Paris, France?? Whoa, fancy.

What a caboose.

'Shit's gonna be fucked up. No, I can't say more.'

Me, having a stroke: call the ambulunz

You: are you having a stroke?

Me: by docgo, the ambulunz

Every pair of ears in (the real town of) Amberley, New Zealand, just pricked up.

'I haven’t encountered any students who think they're learning when they let LLMs do their work, despite the face that college administrators and LLM advertising try to put on this. It's just workload management to them.'

Extraordinary post.

No-one tells you about the dark side of literary translation, chaining Tunnocks teacakes in a dark room at 3 a.m., flicking fitfully between Orthodox vestments dot com & that list you made of synonyms for sparkle, all the while picking Bombay mix from the folds of your duvet & trying not to pass out

Curator – Private “End of the World” Library

Anyone want to be an 'end of the world' librarian? Presumably in some billionaire's bolthole?

'The project is to curate a high-conviction, enduring collection — a library that would remain meaningful and useful under extreme long-term scenarios.' 🤯

www.lianza.org.nz/professional...

In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police who investigate crime, and the Pope and his cardinals who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.

Does this post frame the issue in the ways that I’d like? Not especially. But it wouldn’t hurt Americans to interrogate the foundational belief that Americans get to make decisions about the solar system without democratic, global input and to situate the story in context: plans for moon dominance 🧪

Relatability An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...

Cover drop! Extremely excited to have this incredible sculpture, Marisol’s Love (1962), on the cover of Relatability, out later this year press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

just because my cursed devil sword - the evil sword that has made me feared and infamous to all nations - won't go back into its sheath until it's tasted innocent blood, that doesn't mean you can tell me what to do with it. it's my fucking sword. i can unsheath it if i want. jesus christ

Not the point, I know, but 'Louis XIV'!

Metal shutters with UR IRRELEVANT SHUSH spray painted on them

New universal response card just dropped

It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈

Literally the example I thought of.

Poster from 2023 exhibition in Warsaw on the Spanish Civil War, entitled “If Madrid falls today, Warsaw will fall tomorrow”, the prescient cry of Polish brigaders to defend the Spanish capital.

Exterior of a branch of Scruton, the Budapest cafe chain named after the British right-wing philosopher Roger Scruton.

Re: my last RT, I think we should all take a moment to reflect on how very bizarre it is that this chain of cafés came into being in Orban's Budapest.

'Both sides getting it wrong'?

Christopher Luxon hits back at Wairoa mayor Craig Little over woke comment It comes after Wairoa mayor Craig Little said "we're becoming woke as a country when it comes to states of emergency".

He said it again today. Presumably National are going to keep playing this same shitty tune until the election.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Everyone knows this. But it is a bad way of doing it and should be changed.

I would like journalists to ask Luxon to justify the fast tracking of this development. Preferably today #nzpol

Great reference.

What help is there for us?

Whither the great deterrence popes of yore?

Deep Scars in a Silent Ocean: How The Metals Company’s Deep-Sea Mining Threatens Marine Life The Metals Company’s plans to mine the deep ocean floor highlight a profound conflict between the rush for “green” minerals and the need to protect fragile marine ecosystems.

We need make more people aware of the damage of sea mining. I've written an article about its threats. reedgregory.substack.com/p/deep-scars...

Hawke’s Bay mayor says he refused state of emergency for Cyclone Vaianu, calls response ‘woke’ While other local mayors declared states of emergency, Wairoa's said "there was a lot of panicking going on" over not a lot.

You should be hounded out of politics if you talk like this. I'm assuming that the COVID response broke this guy's brain.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/592...