The original post is paywalled but Zack does a good job of summarizing his findings here.
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The original post is paywalled but Zack does a good job of summarizing his findings here.
This image is The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, an oil-on-panel painting by the Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, completed in 1559. The painting is a panorama of contemporary life in the 16th-century Southern Netherlands, specifically depicting the transition from Shrove Tuesday (Carnival) to Lent. The scene is divided into two halves; the left side represents a lively inn filled with revelry, while the right side shows a church depicting religious observance and fasting. It contains nearly 200 distinct characters engaged in various activities, representing a battle between the hedonistic Carnival and the abstinent Lent.
Feast days etc usually gives me an excuse, if one is needed, for posting a Pieter Brueghel (usually the Elder) painting. Shrove Tuesday is no exception. The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1559. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. The
The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up.
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
The episode right after that is also really good (“Water”). But “33” is spectacular
"The wall looks permanent until the day it comes down."
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Several people I know have used the word "beautiful" for this piece, and that's exactly right. A beautifully phrased essay on the bind we're in— until we aren't.
Recommended, in an extreme way.
For his shorter books I like The Dead Zone. If you don’t mind an opus I liked most of The Stand.
Tv with title sequence for star trek 2 wrath if khan
Oh go on then. I have a decent bottle of Port handy.
All of his work is excellent. Check out Cool and Lonely Courage and Love and Barbed Wire too. planesailinggames.com
The accepted wisdom is that Hugo Gernsback invented sf fandom in the Science Fiction League & in the pages of AMAZING STORIES, and that (per Wikipedia) “a wide variety of Western modern organized fannish subcultures originated with science fiction fandom.”
LIES! ALL LIES!
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What did you like about the original, the story? I never played it having been chased away by the bad reviews.
I would add one of my favorites from the 80s: Raising Arizona
Ok, I'll try it, seems like it could be fun:
One like, one take (anywhere from cold to hot) on the criminal legal system...
I see the Washington Post "Editorial Board" Is trying to beat the Biden's Health drum again. I wonder if this is them defensively trying to justify forcing him from the presidential race a year ago or if it is a Republican psyop to split the Dems. Maybe both?
I would normally say "Happy Birthday America" but it really isnt happy so I will just say this. Remember what makes you who you are, America, through 249 years. The Declaration of Independence, The Preamble to the Constitution, The Gettysburg Address, The Letter from Birmingham Jail. Find renewal.
We had this giant book of maps of all the communities in the DC area in our car and state maps for all the states we had family in. On road trips we would also put on a random radio station and play name that tune because we couldnt listen to books.
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
watercolour of a battle between british and french sailing ships.
1804. Oceans are now Battlefields.
In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French.
It should be a massacre.
Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵
More free time? Yes.
More peace of mind? Oh my, no.
Estimates for violent mortality among pre-agricultural hunter-gathers, as Azar Gat notes in War in Human Civilization, were *extremely* high, in the range of 15-25% (higher for males, lower for females). 1/
My advisor on seeing my first draft: "Good work, solid argument. I want you to find every use of the passive voice here and rewrite it." (spoilers: There were A LOT)
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
Never!--All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
"How then shall we perform it?--At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow?
This passage from one of Abraham Lincoln's early speeches is passing through my mind often in these terrible times. From the Speech at the Lyceum on January 27, 1838:
The only thing better than Duke basketball having a heart-breaking loss is being there to see it in person. WOW!
The non-MAGA majority in the US has been demoralized since November and worse since January. Thank you for showing leadership in speaking out. Symbolism matters and you gave us a badly needed one of hope and defiance.
what booker is doing very well is making clear the difference between moral persuasion and legislative power. Democrats have the ability to harness the former, if not the latter, and while it's taken longer than I would have preferred, I'm happy to see it happening.
I keep hearing pundits saying that various Trump crimes & follies "aren't landing with the American people." I can't believe we're still talking like this.
The US information system is broken, just as it was broken throughout the election. People *aren't hearing about what he's doing*.
I noted the plaintiff in the case against the military transgender ban that just resulted in a nationwide injunction against it, out of WA state, is Commander Emily Shilling, a Navy fighter and test pilot who transitioned while in the service.
glaad.org/transgender-...
The people who need to be fired, for Signal Leaks:
Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard. As a start.
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By me.
So this is the scene I got that first time: youtu.be/nmW4rJPEbCw?...