There’s a heated discussion currently about whether Finland and Sweden should join NATO. The Russian government views this as a provocation, despite NATO having never shown any indications of threatening Russia. Imagine a world where the conversation was about whether Russia should join NATO. This could have happened if the Russian government didn’t shove it’s […]
Julia and I visited the memorial to the Sinti and Roma people who died during World War 2.
I finally visited the former NSA spy station on top of Teufelsberg in Berlin. I’ve walked around it, to it, toward it and anything else you can imagine, but never went into it. I went with my friend Diana who was visiting for the weekend.
Just because the law defines something as a crime, does not mean it is something that should be prosecuted. New Zealand has a blasphemy law. Police don’t waste their time prosecuting people for being blasphemous because they know it’s a stupid law. The same should apply to weed. – Ryan Hellyer
I’m not much of a food blogger, but this was too weird not to mention. I had vegan beef tartar for dinner today. I wouldn’t touch real beef tartar with a pole, but I tried the vegan version. I described it as “a bit weird”. Not bad, just weird. It was apparently made from rice […]
Tonight I had Huels new Mexican Chilli soup. Just add hot water and you have an INSTANT meal 🙂 None of this faffing about with stove tops and vegetables and crap. This is probably the closest I’ll ever get to becoming a soldier … I feel like I just ate an MRE for dinner. The […]
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I’m just sharing this here, because I assume it won’t get reported elsewhere. The man in blue here was caught intoxicated directly behind the frontlines in Mariupol, firing a machine gun at random apartment buildings.
I’ve never made vegetable soup, so I just grabbed some vegetables, herbs, a dried Carolina reaper, some MSG and pepper in and put it on slow cook mode in my rice cooker along with a little water. Two hours later, and I’ve realised you definitely don’t need that much herbs in there and all of […]
I appeared on an episode of the Caution: May cause Wanderlust podcast with Elaine Long.
In the episode, we discussed culture shock and unexpected differences on moving to a foreign country, simple miscommunications, bureaucratic oddities and other things.
I watched the video of Vladimir Putin addressing how the war on Ukraine came to be. Here is my brain dump after watching it … He missed one fundamental question … why does nobody trust Russia? I feel this is a self-answering question. Russia has a track record of invading countries, which has been ironically […]
I last tried cooking this back around the year 2000. Fast forward 22 years, and there’s a lot better resources available online for cooking food like this, and my first attempt was a complete failure … so I didn’t take a picture of it. This is my second attempt and I’m super happy with it. […]
Today is the anniversary of the most amazing moment of my life. I had long known that I suffered from extreme anxiety and panic attacks. In the past few years, this had become combined with extreme anger. My anger was not directed at anything or anyone in particular. I was simply angry for what felt […]
There’s a fine line between madness and genius. Some dance on the verge. Some fly off the edge into the abyss. – Ryan Hellyer
Racism will always exist. Humans fear that which is not the same as what they’re used to. But things can improve, and I’m sure they will. Many of the children of today attack the adults of today if they speak poorly of someone due to their race. Those same children would have been given a […]
I prefer to die a man who lived by principles that nobody could shake, and a man who added a bit of love to the world. – Lex Fridman From the intro to a podcast with Jay Bhattacharya. I also discussed this on Facebook.
I hope you all had a terrific year. My 2021 didn’t start so well, but it rapidly turned into the greatest year of my life. Hopefully it is the beginning of many more great years, for all of us. 🍄 ❤️🧡🧡💛💚💛💜 🍄
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We had 15 mm of ice on the lake in my local park (Treptowerpark) on Xmas day yesterday, but overnight we have a -10° C freeze, and it had a super hard super strong 40 mm surface on it today 🙂 It’s a bit bumpy, but nice to be back on the ice again! I […]
Minus 7 degrees on Xmas eve was enough to give us 10 mm of ice. Not enough to skate on, but enough to give me hope to be out skating in the outdoors soon 🙂
This is was my solution to the hardest cookies anyone had ever tried to serve me! Your browser does not support the video tag.
Somebody broke into my apartment last night! I heard some crazy old mans voice saying “ho ho ho”, so I stormed downstairs to see some huge fat bearded guy in a red suit placing things underneath the Xmas tree. I kicked him in the balls and he dove out my window. Then he threw some […]
Things were getting tense in the Strattic weekly happy hour today. Team 2 were at risk of beating us as they wrote a banjo played musical jingle to compete against Miriams genius idea of a book turning device built with a bike bump, collander, duck tape and a rubber glove. So I stepped it up […]
Tane, me, Julia, Basia and Mo went to the Xmas market at Alexanderplatz in Berlin. Thanks to Mo for taking the photo for us.
Many people do not seem to appreciate the importance of freedom. Everyone dies; this is an inescapable reality of our own existence. We are on this cosmic plane for a brief window of time, and many of us would prefer that time to be spent as unrestricted as possible. Instead of hating on or insulting […]
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong. – Terence McKenna
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11347280/ What I do know is that we have absolutely zero understanding of how consciousness works or what it is. The evidence we have of it’s existence, is that we experience it. With this in mind, anything is possible. But there has always been logical explanations for the sorts of studies listed in that paper. […]
I had a fun day out foraging in Brandenburg. The foraging trip was organised by Tash from Avant garden.
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Picture borrowed from the Psychedelic Society Berlin.
Ideasthesia While “synesthesia” meaning “union of senses” implies the association of two sensory elements with little connection to the cognitive level, empirical evidence indicated that most phenomena linked to synesthesia are in fact induced by semantic representations. – from Wikipedia Synesthesia There are two overall forms of synesthesia: projective synesthesia: people who see colors, forms, […]
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Some pictures from a hiking trip with Basia in Naturpark Barnim last year.
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Strattic happy hour activity. Create a website. My team won 🙂
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I’ve been accused many times of having ass burgers. So when I saw an anus burger on sale at a Burger King in Budapest, I had to try one. I give it a 3/10. I’d eat it again if I had to, but it’s not recommended.
This is what happens when idiots panic about the number of immediate dead people rather than focusing on what achieves the most long term happiness. – me
We found an exciting new spot to work from.
Mo and I somehow ended up at a rave in the middle of nowhere.
Libraries aren’t just a place to obtain books for free. They’re one of the only relaxing indoor spaces left in our society, where you’re allowed to exist without the expectation of spending money. – modified from a now deleted tweet by Amanda Killian, which I found via Cassienne Krenek