In search of utopias: Could it perhaps be that there is no such thing as one utopia? Is a utopia a compromise or an absolute consensus? Which utopias do you already know? Let’s come together and search for answers:
https://events.haecksen.org/cfc25/index.html
Submission deadline: 14.04.2025 at 23:42
This a very useful thought-exercise and discussion.
How do we create the society that we want and need, not the one we have?
Why does our #school system work that way? Because we #educate children and young people with a different goal: we prepare them for the #economy. We believe that by doing so, we are helping them because they will earn more with the #knowledge they have acquired. In doing so, we are adding new fuel to the fire that is destroying our #culture and #civilization, that is destroying #nature and #society.
Kennedy Center director snipes at musician for ‘vapidness’ over DEI concerns https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/kennedy-center-richard-grenell-yasmin-williams #Trumpadministration #USpolitics #NewYork #Culture #Society #USnews #Music
JOHNNY BUM. A he or jack ass: so called by a lady that affected to be extremely polite and modest, who would not say Jack because it was vulgar, nor ass because it was indecent.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/childcare-new-mexico-poverty #NewMexico #Childcare #Children #Society #USnews #Money
The Expedition to the Borderlands
A Visit to the Outer Reaches of Transorangoria
(Editor’s Note: Below is the most recent account I received concerning the travels of my dear friend, Professor Jontavious Lento Midgewell)
At the farthest reaches of Transorangoria, beyond the Lavender Highlands and the whispering groves of the Silentwood, lies the Great Barrier — a structure so immense it slices the sky like a blade forged of marble and myth. It is said, in official chronicles and embroidered tapestries, that the Barrier was conjured into existence by the sheer will and focused eyebrows of Ochre Veneficus, the first and only Arch-Reformer of Transorangoria. Though some whisper in tea houses and behind curtains that the wall may be more conceptual than structural — a magnificent illusion maintained by tradition, bureaucracy, and a stubborn refusal to acknowledge maps drawn by outsiders.
Read more on Medium at the link below:
https://medium.com/journeys-through-transorangoria/the-expedition-to-the-borderlands-b9d820a44db9
https://medium.com/journeys-through-transorangoria/the-expedition-to-the-borderlands-b9d820a44db9
https://medium.com/journeys-through-transorangoria/the-expedition-to-the-borderlands-b9d820a44db9
https://medium.com/journeys-through-transorangoria/the-expedition-to-the-borderlands-b9d820a44db9
Cambodia’s Environment ministry announce distribution of water filters, clean stoves to communities https://www.byteseu.com/911335/ #ClimateWatch #environment #NationalAffairs #society #ThePhnomPenhPost
Interconnected Disaster Risks:
Turning Over a New Leaf
The fight against climate change, species extinction, and environmental pollution must address the root causes more effectively. Many solutions in the areas of waste, nature conservation, distributive justice, the future, and health are too superficial. Without a rethinking of values and mindsets, nothing will change.
In European homes, pesticides thrive,
A toxic cocktail, bees can't survive.
On fruits and veggies, they linger,
Making our environment stinger,
Let's go organic and keep them alive.
#GuardianLimerick #Pesticides #Farming #Environment #Science #Europe #Health #Property #Money #Society #Cancer
https://www.europesays.com/uk/10333/ Will AI improve your life? Here’s what 4,000 researchers think #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #HumanitiesAndSocialSciences #MachineLearning #multidisciplinary #Policy #Science #Society #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom
As Expo 2025 opens in Osaka, Japan is betting on a fading global format to project optimism and innovation. But in an age of climate anxiety and digital connection, can a world’s fair still matter? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/11/japan/society/osaka-expo-relevance-history/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #2025osakaexpo #osaka #exhibitions #micetourism
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Let my Artificial Intelligence read it to you — it’s got a voice, and a bit of attitude too. 
Just like me… but with better pronunciation. 
From Myth to Machine: When Stories Shaped Our Journey to the Stars
CANTING. Preaching with a whining, affected tone, perhaps a corruption of chaunting. Also a kind of gibberish used by thieves and gypsies, called likewise pedlar's French, the slang, &c. &c.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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https://www.europesays.com/1985129/ South Korea’s ex-first couple to take 11 pets when they move out presidential residence on Friday #Politics #society #SouthKorea #TheKoreaHerald
The Future With Friends
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-future-with-friends/
Greece Fails to Absorb 97% of EU Funding for Hydrogen https://www.byteseu.com/909396/ #Climate #culture #EnglishVima #Finance #Greece #NewsInEnglish #Opinions #Politics #Science #society #tourism #TovimaEnglish #TovimaEnglishEdition #tovima.com #WSJ
MOPSQUEEZER. A maid servant, particularly a housemaid.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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I don't worship the guy or anything, I just see him as an exceptionally brilliant guy who made brilliant observations about #society. He supported #emancipation of #slaves during the #CivilWar. He was slightly less bad than other people of his time on that stuff.
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