Update. "US conference boycott urged after French scientist deported"
https://archive.is/Wxwdg

"Academics say they are increasingly wary of travelling to conferences in the US after a French scientist was deported over text messages critical of Donald #Trump’s cuts to research funding … Space scientist Mark Wieczorek [@mrak], director of research at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, part of CNRS, said the situation was “very troubling” and, despite being a dual US-French citizen, he now would “only go to the US for the case of a family emergency”…Given the French scientist in question is a “permanent researcher employed by CNRS”, it is “unlikely that this person is a radicalised terrorist and it is unlikely that their hatred of Trump is greater than mine as a US citizen,” continued Wieczorek."

Update. "French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of #Trump found"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained

"A French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration…The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment."

⚓The Piriac-sur-Mer lighthouse at the end of summer.
Sailboats rocked by the wind, dancing reflections on the water, the murmur of the waves against the hulls... A stopover where time suspends its flight. Have you ever strolled along the quays of Piriac?
#illustration #digitalart #art #piriacsurmer #lighthouse #frenchseaside #sealovers #travel #fediart #mastoart #margouletteillustration #relax #vacation

Look, seriously, do not visit the US. They’re going full fascist.

The EU should be releasing travel warnings at this point.

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/british-comic-creator-r-e-burke-detained-by-ice-after-crossing-border/

Actual (grim) lol: the incompetent clowns at United (but I repeat myself) messaged me to say my bag would be on a later plane. This would have actually broken me, over 24 hours into this trip.
Luckily my Knog luggage tracker showed it as being correctly on the plane with me, despite United being adamant that it had been offloaded in Newark somehow. I wish them luck searching for it there!

La Torre Telefònica designed by Calatrava [photo inspired by @mattblaze@federate.social), Barcelona. 2024.

This is hilarious (Because it's actually true)

Posted by @georgetakei , but I can't find it here to reshare.

Original Post by @RodKahx
#Americans #Canada #USA #Travel

Mar-a-Lago, #Florida #MarALago
#DonaldTrump &

"Window Shopping III"
Shambles in York, England taken Sept 2023.
See my photos for sale at:
https://johnnyp.front.photography/

#streetphoto #streetphotography
#blackandwhite #photography
#travel #photo #travelphotography
#monochrome #architechture #blackandwhitephotography

Up and down.

Got some free time? Why not got to the airport, drift randomly from side to side of the walkway, stop dead with no warning, and then switch direction at random? All your friends are doing it already!