Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Little Rundle Street, Kent Town, South Australia.
This laneway has become a canvas for street and graffiti artists.

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Little Rundle Street, Kent Town, South Australia.
This laneway has become a canvas for street and graffiti artists.

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Little Rundle Street, Kent Town, South Australia.
This laneway has become a canvas for street and graffiti artists.

I joined thousands of people blockading the AfD’s Erfurt congress. A civil disobedience movement is showing how to beat the far right

At 5am on Saturday morning, I found myself jogging across a field with a few hundred strangers, on my way to block a highway. We were just outside the east German city of Erfurt, one of several groups setting up roadblocks to try to stop delegates from reaching the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party conference. We set up facing a row of police in riot gear – helmets on, batons ready – filming us with cameras on monopods.

A few years ago, I would have been covering an action like this as a reporter, from behind the police lines. In journalism school, I was taught to be objective. But I can’t pretend to be impartial when it comes to the AfD – and so instead I chose to join the demonstrators, most decades younger than me, chanting together: “Siamo tutti antifascisti (We are all antifascists)!” As a foreigner who has called Germany home for nearly 30 years, as the father of two daughters growing up in this country, I have skin in the game.

As the newly elected president, Abelardo de la Espriella, pledges to exploit oil reserves, environmentalists prepare to defend climate progress

It is hard for Yuvelis Morales Blanco to pinpoint when her activism started. Now 25, she recalls getting involved in land rights and environmental issues in Santander, northern Colombia, from a young age. Living near water, she says, has always shaped her connection to nature. “My parents are fishers on the Magdalena, Colombia’s most important river,” says Morales. “For us, the river isn’t just food – it embodies life, identity and culture.”

In April, she received the Goldman environmental prize for her leadership in Puerto Wilches, where she succeeded in halting oil extraction and fracking. Yet, it seems her struggle is only just beginning.

Climate crisis prompts calls for workplace temperature limits and rights to heat breaks and adjusted working hours

As Europe’s sweltering summer continues, trades unions are mounting a push for new laws to counter deadly heat stress that is linked to an estimated 230 workplace deaths a year.

This year’s toll may be even higher, with 1,300 excess European deaths already connected to the June heatwave by the World Health Organization, and other estimates running as high as 20,000.

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Ubisoft has removed all the boring parts of pirate life from its fantasy RPG, creating something more focused and fun

Edward Kenway isn’t your dad’s Assassin’s Creed protagonist. Neither sworn to ancient oaths nor given a noble destiny, he’s just a guy who likes coin, dislikes rules, and whose gold-chasing, rule-dodging lifestyle sees him embroiled in an ancient war between Templars and assassins quite by accident. After he’s shipwrecked with a man named Walpole who turns out to be a Templar, Edward assumes Walpole’s identity in the hopes of securing the bounty he mentioned.

Edward wears life lightly. The world around him is violent and chaotic, and those in his vicinity are more obsessed with double-crossings than a Mission:Impossible movie writers’ room. Ed just smiles, undeterred by it all, and gets on with plundering. It’s all just fun and games to him, and he is set on conquering the Caribbean on his own terms. He is a brilliant extension of the player, in that way, and that’s what this remake of the 2013 pirate-themed Assassin’s Creed does so well: the sense of freedom.

Rare photographs tucked away in HBCU archives are being preserved and widely shared with the world for the first time

Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), most of which were founded during the Reconstruction era following the civil war, hold invaluable historical archives full of documents, photographs and, in some cases, even films. The archives are a testament to the lasting importance and influence of Black American history in the US, documenting more than a century’s worth of history.

A lot of the priceless images, however, are in boxes or storage, usually inaccessible to the public and many times at risk of damage or being lost. The Getty Images photo archive grants program and its HBCU collection seeks to bridge the gap between helping HBCUs preserve their archives and getting both historical images and new ones to the wider public.

Ja wie had dat in november 2022 nou kunnen bevroeden toen de VVD door de pomp ging en de dwangwet erdoor gedrukt werd: dat er gemeenten zouden zijn die helemaal geen zin hebben om de geïmporteerde klappen van het kabinet op te vangen. Want er zijn natuurlijk asielzoekers die apotheken, er zijn ook asielzoekers die roven, tuffen, stelen, verkrachten en intimideren, en dáár hebben we dan weer géén oplossing voor. Westland hoort bij de tien gemeenten die door Bartje van den Brink zijn aangewezen als municipium non gratum en dus moet de wethouder op het matje komen. Westland geeft echter niet toe: er zitten al 2.000 Oekraïners en veel arbeidsmigranten die werken in de kassen. Geen woning, geen draagvlak, geen ruimte. De Haagse post maakt dan ook geen indruk: "We wisten dat die brief kwam. Prima. Niets doen, niets toezeggen. Dat is onze opdracht aan de wethouder. (...) We zullen alles doen wat in onze macht ligt om te voorkomen dat we een azc krijgen." In Westland gaat het om 643 opvangplaatsen. En weedu hoeveel asielzoekers vorige week de Miele Finishboog van Paradijs Nederland passeerden? 890. Week in, week uit. Schuld van de gemeenten!