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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Crazy to link the page but not read the relevant parts.

    In December 2019, System1, an advertising company which portrays itself as privacy-focused,[19] acquired Waterfox.[20][21] In July 2023, Alex Kontos announced that Waterfox had been turned into an independent project again.[22]



  • I’ve really not enjoyed the last Astérix, having grown up with the Goscinny ones. To be honest, I haven’t read this one, but I’m planning to. Not expecting much to be honest, but thanks for the review nonetheless !

    Goscinny of course had master class puns, and I mean in french it’s just perfection. But maybe it’s further than that. He had great timing and tempo in storytelling, that the newer albums clearly have lost. They try nowadays to take the spirit of making jokes using modern situations, which can work but this mostly falls flat imo. It’s like writing satire and being witty isn’t as easy as it sounds !








  • Oh yes personal story time! When I went to study to university more than 10 yrs ago, I lived for 1 year in a family and they had this painting on a mug. I drank from that mug every morning for a year.

    Missed the mug after that, but went to Amsterdam shortly after! Went to the van Gogh museum, saw the painting as it naturally became one of my favorites from Mr one ear and found the mug. Of course I bought it!

    Right next to it is the wheatfield with crows wheatfield with crows. I find it very complementary to the thundercloud one. Previous experts thought the crows foreshadowed van Gogh’s impending death but recent analysis of his writings have shown that in this case the flight of birds symbolise movement and flux more than stillness and death. I went back to the museum this year and they had the mug of that one! Of course I bought it. I’m a happy person with my van Gogh mugs.

    If you read this, I can recommend these mugs.