My favorite photo so far this year. Yes, the photos of the Moon and Earth are glorious, but the ebullient humanity of this photo brings so much joy in a time when it is much needed.

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING - President Zelensky. Absolutely compelling on all things war and peace, Trump and Putin. Also listen to the end for real empathy and emotion. Ps as this interview landed we have postponed part 2 populism series to next Fri podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV’s Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...

ft.pressreader.com/article/2816... Israel became the only coun­try to form­ally recog­nise the self-declared state of Soma­li­l­and---prompting a run on the Israeli flag. The out­come gives Israel a foothold on the Bab el-Mandeb strait, through which 14 per cent of global mari­time trade flow

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The Abyss ~~~~~~~ “What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.” ~ Thomas Merton.

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Lotos eating. profadamroberts.substack.com/p/tennysons-...

Tucker Carlson: "It's vile. It begins w/ a promise to use the US military to commit a war crime. Those people who are in direct contact w/ the president need to say 'No. I'll resign. I'll do whatever I can do legally to stop this, bc this is insane. And if given the order, I'm not carrying it out'"

Trump is deranged and delusional. He refuses to deal with factual reality and believes in his own grandiosity. He should not be anywhere near the levers of power. America and the world will long pay for the tragic mistake of returning him to power. He should be removed now.

In this data visualization, see every dinosaur fossil known to science on a map! Look for where & when your favorite dinosaurs appear. See when birds like Archaeopteryx evolved & which groups of dinosaurs dominated the landscape from one time period to the next: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ_i...

WSJ has a piece on the merchant sailors stuck aboard ships inside Hormuz. There are 20,000 of them (many from less privileged nationalities), effectively held hostage and running out of food. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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Annie Lennox

Spring flowers: ✅ Medieval guild hall: ✅ Grey and chilly weather because it’s a Bank Holiday weekend in the UK: ✅ Whatever your plans, we hope you have a happy Saturday!

To Pur­gat­ory and back again Sta­tion Island is one of Europe’s old­est places for pil­grim­age — and it is not for the faint­hearted. Oliver Smith takes on the chal­lenge ft.pressreader.com/article/2821...

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via @esowteric.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ7o...

One of the national tragedies of Thatcher winning the 1979 election is that Labour was planning to use the receipts from oil in a more productive and strategic way, instead we got tax cuts and mass unemployment - and now here we are.

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#Kyoto #spring rhythm The tower rises blooming Sakura as a red umbrella punctuates the pink-petaled ground A moment of cultural and seasonal harmony #japan #sakura #cherryblossom #travel #architecture #japanesegarden #photography #storytelling #culture 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 #𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗢𝗳𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗦𝗸𝘆 & 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲

iai.tv/articles/sla... A student of David Bohm, Henri Bortoft's book makes use of the Holographic universe metaphor-- identical to the way Zizek does here. However, Bortoft's book-title is The Wholeness of Nature; whereas Zizek's argument may be summarised as: The Nature that is not One.

'The Cath­olic press attacked him as a sin­is­ter pseudo-thinker pro­mot­ing a twis­ted polit­ical theo­logy, and one theo­lo­gian at a pon­ti­fical uni­versity sug­ges­ted that Thiel him­self may be the anti­christ.' ft.pressreader.com/article/2818...

Princess Anne continues to merge with the Christopher Walken meme

ceramic bowl by Ze'ev Raban, decorated with Song of Songs 2: 11, 1925-1950

BREAKING: “It is increasingly clear that as the world continues down this volatile path our long term national interest requires closer partnership with our allies in Europe and with the European Union.. Brexit did deep damage to our economy” Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏

“The chief idea of this system was that we do not use even a small part of our powers and our forces. We have in us, so to speak, a very big and very fine organization, only we do not know how to use it ...” ~ P.D. Ouspensky, The Fourth Way.

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Europe is the shield against imperialism. The US is gone.

Had enough of experts? Me neither. A very informative discussion, full of well-evidenced insights.

I was already in love with Project Hail Mary and then a prop from Power of the Daleks turned up. 👌🏻

Well that was nice, hope you all enjoyed it.

"When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, "By G-d I'll fight till he'll freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on."" goes so hard, fuck em up, Iowa man

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Carbon dioxide has been turned into minerals in Earth’s subsurface using recirculating water flow — a viable way to sequester this greenhouse gas in water-scarce areas go.nature.com/4rUAH2k

Well, it’s the 61st anniversary today, so I think you’ll agree that it must be time for me to repost this thread about Julian and Sandy. It is, after all, always bona to vada their dolly old eeks again

I love that mode of Victorian photograph where the subject looks just hugely pissed off at being photographed at all. Here's Silvester Horne, Liberal MP (father of Round the Horne's Kenneth)

Trump: "He [Saudi Arabia's MBS] didn't think he'd be kissing my ass... But now he has to be nice to me." This is the choice the GCC will face post-war. If it moves toward deeper dependence on the US to balance Iran, they'll become spineless vassals similar to Europe, who have to "kiss Trump's ass."