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MARCH FOR PALESTINE IN ATHENS AS GREEK PROTESTORS REJECT ISRAEL'S ONGOING GENOCIDE

📹 Scenes from protesters marching in Athens, Greece in solidarity with the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip, and in condemnation of Zionist crimes, as Palestinians endure genocide and starvation at the hands of the Israeli occupation army with support from the United States.

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Greece hopes visa facilitation scheme will improve inter-societal ties with Turkey

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the visa facilitation scheme during a joint statement with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on December 7.

Migration and Asylum Minister Dimitris Kairidis noted the success of the scheme.

It was undoubtedly a very good day for Turkish-Greek relations after a long time. And I think we can be much more optimistic today than we were before. Everything went very well. Better even than expected.

Kairidis pointed out that the meeting between Mitsotakis and Erdogan represented a huge opportunity that should not be missed when it came to further improving relations between the NATO allies.

Read more HERE

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Once on the brink of extinction, rare Mediterranean monk seal populations are rising, thanks to conservation efforts.

The Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal, known as MOm, is a charity dedicated to the care and protection of these rare marine animals.

Nearly half of the world's estimated 800 Mediterranean monk seals live in Greek waters, where the extensive coastline offers an abundance of sea caves that provide shelter for females to rear their young.

The rare seals are the only seal species in the Mediterranean. They have big, round eyes, prominent whiskers and are remarkably fast in the water...

In the twentieth century, habitat deterioration and destruction, as well as deliberate aggression from fisherman has caused a drastic population decline, prompting the International Union for Conversation of Nature (IUCN) to classify them as 'critically endangered'.

The population had decreased so dramatically that at one point the species faced extinction.

Pictured: Panagis is one of dozens of monk seals nursed back to health by the Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal, known as MOm.

How conservation efforts are changing their fate

Dr Alexandros Dendrinos, a marine biologist and coordinator at MOm, explains that the Mediterranean monk seal is "one of the rarest species of seal and marine mammal in the world."

"To protect an animal like the Mediterranean monk seal in its natural environment, you essentially have to protect the entire marine ecosystem,"

MOm is the only centre of its kind in the region, and has cared for around 40 seals both on location and at its facilities.

They respond to members of the public who find an animal in distress, aiding adult seals on-site when possible and bringing young seals, like Panagais, to the rehabilitation centre at Attica Zoological Park in Athens.

The young seals receive veterinary care, specialised nutrition, and swimming practice. 

They are often named after those who found them, but human interaction is kept minimal to ensure their successful reintegration into the wild.

Once they have reached a healthy weight and developed natural hunting instincts, they are tagged for tracking and reintroduced to their natural habitat.

"This year, we had a really pleasant surprise," Dr Dendrinos shared.

A female seal they rehabilitated and released four years ago was recently spotted nursing her own pup.

Conservation efforts have yielded significant results as the species moved from critically endangered to endangered on the IUCN Red List and, in 2023, improved even further to vulnerable.

-via ABC Australia, March 12, 2025

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Photos from the protests against government crimes in Thessaloniki (1) and Athens (2+3), showing part of the crowd. Elderly and children are also present.

The government itself tried to put those down those peaceful protests with violence but people still persist!

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all i need in life is for odysseus to reunite with telemachus and immediately say, “you’re taller”

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I get why people are talking about the whole submarine titanic thing.

It's awful.

But I'm here to address a different boat related tragedy.

One that absolutely breaks my heart.

Where a boat of migrants sank off the coast of Greece.

This boat had 300 Pakistanis and more than 500 Syrians.

The boat was carrying migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and Egypt who were fleeing their countries dire economic conditions.

And we're trying to reach relatives in Europe.

What happened with the submarine is a terrible thing.

I just wish this story got the same coverage.

One is about billionaires the other about people escaping economic disasters.

Both about people losing their lives.

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Title: Diogenes Artist: John William Waterhouse (English, 1849-1917) Date: 1882 Genre: historical painting Movement: Pre-Raphaelite Period: Victorian Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 249 cm (98 in) high x 177.4 cm (69.8 in) wide Location: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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HELLENISTIC GOLD RING WITH GALLEY GEMSTONE 1ST CENTURY B.C.-2ND CENTURY A.D.

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The Allies during World War II

The Axis here

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Friday, February 16.

Some good news.

News of a good disposition seems more than a little sparse right now, so you really have to make the most of it, as and when.

There is some news, however, from Greece. And this news is pretty, pretty good. So we are going to break this particularly good news to you the only way we know how. Enjoy it y'all.

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Greece-Turkey relations mend after years of tension

On Thursday, Greece and Turkey unveiled a roadmap to usher in a new era of ties between the two countries.

During Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Greece, the long-time partners agreed to focus on good neighbourly relations, maintain open channels of communication, increase trade and work on issues that have kept them apart, particularly in the Aegean Sea. Erdogan said after a meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens:

There is no issue between us that is unsolvable. So long as we focus on the big picture and don’t end up being like those who cross the sea and drown in the river.

Erdogan said the two countries could benefit from the annual high-level meetings. Mitsotakis noted:

Geography and history has dictated that we live in the same neighbourhood.. But I feel a historical responsibility to utilise this opportunity to bring the two states side-by-side, just as our borders are.

Read more HERE

[sforzesco]

something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet

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Minoan-inspired woven art by cretan artist Florentini Skouloudi