Inger Stokkink✒️

Writes about #Denmark, #Aarhus & #Denmark. Twittert over Deense actualiteit #DDVDD = Deense Dingen Van De Dag, katten, zeilen
Mastodon: @[email protected]

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

If there is precisely one thing you watch today, make it this. French Senator Claude Malhuret. A microphone. And the most magnificently savage dismantling of the Trump administration ever delivered in a language they almost certainly don’t speak.

He covers Iran. He covers corruption. He covers the kind of staggering, industrial-scale incompetence that would get you fired from managing a car park. And he does it with the calm, unhurried certainty of a man who has read every page of the indictment and found it, if anything, worse than expected.

France has never pretended to like these people. But this is contempt elevated to an art form. The kind of refined, aristocratic disdain that takes centuries of civilization to produce and approximately ninety seconds to deploy.

Malhuret sounds like he is four seconds from the button. Not out of panic. Out of sheer, exhausted disgust.
Honestly? Understandable.
Watch it. Share it. The adults are speaking.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Inger Stokkink✒️ @stokkink]

Over het midden dus. Geen exclusief-linkse regering. Eigenlijk de oude regering plus vijf partijen. Ja, een versplinterd politiek landschap. En Frederiksen gaat ook praten met de Atlantische zetels (Groenland & Færøer) #Denemarken

[Inger Stokkink✒️ @stokkink]

Nou ja! Na één dag al nodigt Mette Frederiksen van Socialdemokratiet (S) 7 partijen uit voor eerste onderhandelingen tot het vormen van een regering: SF, Enhedslisten, Radikale, Alternativet, Moderaterne, Venstre en De Konservative. #Denemarken #DeenseDingenVanDeDag

[Inger Stokkink✒️ @stokkink]

@implausibleblog @UKLabour That sounds suspisciously like social-democratis in Denmark #socialdemocracyisntwhatitusedtobe

[Inger Stokkink✒️ @stokkink]

@RobertPlomp @mariekehoogwout @D66 Of door US-gecontroleerde sociale media. Maar goed, verder helemaal mee eens.

[Henk Swarttouw @copenhenken]

Best practice. In #Lyon, where the #bicycle parkings are next to the pedestrian crossings. Smart! win-win! Cars shouldn't be parked there anyhow. @EuCyclistsFed @Cycling_Embassy

[Inger Stokkink✒️ @stokkink]

@ashatenbroeke Ja, doe het. Blijf proberen! Heel veel sterkte!

[Inger Stokkink✒️ @stokkink]

@PostvanFenna @id4twit Precies dat. En zolang de algemene opinie luidt dat je houden aan regels eigenlijk een beetje sufmutsig is, wordt huftergedrag niet minder.

[Inger Stokkink✒️ @stokkink]

@SParadijs @HaskoD Nou, Denemarken bijvoorbeeld. Daar was dit jaar markant minder vuurwerkgeknal buiten de toegestane periode: Oudejaarsavond en Nieuwjaarsdag...

[Inger Stokkink✒️ @stokkink]

@PostvanFenna @id4twit Maar we zijn ook de schijterig om die jongens op hun gedrag aan te spreken. En met reden. Het is net als met MeToo: het grootste probleem zijn de meelopers. Die vormen het publiek waar de relmakers naar smachten.

[Inger Stokkink✒️ @stokkink]

@Dolfjansen Dag Dolf!

[Inger Stokkink✒️ @stokkink]

@JurjenRamler @leolewin Maar welke meerderheid? In Nederland is de partij die de grootste wordt nog niet de partij van de meerderheid. Die begripsverwarring moet uit de weg geruimd.

Verder willen politici niet samenwerken en kiezers willen niet horen dat simpele oplossingen niet altijd de beste zijn.

[Martien Visser @BM_Visser]

De jaarlijkse fijnstofemissie door 1 dag vuurwerk is groter dan die van alle verbrandingsmotoren van personenauto's, bedrijfswagens en vrachtwagens in een heel jaar.
#grafiekvandedag

[David Jan Godfroid @djbelgrado]

Georgiërs, Oekraïners, Serviërs, Moldaviërs... hebben helemaal geen Washington, Brussel, Soros of wie/wat dan ook nodig om massaal in opstand te komen. Anders dan degenen die hun dat verwijten, hebben ze zelf voldoende lef.

[Inger Stokkink✒️ @stokkink]

@KenCook_KC @ColinSpenc4257 You still have it?? <3

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

The legendary "Tomb of Hector," said to house the remains of Hector, Trojan hero immortalized in Homer's Iliad. This historical site is situated in Cadianda, Üzümlü, Türkiye.

Recent seismic activity has caused this ancient tomb to gradually shift down the hillside, highlighting the delicate balance between our heritage and the forces of nature.

#drthehistories

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.

[Inger Stokkink✒️ @stokkink]

Khaled Al-Asaad, archaeologist. Remember his name. And his work.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

In 2015, ISIL militants publicly beheaded Syrian Scholar and Archaeologists Khaled al-Asaad, (82), after he refused to disclose the location of valuable artefacts.

Beginning in 2015, the pace of such destruction accelerated dramatically as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) expanded its sphere of control in Middle East. ISIL fighters looted what treasures could be sold to support their military campaign, and they destroyed and defaced significant portions of the ancient cities of Nineveh and Hatra in Iraq.

Ancient Syrian city of Palmyra  suffered perhaps most extensive damage. In August 2015 Temple of Baal Shamen, dedicated to the Phoenician storm god, was blown up. ISIL fighters followed by razing one of Palmyra’s largest surviving edifices, Temple of Bol, as well as site’s iconic Monumental Arch. Conservationists and scholars with UNESCO and other international groups worked to protect and preserve the affected sites even as battle lines in Syrian Civil War shifted, but they did so at great personal risk.

Syrian scholar Khaled al-Asaad, who had served as Palmyra’s chief archaeologist for 40 years, was publicly beheaded by ISIL for refusing to divulge the location of relics associated with the site. The highly-regarded archaeologist retired as the site's head of antiquities in 2003, but he continued to carry out research there until it fell to IS. Three of his sons and his son-in-law, who are also archaeologists, escaped to the capital with hundreds of valuable artefacts from the museum in nearby modern town of Tadmor as militants approached. But Asaad insisted that he would not leave his home.

"I am from Palmyra," he said, "and I will stay here even if they kill me."

Asaad was later detained by IS and interrogated about the locations of other artefacts that had been hidden. He was beheaded in a square in Tadmor that August after refusing to co-operate. Activists circulated a photograph purportedly showing his body tied to a pole, with a placard beside it accusing him of being Palmyra's "director of idolatry".

UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova said that; IS had killed Asaad "because he would not betray his deep commitment to Palmyra". She also characterized ISIL’s actions as a war crime, and she called upon the global community to unite around its shared heritage, saying, “We must respond to this criminal chaos that destroys culture with more culture.”

In weeks that followed the murder, IS destroyed several iconic parts of Palmyra from 1st-2nd Centuries CE, that it considered idolatrous. Temple of Baalshamin and cella and surrounding columns of Temple of Bel were blown up, as were the ancient city's triumphal arch and seven funerary towers at its necropolis.

After recapturing the site in late 2016, militants destroyed Tetrapylon - a group of four pillared structures and part of the Roman Theatre. Government forces have controlled the area since March 2017, but reconstruction work has been limited because of the ongoing civil war.

IS once held 88,000 sq km of territory stretching from western Syria to eastern Iraq and imposed its brutal rule on almost eight million people. The group was driven from its last part of land in 2019, but UN estimates that more than 10,000 militants remain active in Syria and Iraq. They are believed to be organised in small cells and they continue to carry out deadly attacks in both countries.

#archaeohistories

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Jericho, located in modern-day Palestine, is one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities, dating back about 11,000 years. It also holds the distinction of being the world’s lowest city, sitting 258 meters (846 feet) below sea level.

The earliest settlers of Jericho were part of the Natufian culture, a group of semi-sedentary hunter-gatherers. As the climate warmed after the last Ice Age, these people transitioned to an agrarian lifestyle, marking one of the first known shifts from nomadic to settled life.

By around 9600 B.C., the Natufians began constructing permanent structures, supported by resources and fresh water from the nearby Ein as-Sultan Spring. Archaeological finds, including ceramics and early dwellings, highlight Jericho’s significance as a foundational urban center, with the Natufians setting the stage for future advancements in human civilization.

#drthehistories

[Francesco Campagna @PacoCampagna]

"Nell'amore come nell'arte la costanza è tutto. Non so se esistano il colpo di fulmine, o l'intuizione soprannaturale. So che esistono la tenuta, la coerenza, la serietà, la durata".

Il 10 novembre 1928 nasceva il geniale compositore e direttore d'orchestra Ennio Morricone.