This week's newsletter from AthensLive is out:

* What does “without too much of a humanitarian cost” mean?

* How Greece is involved in the rising tensions in the Middle East

* ‘Greek Watergate’ - A testimony and a reportage

The Greek PM visited Israel this week, providing full support to the country. At the same time, the Greeks seem divided on whose side they are on as to the conflict; slightly more are those siding with the Palestinians.

US forces use the Greek bases of Souda in Crete and Elefsina in Attica to station their support aircraft and host Special Operation Forces. At the same time, authorities in Greece seem worried that the Israel-Palestinian war could trigger “terrorist attacks” in the country.

Greek Justice has done nothing for 18 months to prosecute people about the wiretapping scandal. Yet, it prosecutes members of the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy - ADAE, said ADAE president Christos Rammos, testifying to the European Parliament LIBE Committee. A report also revealed that action by the Top Court may have resulted in not unveiling the possible connection between the Greek government and the Predator.

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Cheff JJ on ig

Copy-pasted directly from his reel:

ingredients: - 2 cups of flour - 4 cups of water + 1 cup ( for the pasta) - 4 small red onions - 1 cup of brown whole lentils - 1/2 tsp cumin powder - 1/2 tsp coriander powder salt and pepper - 4-5 tbsp olive oil - half a lemon - sumac - fresh coriander

start by mixing 2 cups of flour and 1 cup of water.

knead the dough very well and let it rest while preparing the rest of the meal.

finely dice 3 onions and fry in olive oil, add a cup of washed brown lentils.

season with cumin powder, coriander powder, salt and pepper add 4 cups of water and let it simmer on low for about 10-15 minutes.

flour the counter top and roll the dough as thin as you prefer your pasta to be.

roll the dough on itself and cut it into thin strips. flour the pasta and add it to the pan. cook it for about 5 minutes

slice an onion and fry it in olive oil till it starts to brown and char, you want the char flavor.

reserve some for garnish and add the oil and onion to the pan and mix. serve in a plate, garnish with the onions, lemon, fresh coriander sumac and enjoy

Ada Limón, from “Sometimes I Think My Body Leaves a Shape in the Air”, The Carrying: Poems

Ada Limón, from "Shelter: A Love Letter to Trees," published in June 2022

It's fun reading writers who clearly grew up in suburban/urban environments as someone who grew up on a farm because they're always like "oh it was so creepy, woods at night, eerily breathtaking, something was living in there..." and it's like yeah that'll be the deer.

HAPPY 114‼️‼️ take these silly doodles i did

Leon S. Kennedy, the silent protector in Resident Evil

If you're interested on a Leon plushie, you can get it HERE

You can’t win as a woman in fiction. Be too positive, you become a Mary Sue, have flaws and those flaws are why almost nobody likes you. Be moderate, you have wet-cabbage personality, be exuberant, you are an unrealistic example. Have strong morals, and you’re badly developed, be morally corrupt and you’re hated with such vigour fans will send hate mail to the actress who plays the character. Be kind and soft and in love, you’re a representation of sexism, be cruel, harsh and cold and you’re just a bitch. Be a complex, realistic, ambiguous character, and either your flaws or your positive traits will be ignored or blown out of proportion and into oblivion. There is no winning for female characters.

found out today an allegedly accessible entrance was not in fact, accessible, and this is my proposition to fix it. I call it the Grian of ADA Compliance.

If you have a medical condition that makes you at high risk for Covid (which is a long fucking list) or you live with or care for someone who does, under the ADA you can require that every person you will come in contact with in a medical facility be masked and that they properly filter the air.

This week's newsletter from AthensLive is out:   Banning parties on ideological grounds

* “The court went an unneeded step further and used ideology as a criterion to ban a party from running”  *   More of a farce than a debate  * “The fiscal situation is falsified; Far from being rosy, we are at the edge of the cliff”

- are the main headlines to be found inside this highly informative weekly must-read from and about Greece. Greece is slipping towards ‘Orbanisation,’ a renowned Public Law professor and President of the European Constitutional Law Centre acknowledged. Most worryingly, Greece’s Top Court, aided by ND lawmaking, has opened Pandora’s box for parties to be banned based on their ideology. The “Greek Watergate” and the apparent cover-up effort is a major blow to Greek democratic polity, the same expert warned, while the PEGA Committee was publishing a damning report for Greece as to the scandal. At the same time, the political leaders ‘debate’ was marked by journalists’ non-freedom, while DiEM25 denounced its exclusion from government-friendly oligarch media. Finally, former Finance Minister Alekos Papadopoulos made a dramatic plea to the three governmental parties: Fiscal data have been presented rosy while they are grim, he wrote. You should make a proper fiscal assessment and join forces so that the country does not enter an economic crisis yet again. 

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break my arms around the one i love

poem: Shauna Barbosa GPS art: @mmelodyj / unknown / Ainslie Hogarth Motherthing / Keaton St. James HISTORY STUDENT FALLS IN LOVE WITH ASTRO PHYSICS STUDENT / @555w4 / unknown / Ada Limón The Good Fight / @sunsbleeding

LOVE AS VIOLENCE VS LOVE AS SOFTNESS

Ada Limon, The Good Fight // Mary Oliver, West Wind // Danez Smith, Bare // Sappho, Fragment 58.25-26 // Mitski, I Don’t Smoke // Ashe Vernon // Hozier, Cherry Wine // Shauna Barbosa, GPS // Richard Siken, Little Beast // Chen Chen, Summer [The sunflowers fall…] // Warsan Shire // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

i had to draw soft tummy ada as well

toby and ada deal with Some Guy

at your service (or demise)