Beautiful - and intellectually interesting (inspired by some classics of modern European thought - de Certeau, Jacobson, etc).

Lest we forget: today is 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 the anniversary of #Germany's first successful revolution

"This Remembrance period offers an important chance for reflection on the role played by music and musicians in securing our freedom" - Jack Pepper for Gramophone Magazine.

Today, on Remembrance Sunday, we remember the sacrifices made by those who fought and died for our freedom in past wars. We must also remember the brave Ukrainians who are right now fighting to defend the freedom of Ukraine, and that of all Europe, from dictatorship. 📷: Ukrainian 15th Army Corps

French artist Raymond Wintz specialised in marine and coastal views in Brittany. Here, almost 100 years ago, he looks through an open doorway to the harbour beyond (The Blue Door, 1927)

Winter landscape with skaters, painted c. 1665 by Aert van der Neer, Dutch Golden Age artist who worked in and around Amsterdam, known for lively winter scenes on frozen rivers; died #OTD 1670. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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Edmond Halley, English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist, born #OTD 1656, sponsor of Newton’s Principia, computed orbit and periodicity of eponymous comet, mapped solar eclipse of 1715. National Portrait Gallery | Royal Society

“See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds...” John Milton, revered English poet, author of Paradise Lost, died #OTD 1674. Christs College Cambridge

The Bodleian Library opened to the public #OTD in 1602. Duke Humfrey’s Library: oldest reading room in the Bodleian, named after Humphrey Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester who bequeathed 281 books after his death in 1447. @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

It must be so galling for people at CEU, who stood up to the despicable kleptocrat Trump is hosting today and who paid a personal and professional price for that, to see US universities capitulating so pathetically.

Would be good to have numbers for the main individual elections but I see the problem @openpolicy.bsky.social

Thank you @openpolicy.bsky.social I guess this is a high percentage historically for an NY mayoral election.

Thank you @evamontemaggi.bsky.social I can see this looks high but hard to get a sense of the percentage of eligible voters the numbers represent.

Don't let Reform and the Tories take the UK out of the ECHR, a bulwark of freedom and human rights that the UK helped to write 75 years ago!

Can someone point me to a site that gives turnout figures in the recent US elections? I keep reading that turnout was high, but cannot find actual numbers.

Today!

Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.

Symphony no.4 in F minor was first performed in April 1935 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Boult. This letter was later dated by Boult as ‘Autumn 1944’; he did conduct the symphony again on 14 February 1945 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, in Bedford.

NEW: The Russian military command is reportedly augmenting its troop presence in the Pokrovsk direction, likely to consolidate the gains Russian forces initially secured through infiltration missions and advance further through the town. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar110625

For the English-speaking market. Advertisement for 1893 Sparking Berncastler Doctor by E & F Cantor Sektkellerei, Mainz. Emil and Friedrich Cantor founded their Sektkellerei around 1852 in Bad Kreuznach and moved it to Mainz in 1864.

William Stukeley, English antiquary, pioneered archaeological exploration of Stonehenge & Avebury sites, born #OTD 1687. Society of Antiquaries, London

Marie Curie, Polish-French physicist, chemist, pioneer in radioactivity, first woman Nobel laureate & only winner of two Nobel prizes in different sciences (Physics & Chemistry); born #OTD 1867, buried in the Panthéon, Paris. Nobel Prize | 5th Solvay Conference 1927 (colourised)

“Si le monde était clair, l’art ne serait pas.” Albert Camus, French philosopher, writer, author of L'Étranger, La Peste, born #OTD 1913; winner of Nobel Prize in Literature 1957. Nobel Prize

“A key question could be whether the court determines whether Trump's tariffs are a tax.” Interesting if they decide not. Cue mass re-writing of econ textbooks. Not to mention dictionaries.

Self-portrait, 1780, by #AngelicaKauffmann (#AngelicaKauffman, #AngelikaKauffmann, Swiss, 1741-1807), who died #otd, Nov 5. Held by The Phoebus Foundation, phoebusfoundation.org/en/agenda/in... #womenartists #artherstory

Charter of the Forest sealed #OTD 1217 ⁦‪at St Paul’s London. Carta Foresta, important complementary charter to Magna Carta, re-established rights of freemen to royal forest, protecting land for grazing, fuel & forage. Carta Foresta 1217 Durham Cathedral | Queen Mary Psalter 1310-20 British Library

Pope Leo Rebukes Donald Trump On Migration With Christ's Matthew 25 Warning

Gunpowder, treason and plot. Plot to blow up parliament foiled; Guy Fawkes arrested #OTD 1605. National Portrait Gallery London | James DF Mellor #drawnfromhistory

Painting & Music: Self-portrait c 1770, by eminent Swiss Neoclassical artist Angelica Kauffman, who painted Handelian singer Sarah Harrop as Erato the lyric muse in 1780. The artist died in Rome #OTD 1807 & Canova directed her funeral. National Gallery London | Princeton University Art Museum

Greatest scientist between Newton & Einstein: James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist, died #OTD 1879; formulated Theory of Electromagnetism, four equations which underpin modern information & communication technologies. Monument George Street Edinburgh | James Clerk Maxwell Foundation Edinburgh

Professor Fiona Woollard explores how philosophy can help us to understand pregnancy and improve the treatment of people who are pregnant. She discusses how thinking seriously about pregnancy challenges philosophy's standard methods. Watch the full lecture here: youtu.be/4ZDV-hGcNQU

"You cannot turn a blind eye to conspiracies about Satanic paedophile rings and expect the base will stop at the Protocols of the Elders of Zion." My column on the suppurating neo-Nazism on America's right. on.ft.com/4oxjjQj

Art Queens Gallery has published the Autumn 2025 issue of Art HERstory Magazine! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTSHFGZL This issue looks at the transformative legacy of Maria Sibylla Merian. It also presents interviews with contemporary women artists about their journeys, challenges, and visions.

NEW: Russian forces continue to advance in the Pokrovsk direction and appear to be operating with increasing comfort within Pokrovsk itself. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 3, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar110325 Other Key Takeaways ⬇️ [🧵] (1/8)

Georg Siebert (German 1896-1984) Weekend, 1928. Oil on cardboard.

Christ giving the keys to St Peter, 1625, with distinctive rich yellow of Guido Reni, Italian Baroque artist of Bolognese School, born #OTD 1575. Trained in Rome under the Carracci, painter to the Pope, his restrained classicism inspired French & Spanish artists incl. Vouet, Murillo. Musée du Louvre

Master of candlelight: Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch artist of Golden Age & a founding figure of Utrecht Caravaggisti, born #OTD 1592; visiting painter at court of Charles I. Denial of St Peter c. 1620, Musée de Beaux Arts, Rennes

"It had the maturity and surefootedness of a conductor who has fully absorbed the work and long since recognised it as a masterpiece" - A 5⭐ review from @bachtrack of a recent performance of RVW's Sea Symphony by Sir Mark Elder and the @lporchestra.bsky.social.

A timely and authoritative lecture, and the most rigorous and riveting conversation I’ve witnessed in a long time. A privilege to have chaired this, very grateful to UCL Provost and to @laws.ucl.ac.uk, Disagreeing Well for invaluable support.

6/ Ukrainian forces recently advanced in the Dobropillya tactical area. Russian forces recently advanced in the Kupyansk and Pokrovsk directions and in the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka tactical area. Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar110225

NEW: Russian forces continue to intensify offensive operations in and around Pokrovsk to seize the town and collapse the Ukrainian pocket. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 2, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar110225 Other Key Takeaways ⬇️ [🧵] (1/6)

Marie Antoinette [who was born #otd, Nov 2] in a Muslin Dress, 1783, by #ElisabethVigeeLeBrun (French, 1755-1842). Held by Schloss Wolfsgarten; image found at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ma... #womenartists #artherstory

Ever wanted to see inside the Warburg Library? On Saturday 29 November we’re offering a public tour of our Library, Photographic Collection and Archive. Free, but booking essential: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #WarburgLibrary

“If that was an animal shelter, crowded with the filth that we hear is in there, it would be closed down. It’s inhumane.” #PrayForAmerica chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

La Saliera: gold & enamel salt cellar 1543, masterpiece made for François I, by Benvenuto Cellini, Italian Mannerist goldsmith & sculptor, born in Florence #OTD 1500. La Saliera featured in Balzac’s novel La Peau de Chagrin; Cellini inspired Dumas’s novel L’Orfèvre du Roi. Kunsthistorisches Museum

Paragon of painters: Annibale Carracci, a founding figure of Baroque, influenced Bernini, Rubens & Poussin, born #OTD 1560; painted celebrated Loves of Gods fresco (1597-1608) on the vaulted ceiling of Farnese gallery. Palazzo Farnese

Finding beauty in everyday life: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, born #OTD 1699, French painter of tranquil, luminous still-life & genre scenes, admired by Manet, Cézanne, Matisse and Proust. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC | Musée du Louvre

Laws of thought: George Boole, influential mathematician, born #OTD 1815; Boolean logic laid foundation for computers & Information Age. University College Cork

Cornish painter Harold Harvey used the sunny view of Mount’s Bay from the porch of his home in this painting of two women chatting over tea, as cat looks on / & used the same setting to depict woman standing knitting at the door as man plays accordion (The Blue Door 1931, 1934)