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People take part in #Holi festival celebrations at Rouken Glen Park in Glasgow, #Scotland

Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

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Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World by Zygmunt Bauman, 2001

'Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feels good because of the meanings which the word conveys, all of them promising pleasures, and more often than not the kind of pleasures which we would like to experience but seem to miss.

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“The barbaric war of extermination … that the Israeli occupation and its backers have carried out over 467 days will forever be engraved in the memory of our people and the world as the worst genocide in modern history.”

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#Gaza
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Archway Glow by Luke Tscharke

Millions of Milky Way stars merge into patches of white light and fade into the night glow of Hobart. Dead trees mirror the dark branching dust lanes of the galaxy.

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#MilkyWay
#Australia
#Hobart

Iced clover

via s-usans-blog

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#winter
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25 Years of Exploring the Universe with NASA's Chandra Xray Observatory

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Medien: 3

Australia’s federal parliament has voted against recognising Palestine as an independent state.

Here’s how the House of Representatives voted on the motion put forward by the Greens:

Yes: 5. The Australian Greens and Independent Andrew Wilkie.

No: 80. Representatives from the Labor government, as well as the Liberal and National parties.

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