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From Granada to Venezuela

On April 7, 1939, Italian forces under Benito Mussolini invaded Albania and claimed control of that country.2 Italian forces in Albania, April 7, 1939. Author: Kingdom

What If I Couldn't Garden?

I missed last week's question for the Hive Garden community as I was just so busy moving house. I'm desperate to be done with the massive garden I'm trying to maintain

Good News at Last! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Good news my friends - the house is SOLD! How things can just turn on a pin. Last week I was in an anxiety spiral wondering how we were going to pay this stupid

Are You A Marketplace Dickhead?

Dick-head stupid, annoying, horrible person; jerk: "I couldn't care less what all the dickheads up the pub reckon"; stupid; foolish; befitting a dick-head:

birthday dum dum dum dum dum

When someone dies, you focus on the good things - everything you miss. But dammit, Dad could also be a pain in the ass. Every year he'd rubbish me for banging on

Can AI Create Art?

The auction house, Christies, recently held an auction of AI Art. On their website, in describing AI 'art', they posted this sentence: "AI art has emerged as

Fascism

The first time I heard a U. S. president referred to as fascist was when Richard Nixon was president. The same charge has been leveled more recently against the

Freedom of Speech

On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I wish I had not watched the video that showed the murder. I watched it because I wanted to know if everything

I baked my first sourdough bread!

It has been a couple of months since I had written this very much annoyed post about the sourdough mafia and how every trad-wife on the country side seems to be

Why Does Everyone Get Bearish When The Hive Price Drops? 🐻

There's two things that have taught me about life - actual life, and Hive. Are you ready for it? Things go up. Things go down. Things go up. Things go down. Maybe

Life ain't no simple slicer

The end of summer is starting to near and I can feel everyone around get into their normal place for the rest of the year to do what they do. I'm not good at that

ICE: Is Cruelty a Brand?

When we, the public, watch immigration raids being carried out in the U. S., many of us dwell on the human toll, the individual tragedies that these raids often

An Earthquake in Russia, causes a Tsunami in Japan, Alaska and Hawaii!

Introduction On Wednesday, July 29, 2025, a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 struck off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. This earthquake generated

The Immigration Conundrum

"...we risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together": UK Prime Minister Starmer, May, 2025, in his White Paper describing

The Eternaut.... Just don't do it

I have had a good winter with series I must admit. Not always this is the case as sometomes this is really searching for what you want to watch endlessle scrolling

$5,000 Baby Bonus?

Graph from U. S. Census shows decline in births from 2001-2021. Public domain The Trump Administration is floating the idea of giving a $5,000 baby bonus to "every

Women's Sexual Freedom and the Modern Era

There is a lot to talk about on this topic, but today I'm kinda continuing the postI made yesterday and talking about how sexual purity is no more important for

To Mourn the Late Pope They're Selling an Ice Cream Flavour and they Named it After the Pope. WTF?

The death of Popes boosts tourism in the Vatican, and tourism is never complete without capitalism trying to pull off one stunt or the other. They're selling Pope

Words Matter

I have said many things in my life that I regretted. Never, though, did I make these statements in a speech. A prepared remark holds more weight than spontaneous

The Ultimate Argument for Why Religious Moderates Have no Excuse. Not One!

Everytime someone talks against religious extremists the religious moderates always come out to remind us that it is not every member of their religion that are