127 those familiar with the matter said you couldn't make / it up from even the sheerest plasma of possibility / and the black rain to which influencers are immaterial / penetrates the relatively leaky building envelopes / covering footprints hiding traces and vestiges with zero / -day vulnerabilities and grocery prices sad face 128 crank the dial leave newborn infants to die or be eaten / by feral dogs that's how I roll don't grudge me my small / pleasures in a joyless world peeling back the onion / makes one weep says our team on the ground so eat / red meat zero in on collateral damage analysis and it stops / you dead in your tracks fun fact it's hard to kill a bad thing [Given the unlikely rumours of Netenyahu's demise. “Is doiligh drochrud a mharú” – it’s hard to kill a bad thing. (Irish proverb)] Possession: Ongoing poem / metabolic engine, at least one six-line section a day since Jan 24.

[Given the unlikely rumours of Netenyahu's demise. “Is doiligh drochrud a mharú” – it’s hard to kill a bad thing. (Irish proverb)]

Possession: Ongoing poem / metabolic engine, at least one six-line section a day since Jan 24.

124 a number were reportedly nudged from their / homes so we've done scenario analysis where / a person has temporary memory loss and ends up / in an unexpected place all sense of previous / such exploits totally obliterated and people getting / bombed and that's plain unacceptable so sue me 125 crude futures are spiking and the lanes are mined / but we think we’re safe because someone told us so / though incomplete combustion of industrial materials / next to my humble abode thats really more of a space / ship hidden in the ruins of this fugue state displaces / our shaped air enough of that the thing itself is vile 126 looking at a range of options not least a vaudeville / of kitsch induced emoting streaming down her face / prompted by blunt force trauma not his finest hour is it / let's face it he's in desperate straits surrounded as he is / by unmanned drones and feeling sorry for himself and / many of his top officials because she made him do it

Ongoing poem / metabolic engine, at least one six-line section a day since Jan 24. trevorjoyce.ie/possession/

Israel promises 'Gaza-style destruction' in Lebanon after denying deliberate destruction for 2 years Israel is attacking sovereign nations in contravention of international law, And is receiving no pushback from any corporate media platform

Israel is attacking sovereign nations in contravention of international law, And is receiving no pushback from any corporate media platform

Selected Poems by Mustafa Köz — Turkoslavia — Exchanges

The Art of Poetry

Behind the door is a wind drenched in blood
no one can tell how, or from where it came
in its mouth nothing but a few laurel leaves
culled from the last wish of that dead mariner,
—Or maybe not. What does it matter?—

Mustafa Köz (Tr, Neil Patrick Doherty)

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write.as/blown-chaff/

24.01.26
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well here goes nothing and it's not funny at all
a command so broken complex and fragile
leaves rational actors seen at a different
scale or orientation seeking an appropriate
response as the beef deficit unravels
and unravels fast like there was no tomorrow

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Gaudete - Steeleye Span - LIVE 1974! YouTube video by SpanFan

Might be a day late, but this just came up. The 'Classic' Steeleye line-up from the late 70s. Maddie's voice just gives me the chills, in a good way.

Also, the first UK Singles Chart hit fully in Latin.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEPm...

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

Repeating patterns created by columns of bow windows on a long row of early 1900s tenements on Tollcross Road in the East End of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #tenement #tollcross

Yeah, but does Trump know a zebra when he see one?

Hypocaust

Isn't it great to see the stretch in the evenings!

Bloody hell! That's some exemplar to live up to . . .

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Annie Lennox - Walking on Broken Glass (Official Video) YouTube video by AnnieLennoxVEVO

This is the best music video ever created. I will not be taking questions at this time.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y25s...

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Most Irish people want clean water, not a nitrates derogation Has the Government ever asked the people of Ireland if they agree with pulling on the green jersey to convince Europe to give us another derogation?

"Our waters are crying out for a break from the pollution, Irish people [want] clean water, but our voices are drowned out in a world of political wrangling and vested interest.

[But] you can’t drink politics."

Excellent piece by
@elainemcgoff.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Important point, always explain what is better.
No problem because the solutions ARE out there RIGHT NOW for 95%.
In construction they are biobased or deal with existing stuff from the technosphere, circular. It's all here, not just better, cost competitive in many cases even on a distorted market.

Bernini's baldachin: two parallel richly-encrusted baroque spiral columns.

They remind me a little of Bernini's columns for the Vatican baldachin.

The image shows two exceptional silk threads of the Australian net-caster spider, Asianopis subrufa. Unlike typical web-builders, this spider holds a specialized, sticky net between its four front legs. When an unsuspecting insect approaches, the spider rapidly expands its net and casts it over the prey, a maneuver that demands dramatic extensibility from the supporting lines at the sides of the sticky net. These threads are composed of an elastomeric core encased in a sheath of harder fibers of varying sizes; the result is a structure that is both strong and stretchy. The mesmerizing, looping fibers in the image capture the eye with their meandering fiber bundles, which shift in their complex winding from large to small scales.

The image shows two exceptional silk threads of the Australian net-caster spider. When an unsuspecting insect approaches, the spider rapidly expands its net and casts it over the prey. The fibers in the image catch the eye with their meandering fiber bundles.

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Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Here's a link to my translations of Old English poems into Scots

auldnorse.wordpress.com/owersettins/

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.

A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

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This Brooklyn Museum photo shows a sketch made in black ink on a stone-coloured limestone flake (known as an ostracon by Egyptologists). The sketch depicts a scene with a cat and a mouse imitating human behaviour. On the right, a tabby cat is drawn in profile with pointed ears, standing on its hind legs in front of a large mouse seated on a folding stool on the left of the scene. The cat is depicted as a servant; in one paw it holds a fan, and offers a plucked duck, in the other paw it holds a piece of linen cloth. The mouse has drooping breasts, wears a long skirt, has a lotus flower on its forehead, and its long tail hangs down over the back of the stool. The mouse holds a dish, a flower, and cloth (often held by pharaohs). Dimensions 8.9 x 17.3 x 1.1 cm. Dated c. 1295–1075 BC. Animals imitating human behaviour are well-known in Egyptian art. Their meaning is uncertain. Perhaps this sketch is a caricature or illustration of a long-lost fable, perhaps a satire of the royal family, or maybe just a sketch for fun!

To bring a smile to your face, here’s an ancient Egyptian sketch of a tabby cat serving a mouse! 😁

The artist used a flake of limestone as a sketchpad to draw this comic scene some 3,200 years ago.

📷 Brooklyn Museum www.brooklynmuseum.org/en-GB/object...

#Archaeology

Good front-paging.

PBS: “A poll from the journal "Nature" found 75% of researchers are considering leaving 🇺🇸— including a man dubbed the Mozart of Math… a scientific brain drain.”

The Trump Effect. The opposite of Making America Great Again. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist

Just as the Iraqi opposition did in the early 2000’s…