wing of kaz has added a photo to the pool:
佐賀県有田町、有田ポーセリンパーク / Arita Porcelain Park, Arita Town, Saga Prefecture
Mr Mikage (ミスター御影） posted a photo:
Attack on business apparently storing ‘explosive objects’ sparks huge fire, damaging residential buildings
At least 37 people have been killed after a Russian drone struck a warehouse near Kyiv’s western suburbs which appears to have been storing “explosive objects”.
The attack damaged at least 50 residential buildings, including a care home for elderly and disabled people, and sparked a huge fire and explosions in the Bucha district of the Ukrainian capital. The regional governor, Tymur Tkachenko, said a further 42 people, including four children, had been injured after the Russian drone strike.
Continue reading...Plagued by bank impersonation scams, one Guardian Money reader got even by stringing the fraudsters along … for hours
“A couple of Sundays ago at just past 11am my mobile rang. An automated message purported to be from Barclays Bank, querying a payment to Argos for more than £1,000. Not only had I not made a payment to Argos recently, nor do I bank with Barclays.
I am plagued with these kinds of calls. Usually, when possible, I make it clear to the scammers that I know their game. Usually, that call ends there and then.
Continue reading...There’s little optimism about treasury secretary’s ability to handle Trump’s tariffs, Iran sanctions and colossal US debt
History remembers Gen Dwight Eisenhower, the supreme commander of the allied forces in Europe during the second world war, for his role in the D-day invasion of Normandy. Whether Scott Bessent will achieve similar posterity as the face of the “economic D-day” in Iran remains to be seen.
The US treasury secretary, already trying to manage a $40tn national debt pile, this week took charge of Donald Trump’s effort to reverse-engineer his war of choice. Whereas the US would typically take on an adversary with diplomacy, sanctions and military force, in that order, the US president started with a six-month bombing campaign and now hopes that economic isolation can finish the job.
Continue reading...Grammy award-winning American artist selected as 13th person to submit written work to Oslo-based project
The next manuscript by the American artist Laurie Anderson will remain unseen for 88 years, as she becomes the 13th figure to contribute to the Future Library project.
Anderson joins Margaret Atwood, Han Kang, Ocean Vuong and other prominent authors who have written secret manuscripts, which have been locked away until 2114.
Continue reading...De 24-jarige Emma raapte afgelopen zondag eindelijk de moed bij elkaar om haar scharrel te vragen, ‘wat ze nu eigenlijk zijn’. In plaats van wat opheldering over hun relatie, belandde ze in een drie uur durende existentiële filosofische discussie over de vraag: wat zijn we?
Haar scharrel Pip (23) schoof wat ongemakkelijk op en neer terwijl ze een paar keer de vraag ‘wat zijn we?’ mompelde. “Goede vraag”, zei ze tot slot terwijl ze Emma serieus aankeek. “Dan moeten we eerst vaststellen wat je bedoelt met ‘zijn’. Wat is de mens? Sartre zou zeggen dat we geen vaststaande essentie hebben en dat we onszelf pas na ons bestaan, handelend kunnen definiëren."
Toen Emma voorzichtig nog eens probeerde ‘ja maar wat zijn wíj́ dan?’, pakte Pip een boek van Foucault erbij. “Eens kijken wat hij hierover zegt.”
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