tywc Danke! Lovely. Hope you have a good day too :-) npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara I liked this wibbly-wobbly shadow but hesitated to share the photograph because I’ve nothing to say about it other than: “I saw a nice shadow.” Then I thought: this is the Fediverse. People are nice. They won’t mind if someone shares a shadow they saw. So here it is. I am going to tag this #Shadow npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara “The sounds of Stradivarius violins are considered so precious that they're preserved in a digital archive. Musicians and sound engineers took over a concert hall and recorded every possible note a Stradivarius can make. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1mm3…ft6j Her remarks and motivations are almost shocking to read npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara I have learned that the last surviving individual of a species is called an endling. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1y98…gke7 Ah, I meant to say ‘schön’! Danke for replying in dansk anyway :-) npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1y98…gke7 Smukt! npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you well. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub15ay…9z3x Wonderful effect, wonderfully captured npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara I just renewed my library book in a few seconds from my phone while in another country after the library reminded me that it's due back soon. My inner toddler, who borrowed her first books after being lifted up the steps into the mobile library bus, will never not feel that digital library services are actual magic. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara #SilentSunday npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1y98…gke7 You would be velkommen! npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1y98…gke7 Thanks. It's been 15 years since we were here, so everything is new to is again. It's a fabulous city! npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1y98…gke7 Danke! We're wandering and walking and loving the city. Staatsbibliotek - thanks for the recommendation, sounds right up my street. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Perplexing sign. 'Don't play' is the opposite of what #Berlin feels like. Or perhaps it's just a friendly warning not to risk dropping your ice-cream cone. Or perhaps it's just locals trolling tourists. In which case: well played, Berliners, because here I am, ignoring the cathedral and seven historic buildings right behind me in order to take a photo of the pavement. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara I thought I didn't like thrillers, so there's yet another thing I was wrong about. This was gripping and fun and kept me on the edge of my earphones. So many striking set-pieces and settings. So well written by Louise Doughty and so well read by Clare Corbett that I feel as if I saw the story at the cinema. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara #SilentSunday npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you well. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara ‘The library is your window to the world.’ At our local library, this is also literally true. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Life prevented me from visiting the Fediverse much recently. Life has started to behave itself better now, so I can drop by the neighbourhood again. It's nice to be back. It's nice to catch up on replies and messages and on what you’re all posting about. Mastodon feels like a relaxed local café where there’s a chair and a welcome waiting for you, even if you haven’t been around for a while. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you well. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Toppen af Danmark npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara I may be imagining it, but I notice more AI images being posted as if they were the tooter’s own photo. Even on #SilentSunday, among all the real moments from real people’s lives all over the real world. I don’t need to see too-perfect AI renditions of non-existent views. I don’t care if a photo’s blurry or unspectacular. It's nice just to see that tree or view or odd-shaped cloud someone saw in real life. As if they're tapping us on the arm & pointing: 'Look! Over there! See that? It's lovely!' npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara #SilentSunday npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara #SilentSunday npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Whose fault is it that I never read Stine Pilgaard before? Well, it’s not the librarians’ fault, because I randomly borrowed this from the library's 'Did you ever get around to reading this?’ display. It is so good. So funny, so witty, so observant. Yet another example of why my favourite genre is ‘slim contemporary novels by Nordic Lady Novelists starring tricky smart observant imperfect Lady Protagonists living imperfect ordinary lives'. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara #SilentSunday npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara A nice attempt by our council to reduce single-use waste. A new deposit system with reusable cups for takeaway coffee. You pay a deposit of 5 kr. (less than €1) for the cup, then get your money back at one of the cup-recycling stations they’ve installed around the city. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara #SilentSunday npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara #SilentSunday npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1lrj…ktcp Welcome to the neighbourhood! And congratulations on building your own home - I hope you are very happy in your new, own instance. :-) Have a lovely weekend. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1g02…umym Thanks - hope you are having a lovely week and that you have a good weekend :-) npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you well. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Shades of ice npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Shape duel npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1y98…gke7 Stunning npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1y98…gke7 That is beautiful. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara I hope everyone had a good day, but especially @npub14k2…ed68 because she created the hashtag #Icetodon and it is a source of joy and calm and beauty and wonder. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you well. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1g02…umym I prefer the beach in winter - so beautiful and bracing and striking! If you ever get the chance, a winter beach walk is highly recommended. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub14k2…ed68 These circular clumps of seawater ice fascinated me. I took this three years ago. I kept meaning to look the phenomenon up, but didn't. Only now that you created Icetodon and I needed to add AltText to my photo have I finally looked it up. Pancake ice! I love that the name is so simple and human and relatable. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara #SilentSunday npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Glædelig mandag. Godt nytår. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week and this year treats you well. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara The in-between days npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you well. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara We need a word for real-life enshittification caused by online culture. Like being unable to find an organisation’s info because they’ve Instagram but no website. Or panicked people being sent a videolink to download to their phone when they ring for an ambulance. Or being excluded from residents' association news if you're not on Facebook. Or having cash payment refused. Or staff in the business you’re physically standing in telling you to find the answer to your question on their website. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara A poster taped to the wall of a public toilet. Some students are seeking others to fill out their thesis questionnaire about the use of AI and the ban on ChatGPT in exams. People are trying to contact other people to talk about AI by leaving messages in the place where humans perform the most human of functions. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Cerberus guarding the gates of the Underworld. Canine cosplay version. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Another thing I love about the Fediverse: I feel it’s a safe space to share a nice bit of brickwork. A place where nobody will think it’s weird that I took a photo of a bit of a wall just because I liked the look of the brick and timber. I’m going to tag this #Brick. And #Timber. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara #SilentSunday npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara I’ve never seen the sea cover the lower promenade before. The lifebelt station needs a lifebelt. That 1000 m2 mural across the water represents the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. In season, cruise ships dock in front of it. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1y98…gke7 Love it! npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1g02…umym Beautiful and calming images. Hope you have a wonderful Sunday too :-) @npub142m…u3w9 npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Apparently I’m a ‘menace’ to walk around with in other towns because I keep assuming I have the right of way. I’m used to streets where cars are allowed, but they must yield to pedestrians and cyclists. So I unthinkingly wander in the middle of the road in other cities too, gathering cars behind me like a pied piper until a sighing friend pulls me aside. As I stand with all the other people forced aside to let 1 driver in 1 car pass, I wonder: who’s the real menace here? npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara The cure for cockiness: write AltText. Nothing reminds me quicker how little I know about anything. 'What are those weird indentation thingys? What do you call those fancy edges? What's that shape that’s like a rectangle but has an arch on top? Wait, is it oblong? Wait, what’s the difference between an oblong and a rectangle? Is the window in a belfry, is there a bell? Oh no, maybe it’s a door not a window and I'm just spreading fake news in the Fediverse.' npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub10fm…x0qg @npub15nl…25tl I met a neighbour in her late 20s with her few-weeks-old baby and did a cartoonish double-take when she peeled back the pram cover to reveal this tiny baby in an AC/DC tee-shirt. Knowing their style from the late 70s, it seemed comically dissonant! I didn't know they had new generations of fans and that teeny baby AC/DC merch exists. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara #SilentSunday npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara “It's absolutely fantastic that as a citizen, you come into an empty library and treat it so lovingly.” npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1y98…gke7 It would be useful to have, if someone created a word that captured the sensation and situation! But if not, it’s already nice to know that the feeling is familiar to others too, not just me. :-) npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1y98…gke7 Agreed! The ‘unknowable’ special skills just make them even more interesting. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1y98…gke7 Oh yes - that is a lovely description. Curiosity and interest and joy are central to the feeling. I can’t rationalise why, as it’s not my achievement, but I also feel happy for them and proud of them for being so at home in another language. Even when I’ve known for years and they’ve spoken it for years. It’s witnessing it in casual use that sparks the feeling, coupled with a curious sense that I both know them and don’t know them in that moment. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara I need a word for the feeling you get when you see someone you’re close to chat away in a second language that you don’t understand. This person you know deeply is having a casual conversation with other people. You recognise their gestures and facial expressions and the way they punctuate with smiles. You recognise their ums and ems, hums and haws. But you don’t understand a word they are saying. It's a particular feeling. A mix of ‘uncanny’, ‘admiration’, 'fascination' and 'parallel universe'. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1c5c…644a Your hikes and your photos are a joy to follow. Thanks for sharing them. This picture and this place are magnificent - the colours, the harmony, the depth and contours. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara #SilentSunday npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara I know it's rude to brag, but this is my library. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara When she was 48, Kathleen Turner turned down the role of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate on Broadway because it involved 23 seconds of nudity. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Idly decided to see what else is going on in my city so I clicked on the hashtag and it turns out that nine of the 10 most recent #Aarhus toots were posted by me. I've decided not to be embarrassed about this. Here you go - make that ten. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara It has been the Mondayist of Mondays. There was so much Monday. It felt like a long week and it wasn’t even lunchtime. This afternoon, I said ‘have a nice weekend’ to someone, and walked away, and realised: oh, it’s still Monday. So here’s a picture of a tree. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub15ay…9z3x So serene npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara #SilentSunday npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara 1850 new trees planted in Madagascar, paid for by Mastodon.green tooters. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1g02…umym Hope you have a lovely week 🙂 npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara #SilentSunday npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1y98…gke7 It's the loveliest initiative! npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara "By the Law of Jutland of 1241, you may fill your hat with whatever you can harvest." npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Skagen palette npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Little local new stories about little local climate-crisis adjustments feel like those sinister little repetitive musical notes that warn us there’s a shark in the water, but then we just keep swimming anyway. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1y98…gke7 A used-bookshop find that I was delighted by. Hope you have a lovely Saturday! npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara My bookmark matches my book. I bet everyone else in the hairdressers is thinking: 'Now there's a woman who knows where her towel is.' npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara #SilentSunday npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara #SilentSunday npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Am winging it in my balcony garden. I expect everything to die and don’t know what to expect when something survives. So I’m in a puppy-like state of constant joy & surprise. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Jigsaw puzzle npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara #SilentSunday npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara “Low on data or power? Read a low-bandwidth version of this story here.” npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1g02…umym Awesome wildflowers indeed. Have a wonderful evening too 🙂 npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara All hail the unsung, unseen council workers who sit in boring meetings in dull offices and say things like: "What if we put a fairytale on the drain cover to make it look nice for everyone in the city?" npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Zoom in npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Picture window npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1sk4…d83s It took me a second then - thank you for making me laugh actually out loud npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1d85…87uq You are really observant - well spotted, they are barely visible in the image. They're at one of the fish factories (it's a fishing port). npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1d85…87uq Oh I like that guess! It's deeper than the everyday answer I had in mind (I cheated by putting it in the Alt Text): I spy Danmark. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1xr8…3q0g That's nice additional leave for those who qualify - a good programme! npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara I spy with my little eye something beginning with D npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara @npub1xr8…3q0g Not if you by 'long service leave' you mean time off that an employer chooses to give a worker who has worked there for decades. That's restricted to few, priviliged professions and companies. It's at the employer's whim. Nowadays not many people can get life-time jobs that let them work for one company for 20 or 30 years solid. I'm wishing for a universal right ike parental leave - equal for everyone, the right to one year off in your 50s no questions asked. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Galway, just to say that I hope this week treats you well. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara #SilentSunday npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara Lifeguards sit in full rain gear. Divers in the water yell happily to those still on the platform that the sea's amazingly warm. Roads are closed due to flooding. Printed council signs with today's date have appeared, warning of bacteria in the coastal water due to excessive rainfall. In Southern Europe, people are warned to stay inside because of the heat. We walk along, literally squelching in the water inside our shoes, talking about the climate crisis, getting nowhere. npub10gdyq83xfjguf2zaekvr55p0y4ss6kdcvqfyqzepujqf0sj2utfsjhnej5 Ciara There wasn’t room for the full quote in the original toot. Here it is for anyone who, like me, thought: She must have heard that wrong.
