Mark, was Stan on the other place.
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Genuine UK Gypsy who is starting to get racial abuse from bots pretending to be of Romany origin, but know nothing of UK Gypsy culture.
Just be thankful it didn't end in a speeded up chase scene involving dirty old men and young ladies in just their underwear.
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Just be thankful it didn't end in a speeded up chase scene involving dirty old men and young ladies in just their underwear.
Don't forget the CD... I won't bug you again.
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Don't forget the CD... I won't bug you again.
It's difficult to take time off when you're brain doesn't have an off switch. Give Chris a big hug from me, partly because he's amazing, & partly because If you get a chance to hug an astronaut, it would be rude not to.
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
It's difficult to take time off when you're brain doesn't have an off switch. Give Chris a big hug from me, partly because he's amazing, & partly because If you get a chance to hug an astronaut, it would be rude not to.
We've got 9 lessons on the Friday, then Grace on Saturday. We went to lefty xmas last year and it was wonderful.
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
We've got 9 lessons on the Friday, then Grace on Saturday. We went to lefty xmas last year and it was wonderful.
Give them mohawks.
November 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Give them mohawks.
Great to see you again yesterday. Also, here's a gentle reminder about the CD.
November 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Great to see you again yesterday. Also, here's a gentle reminder about the CD.
Reposted by Mark, was Stan on the other place.
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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