RenateKappes

@renatekappes

EU citizen in Eurocity in the middle of Europe. Here you will find some more about biodiversity, permaculture, sustainability • mixtures • sayable, unsayable • philosophy, Enlightenment, the unconscious & the five senses • history of art, concepts & ideas.

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RenateKappes@renatekappes· Jun 24

When you return at 🦋, Flora & Fauna will greet you. bsky.app/profile/dj-a...

»Speckled-wood butterflies dance in the sky above me« @ZwartblesIE

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Jun 22

To gold still tends, On gold depends All, all! Alas, we poor! (Goethe, Faust I) Inspired by Goethe, Faust I, I say it like this: To Copenhagen Criteria still tends, On Copenhagen Criteria depends All, all! Alas, we poor! eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-con... @kresten2.bsky.social

Accession criteria (Copenhagen criteria)

The Treaty on European Union sets out the conditions (Article 49) and principles (Article 6(1)) to which any country wishing to become a member of the European Union (EU) must conform.

Certain criteria must be met for accession. These criteria (known as the Copenhagen criteria) were established by the Copenhagen European Council in 1993 and strengthened by the Madrid European Council in 1995.

They are:

stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for and protection of minorities;

a functioning market economy and the ability to cope with competitive pressure and market forces within the EU;

the ability to take on the obligations of membership, including the capacity to effectively implement the rules, standards and policies that make up the body of EU law (the ‘ acquis ’), and adherence to the aims of political, economic and monetary union.

Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/glossary/accession-criteria-copenhagen-criteria.html

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Feb 12

Because the judges are corrupt. www.reddit.com/r/FigureSkat... www.isuresults.com/results/seas...

Ice Dance Judges Scores
https://www.reddit.com/r/FigureSkating/comments/1r2bm01/ice_dance_judges_scores/

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Jan 15

Freeports, and AI Growth Zones," @europeanpowell.bsky.social and the tax haven #TheCityUK. bsky.app/profile/euro... ↕️ #Palantir #Starmer bsky.app/profile/roto...

“But rejoining the single market or a customs union would not be a simple upgrade,” he said. “As a non-member, the UK would risk trading flexibility for uniformity: less scope to shape its own rules and fewer chances to cut bespoke deals beyond Europe, in return for the benefits of a single EU framework. As always, there’s a trade-off.”
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/09/starmer-rules-out-eu-financial-services-alignment-talks

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Jan 15

EU regulations for the British financial sector. 🍰🍒 Does anyone still fall for this? Ultimately, it's about making the London stock exchange location more flexible for the right-wing libertarian oligarchies "corporate takeover of the UK via Special Economic Zones,

UK regulators have been under pressure to dismantle a series of EU-era rules that politicians argue have hampered competitiveness and growth. Subsequent changes have led to larger banker bonuses, lower capital levels and looser listing rules for companies seeking to float in London.
Reversing those changes would risk derailing the recovery in London’s stock market listings, according to Steve Fine, the chief executive of Peel Hunt investment bank.
“A huge amount of work and effort has gone into improving the landscape for financial services in the UK, which are essential for a viable domestic capital market,” he said.
“The UK now has materially less friction than most other European jurisdictions as a venue for listing. If we want IPOs to come back, if we want the City to thrive, if we want public markets to be a key part of the overall financial markets landscape – this is all been really important. So ripping it up and going back to where we were simply wouldn’t make any sense. We do not want to be choking that off through excessive regulation.”
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/09/starmer-rules-out-eu-financial-services-alignment-talks

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Jan 12

ICE recently acquired their two monitoring systems, Tangles and Webloc. Webloc can locate phones without a court order and track their owners to their home or workplace. bsky.app/profile/lee-...

404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.

A social media and phone surveillance system ICE bought access to is designed to monitor a city neighborhood or block for mobile phones, track the movements of those devices and their owners over time, and follow them from their places of work to home or other locations, according to material that describes how the system works obtained by 404 Media.

Commercial location data, in this case acquired from hundreds of millions of phones via a company called Penlink, can be queried without a warrant, according to an internal ICE legal analysis shared with 404 Media. The purchase comes squarely during ICE’s mass deportation effort and continued crackdown on protected speech, alarming civil liberties experts and raising questions on what exactly ICE will use the surveillance system for.

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Dec 24

Found item. Thank you for this poem by Brian Bilston, Irena Buzarewicz (@IrenaBuzarewicz).

Screenshot from a poem by Brian Bilston.

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Dec 17

he can dry next to Ovenmitt at the AGA. 🐱😘🐶 These two nutcrackers are perfect gatekeepers. I've a soft spot for arts and crafts from the Saxon Ore Mountains. 💂🏻‍♂️🏰💂🏻‍♂️

Nutcrackers in lacquered uniforms, Christmas angels with thick, red cheeks, stylized fir trees, intricate Christmas pyramids, a Christmas nativity scene, and painted nativity figures made of light wood, plump Räuchermännchen, Schwibbögen, and cuckoo clocks on an antique wooden table in the "Handwerkskunst am Römer" store in Frankfurt am Main. Photo by Rui Camilo. Screenshot by https://www.efo-magazin.de/magazin/frankfurt-lokal/nussknacker/

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Dec 8

Your silver-nosed bodyguards won't shy away from rain or cold to be there for you. bsky.app/profile/suza... I like the idea and concept of #freshfleeces. www.freshfleeces.com/en-de/pages/...

Gift package with silver chains with silver dog nose pendants from #freshfleeces, presented on a tree trunk.
Photo & Screenshot by Suzanna Crampton. @Zwartblesireland.com

Greeting card and gift package with silver chains with silver dog nose pendants from #freshfleeces, presented on a tree trunk.
Photo & Screenshot by Suzanna Crampton. @Zwartblesireland.com

Blonde Terrier Maya on a tree trunk next to a gift package with silver chains with silver dog nose pendants from #freshfleeces.
Photo & Screenshot by Suzanna Crampton. @Zwartblesireland.com

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Nov 28

This has been going on for 9 years now." (Eu perspective, www.ft.com/content/22db...) And, on top of that, a well-mannered dig at Ireland. @nialloconghaile.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/real...

Screenshot Financial Times.
https://www.ft.com/content/22dbdba3-49dd-4b84-9f9e-bb15b5af2c24#comments-anchor

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Nov 28

That's why the reader comments are worthwhile. The EU "asks London anything. London asks to join an EU program (Horizon, SAFE, customs union, the list goes on), the EU names it's price, London is shocked it doesn't get it for free and walks away.

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Nov 24

With special support from Maya in her favorite place. She feels safe in the vine house & "Inca loves getting involved in everything.", as @Suzannacrampton.bsky.social says.

Blonde Terrier Maya in the greenhouse with Suzanna, who is laying a pathway made of stone slabs. Foto / Screenshot: Zwartbles Ireland • Suzanna Crampton @ZwartblesIE

Tiny Terrier Inca in the greenhouse with Suzanna, who is laying a path made of stone slabs. Foto / Screenshot: Zwartbles Ireland • Suzanna Crampton @ZwartblesIE

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Nov 10

🌿🪻🌷🌻🪴🌳☘️🍀🍂🌲🎄🎁🎊 zwartblesireland.com/product/2024... 👩🏻‍🌾🐶🐕🐱🐈🐈‍⬛🐑🐏🦙🐎🕊🪺🐦🐦‍⬛🐓🐸🐠🐝🦋🐛🪲🪳🪱🐴

Puppers Inca and Java advertising 2026 Limited Edition Zwartbles Ireland Calendar.

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Oct 24

In a country where its president is valued with pretty Christmas cards and tea cosies, he has done many things right for a long time. All the best in retirement, Michael D. Higgins. @nialloconghaile.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/shee...

Christmas card of Ireland President Michael D. Higgins and Bród, one of his two Bernese Mountain Dogs, 2021. Photo and screenshot by https://caoimhelikesdrawing.com/shop

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Oct 18

If you can plug things up, there's probably nothing more satisfying than mending holes in socks. You also have to see this work of arts & crafts from the front. Simply fantastic from @collingwoodnorris.bsky.social‬. #InternationalRepairDay #visiblemending #repair #reducewaste #sustainableliving

Visible creative mending at a cardigan. Photo & Screenshot by Flora Collingwood-Norris (@collingwoodnorr).

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Oct 13

I totally agree with you, dear libaoscompanion. 🐶🖤🩶❣️@suzannacrampton.bsky.social

A slightly older, gray-haired black puppy, beloved Bear. Photo & screenshot by Suzanna Crampton.

A slightly older, gray-haired black puppy, beloved Bear at the AGA. Photo & screenshot by Suzanna Crampton.

A slightly older, gray-haired black puppy, beloved Bear and a younger blond puppy, beloved Maya eatind windfall pears. Photo & screenshot by Suzanna Crampton.

A slightly older, gray-haired black puppy, beloved Bear smuggling with tiny puppy, beloved Inca in his new bed. Photo & screenshot by Suzanna Crampton.

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Sep 25

I edited the first German-language biography. Therefore, I'm somewhat familiar with him. I would probably choose "Histoire de Melody Nelson". 🎸 youtu.be/-Bphb9EZaTE?...

Cover of the book: Serge Gainsbourg. Für eine Handvoll Gitanes, by Sylvie Simmons, 2009

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Sep 22

Cooking during Indian summer, there is ratatouille from various root vegetables, turnip, parsnip, parsley root & carrots, and chutneys from beets & apples and peas & apples. de.pinterest.com/nancymessier...

Photo: Radishes made for Dotty by Nancy Messier.
https://de.pinterest.com/nancymessier/mini-art-quilts-by-nancy-messier/?lp=true

Photo: Carrots made for Dotty by Nancy Messier.
https://de.pinterest.com/nancymessier/mini-art-quilts-by-nancy-messier/?lp=true

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Sep 22

Agree. 👋🏻 For me it's remarkable Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com chose a recipe for German Zwetschgenkuchen (Plum Cake) and not for Apple Cake. However, Ukrainian, Polish, and German bakers know that this recipe for 🍎🍏 and 🫐 is the same.

Recipe for German Plum Cake. Screenshot by Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com.

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Sep 17

May his memory be a blessing, and deepest condolences to his family and friends. 🥀 💔🕯️Pastor Frank Engelbrecht married Robert Redford and his second wife, Sibylle Szaggars, in Hamburg in 2009. In conversation, he remembers the Hollywood star. www.ndr.de/kultur/film/... @suzannacrampton.bsky.social

Condolences to Mr. Redford's death. Screenshot: Suzanna Crampton.

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Sep 12

"Echos of Ebony." 👩🏻‍🌾🍃🐑 Attentive ears and watchful eyes. 🐺🐺 Thanks for the enjoyable ride with Bear as a passenger and Inca on your shoulder. 🚗👩🏻‍🌾🤎🐶🩶🖤🐕

Attentive ears and watchful eyes. A herd of zwartbles hoggets and lambs in front of a fence, behind which the two sheepdogs Brindle and Lorca are waiting. Screenshot: Suzanna Crampton.

Tiny dog family mummy Inca, daughter Maya and son Java didn't want to herd the Zwartbles ewes through the tall, wet nettle thicket. They waited in the courtyard, but came over the path to join the shepherds and Suzanna. Screenshot: Suzanna Crampton.

A ride with Bear as a passenger and Inca on Susanna's shoulder. Black and silver-grey dog sitting as a passenger in Susanna's car and watching the landscape. Screenshot: Suzanna Crampton.

A ride with Bear as a passenger and Inca on Susanna's shoulder. Tiny dog Inca sitting in Susanna's car on Susanna's shoulder and watching the landscape. Screenshot: Suzanna Crampton.

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Sep 8

Thank you, Martin, only exact numbers will help: "The number of tourists who use market-standard accommodations as their primary overnight accommodation increased by 1.5% compared to the previous year. Within this accommodation type, the number of hotel accommodations increased by 1.4%,

Screenshot from Spanish Tourist Information:

"The number of tourists who use market-standard accommodations as their primary overnight accommodation increased by 1.5% compared to the previous year. Within this accommodation type, the number of hotel accommodations increased by 1.4%, while the number of rental apartments decreased by 3.6%. The number of non-standard accommodations increased by 1.8%."

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Aug 27

which you eat with currywurst in the Ruhr area and Berlin. What a hodgepodge. Too bad it's so unauthentic.

Bavarian white sausages, pretzel and sweet mustard. Weißwürste, Laugenbrezel und süßer Senf.
Photo credit[s] Couleur / Pixabay
https://pixabay.com/de/users/couleur-1195798/
https://pixabay.com/de/photos/wei%C3%9Fw%C3%BCrste-wurst-wurstwaren-3378593/

Sunday roast, roast pork, spaetzle and sauce.
Sonntagsbraten, Schweinebraten, Spätzle und Soße.
Photo credit[s] Hans / Pixabay
https://pixabay.com/de/users/hans-2/
https://pixabay.com/de/photos/sonntagsbraten-schweinebraten-54324/

A bratwurst sausage served with curry-flavoured ketchup and curry powder, French fries red-white (ketchup and mayonnaise)
Currywurst, Pommes frites rot-weiß (Ketchup & Mayonnaise)
Photo credit[s] planet_fox / Pixabay
https://pixabay.com/de/users/planet_fox-4691618/
https://pixabay.com/de/photos/currywurst-pommes-essen-ern%C3%A4hrung-5271339/

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Aug 27

I'm glad to hear that, dear Martin. It's a very popular destination, just check out the worthwhile photo gallery on their website. The popular German poet and playwright Georg Büchner ("Dantons Tod", "Leonce und Lena", "Woyzeck") hid here as a student because he had secretly published an essay

Menu of the Badenburg Ritterkeller restaurant. Photo credit[s] by Gaststätte Badenburg Ritterkeller, Julia Bierbaum.
https://www.badenburg.de/speisekarte/

Burgknochen with baguette and garlic dip optionally also with oven-baked potato and herb quark. Photo credit[s] by Gaststätte Badenburg Ritterkeller, Julia Bierbaum.
https://www.badenburg.de/speisekarte/

A shovel of dirt with oven potatoes and quark. Grilled pork breast with herb butter, coleslaw, and a freshly baked baguette or oven potatoes with herb quark. Photo credit[s] by Gaststätte Badenburg Ritterkeller, Julia Bierbaum.
https://www.badenburg.de/speisekarte/

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Aug 26

Now British artists like @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social are losing their second leg as well. A catastrophe. EU artists can compensate it somewhat, but the damage is still enormous. @suzannacrampton.bsky.social @barnacrealpacas.bsky.social @nialloconghaile.bsky.social

Post & Photos Liza Adamczewski @lizaadamczewski

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Aug 26

out-of-time snapshots in differentiated shades of gray or earthy tones. One can recognize her characteristic line work. www.maryanngelly.com/drawing

Photo credit[s]: Mary Anne Gelly, Fountain at Shore Temple. This is an oil painting of a fountain discovered under the sand at the Shore Temple in Mamallapuram Tamil Nadu, Southern India.
https://www.maryanngelly.com/

Photo credit[s]: Mary Anne Gelly, Stone Wall in Hedgerow. This is an oil painting done on a panel, attempting to capture the sense of tangled growth in an ancient field boundary.
https://www.maryanngelly.com/

Photo credit[s]: Mary Anne Gelly, Rock Cut Temple. This is a large charcoal drawing done from a temple carved from solid stone in Tamil Nadu, Southern India.
https://www.maryanngelly.com/

Photo credit[s]: Mary Anne Gelly, Unfinished Temple. This is a large charcoal drawing of an unfinished temple cut from solid stone. Five Rathas, Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu in Southern India. https://www.maryanngelly.com/

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Aug 26

Male torsos and bodies are modeled from sewn and stuffed tarpaulin or raw linen. Seams and individual pieces of fabric represent a muscle group of the body. She sews sackcloth strips and string into bodies that also represent the muscle groups. www.maryanngelly.com/sculpture

Photo credit[s]: Mary Anne Gelly, Basket Head. Head formed of twine and string, formed over paper shape, with eyes made of marbles and teeth of clay.
https://www.maryanngelly.com/

Photo credit[s]: Mary Anne Gelly, Man of String. String used to represent muscle groups in the human body.
https://www.maryanngelly.com/

Photo credit[s]: Mary Anne Gelly, Head of Wire and Mesh. Stiffened needlepoint mesh fabric, with copper wires that follow the paths of the main facial nerves in the human head.
https://www.maryanngelly.com/

Photo credit[s]: Mary Anne Gelly, Linen Man. Detail of half-size human figure formed of unbleached linen, stuffed with pillow stuffing and quilted.
https://www.maryanngelly.com/

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Aug 17

Thanks to @suzannacrampton.bsky.social for the discovery of the brilliant Irish artist Dorothy Cross. 💮 www.dorothycross.com/2029-2020/ki... 💮 www.dorothycross.com

Book by the Irish artist Dorothy Cross: Kinship, Available from The Lilliput Press Ltd. A card with with a drawn dung beetle, a ball of dung, and a poem from an American after she’d visit #BlackSheepFarm & heard all about dung beetles environmental importance. Post & pictures by Susanna Crampton.

Book by the Irish artist Dorothy Cross: Kinship, Available from The Lilliput Press Ltd. Picture by Susanna Crampton.

A card with with a drawn dung beetle, a ball of dung, and a poem from an American after she’d visit #BlackSheepFarm & heard all about dung beetles environmental importance:

never gonna give poo up
never gonna let poo down
never gonna run around
and desert poo
never gonna make poo cry
never gonna say poobye
never gonna tell a lie
and hurt poo

Picture by Susanna Crampton.

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Aug 16

Gardens from a bird's-eye view. I am fascinated by the embroidered images by Collette Kinley. The textile and embroidery artist from Cambridgeshire is inspired by nature. 🌿 🌸 With this #embroidery, she won a competition at the Saatchi Gallery in 2020. etsy.com/shop/SewnbyC...

Embroidered garden from a bird's-eye view. Award winning embroidery at Saatchi Gallery. Picture by by Collette Kinley.

RenateKappes@renatekappes· Aug 14

Appeasement doesn’t solve real issues just makes it to into continuous compromise to solve those problems & have elastic boundaries." (All quotes by Suzanna Crampton, Feb 17, 2021, ZwartblesIE / formerly Twitter)