I love the way each of the six baby crocodiles in this photo seems to have a completely distinct personality. Top (l.-r.): Introvert, idealist, jerk Bottom (l.-r.): Class clown, stoner, pessimist

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.

Café Español by Josep Gaspar, Av/Paral·lel, c1925. A meeting point of intellectual and political discussion (especially inside in the cheaper seats, anarchist) in early 20th century Barcelona.

New map produced by RTVE, Spanish national TV, of the 6000 mass graves in Spain. In the last 25 years some 17,000 bodies of men, women and children have been exhumed out of the ~120,000 dumped in mass unmarked graves by the Franco regime. www.rtve.es/noticias/fos...

"The restrictions were intended to prevent a repeat of the Nazi rise to power, when anti-democratic forces were able to subvert democracy from within..." www.politico.eu/article/larg...

WOW! Slovak students walked out of a meeting with Fico after he criticized the EU's support for Ukraine. When the students defended the need to aid Ukraine's existential defence, Fico told them they should "go fight there" instead. What a strong moral compass — and the guts of these youngsters.

A dark, horrific night for Kyiv. I can hardly remember russia ever bombing this many apartment buildings in a single terrorist attack here.

harvard prof elisa new being like “good call on lolita, i’ll have to reread it!” in an email to epstein in fucking 2018 is exhibit A here

Nabokov himself was a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. lithub.com/lolita-is-na...

Rinjiro Hasegawa (1904-1988) Cat, 1966

Plaça de la Universitat at sunset (Barcelona)

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Plaça de la Universitat at sunset (Barcelona)

It's as important to stop this as the stuff at the top. Because it's all the same system. This is where Epstein's victims and clients come from. Virginia Giuffre was prey to Maxwell bc she'd been abused all her life & had nowhere to turn. Perps are so brazen bc they're told over & over it's fine.

Embalmed soviet nomenclature nostaligists meet kids born in free europe

I wrote a piece for @frenchhistory.bsky.social about the 40th anniversary of the French bombing of the "Rainbow Warrior." Huge thanks to @eldrclaire.bsky.social @donalh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social & the journal's extremely patient staff. doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1093/fh/c...

David Drake’s works "often carried inscriptions, even though it was illegal at the time for enslaved people to learn how to read or write. On one jar, Drake reflected on his systemic separation from his family members... “I wonder where is all my relation / Friendship to all—and every nation.”"

"'I’m not sure what we’ve learned from it all,' Walter Johnson, a professor of History and African and African American Studies, wrote in a statement. 'I think Larry Summers told us who he was a long time ago.'" Professor Johnson knows wassup.

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social is back & this (no surprise) is excellent

I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.

Novembermorgen

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social is back & this (no surprise) is excellent

Suburban aurora

It actually isn’t that hard to be normal with people. Thread.

“We will eat grass rather than become a Russian colony again” #FBR #FBPE Minister of Foreign Affairs of #Poland Radosław #Sikorski, in an interview with British podcast The Rest is Politics, said that Poland will be russia’s next target if #Ukraine loses the war. 1-2

With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels. 10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C 20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.

Japodski ostrovy, Ripač, Bosna a Hercegovina

It actually isn’t that hard to be normal with people. Thread.

Gift link to M Gessen (always a smart read) on passports as social control. One detail that gets forgotten: US passports only introduced a gender marker in 1976 in response to “unisex” styles. 1976!!!!!

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

I was given it to review, and thought "So it's come to this - reduced to reviewing a chimpanzee's 'autobiography' ffs". Little did I suspect it was a work of genius.

The remains of the Roman fortlet at Kinneil, near Bo’ness on the Antonine Wall - the only example of an Antonine Wall fortlet which is still visible. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanScotland #Kinneil #AntonineWall

The birth of the author

this thread 🎯

I first posted this before the shameful capitulation of some Democratic senators, which sadly confirms O'Toole's observations about why we lack the opposition party we sorely need:

this thread 🎯

Good morning to everyone but especially the maker of this 1817 map. 🍂

Good morning to everyone but especially the maker of this 1817 map. 🍂

Grace Kelly photographed on 4 October 1951 watching the World Series opener between the New York Yankees and the New York Giants at Warner Bros Burbank Studios with the cast and crew of “HIGH NOON” including Otto Kruger, Thomas Mitchell, Gary Cooper and Lon Chaney Jr.

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10

it is insane that this is real

Literary hivemind! Has anyone read any fiction recently that engages or evokes digital archives - or, even better, the concept of the 'digital dark age'?

©Vivian Maier New York, 1953

Austen in the streets, Shelley in the sheets

This is a really good article about him www.smithsonianmag.com/history/quak...