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  Today in Amman we expect 22 - 34°C. Ok, it's end of July and this is not much above normal, if I'm not mistaken. It might stay like this for some time, but mostly I think we are well equipped to deal with this type of temperature. For anybody working outside it is a lot - fortunately many companies change working hours; street cleaners work morning and evening, with a long brake during the hot time. Some building companies let their employees just work at night https://petra.gov.jo/en/ne...

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  I was shocked to read this. "Make note of this. It is the 10th of July 2026. Around 10:00am local time. A pogrom is coming. Everyone knows it. If people of colour, queer people, or anyone else deemed undesirable by the supremacist movement are attacked in any way, know that this was predictable." https://www.hauntologies.net/p/report-from-belfast-day-1 #NorthIreland

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  Looks like I did not update our catnews since long time. Some weeks ago our DIL came, nearly crying: she had seen a very sweet kitten in the pet shop and it was not well and might die! The owner threw it in her arms and as her own cats would not accept it the little one landed here and developed into a cute little gangster. We called him Fufu after finding out it was probably a boy. He is a spoiled little sweety: #Caturday

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  @sean Genau. Ich hätte mir in meiner Jugend gewünscht, so etwas wie das Internet zu haben, mit allen Nachteilen. Als ich online ging, vor grob gesagt knapp dreißig Jahren, fand ich eine neue Welt. Die liebe Kollegin, die mir diesen Rat gab, als ich ihr ein paar Fragen stellte, hat mir einen riesigen Gefallen getan, ich hab's nie vergessen.

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  This is probably the best thing I've read in long time about writing and the gaslighting by tech bros about LLMs and other slop. Thank you, Robert @WeirdWriter https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-colonization-of-confidence/

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  New day. 8am in Amman. Still a bit more quiet outside as usual because it is the last official holiday for our Eid, so schools etc are still closed. We used yesterday morning to do a big shopping - in Ramadan we only bought strictly necessary like fresh fruit or milk etc. - to fill up the storage cupboard. I expect rising prices for food, although in Jordan they don't let the "market" profit too excessively of changing prices on the world markets. But at a certain poin...

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  Erinnerungen - ich fand zufällig dieses Video, kann zwar meine alte Wohnung nicht sehen, aber die Stimmung kenne ich noch von den Straßenfesten nach der Bombe, als die Anlieger versuchten, die Straße wieder als Einkaufs- und Restaurantmeile zu bewerben. Ich habe sehr gern dort gewohnt. #Köln #Ramadan https://www.zdfheute.de/video/zdfheute-xpress/koeln-fasten-brechen-ramadan-video-100.html

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  I don't even count how many times per day I hear the alarm. Just now again. Not too much to worry, we are not the target here, but living in the shadow of the war after 2,5 years of war against Gaza is beginning to fray my nerves. Yesterday hits close to Natanz in Iran and Dimona in Israel. You know what these two cities have in common? Yes. And Dimona is damn close east of Gaza, too.

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  Not so happy. Financially, 2025 was probably the worst year I had since I started translating for a living. I lost most of my long time clients - retirement, sickness etc. - and new ones are hard to find. So I am on self promotion now - anyone here who wants his English book translated into German? No option for you? Talk to me. Most of my authors are glad for the additional income. References on my blog - see profile. #translations #books #writing #author

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  @KalleWirsch Er versteht nichts außer seinem Bisschen Sauerland.