Sherlock Holmes: 60 for 60

The Madleen has been hijacked and the activists aboard, including a member of EU Parliment, have been kidnapped by the Israeli military. Their communications were jammed, they were attacked with chemical weapons and they were ordered to throw their phones into the sea. I have no doubt in my mind that the aid they were carrying will be destroyed, if it hasn't been already. I'm unclear whether this assault took place in Egyptian, Palestinian or international waters but the fact either way is that Israel has no right to divert this mission. Not that it frikkin matters.

We all saw something like this coming but it's still so disheartening to see it happen. These activists come from France, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Brazil, Netherlands and Turkey. What we all can do now, what they've asked us to do, is to put pressure on their foreign ministries. The more eyes on them, the safer they'll be until their release.

French:
Email: alertes.cdc@diplomatie.gouv.fr & courrier.scec@diplomatie.gouv.fr
FB: France Diplomatie & Jean-Noël Barot
IG: francediplo & jeannoelbarot
Twitter: francediplo_en & francediplo & jnbarot

Brazilian
Email: portal@itamaraty.gov.br
FB: Ministerio das relacoes exteriroes
IG: itamaratygovbr
Twitter: ItamaratyGovBr

Spanish
Bsky: jmalbares & .bsky.social exterioresgob
Email: consular@maec.es
IG : [Bad username or site: exteriores @ maec]
Twitter: spainmfa & maecgob & jmalbares

Swedish
FB: SweMFA
IG: swedishmfa
Twitter: swemfa
Website: https://government.se/contacts/

Dutch
IG : minbz
FB : ministeriebz
Twitter: dutchmfa

Turkish
IG : tcdisisleri
FB : T.C. Dışişleri Bakanlığı
Twitter: mfaturkiye

German
IG: auswaertigesamt
FB: Auswärtiges Amt
Twitter: germanydiplo

Farmers market trip was an overall success. It did rain and I did forget to bring an umbrella but it was never worse than a drizzle. I was more worried about the niblings than myself but no issues to speak of. My sister's littlest refused to keep the canopy of his stroller up and his siblings didn't seem to care at all.

Still no peppers but we got there early enough that we had a good pick of the other produce I was looking for. Got peaches, plums, tomatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, lettuce, green onion and a handful of basil. I wanted cucumbers, too, but it was like they disappeared once I went back looking for them. Pretty sure what actually happened was that the couple of booths offering them were among the more popular and I overlooked them past the crowds that had gathered by then. I also saw two or three people with these big buckets of strawberries that I could not find anywhere and Idk what was up with that, lol. Ah, well, I can try again another week.

We had lunch and then I got dropped off at home. I was inexplicably exhausted-- granted, I got up earlier than usual-- and took what I wanted to be a short nap and ended up being a long nap. Go figure. After that, I got on to my reorganizing and... the results are mixed.

My focus today was my closet, since I'm eyeing some stuff on the shelves to be moved in there, and it took less time than I'd have expected, granted I hit a roadblock before I could be what I considered finished. It doesn't really look at a glance like I did as much as it feels like I did but the difference in how things are situated now feels significant. I put aside a lot of stuff for Goodwill, a few items for the local little free library and got some forgotten recycling out of my way. That'll be dealt with this coming week. I have more "to-sell" stuff taking up space than I remembered and I'm gonna sleep on what to do about that. Most of that is Transformers-related and I was planning to try to unload it at TFcon in October but, well, that's October. It's in my way now. I think I'll go ahead and list the bigger ticket items on eBay, take whatever doesn't sell there to TFcon, then just donate whatever doesn't sell there.

So! Tomorrow's goals are cleaning up my shelves and listing a few things on eBay. Not too many to start with. I tend to get it into my head that I have to list everything or nothing and, uh. As you may have guessed, I tend to pick nothing. I'd rather have something listed than nothing. I'll do some routine tidying up and dusting as I go. I should also fix up my yarn chest, tbh; I've barely crocheted at all this year and it's still gotten so chaotic that it makes me never want to crochet again, lol.

I'm so glad to see the end of this week. It felt like it would never come!

Forecast for tomorrow, last I looked, is optimistic. The rain has been pushed back and so I think I can get to the farmer's market and pick up what I'm after without any problems. Then I can come home and get right to the chores and reorganizing I was planning. Gonna go back to the fifteen minute method, working clockwise, since that went well the last time I deep-cleaned my room. Some things are going to have to be left at "good enough" since I need to reconsider my storage system but that's fine. I think I'll do that for a set number of hours-- haven't decided them-- and then call it a day. Anything that still needs done, I'll get to on Sunday. I want to have some reading/hobby time too, after all.

I want so badly for Trump and Musk to destroy each other. Like, I'm not ignorant of the damage they could do but they're already doing damage, you feel me? I'm also aware that there's a non-zero chance of this whole feud being a charade BUT-- and, yes, I know that none of us actually know these people-- I simply cannot wrap my head around the idea of either of their egos suffering this humiliation. Idk. It's a cold satisfaction I'm feeling but it's still satisfaction.

So help me, though, if the Dems don't shut their collective traps about opening the door for Musk... I am so tired of being roped into whatever weird humiliation kink these fools are indulging.

I truly, desperately need people to stop treating actors as the characters they play, especially when it comes to real life tragedies.

( tw: hate crime )