One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married

“We are in a lot of trouble. Our difficulties are multiplying and becoming more complex and challenging. Whatever short- or medium-term plans we have are having to be revised or discarded daily…” Can you help us, even just with an RT?

She was brilliant.

In La Repubblica, really extraordinary text (look at alt text), essentially saying calling this fascism is too subtle, that it’s worse and Hegseth is a lunatic. Who am I to argue? www.repubblica.it/rubriche/l-a...

can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?

Michaelmas Daisies for this week’s Feast of St Michael #FlowerReport.

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it’s another day 👇🤷‍♂️

this! the commercialization of education via the integration of AI in classrooms and big tech infrastructure is the most dangerous and destructive capitalisation of education

Grifters gonna grift.

"Art is here to prove, and to help one bear, the fact that all safety is an illusion." James Baldwin forever.

We’re looking for a temporary (two months) refuge/cheap rental outside the EU from early October. I’m undergoing further medical stuff this week and unlikely to be fit enough to return to sea. Open to anything/anywhere, on this side of the Atlantic.

Flowers from my daughter for this week’s #FlowerReport.

I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month

“Reason destroying plagiarism machine” about sums it up.

Resist. That’s all.

Just going to remind you that if the police or any other law enforcement show up you should ABSOLUTELY say I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT i.e., then say nothing else except repeatedly demanding a lawyer.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

A thread to give us perspective on the many good things happening in our world, in spite of all the awfulness.

This is a test to see how many of us are Oliver North years-old.

❝The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it... (1/2)

My job, too. Hope I’m doing a good enough job of this.

Pulling this one back out again by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social "But I need you to fight too, in the way that matters most, which is inside. Authoritarianism is not merely a matter of state control, it is something that eats away at who you are." thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-he...

If you’re in the summoning circle, stay in the summoning circle.

Are you looking forward to autumn? All seasons are splendid in #OldFox'sCottage, but autumn is perhaps the best of all. Do please consider supporting @annelouiseavery.bsky.social's writing by joining her Patreon, if you can. 🦊

I am suddenly 120 years old, I am so tired. First day back on campus and we’ve already had an active shooter hoax.

Home again in West Virginia, with my dad’s ashes. We ordered pizza and I just opened the bottle of wine my dad enjoyed (Bogle Petite Syrah). My dog is very happy to see me after more than two months without me. Dramatic sky over Suncrest Town Center.

Great Blue Heron

Brought my dad’s ashes home today.

Tri-color heron.

I'm deeply grateful to those who have shared their stories for The Human Toll project. These stories capture the deep sense of fear, loss, helplessness, disappointment, and anger that people are experiencing in the wake of recent changes in the US. But they also offer reason for hope. humantoll.org

My parents met on August 8, 1964, a few months after my dad left the Air Force where he worked on Titan 1 missiles, and they were married on December 12, 1964. My dad died this Wednesday, just shy of 61 years with my mother. A long, very good life. I’m heartbroken but so grateful.

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

The waxing crescent moon

Most things may never happen: this one will, And realisation of it rages out In furnace-fear when we are caught without People or drink. Courage is no good: It means not scaring others. Being brave Lets no one off the grave. Death is no different whined at than withstood.

Thank you, Suzzi! Scotland gets it.

She's all states, and all princes, I, Nothing else is. Princes do but play us; compared to this, All honor's mimic, all wealth alchemy.

And it will be on the @sunypress.bsky.social website and available for preorder next week/in early August. Stay tuned! Really excited to get this into the world and readers’ hands.

Nutria are invasive, but they’re also very cute.

The Orkney-based artist, Samantha Clark, haa been a regular source of spiritual sustenance and joy for me over the past year: her words are as impressive as her art, both entwined with the sea and a rugged littoral. Also, check out The Life Raft Co-Creating Community she founded.

Here’s looking at you, Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin was born OTD in 1892. “The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.” #PhilSky 🧠🗃️

Queen of the Texas Night.

Green heron