"From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living." Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man (1951) #BookSky #FilmSky

"From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living." Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man (1951) #BookSky #FilmSky

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. — Carl Sagan …are we at the crossroads 🤔

I finally have a peer-reviewed publication to my name! I'd appreciate it if you all would be kind enough to read and share. I'm trying to comment on the reductive nature of the 'apex' form of techno-process driven war that seems to be the limit of martial imagination. doi.org/10.1057/s429...

"If one is not a human being, what is one?" Prof. Achille Mbembe, Historian & Political Theorist. 'On the Postcolony' (2001)

On Wednesdays we wear black...🎬 #FilmSky

Absurd doesn't begin to describe what happens to this group of remarkable men during WW11, due to the British Government's paranoia. 'The Dunera Boys' the (1985) 🎬 #FilmSky

Delighted to share two pieces of mine that came out in LitMagazine this week – “Pacifier”and “Museum Trips”. Thanks to the editors for accepting them – thanks also to Adam Prince and Janet Steen @janetsteen.bsky.social for helping me filter the good from the meh. www.litmagazine.org/pacifier-and...

Trump’s negotiations with himself over Iran deal are 90% of the way done, Trump reports.

The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with reality. Hannah Arendt (1906~1975), 'The Origins of Totalitarianism' (1951)

"If we can't stay here alive, then let us stay here dead!" ~ Field Marshal, Bernard Montgomery. #WW11 www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Chop Suey by Edward Hopper, 1929

"He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news." ~ Bertolt Brecht ~ (1898~1956) German Poet and Playwright.

During WW I, Marie Curie invented a mobile X-ray unit, called “petites Curies,” she trained 150 women to operate the machine inside trucks... Marie Curie, (1867~1934) #WomenInScience How Marie Curie Brought X-Ray Machines To the Battlefield share.google/xYjdRCwjMZfg...

"Why is he still alive? It vexes me. l'm terribly vexed." Gladiator (2000) Commodus, (Joaquin Phoenix) 🎬 #FilmSky

"Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath, Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death." MacBeth, (Act 5 Scene 6) #ShakespeareSunday

✨Happy Vernal Equinox✨ 🍃Welcome Spring! #Ostara #SpringEquinox

"With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea." ~ Dr. Sylvia A. Earle ~ Marine Biologist and Oceanographer. 🌊💙

Prof Madani's innovation is applying game theory to reducing water shortage. Previous work struggled to make headway, he reasoned, because it was based on the assumption people would cooperate to prevent water running out. In truth, people sometimes act against their own interests.

Which movie character would you not want to mess with? 🎬 #FilmSky

Jacques Garcia ~ The Albertine Book Store, New York, 2014

Picked a helluva year to reread Catch-22. Not even halfway through and I can’t help wondering if the regime saw accolades like “best war novel” and read it as a guidebook for aspirational organizational dysfunction during a World War. Just kidding, I know none of them read. #booksky #AmReading 📚👀

A personal tribute to an inspiring author: open.substack.com/pub/philipwb...

No one has said it better...🌎😰 "Some day the earth will weep, she will beg for her life, she will cry with tears of blood. You will make a choice, if you will help her or let her die, and when she dies, you too will die." John Hollow Horn, Oglala Lakota, (1932). #ClimateChange #BookSky

Women are becoming the men we wanted to marry. (But too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry) Gloria Steinem, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion (2019) 📚 #BookSky

Kaoru Yamada

Thank you very much for this brave, poignant interview Fergal Keane... @fergalkeane.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Goodbye, Len.

'Funeral In Berlin' (1966), Directed by Guy Hamilton. Written by Len Deighton, (1929~2026) 📚 🎬 "When I started writing I had rules," he said. "One was that violence must not solve the problem, and I cannot have the hero overcome violence with a counterweight of violence." #BookSky #FilmSky

One of the lanes on the approach to Glastonbury Tor. It always feels like such a welcoming view ahead.

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death. Kurt Vonnegut, (1922~2007) Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) 📚 #BookSky

"Shall we just have a cigarette on it?" "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars." 'Now Voyager' (1942) 🎬 #FilmSky #ClassicScenes youtu.be/pBczDk5GpL8?...

I want to see some of your favourite final shots in film history...🎬 #FilmSky

"‘Tis the times’ plague, when madmen lead the blind." King Lear (Act 4, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday

'Lenin, Stalin and Hitler' (2007) by Robert Gellately. 📚 #BookSky

"I am a citizen of the world." ~ Sylvia Beach ~ (1887~1962)

NEW EPISODE - Growing up in #Soviet #Ukraine in the 1960s and 70s Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode447/ #Lviv #coldwar #childhood #Sovietunion

Post a great photo of a musician...🎸

"You had to be there to see what it looked like. They live in a dream, and we live in a nightmare." Philip Roth, 'The Plot Against America' (2004) 📚 #BookSky

Oxford Circus.

A friend from my hometown in NJ now living in Kyiv wrote this book with his wife. Would be grateful for any shares. #booksky @christianbauman.bsky.social x Accidental Ukrainians: The Russian Invasion Through American Eyes - www.kyivpost.com/post/42590

Dreamt that the Labour government had issued every dog with an ID Card/passport but they came with pre-assigned names. Nico’s new Government-assigned name was Streisand Peepers.

Mercilessly bombing civilians; it's a War! 💔

Jean Gaberell, Am Gallina, vers 1920.

The logic that restrained past presidents is reappearing in real time. War with Iran risks regional escalation, global oil shocks, and unclear endgames. When strategy is replaced by improvisation, consequences arrive quickly. History’s caution exists for a reason.

'Thistle Grove, South Kensington', from 'My Recollections and Reflections' (1913) by Yoshio Markino

"I don't dislike him. I just don't like him. Which is quite different." 🎬 Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (Maggie Smith) Downton Abbey, Season 2, Episode 6. #SeriesSky

This is how I access BlueSky...🎬