libraries have an absolutely unique aura. There’s nothing like the feeling of stepping into any library from a small public to a massive research library, there’s a palpable difference that feels like walking through an invisible bead curtain
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It’s the 88th anniversary today of this immensely enjoyable headline 🧵
Salford pioneered play streets, traffic-free from 8am till sunset (borrowed from New York) in the 1930s. Legislation followed: there were 700 in England and Wales in the 1950s, all but forgotten by the 1980s.
Me at 9am after drinking 3 cups of coffee: i am a task warrior. There is nothing in this world that can defeat me, no amount of laundry or dishes shall conquer me, for I am the hammer of god Me at 5pm, turning off my work PC: i am a golem built out of failure. I am ashes in the mouth of the world
Calle me sentimental but we sholde not be throwinge burninge trasshe at the moone.
‘James Joyce stands out among the great modernist writers for his belief in tolerance, equality, democracy, progress and the preciousness of the everyday. If he is outrageously experimental, he is also in thrall to the mundane and disregarded.’ Terry Eagleton: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Terry Eagleton · Starveling Rabblement: Joyce’s Politics
Joyce stands out among the great modernist writers for his belief in tolerance, equality, democracy, progress and the...
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I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
Ein paar Worte noch zu #Ceuta, weil ich gerade von einem 8 Jahre alten Bub erfahren habe, der im Meer ums Leben gekommen ist, nachdem er sich mit seinen beiden älteren Brüdern von Marokko aus auf den Weg gemacht hatte. Eines von hunderten Opfern, stündlich werden mehr an die Strände angespült. 🧵
Sometimes in a library I imagine each book as years of an author’s life such that you are standing amidst uncounted hours of effort and concentration like some oasis of meaningful time.
@nminkmar.bsky.social beschreibt anhand der Waldbrände in Frankreich klar worauf es im Katastrophenfall suf allen Seiten ankommt….
Nun on a lawnmower, Ty Mawr Convent, Monmouth, south Wales, 1979, photo by Kevin O'Farrell, Irish photographer.
Contemporary Helsinki land artist Jonna Pohjalainen turns fallen aspen trees into giant coloured pencils sculptures #womensart
When UEFA are the good guys, the bad guys.are very bad indeed.
Many happy returns to the incomparable #KateBush born this day in 1958. She danced into our lives with her 1978 number one hit "#WutheringHeights" - based on the classic 1847 tragic #gothic novel by #EmilyBrontë, who was born this day in 1818!
Basquiat seyde that "art ys how we decorate space, and musique ys how we decorate tyme." It doth followe that poetrye ys how we decorate thoughte and sense, and narratyve ys how we decorate memorye. And all are middel fingeres agaynste death. Make art, or else.
"For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case." Bono on Glen Hansard.
"There is no such thing as an AI-composed book or a non-AI-composed book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all." —Oscar Wilde, prescient as always
No way would Nolan have a woman to talk that much.
Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 2w agoEveryone wondering what Nolan should do next and “yes I said yes I will yes” is right there
Oh I love those Pat Barker books. She is a fine novelist. It’s The Iliad from a female perspective, both moving and illuminating. Read them.. ..
Jennifer Kretchmer@dreamwisp.bsky.social · 2w agoWhile we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.
Playwright Noel Coward with actor Sir John Gielgud, Dublin, 1954, photo by Bert Hardy, Picture Post photographer.
I hope every day you all are trying to cultivate joy. A kindness to a neighbor. A long walk. Poetry. Birdwatching. Meditation. Being silly and playing peekaboo in a checkout line with a cute baby. These are dark times, and joy is something the bastards cannot take from us. Fight for it.
Tove Jansson, Finnish artist and Moomins creator, who shared a summer home on a remote island with her partner, graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilä, for almost 30 years #womensart #summer #FridayFeeling
