Vienna, 4. X. 2015, 18:00 The last goodbye after a long summer. It was going to last forever. Now, it is ten years later.

Read it. It matters. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/t...

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2. X. 2025, 17:12 The eternal ones.

2. X. 2025, 16:48

Happy #TranslatorDay to every translator (and reader). The world would be a very different place without you, to the point of being unrecognisable. N.B. It is telling that the useless UN has called it the Int'l TRANSLATION day - celebrating a process that somehow magically happens on its own. 🙄

I've just learned that philosopher and theologian Tatiana M. Goricheva died yesterday. An extraordinary woman, an extraordinary mind and heart. ✨

A most happy birthday to Robert Kelly, one of the top five living American poets (I STILL don't remember who the other four are). It's not a good day for photographing dragons, but he might like the sound of this, recorded expressly for him on 11. IX. 2015, in Vienna. :) @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social

Two months - days of scorching heat, apocalyptic storms, and the relentless erosion of time - later: badly battered, but still alive.

11. IX. 2025, 15:38

A legendary record, with Bix Beiderbecke playing the cornet. Recorded on February 4, 1927, it turned out to be one of the most influential jazz tracks of all time. youtu.be/EfmzS2hYNvk?...

#Poppycock Apparently, emperor Honorius was shocked and distraught upon learning that Rome had perished. "'And yet it has just eaten from my hands!" Great was his relief when he learned that it wasn't his beloved cock, named Rome, that had perished but only the city.

The sheer stupidity of Chat GPT has become mind-boggling. Tokenization can't touch the human mind.

31. VIII. 2025, 19:49 Curtain falls.

A random bit of history... From the 18th century on, and as improbable as it sounds, there was an Afro-Albanian colony in Montenegro. web.archive.org/web/20180301...

Monday, 25. VIII. 2025 A day of singing light. #PavementPoetry

(Yes, I am easily amused.)

25. VIII. 2025, 15:04 #ShadowPoem #PavementPoetry

25. VIII. 2025, 15:56 The whole picture. #LightPoetry

25. VIII. 2025, 15:56 #LightPoetry

25. VIII. 2025, 15:04 (Thinking of @Sparrersway :) #PavementPoetry

24. VIII. 2025, 18:49 Let me see, let me see... !

24. VIII. 2025, 18:39 To be continued

All those days... www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

I love this. They built it using exclusively 13th century techniques. Such projects would be the perfect schools for teaching true craftsmanship. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I've been saying this for decades. "(A)rt history graduates possess distinctly marketable skills, including in critical thinking, visual analysis, foreign language training, and wide knowledge of cultural heritage, which employers across sectors are highly interested in"

"War-Damaged Musical Instruments", by Susan Philipsz. Theseus Temple, Vienna, on August 16, 2015 - ten years ago today. Among the instruments used are the bugle that sounded the charge of the Light Brigade (1854) and a bugle found by the body of a 14-year-old drummer boy at Waterloo (1815).

Tonight, I am suddenly thinking of those people, unknown, for whom *I* am the one who never arrived.

Krušče, 13. VIII. 2022 #Adoorable

"Mind surfing: attention in musical absorption" from Simon Høffding, Nanette Nielsen, & Bruno Laeng at RITMO www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Neuroskyence #Consciousness

An interesting study. "Both musical sensibility and music use motivations <seem to be> closely interwoven with personality dispositions (pertaining to affect, aesthetics, empathy, and intellect) and should thus not be viewed as fully self-contained traits." journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Twelve years ago tonight, I was driving through dark woods with a friend, both singing this song at the top of our lungs, giddy with happiness, drunk on all the falling stars we'd caught that night. (Not many; but enough to last a lifetime.) youtu.be/cN-OCHlfRTU?...

Wenn die Bewässerung mal läuft, freuen sich alle #Schneckenbadi

12. VIII. 2025, 17:44 The watch.

10. VIII. 2025, 17:19 The song of the shadowbirds. #PavementPoetry #ShadowPoem

10. VIII. 2025, 16:37

10. VIII. 2025, 18:09 This tiny pond is one of the deepest lakes in Slovenia. In the middle, there is a Karstic siphon that has only been researched until the depth of 51 metres.

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10. VIII. 2025, 17:50 The ancient St Lawrence's church (a church may have stood here in the 7-9th century), taken on St. Lawrence's day.

10. VIII. 2025, 17:12 From the hills above LJ.

Read and weep. 🥴 N.B. The title is poorly chosen: the problem here are not the chatbot's "delusions" - the problem, as ever, is the recklessness and ignorance of its human users. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

(Ephemera) For those willing to invest 9:50 minutes of their one and only life in watching sparrows cuss and brawl during their meal. 😅 youtu.be/PLUURFqhfVM?...

This guy came close: arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

I wonder have many people may have actually died thanks to ChatGPT's advice. Seriously.

Chat GPT has gone "senile": it is directly contradicting itself within the same chat, based on the exact same data. OR... a human is monitoring and adjusting the replies.

Transfiguration, 6th century, Sant'Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna. According to popular belief, the feast of the Transfiguration (August 6) is the last day to bathe in rivers, because it marks the change of seasons. Nature itself is 'transfigured'. Indeed: the light of summer ends around August 6.

3. VIII. 2025, 19:52 The last of the summer rain.

3. VIII. 2025, 19:58 Summer is gone. The mellow early evenings of August still look like summer, it is hot like summer, but a light has gone out. A whole dimension of light is suddenly missing: the dazzling gold of high summer. This is the light of the antechamber of autumn.

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