Inspiration found here? Desgn of new Presidential Palace for Haiti

When going to Portugal: visit the Aljube Museum. The museum about the political persecution during the Salazer dictatorship: shows how fascists get a foothold, then invade all aspects of life; very relevant TODAY with the rise of autocratic regimes. www.museudoaljube.pt :Lisbon off the tourist track

Graph with data on immigration, emigration, the net migration, natural growth, population growth and number of asylim seekers in The Netherlands 2002 - 2024. Asylum around 10% of migrants. Shows clearly how refugee theme is abused by the populist politicians as a "refugee crisis" (data: cbs.nl)

Bluesky what is wrong with you?
Bluesky should not become "Parship" or similar.
Bluesky should remain platform for discussion and information sharing.
How does it come that EVERY DAY I have new followers (f) who have no posts other than bikini pictures!
I do not think my profile causes this

A posting on Bluesky each day
keeps the doctor away.

Microsoft´s heist: increasing the subscription price by 30%, 30 Euro, because of it´s inclusion of AI Co-Pilot. With over 340 million users globally, Microsoft raking in 10.3 billion Euro (/USD): paying off most of it´s investment in Co-Pilot in ONE year! You can opt out by changing subscription

Meta (=Mark & Co) upping their game: data grabbing from all users of any product of Meta, unless objected to (for the future), and if some-one else has your info, picture or text, and does not object it falls in Meta´s hands as "legitimate interest" of Meta to improve their AI. Time to leave Meta

Elon Musk's Plan B when Tesla sales meltdown goes further?

In the Netherlands there are at least 128 J.F. Kennedy roads (Kennedyplein/straat/laan/singel/dreef/plantsoen). F.D. Roosevelt, brings it to 60, Pres. Wilson trails with 3. No Lyndon B. Johnson street, no Nixon Boulevard. No Bush, no Trump: the latter is not going to get a road with his name so soon

"A people yielding to tyrants,
will lose more than life and property,
Then the light goes out."

Text in Dutch on a Monument in Amsterdam
Original by resistance hero and journalist H.M. Van Randwijk:

"een volk dat voor tirannen zwicht,
zal meer dan lijf en goed verliezen,
dan dooft het licht."

Lesotho, the mountain Kingdom located within South Africa - just adding this for Bully Trump who did not follow geography lessons- produces beautiful carpets.
Lesotho was hit by a 50% tariff: Lesotho should hit back by increasing its export of QUALITY CARPETS to the world!
Visit Lesotho!

Reading tip: the incredible but true Facebook story by Sarah Wynn-Williams about people with a lack of ethics, not really nice people at the top, and it did not just change under Trump II, the thirst for dominating the information age and for your personal data was there already

In 1973 Arab countries imposed an oil boycot on the Netherlands because of the unconditional support for the Israeli government. The Dutch trauma because of the bad record regarding deportations of Jewish people during WWII.
Car-free Sundays and a numberplate based restrictions.