Nostr notes by Frank Sonderborg

Why didn't some tell me it would go this way!!! Oh they did. ...

2026-02-16T09:53:43Z

Why didn't some tell me it would go this way!!! Oh they did. But I ignored them;+P
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/business-economics/economics/the-economic-cost-of-brexit-has-just-been-laid-bare-and-its-devastating-403099/

A study this week found that approximately six thousand child sex ...

2026-01-10T14:40:07Z

A study this week found that approximately six thousand child sex abuse and sexual harassment images are now being generated (and published online) every hour by the X Internet Unlimited Company.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the-abuse-factory/

I had a Tesco delivery this afternoon, the driver said, " ...

2026-01-02T10:28:40Z

I had a Tesco delivery this afternoon, the driver said, " I've got a couple of substitutions for you, here's your rosemary and haddock".
I said, "this is neither the thyme or the plaice".

When Chinese media openly discusses preparing for Russia’s ...

2025-12-19T14:55:09Z

When Chinese media openly discusses preparing for Russia’s collapse and the division of its territory — that’s a signal. Perhaps a trial balloon. Perhaps preparing public opinion. But definitely not coincidence.
https://medium.com/@cheslavsky/seven-million-square-kilometers-must-not-be-lost-chinese-media-openly-discusses-carving-up-861317264f3e

Why the Irish can spin a good yarn;-) ...

2025-11-15T09:06:31Z

Why the Irish can spin a good yarn;-)

Who is actually going to be buying their landfill junk if ...

2025-10-23T12:39:06Z

Who is actually going to be buying their landfill junk if everybody is out of a job. Next up, Ai as consumers perhaps?
https://interestingengineering.com/culture/amazon-may-replace-human-jobs-with-robots

If the UN packed their bags and moved out of New York. Annual ...

2025-09-28T16:17:15Z

If the UN packed their bags and moved out of New York.
Annual loss of about $3.7 billion in economic output linked directly to the UN's presence.
Roughly 16,000 direct employees could lose their jobs or be relocated, with further ripple effects on indirect employment in related sectors.
The UN’s departure would create a surplus of unused office and residential real estate previously occupied by diplomats, mission staff, and their families, impacting property markets and local tax revenues.

Mail Order Bride with return right? ...

2025-08-06T12:48:54Z

Mail Order Bride with return right?

But it seems sensible to reduce my attack surface. So the photos ...

2025-07-22T09:45:58Z

But it seems sensible to reduce my attack surface. So the photos go into the memory hole, and finally, my Mastodon account, my alternative to the radioactive bonfire socials of Twitter, small and humble and very much allergic to Nazis. Hitting that "delete" button hurt. But it had to happen.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/column_social_media_entrapment/

Critics have pointed out that the environment was highly ...

2025-07-21T13:04:52Z

Critics have pointed out that the environment was highly artificial, possibly more like a "high-tech prison" than any natural habitat—a factor that might have amplified or distorted the effects seen, making direct comparisons to human society problematic. Some male mice withdrew altogether, focusing on self-grooming and social isolation, showing no interest in mating—a phenomenon described as the emergence of "beautiful ones," who were physically healthy but socially inert. -Billionaire class?

Niels Brock, a Copenhagen-based business college, will lay off ...

2025-07-01T06:12:27Z

Niels Brock, a Copenhagen-based business college, will lay off 186 teachers over the next five years as it closes its international, tuition-based program. Despite enrolling a record 3,500 international students this year—a new high for the institution. The closure is a direct result of recent changes to Danish immigration rules. (Hard rain gonna fall)

Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves ...

2025-06-06T11:07:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…2wz6
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Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new." : Philip K. Dick

"Do not believe…do not assume that order and stability are ...

2025-06-06T11:07:00Z

"Do not believe…do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ossified, must always give way to new life and the birth of new things. Before the new things can be born the old must perish. This is a dangerous realization, because it tells us that we must eventually part with much of what is familiar to us. And that hurts. But that is part of the script of life. : Philip K. Dick

A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus ...

2024-08-26T10:36:07Z

A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus crashed yesterday losing its entire load. Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed, confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed, speechless, and perplexed.

Boeing sends two more Cosmonauts to Mars. Believed to be a one ...

2024-08-25T09:11:19Z

Boeing sends two more Cosmonauts to Mars. Believed to be a one way trip, to make Mars gripe again.

I read somewhere that Lee Child (Author of the Jack Reacher ...

2024-08-07T08:43:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…2r8z
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I read somewhere that Lee Child (Author of the Jack Reacher novels) bought another apartment in the block where he lived, to use exclusively for writing.
So he would get up have breakfast with the family and go off to work. ( Now that would work for me;-)

Kneecap, which stars the Belfast rap trio of the same name and ...

2024-08-02T13:25:59Z

Kneecap, which stars the Belfast rap trio of the same name and tells their "riotous and ground-breaking" origin story, has already taken honours at the Sundance Film Festival in the US and the Galway Film Fleadh
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2024/0802/1463061-kneecap-movie-chosen-as-irelands-oscar-hopeful/