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Katrin How on earth did they do it?
27. März 2024
Ah, that's good to know! I might have a look around just out of curiosity. I've since learned that w...
Heather Athebyne How on earth did they do it?
25. März 2024
...though not entirely easy. I've been able to get my hands on a few strands over the years for Geor...
Katrin Hieroglyphs.
23. Februar 2024
Yes, that would sort of fit that aspect - but you can also go from bits of woods to sticks if you ar...
Bruce Hieroglyphs.
23. Februar 2024
I think the closest English equivalent would be 'Down the rabbit hole'. It has one entrance (No, not...
Harma Spring is Coming.
20. Februar 2024
I'm definitely jealous! Mine disapeared except for one pathetic little flower. But the first daffodi...

Politics. Gah.

There's a lot of politics going on at the moment, all the time, that make me wish... I'm actually not really sure what to wish for. Probably some more human decency for everybody, plus some more awareness and shit-giving for those who are actual high-ranking politicians, and a bit more common sense (again, for everybody, I'd take an extra serving of that too. Can never hurt).

TTIP and CETA are still not off the table, even though there's been more petitions and protests against them than I can count these days, and every German politician should have realised by now that the majority of the people here do not want either of these agreements.

Syngenta has been granted a patent on tomatoes. Freaking tomatoes. A patent. Patents are for inventions. Nobody invented the tomato. Patents are not for breeding, or anything would be patented. Can you even start to believe it? (If you can't, and would like to help stop this utter madness, you can join the mass opposition here. German version is here.)

The refugee situation is still surrounded by myths and people say the stupidest things, or use them as scapegoats. It's war over there. War. I can totally understand that people are trying to leave - I can also totally understand that most of the refugees are staying much closer to home than Germany, the US, or the rest of Europe, hoping for that madness to end soon, making it possible for them to return home. Can we please all show some human decency and be happy for the people who actually made it out of that hell alive? Maybe imagine how we ourselves would feel if we had to choose between hell on earth where once home was, and family and friends and comfort, or leaving everything behind, risking our lives and that of our loved ones to take refuge in some foreign place far away?

Really. What is up with humanity?

Sometimes, there's a shimmer of hope, like when the Paris Agreement was made - we do need to change to sustainably energy and stop the climate change, and the Paris Agreement is an important step in the right direction. However... plans are to start implementing things in 2020. That's years from now. Also it has to be signed and ratified by governments all around the world before that - and there is no time limit on when it has to be ratified... so it might all peter out into nothing. (There's again somewhere you can sign to try and help speed this up. Hope springs eternal, right?)

There's also no end in sight for the madness that is the EU vat. There are still plans afoot to extend the rules to physical goods sometime in the future, and I'm still afraid of that, because that would probably mean the end of my business. I have addresses that I could write to, but I'm so tired of all this and sort of hopeless that it will change anything. I know that is not true, but I still don't have the energy to sit down and write that letter, and send it off. It makes me angry at myself, and sad, but the task still sits on my to-do-list, so I haven't given it up completely yet. Maybe next week.

Sigh. Sorry for the rant.
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