Attn @gillo.bsky.social - Calcagnetti =chopines

This is a really important @katiesurma.bsky.social piece on the strategic state silencing of land & water defenders in Ecuador—including colleagues of mine—as Noboa’s gov. moves to intensify mining & drilling (Trump playbook). Please share widely. insideclimatenews.org/news/1003202...

Trump says US Navy sank Iran's warship off the coast of Sri Lanka because "it's more fun" to sink ships than capture them.

This week in REP: Monday: Our palaeographers count the costs of herbs & flowers. Tuesday: Our playmakers are writing songs for beggars. Wednesday: We’re reading Court Masques again.

Lion’s mane mushrooms (which are a new ingredient to me) with a slow cooker curry sauce, giving a meaty taste and texture. (2nd picture, the mushrooms in their uncooked state).

A reminder for REP members: tonight’s reading of The Devil Is An Ass begins at the earlier time of 7pm (because Ben Jonson).

Keir Starmer when you were running for Labour leader you promised to introduce this legislation to stop the UK being dragged into illegal wars - it's time to show you were serious about that.

“The co‑host of the tournament has murdered the head of state of the third‑ranked team in Group G.” www.theguardian.com/football/202...

The Sunday dozen George Méliès and Elvis, Dennis Potter and British blondes, Christopher Marlowe and Honoré de Balzac, Virginia Woolf and video games, and more... www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-d...

The dead in stone & marble lie about the place; restful - and I envy them their pillows.

Wonderful news this morning - Hannah Spencer has been elected in Gorton and Denton as our 5th Green MP! 💚🎉💚🎉 Let’s make this happen everywhere: join.greenparty.org.uk

note how the Tories and Libs Dems weren’t even on the pitch in Gorton

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

Well, it’s nice to wake up to some hope 💚 ✅

First & last paragraphs from Texts (1990) by Ursula Le Guin, collected in ‘Space Crone’. [in the intervening sections she reads texts in waves on the beach and then in patterns in a piece of lace.]

✅ - Today would be a good day to #vote #Green

"Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind refugee from Burma who Border Patrol agents dropped off at a doughnut shop Thursday and left to find his way home, 5 miles away, has been found dead." To read the words is to damn all involved, from Trump on down.

Shafts of sunlight; reflections from inside; looking out the window of the late afternoon train.

Good heavens! Strange days indeed.

- various domestic reading arrangements (from ‘La Vie De Ménage’ (1945) illustrations by Zig Brunner. [tag yourself]

OMG : watching the Six Million Dollar Man channel and I think Steve Austin is about to address the Northern Ireland problem. (Except we’re in “Ballinderry” dealing with the different factions of the IBA, and some of the cheesiest Irish accents that US tv has to offer.)

This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services. Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you. Please do keep sharing! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

For long stretches, of awful events and bitter grief #Hamnet - though excellent - didn’t make me cry … and then it did … it really did 🥹 😢 😢

So, it looks as if we at REP are going to have to revise our opinions as to who played who in the original production of Hamlet. #Hamnet #Shakespeare

Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 on the verge of beating the Aussies at #T20WorldCup 🏏!?

Disappointed that the luge relay doesn’t involve handing over a baton #WinterOlympics

Strange brightness among the clouds, not sure what it signifies; but it’s still raining, so that’s reassuring. #NewDispensation

Would be good if the Prime Minister and/or Home Secretary would for once come out and describe this as the unadulterated racism and xenophobia it so clearly is.

Only a few of the fascinating 14th century misericords in the choir stalls of Worcester Cathedral are visible, but there is a book sold in the shop that has photos of many more - here a woman writes at a lectern while feeding a large bird.

Agnolo Bronzino, Portrait of a Baby Boy, probably one of the sons of Cosimo de' Medici and Eleonora da Toledo, 1540-1549, oil on poplar panel (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore)

Some mudlarking finds survived for centuries in the muddy banks of the River Thames. Others are freshly baked tasty snacks. 🍪 This biscuit (cookie) set recreates ten of the 350+ mudlarked objects in London Museum's Secrets of the Thames exhibition. The exhibition closes on 1 March. Don’t miss it!

Austrian snowboarder’s shirtless celebration takes a while because he is wearing about seven layers. 🥶 🏂🏅 #WinterOlympics

- for #NationalSnowdropDay - seen in the grounds of @worcestercathedral.bsky.social this week, in a rare moment of sunshine.

Maftoul with tomato, okra, yoghurt, mint & sumac, from ‘Boustany’ - a book of Palestinian recipes by Sami Tamimi.

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

He only made 143 when he played for India U19 against England at Worcestershire last summer - I think we were shortchanged 🏏🇮🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Edith Sitwell on Queen Elizabeth I

Cruel Gun Story (d. Tahumi Furuhawa 1964) - an enjoyably stylish & bleak film noir from Japan (dvd by @filmsradiance.bsky.social)

Tonight's is not just any episode. Predominantly shot on film, which is unusual, and written and directed by one of the founding fathers of the series, John McGrath, "People's Property" is well worth catching. Its first screening since 1963.

Let's hope this positive news gets as much attention as the people who try to convince us that the UK is a murder ravaged hellscape. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Bovino is the only one on an ICE raid who does not mask his face, so that he is the only personification of Trump’s brutal tactics... He throws teargas canisters at protesters in front of the cameras.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Trump appears to have lost the support of The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regimental Association. www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2579145...

Help us make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now.

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

In REP this week: Monday - our Palaeography group will transcribe rates of pay for Tudor carpenters Tuesday- the Playmakers will irked to discover that the word “anonymity” isn’t recorded before 1695 Wednesday - we read The Widow, which probably isn’t written by two of the people mentioned here.

Tried to watch an interesting looking Argentinian horror movie called “1978” on #Amazon; it’s in Spanish so I switched on subtitles, but hit by a tidal wave of Hard Of Hearing captions, mostly unnecessary, repetitive and also about 5 seconds out of sync. Gave up!

Watched “Marriage in the Shadows” (Ehe Im Schatten, 1947) last night, depicting German actors, writers, etc throughout the years of Nazi rule. The earliest period perhaps most fascinating now, as most dismiss the dangers of the new regime (except for some of the Jewish members of the group.)