This makes me sad, even more so that I can’t be at this event. The closure of the UCL IAS is a truly unfortunate decision—I have heard the arguments for closure and they do not persuade. One more step towards boxing humanities and social science research as unneeded “luxury,” when we most need it.
We have reached a point where the foreign policy of the United States appears to be little more than an instrument for generating stock-spikes for insider trading.
The utter catastrophe of it all is just mind-boggling.
I hadn’t seen this before. A photograph from a Bratislava that no longer exists.
The Orthodox synagogue in Zámocká Street, demolished in 1961.
Once you know it was there, the absence stays with you. I wrote about that here:
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Dearly missed!
Me as Red Cross worker:
Hungarians deserve every congratulations for giving Peter Magyar a bigger margin than Orban has ever gotten in all of his rigged elections - and this within the system that Orban rigged. Magyar now has a constitutional majority to undo Orban's constitutional prison and govern as a democratic leader.
Post a picture of yourself as a doctor. I’ll start:
Which is more batshit, the original post or this delectable “explanation”?
1) Yes
2) Completely
3) True dat
Is that #Epstein he’s bringing back to life?
The contrast with the lunacy at home—the complete impossibility of That Guy ever responding like a decent human being in such a circumstance—was all the more depressing this morning. But let us hang on to the positive feeling!
In all seriousness: last night my brain was flooded with all sorts of forgotten dopamines and such, to see a politician I utterly oppose be gracious in defeat, to feel a democratic process working.
I was curious how Trump’s response to the Hungarian election would compare with Orbán’s surprisingly gracious concession, and my expectations were extremely low. I confess though that my bingo card did not even come close to this 👇
In general, (re)orienting education wholly or chiefly to specific perceived market needs is always going to produce disaster once the near term passes. It also eviscerates institutions that might otherwise help people weather change, intellectually and in other ways
Anti-Orban concert in Hungary with the audience chanting “Russians, go home”
“…(and which it has never even occurred to me before to propose doing until one day before an election he seems likely to lose, and which I will never discuss again regardless of the outcome of that election. Thank you for your attention in this matter!)”
Brutalism in South Korea feels incredibly modern. r/brutalism
Glad to see @nytimes.com this morning keeping a laser-focus on the real problems in US society and not getting distracted by a deranged president bringing us within hours last night of committing genocide
But hopefully now this terrible war to make the Strait of Hormuz a toll-zone controlled by Iran has achieved its aim and can finally wind down.
1) Words that cannot be unsaid; +
2) The Mother of all Chicken TACOS.
Yesterday felt like a year.
No longer “just” threat of war crimes, but of genocide. Gleefully.
Read it
Nice little mask off moment for the GOP here
1) “But…”;
2) Chuckling at the exact quote from the President as if it’s a joke that no one should take seriously.
God help us.
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
I’ve never particularly enjoyed it either, though it is sometimes handy
So THAT’S where the idea came from…
Easter Monday in Prague
Snacking Nazis.
I hate snacking Nazis.
