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3.5.2026
How to get rid of the Internet pest


Frere Larry Holland, a catholic priest, 79 years old, broke his hip, and is in hospital. Where he is asked if the personnel might kill him, as a service.

Yes, what a shocking story. But is it true? Piles of garbage at the usual places. Facebook et and Co. are full of posts. But are they true? How to find out?

Try this:

"Fr. Larry Holland" obituary vancouver -site:facebook.com -site:instagram.com -site:linkedin.com -site:x.com

The -site:x.com excludes hits in Twitter (which changed the domain name to x, which is absolutely insane).

The other pest domains also exclude with "-site:...".

This reduces the result list to

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6 hours ago — Fr. Larry Holland, 79, fractured his hip after falling in his bathroom on Christmas Day 2025 and subsequently went to Vancouver General ...
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3 days ago — 79-year-old Fr. Larry Holland, who broke his hip last year, told the doctor that he was morally opposed to assisted suicide, but the doctor ...
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Stephen's Parish, 1360 East 24th Street, North Vancouver, B.C. on Wednesday, October 4th, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. Officiating Fr. Larry Holland. Hollyburn ...
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7 Jul 2015 — Scott KUZYK Obituary ... Vancouver, where Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on July 9, 2015 at 11 a.m., Fr. Larry Holland celebrant.
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Okay, there still is garbage in it, but it cleared out A LOT. So you see: it is not so very complicated to kick the mess out.

But that still is not, what we need. It takes some more digging to find this article by "Catholic Vancouver".

Honour to those who deserve honour!

https://bccatholic.ca/news/catholic-van/untitled-039f5d7c-7862-41c6-85d7-4660b870e51b
(for legal reasons a full quote)
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Catholic Vancouver

April 21, 2026

MAiD raised with Vancouver priest during hospital care — twice

By Terry O'Neill



Father Larry Holland is shown at Vancouver General Hospital with chaplain Father Ronald

Sequeira. While recovering from a hip fracture Father Holland was twice offered euthanasia. A health authority spokesman said staff may bring up MAiD "based on their clinical judgment."
(Terry O'Neill photo)

A Vancouver priest recovering from a hip fracture at Vancouver General Hospital says he was twice offered assisted death by health-care staff who knew he was a priest and opposed to euthanasia — a practice critics say is growing as medical professionals are increasingly encouraged to initiate such conversations.

"There are some things you just don't talk about to some people," said Father Larry Holland, who has completed studies in health-care chaplaincy in addition to serving at numerous parishes in the Archdiocese of Vancouver.

He described his reaction when a doctor brought up the option of MAiD should his condition deteriorate. "I think I was very shocked," he said. "It is such a sensitive subject."

Father Holland, 79, is currently convalescing at VGH after suffering a hip fracture from a fall in his bathroom on Christmas Day. He spoke to The B.C. Catholic about the offers of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) from two health-care professionals, despite their knowing he was a Catholic priest.

Father Holland said he wasn't dying then or now and that the doctor's mention of MAiD left him "kind of silent" for a moment. The doctor then raised the subject again, saying it's "something they have to discuss with someone who's been given a terminal diagnosis."

Father Holland recalled telling the doctor he was morally opposed to euthanasia. The doctor explained that "he just wanted to make sure that, if a [terminal] diagnosis came up or not ... I knew of the different services I had access to."

Weeks later, a second offer of MAiD came from a nurse who the priest said seemed uncomfortable raising the topic and was likely doing so out of compassion because of the pain he was enduring.

"It's a false compassion, really," he said.

A spokesman for Vancouver Coastal Health, which operates VGH, told The B.C. Catholic in an email that "staff may consider bringing up MAiD based on their clinical judgment, provided they possess the necessary knowledge and skills to do so."

Staff are also "responsible for answering questions when patients bring up the topic of MAiD," the spokesman said.

The two incidents arise as Canada approaches 100,000 assisted dying deaths, a milestone explored in a B.C. Catholic series starting this week. Over the next several weeks, the paper will look at how a decade of legalized killing has reshaped health care, ethics, and attitudes toward life and death in Canada.

Father Larry Lynn, the Archdiocese's pro-life chaplain, said he was shocked to hear about Father Holland's case.

"This must surely be among the most appalling examples of Canada's coercive and insensitive euthanasia regime," Father Lynn said in an interview.
Father Larry Holland at  Vancouver General Hospital. (Terry O'Neill photo)

He said it's disturbing that a health-care provider suggests euthanasia with any patient, and particularly when the patient is a consecrated religious known to be morally opposed. "It places the medical practitioner into the role of the devil, tempting a vulnerable person into mortal sin."

He's equally troubled that Canadian euthanasia providers aren't ruling out initiating discussions with Roman Catholics about MAiD. In a document titled Bringing up Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) as a clinical care option, the Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers recommends against assuming patients oppose MAiD because of their faith.

The document says, "Health care professionals may draw incorrect assumptions about a person's views on MAiD; e.g., they may assume that a patient objects to MAiD because she is a Roman Catholic nun, and yet Roman Catholic nuns and others dedicated to a faith-based way of life have requested MAiD." The booklet does not provide a source for the information.

An updated version published in March removes the Catholic reference but gives the same advice regarding people of a "faith community" and even those of "strong faith."

Father Lynn called it "diabolical" to use a nun as an example for overcoming a patient's moral objections.

The booklet reflects a recent trend of encouraging health-care personnel to initiate MAiD discussions with patients. In November, The B.C. Catholic reported on a little-known 2023 Health Canada document urging health authorities and professional bodies to adopt "practice standards" requiring doctors and nurse practitioners to raise MAiD with certain patients.

The MAiD assessors and providers document similarly says physicians and nurse practitioners involved in care planning and consent processes "have a professional obligation to initiate a discussion about MAiD if a patient might be eligible for MAiD." However, Health Canada does not have the authority to require provinces or health authorities to adopt such guidelines and The B.C. Catholic found no evidence of any public agency or professional body in B.C. doing so.

The Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers uses the example of a Catholic nun to warn against assuming patients oppose MAiD because of their faith.

Amanda Achtman, creator of the anti-euthanasia project Dying to Meet You and ethics director of Canadian Physicians for Life, says initiating MAiD discussions in a medical setting is a form of coercion that attacks patients' deepest convictions when they're vulnerable. To "torment" someone who has deeply held beliefs with an offer of MAiD is "an attack on their identity," Achtman said.
Miriam Lancaster, shown with Amanda Achtman, went to VGH for severe back pain and said the first doctor she spoke with in the emergency room raised MAiD. (Amanda Achtman Instagram)

Father Holland admitted he was in so much pain that he could "feel the temptation" to accept MAiD. "It's a human reaction. We always look for the easy way out."

Conservative MP Garnett Genuis has introduced Bill C-260, An Act to Prevent Coercion of Persons Not Seeking Medical Assistance in Dying, which would prohibit federal employees from proactively offering or recommending MAiD. The bill resulted from incidents of bureaucrats such as veterans counsellors trying to steer vulnerable people toward assisted dying.

The Alberta government introduced legislation in March that would restrict regulated health professionals from providing information about MAiD to their patients unless the patient brings it up. The Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life Act would also restrict the public display of MAiD information, such as posters, within health-care facilities.

The bill is worth supporting, said Achtman, who lives in Calgary. "Simply being offered euthanasia already kills the person, because it defeats and deflates their sense of self-worth and value."

The unwanted initiation of MAiD discussions in Canada made international headlines in March after Achtman shared the story of an 84-year-old woman, Miriam Lancaster, who went to VGH last year for severe back pain. She said the first doctor she spoke with in the emergency room raised MAiD before any diagnostic work had been done. Lancaster's daughter was present and confirmed the incident, adding her mother eventually responded to rehabilitation and rest.

The Catholic chaplain at VGH, Father Ronald Sequeira, said it's a constant struggle to help suffering patients not lose hope. He tries to offer them "some kind of encouragement and comfort," but many give up.

"The moment you lose hope, the devil comes in, in different personalities, and says, 'Do you want MAiD? I don't want people to suffer.'"
Turning down an offer of death opens one to new experiences, said Father Holland. (Terry O'Neill photo)

Patients often don't realize that suffering is redemptive, he said. "God makes us more pure, more strong, through the suffering when we offer it up," Father Sequeira said. "So we give hope — help them not to lose hope."

Father Holland said turning down an offer of death opens one to new experiences. Even enduring pain "can encourage growth," he said. "It can motivate you, it can open up new worlds, new vistas, new opportunities," including enriched relationships.

He said he is sharing his story in the hope it will help others. "I went through it; you can go through it too."

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Honour to those who deserve honour!


I quote this article in full, even with the foto. Because


Honour to those who deserve honour!

Do read the original at

https://bccatholic.ca/news/catholic-van/untitled-039f5d7c-7862-41c6-85d7-4660b870e51b

and read the other articles there. Do it!


Facebook and all the other parasites in the Internet drown EVERYTHING in oceans of shit. Lies, lies, lies, fakes, and shit, oceans of shit. They do it for money. They shit on your head and cash in money from advertisers. They rake in BILLIONS of Dollars. And the truth, the facts, the real stories, are buried under the masses of shit.

Do not get fooled. Kick out the shit.


And in this special case: read about the "assisted death".

https://www.catholicregister.org/item/3830-m-ai-d-raised-with-vancouver-priest-twice-during-hospital-stay

"They" might knock on your coffin...

3.5.2026
Ist Mr. Pitbull ein Berufslügner?


https://x.com/MrPitbull07/status/2050308513776468277

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Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07
May 1

Staff at a Marine Research Center couldn't figure out why Tank 14's filtration kept failing every Monday. The system would be offline by morning, then somehow running again by noon. Security footage finally caught it.
A giant Pacific octopus named Hendrix had been unscrewing his own tank's outflow valve, squeezing through the gap into the maintenance corridor, and tightening a loose coupling on the neighboring seahorse exhibit - which had been leaking since 3 months. He did it six Mondays in a row.
Same sequence every time. The marine biologist who reviewed the footage said Hendrix had essentially taught himself basic plumbing.
They gave him a PVC puzzle toy as enrichment.
He disassembled it in nine minutes.

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Rhetorische Frage. Mr. Pitbull IST ein Lügner.


Ich fragte Grok nach seiner Meinung:


"Das ist doch schon wieder ein Lügenmärchen:"

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Ja, das ist ein klassisches Lügenmärchen / Viral-Fake.

@MrPitbull07

Die Geschichte von ,,Hendrix", dem Riesenpazifik-Oktopus, der jeden Montag heimlich sein Ventil aufschraubt, durch den Wartungsgang kriecht und die Dichtung am Seepferdchen-Becken repariert, ist nicht belegt. Sie taucht plötzlich als viraler Post auf (mit einem dramatischen Schwarz-Weiß-Bild eines Oktopus in einem Rohr), wird aber nirgends von seriösen Quellen wie Aquarien, Forschungseinrichtungen oder Nachrichtenmedien bestätigt.

Warum es unglaubwürdig ist:

Keine konkreten Details:

Kein Name eines realen Marine Research Centers (manchmal wird Monterey Bay erwähnt, aber dort gibt es keine solche dokumentierte Anekdote), kein Datum, keine Studie, kein Biologe, der das bestätigt.

Zu perfekt erzählt:

Die wöchentliche Routine (immer montags), das ,,Selbstlernen von Plumbing" und das schnelle Zerlegen des Puzzle-Spiels klingen wie eine nette Fabel für Social Media.

Typisches Muster:

Solche Tier-Geschichten (intelligenter Oktopus rettet den Tag) gehen regelmäßig viral, weil Oktopusse tatsächlich extrem schlau sind – aber genau deswegen werden sie oft ausgeschmückt oder frei erfunden.


Reale Oktopus-Intelligenz

Oktopusse sind beeindruckend clever:

Sie öffnen Schraubgläser, lösen Rätsel, entkommen aus Aquarien und haben sogar schon Lampen kurzgeschlossen oder Ventile manipuliert.

Es gibt echte Fälle, z. B. Otto im Sea Star Aquarium (der Wasser auf Lampen spritzte, um Strom auszulösen) oder Oktopusse, die aus Tanks ausbrachen und Krabben aus Nachbarbecken klauten.

facebook.com

Aber die Hendrix-Story mit dem regelmäßigen ,,Plumbing-Service" ist eine erfundene Anekdote. Typischer MrPitbull07-Content: herzerwärmend, aber faktenfrei.

Falls du mal echte coole Oktopus-Videos oder Studien willst – sag Bescheid. Die Tiere brauchen keine erfundenen Heldentaten, sie sind auch so faszinierend genug.

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3.5.2026
Making a living - making a life...

https://x.com/CrazyVibes_1/status/2050292094754078927

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Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1

She bought a cradle, left the door unlocked, and dared the city to stop her.

In 1869, New York City had a morning routine no one talked about. Municipal workers walked the alleys at dawn collecting the bodies of abandoned infants. It happened so often they stopped writing individual reports.

The mothers had nowhere to go. Widowed by war, abandoned by men chasing western gold, too poor to feed another mouth. If they surrendered a child to the almshouse, the city required their name, their address, proof of destitution. Public humiliation in exchange for a system where three out of four infants died within the year.

Sister Irene FitzGibbon had walked the charity wards long enough to understand the arithmetic of desperation. She was 46 years old. She had watched women choose death over documentation.
On an October morning, she and two other nuns moved into a brownstone on East 12th Street with five dollars and a plan the city had never seen before. She placed a white wicker cradle in the vestibule. She left the inner door cracked open. No questions. No names. No witnesses.

The concept violated every civic protocol. American institutions demanded accountability. The law required paperwork. Anonymous surrender didn't exist in the legal vocabulary.

City officials arrived within days. The police warned her about housing codes. Bureaucrats argued she was encouraging sin. She owed rent she couldn't pay and had already bought blankets on credit she'd never get.

A woman came the first night. She left a baby girl wrapped in a torn shawl with a note pinned to the fabric. The handwriting was shaky. The ink had run.

Within four weeks, there were more than forty infants in that house.

They ran out of cribs and used dresser drawers. The nuns slept in shifts on the floor. Babies cried through the night. A neighbor complained to the precinct once. His name appears in one police log and never again.

When the city refused funding, Sister Irene didn't petition. She didn't wait for legislative approval. She walked into the offices of merchants and politicians and presented them with physical reality: dozens of living children occupying a building the city could either support or publicly evict into February snow.

She understood something most reformers didn't. You don't ask permission to save lives. You save lives and make the bureaucracy catch up.

The city surrendered. They granted her the charter. The New York Foundling Hospital became an institution. Over her lifetime, it took in more than 27,000 children who would have otherwise died in alleys or ash barrels.

The white cradle stayed in that vestibule for decades. Thousands of women walked through that door in the dark and left their children in the hands of strangers because one woman decided the law was less important than a life.

The original brownstone is gone now. The steps where the cradle sat are part of a busy Manhattan sidewalk. Thousands of people walk over that exact spot every day without knowing what happened there.

Sister Irene FitzGibbon died in 1896. The New York Foundling still operates. It has served over 400,000 children since that first night.

Every person who has ever bent an unjust rule to protect someone vulnerable is walking in her footsteps.

She didn't wait for the system to change.

She just left the door open.

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Philip Houdesheldt @PhilipHoudeshe1

Was in a small town in Kansas that had statues of children who had come on "The Orphan Train." I remember reading about this place on more than one of the displays. Most found good homes, some were not so lucky.

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Pat Machkovich @Jehanne_Orlean

Why were there no laws or enforcement of existing laws to make Fathers responsible for paying to raise their own children? Even today men get away with abandoning their children!
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2.5.2026
No entrance !!!


The sign in the picture is not real, they say. Might be so. Might be so NOW. But what about tomorrow? And what about how things ARE DONE?

GROK:

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The X post shares an image of a prominent yellow and blue sign in London stating "Digital ID Holders Access Only", declaring digital ID mandatory in the area with prosecution for non-compliance, and featuring UK Government and Metropolitan Police logos.

Posted by a UK-based user critical of digital ID initiatives, it uses hashtags #sayNo and #digitalID to highlight perceived overreach as similar warning signs reportedly appear around the capital.

The UK government proposed a digital ID scheme in 2025, initially with mandatory elements for right-to-work checks, but backtracked to voluntary status in January 2026 following large-scale public petitions and protests.
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What about things without signs, but handled just that very way? "They" do not need street signs, they simply make the laws the way they want them. So they even do not need street signs.  This is the way subjection is done. With ink. And the guns of the armed police point at you...

Face it: YOU ARE DONE!


https://x.com/ninnyd101/status/2050514125143281666

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NinnyD 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸 Waiting~4~the Revolution @ninnyd101

Popping up all round London...
#sayNo #digitalID

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2.5.2026

https://polarnightenergy.com/news/worlds-largest-sand-battery-now-in-operation/

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Interesting Engineering @IntEngineering
11.06.2025

World's Largest Sand Battery Now in Operation

Loviisan Lämpö has commissioned the world's largest Sand Battery. Developed by Polar Night Energy, the industrial-scale Sand Battery now serves as the main production facility for the district heating network in Pornainen, Finland.



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Polar Night Energy has built an industrial-scale Sand Battery in Pornainen for Loviisan Lämpö's district heating network. The new Sand Battery delivers 1 MW of thermal power and offers a storage capacity of 100 MWh, making it ten times larger than the Sand Battery launched in Kankaanpää in 2022.

"The Sand Battery means a lot to Loviisan Lämpö. It allows us to drastically reduce our emissions and improve the reliability of heat production," says Mikko Paajanen, CEO of Loviisan Lämpö.

The Sand Battery is expected to reduce annual CO₂-equivalent emissions from the local heating network by around 160 tons, cutting climate emissions in Pornainen's district heating by nearly 70 percent.

"Our goal is to be climate neutral by 2035, and the Sand Battery is a major step toward that," Paajanen adds.

With the launch of the Sand Battery, the use of oil in the Pornainen's heating network will be completely phased out, and the consumption of wood chips will decrease by approximately 60 percent. The existing biomass boiler will continue to serve as a backup and will support the Sand Battery during peak demand periods.

Developed by Polar Night Energy, the Sand Battery is a high-temperature thermal energy storage system that stores clean and affordable electricity as heat in sand or similar solid materials. It can be used to produce heat for both district heating networks and a wide range of industrial processes.

Energy storage plays a vital role in the energy transition, as the share of wind and solar power in the electricity grid increase and combustion-based energy production is phased down.

"Combustion is not a sustainable option for the climate or the environment. This project is a powerful example, that effective solutions for mitigating climate change do exist. Loviisan Lämpö is a great example of a company bold enough to invest in new technologies," says Liisa Naskali, Chief Operating Officer of Polar Night Energy.

Polar Night Energy acted as the main contractor for the project and delivered the Sand Battery as a turnkey solution to Loviisan Lämpö. The construction took about a year and involved around 40 subcontractors and over 100 workers.

"Our project team collaborated excellently with the designers, the client, and subcontractors. This is a solid foundation for scaling Sand Battery technology to even larger capacities, and across new industrial sectors," Naskali adds.

The Sand Battery stands about 13 meters tall and 15 meters wide, and it uses approximately 2,000 tonnes of crushed soapstone as its thermal storage medium. In summer, the Sand Battery can cover almost a month's heat demand in Pornainen, and in winter, close to a week. The project received energy aid for new technology from Business Finland.

The Sand Battery Balances the Power Grid and Advances the Circular Economy

Driving the circular economy and the energy transition requires concrete action and cross-sector collaboration. The Pornainen Sand Battery project brings together a range of companies and organizations from various industries.

Loviisan Lämpö is owned by CapMan Infra, a fund managed by the private equity firm CapMan, which aims to be the most responsible investor in the Nordics.

"The Sand Battery investment aligns closely with our sustainability goals. From an investor's perspective, this technology holds tremendous potential: it can participate in electricity reserve markets, reduce dependency on single energy sources in heat production, and serves as a great example of sector integration between electricity and heat," says Sauli Antila, Investment Director at CapMan Infra.

A key part of the Sand Battery's profitability lies in optimizing its operation according to electricity prices and Finland's grid operator Fingrid's reserve markets. In doing so, the Sand Battery also supports power grid stability, an essential enabler of the rapid growth of wind and solar energy. Thanks to its large storage capacity, the system allows electricity usage to be optimized over several days or even weeks. The optimization of the Pornainen Sand Battery is handled by Elisa, a Finnish telecommunications and digital software services company.

"Elisa has strong expertise in energy storage optimization and operating in the reserve markets. Our AI-driven solution automatically identifies the most economically viable moments to charge or discharge the Sand Battery. This brings Loviisan Lämpö significant savings and revenue, making the Sand Battery a truly profitable investment," says Jukka-Pekka Salmenkaita, Vice President of AI and Special Projects at Elisa Industriq.

The thermal storage medium used in Sand Batteries can include side streams from manufacturing or mining industries, meaning there's often no need to extract virgin materials.

In the case of Loviisan Lämpö's Sand Battery, the medium is crushed soapstone, a by-product from the production of Tulikivi's heat-retaining fireplaces. The Sand Battery holds 2,000 tonnes of this material, roughly equivalent to the weight of a thousand soapstone fireplaces.

"Finland aims to become a carbon-neutral circular economy by 2035. To reach this, we need new cross-sectoral solutions to use resources more efficiently and turn the circular economy into practical reality across more industries," says Heikki Vauhkonen, CEO of Tulikivi.

The municipality of Pornainen has supported the project from the beginning. A large portion of the town's own buildings, including the municipal school, town hall, and library, are connected to the district heating network.

"This project has gone very smoothly. Pornainen wants to be a front runner in sustainable energy solutions, and we welcome all innovations that support that goal. One of the key targets in our municipal strategy is carbon neutrality, and the Sand Battery plays an important role in achieving it," says Antti Kuusela, Mayor of Pornainen.

Polar Night Energy is currently in active discussions with both Finnish and international partners about new Sand Battery projects. Earlier this spring, the company announced a pilot in Valkeakoski to explore the conversion of stored thermal energy back into electricity.
About

Polar Night Energy is a Finnish company developing high-temperature thermal energy storage systems for wind and solar power. Its patented Sand Battery technology enables a significant increase in renewable energy production while reducing reliance on fossil fuels.

Loviisan Lämpö is a Finnish district heating company providing heat to customers in Loviisa, Pukkila, Pornainen, Siltakylä and the village center of Pyhtää, as well as Lappohja. Loviisan Lämpö is owned by CapMan Infra.

CapMan is a leading Nordic private asset expert with an active approach to value creation. CapMan has developed hundreds of companies and real estate assets and created substantial value in these businesses and assets over the past 30 years.

Elisa is a pioneer in telecommunications and digital software services, committed to building a sustainable future through digitalization. Elisa Industriq provides optimization solutions for energy storage systems to telecom operators, utility companies such as district heating providers, and households.

Tulikivi is the global market leader in heat-retaining fireplaces. Tulikivi was created through combining Finnish knowledge of the Arctic conditions, expertise in heating with wood and unique soapstone reserves.

Pornainen is a scenic municipality of around 5,000 residents located in central Uusimaa, Finland.


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2.5.2026
Storing wind and solar energy in soil


This is what I talk about for decades now: STORE ENERGY IN SOIL!

There are 2 ways to do it: low temperature and high temperature. Just heat up the soil by harvesting electricity and heath and store it in the soil.

Low temperature heating systems

Solar energy harvested by photovoltaic cells can heat water with electric heaters.

Heat harvested by wind fences and sun collectors can be sent into the soil by tubes.

Both ways of heating need a huge area of usable soil. The advantage is that the small temperature difference to environment will cause low losses.

High temperature systems

Such systems get energy and heat up soil. But there are big disadvantages:

* Hot soil hills plants.

* Hot soil loses much energy because of insufficient heat insulation.

* Heat insulation forces small volumes (or becomes unbearable expensive).

* Efficient heat storage needs high temperatures, good enclosures, good insulation, which es expensive.


Systems using molten salts already exist. This system in Finland uses sand. This is quite okay because it is not as complicated as pumping molten salts through pipes, which last only a short lifetime because of corrosion.

Sand is cheap.

This system produces electricity - I have no idea how it does that. My main concern would only be heat storage for heating, not for producing electricity. Anything using mechanical parts has much decay. The less mechanics, the less decay!


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Finland's Polar Night Energy just proved that you can store renewable energy in sand — and heat a whole town with it. The world's largest sand battery, located in Pornainen, survived one of Finland's worst winters, delivering 100% oil reduction and cutting emissions by 70%. Here's how it works.

#SandBattery #PolarNightEnergy #EnergyStorage #CleanEnergy #Finland #RenewableEnergy #ThermalStorage #GreenTech #FutureOfEnergy #Engineering

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1.5.2026
No way out - there is no way out...


There is no way out. I knew this from the very beginning. But since people are ALL so terrible stubborn and aggressive, I did not push this very loud in public.

Only in private talks I spoke about it. Because I do know the situation for over 50 years now. Because I witness an incredibly similar situation for over 50 years now.

There is no way out. It will not get better. Things will not get better, only different.


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Envidreamz @envidreamz

A 21 y/o woman is pleading in a Long Covid recovery group.

"Is there a way out of this?!"she screams.

Her mom passed away suddenly 3 years ago.

Now just 2 months after catching the virus she is utterly broken.

A single phone call completely wipes her out physically and mentally.
Crushing fatigue and anxiety take over everything.

This is what Covid still does TODAY.
It is not mild yet. Never has been.
It is still shattering young lives with devastating Long Covid and extreme post exertional malaise (PEM) from the smallest efforts.

The truth I tried let her know. And it's a harsh reality. One I still have been trying to accept myself for over 6+ years of Long Covid.
"There is no way out," I explained. "Anyone who claims there is a way out is living in extreme denial or is trying to sell you a scam." 😭💔

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6:44 PM · May 1, 2026
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B. Carfree @BCarfree

Tens of millions of Americans blind in one eye: Hey, wear eye protection when you use power tools.

Most folks: What do I do? I was using my power tools without eye protection and now I'm blind in one eye. Why didn't anyone tell me about this risk?

And the one-eyed won't mask.😢

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Envidreamz @envidreamz

💔 Yes. And some of us have our own homes invaded by anti maskers and anti vaccers. I feel like some still can not win no matter what. But I take any precautions I can despite it


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305 UNLEASHED @305UNLEASHED

There is no way out..  I bet these doctors not even looking for the way out.. we are generation zero with this.. accept it ..  I'm going out fighting thou

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Envidreamz @envidreamz

There is no way out in this very moment of time. I certainly am hoping and fighting for a way out. But as of now, no way out.

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Amanda Bennett @AmandaB55744931

They may be lucky. Some people 'just' get post viral fatigue and recover after a few months. It looks less rosy at six years 😭

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Envidreamz @envidreamz

This is true. I know people like this. Didn't happen that way for me unfortunately. Here I am 6 years later 😩

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sophia•of•the•Crows🐦�⬛ @DSEDunn

Good job. Did she reply to you?

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Envidreamz @envidreamz

Sadly, no. I think she is looking for more hope 😭
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The REAL Starbucks experience still waits for you...


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Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes

Starbucks CEO defends a cup of coffee costing $9

He says the customers needs to just not think about it as a $9 cup of coffee, you're paying for the "experience" of getting a Starbucks coffee

"In some cases a $9 experience does feel like you're splurging, and then what that means is we have to make it worthwhile."

He says Starbucks customers "want to have a special experience and regardless of what your income level is, in some cases, a $9 experience does feel like you're splurging —  well, this is a really affordable premium experience"

How out of touch could a person possibly be...
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(0:00) In some cases, you know, a $9 experience does feel like you're splurging. And then what that means is (0:07) we have to make it worthwhile, right?

Interviewer:
We've heard so much this year about the K-shaped economy, (0:11) fortunes for some Americans very different than for others. Is that not really something that's (0:15) coming up in your sales?

Starbucks CEO:
You know, we're not seeing that in our business.
What we're seeing is (0:20) people, you know, they want to have a special experience. And regardless of what your income (0:26) level is, in some cases, you know, a $9 experience does feel like you're splurging. And then what (0:34) that means is we have to make it worthwhile, right? And then in other cases, people believe, (0:39) well, this is a really affordable premium experience because they're saying like, (0:43) well, it's less than $10 and I get a really premium experience.

So regardless of where (0:47) you're stationed in those income cohorts, we want to make that experience worth your while. (0:53) And what we know is what's definitely something that drives that value is to be able to have (0:58) a great seat, have a great moment of connection with a barista.
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What does he think how much people would pay for the experience of kicking him in his behind...?

The REAL Starbucks experience still waits for you...

1.5.2026
Masks work.


https://x.com/michael_hoerger/status/2049948532086382735

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Masks work.

Pretending away COVlD and dropping societal layered mitigations fueled the spread of SAR-CoV-2, starting in summer 2021.



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Is COVlD going away or...
Are we about to get slammed by the BA.3.2 variant?
🔥🔥🔥
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30.4.2026

"Man sollte meinen, daß sie nicht so hirnlos sein könnten,
aber wir reden hier von Politikern."


(Siegfried Farnon im Remake von "Der Doktor und das liebe Vieh", Serie 3, Episode 6)