Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #360 - [ ] Something has troubled me since my son Eden died last year at four years old from cancer. Long before he was ever sick, I carried a strange certainty ... Dear Isabel, I’m sitting by the lake on a beautiful Sunday, silver water, white swans, and what looks like a hundred goslings waddling...

Some wisdom from Nick Cave. www.theredhandfiles.com/something-ha...

This used to be a proper country. When the double switch was part of the game …

it'll be back in three days

Americano time.

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

Not a fan of Iran’s leadership, but wish any member of the US congress were historically literate enough to casually drop a reference to Plutarch’s life of Pyrrhus (21.9).

Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office didn't reach any conclusions about responsibility for Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death.

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

it's come to this ...

on its 250th anniversary, America is now begging the Royal Navy to help out.

"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS

This Chicagoan understands the assignment.

Luminous

Sounds, shall we say, vaguely metal?

‘I’ve learned first-hand how evil is tolerated’: Colm Tóibín on living in the US under Trump The Brooklyn author on immigration and the inspiration behind his latest collection of stories

‘I’ve learned first-hand how evil is tolerated’: Colm Tóibín on living in the US under Trump www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

SU to ‘sunset’ 9 majors, reimagine others after A&S portfolio review SU will “sunset” nine majors in the College of Arts and Sciences, according to an email from Dean Mortazavi to department chairs.

“Sunsetting”, “reimagining”…

Don’t let hand-wavy bullshit language distract you. This is the elimination of fields of academic study because the admins are afraid of the weakest and most disorganized president in modern history.

Do not forget who the cowards were. dailyorange.com/2026/03/suns...

I’m sure you’re better at spelling Phthiriasis on the fly than I was in my just-before-break lecture on Sulla.

My message to today’s Wordle: no, no, no.

I was prepared for him to become a great mayor. I was not prepared for him to become a great *Irish* mayor.

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Made-up cover of a red Loeb Classical Library volume titled Latin Antarctic Literature, edited and translated by Ernest Shackleton Bailey.

Temu Eid Mar

Image of the goddess Libertas and the cap of freedom with daggers around.

Not Brutus’ coin, but Galba’s ‘reboot’ in 68 CE. Galba didn’t know the aftermath of Caesar’s death would repeat in the aftermath of Nero’s (civil wars, heads on pikes). Galba didn’t survive it. Ppl love evoking the Ides in cries for revolution -maybe that’s a historical intertext we could do without

To lose one strait controlling the global oil supply may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
- Oscar Wilde

We finally did it, folks. Every facile argument about AI concentrated into a fine powder. Not a critical engagement in sight to blunt the ecstasy of the void.

Fortitude. Because you know you need it! By Sandro Botticelli, whose day is today, in 1470.

It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

The God and the Bureaucrat Podcast Episode · Ius Commune Podcast · February 25 · 51m

@zacharyherz.bsky.social explains his new book in this engaging conversation: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...

❗️Petition to protest the planned closures of the Wincklemann-Institut (!) and archaeology programs at Humboldt University in Berlin ⬇️

Not yet! I’ve not been *Romae* since it opened.

About to lecture on Fulvius Nobilior’s temple of Hercules and the Muses. Will be using the Severan marble plan for all its worth, including this scrap of a 16th century drawing of a now lost chunk of the Forma Urbis Romae. Hoping this will help inspire the young with a sense of adventure.

Fears of polio resurgence as US vaccine adviser questions need for childhood shots Survivors say US healthcare system not ready for new cases – ‘the only thing to fix polio is the polio vaccine’

Make America Paralyzed Again

Fears of polio resurgence as US vaccine adviser questions need for childhood shots www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...