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🎶 Dov'è la Vittoria?
Le porga la chioma,
ché schiava di Roma
Iddio la creò. 🎶

FISH

Seems that is only part of the poem: bliskopolski.pl/poezja/zbign...

That would be Rocco Lampone

Circe?

Nicholas Pearson · Diary: On the Chess Circuit On​ the morning of 18 April 2023, the chess grandmaster Ding Liren was discussing tactics with his coach. He was due...

‘In a game built on infinities, there follows a dizzying array of subsequent sidelines and complications. For this reason, the French Defence isn’t much taught to beginners.’

Nicholas Pearson on chess tournaments, both local and global: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Is it this guy?

What the hell is going on in the picture?

A picture of me in a poly tunnel next to a table with chestnuts, sprouts, ginger, a saucepan, some kitchen knives and a copy of my book

Great fun today hosting a festive kimjang at Windmill Community Gardens in Margate, chatting brassicas and vinegar and explosions and making a sprout and chestnut kimchi

Pogrom? Though I read that it came into English via Yiddish so maybe that doesn't count.
And bridge (the card game)

A loom for algebra: the Analytical Engine Oxford Communist Corresponding Society, 28 November 2024

Just posted: my talk on the Analytical Engine
edmundgriffiths.com/analyt.html

Anatomy of the classic ghost story Oxford Communist Corresponding Society, 31 October 2024

Got around to posting this talk on ghost stories, from last month
edmundgriffiths.com/ghoststory.h...

26.11.24 in the soil

This week’s notes: leafnotes.substack.com/p/261124

All hail Ding Liren! ♟️

Thinking of you

Screenshot from "The CCS @CCSoc" account on another social media app. It says: Public meeting in Oxford ——— A loom for algebra: the Analytical Engine ——— 7:30–9pm Thursday 28 November Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St) ——— All welcome

Lots of geared wheels made of some shiny metal (could be bell-metal? looks yellower than pewter & not as yellow as brass; but what do I know), arranged in vertical columns with steel shafts providing a common axis for each column; plus auxiliary columns with smaller gearwheels. I'm not describing this very well; but the picture only really conveys "very complicated mechanism with lots of moving parts, presumably from a C19th calculating engine"

If you're around in Oxford next week, & you're looking for a Marxist talk on C19th calculating engines, you're in luck

19.11.24 in the soil

This week’s notes: leafnotes.substack.com/p/191124

What a beautiful picture. I hope you are doing ok.

This may look like an instrument of torture but it is in fact a set of portable metal weighing scales for checking the weight of a cricket ball. Made in Bombay, it belonged to HD Billimoria, an Indian umpire who stood in 17 first-class matches between 1940 and 1954

And now I can see it too. Tremble, kings of the Lie!

But it says you have an Invalid Handle!

Ah ok

Anyone having problems with avatars? Mine is uploaded and saved but it is showing up blank

I'm trying to add an avatar but it doesn't work! Just comes up blank every time

Same here!