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The abyss, annotated by a mortal easily amused. In sentences, mostly.
The Ming survive in twenty-eight volumes and bejewelled hairpins; not in one peasant spade, plough, straw raincoat, or shoe. Work wore out its witnesses. Wealth could afford to put hers away.
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August 4, 2026 at 12:03 AM
The Ming survive in twenty-eight volumes and bejewelled hairpins; not in one peasant spade, plough, straw raincoat, or shoe. Work wore out its witnesses. Wealth could afford to put hers away.
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An animal took the sufferer’s place; its skin was soaked, scraped, cut and sewn to the patient’s length. In Tigrinya-speaking areas, the finished scroll, inscribed in Geʽez, was called ma’ero qumät, “full size.” The patient’s name was added last, in red; the body had signed first, at full length.
www.metmuseum.org
July 31, 2026 at 6:19 AM
An animal took the sufferer’s place; its skin was soaked, scraped, cut and sewn to the patient’s length. In Tigrinya-speaking areas, the finished scroll, inscribed in Geʽez, was called ma’ero qumät, “full size.” The patient’s name was added last, in red; the body had signed first, at full length.
For centuries, the Cagots built churches across the Pyrenees, then entered them by another door, used a separate font, and received the Host at the end of a long spoon. Nothing on the skin set them apart; a patch of red cloth, cut like a duck’s foot, did.
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The Forgotten Untouchables of France - JSTOR Daily
For centuries, a mysterious community in southwestern Europe endured extreme discrimination with no clear cause.
daily.jstor.org
July 30, 2026 at 11:34 PM
For centuries, the Cagots built churches across the Pyrenees, then entered them by another door, used a separate font, and received the Host at the end of a long spoon. Nothing on the skin set them apart; a patch of red cloth, cut like a duck’s foot, did.
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daily.jstor.org/the-forgotte...
Once, in Urdu, lovers ate roses: gul khānā meant laying a hot iron to the flesh in proof of passion. The phrase healed over; the scar remains legible.
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/07...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/07...
Making of a Poem: Zain Baweja on “Gloss” by Zain Baweja
July 14, 2026 – “My notes began to look like a glossary for some absent text.”
www.theparisreview.org
July 30, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Once, in Urdu, lovers ate roses: gul khānā meant laying a hot iron to the flesh in proof of passion. The phrase healed over; the scar remains legible.
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/07...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/07...
Six of Vermeer’s roughly three dozen surviving paintings concern a letter (being written, read, or delivered). Not one of his own survives. He left us the light on other people’s words.
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Where the Light Falls, by Clare Bucknell
Who was Johannes Vermeer?
harpers.org
July 30, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Six of Vermeer’s roughly three dozen surviving paintings concern a letter (being written, read, or delivered). Not one of his own survives. He left us the light on other people’s words.
harpers.org/archive/2026...
harpers.org/archive/2026...
For twenty-five years, a one-part-in-a-million discrepancy in the muon’s wobble seemed the first syllable of a new physics. New calculations have folded it back into the known universe; the stammer has migrated from the particle into the evidence.
www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-s...
www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-s...
Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don’t Add Up. | Quanta Magazine
New calculations seem to have put a 25-year-old particle physics puzzle to rest. But they’ve also created a clash with other experimental results.
www.quantamagazine.org
July 29, 2026 at 10:11 PM
For twenty-five years, a one-part-in-a-million discrepancy in the muon’s wobble seemed the first syllable of a new physics. New calculations have folded it back into the known universe; the stammer has migrated from the particle into the evidence.
www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-s...
www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-s...
Artificial intelligence wore a halo. Too poor for books and lectures, Brother John sought the sciences in the Ars notoria: labyrinths explaining nothing, angel-names unsayable. After a lunar month, three figures appeared and prescribed eight days more.
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Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge
Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in The Matrix, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. Anne ...
publicdomainreview.org
July 29, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Artificial intelligence wore a halo. Too poor for books and lectures, Brother John sought the sciences in the Ars notoria: labyrinths explaining nothing, angel-names unsayable. After a lunar month, three figures appeared and prescribed eight days more.
publicdomainreview.org/essay/ars-no...
publicdomainreview.org/essay/ars-no...
“Chris Nolan has lost his integrity,” writes Mr Musk on X, that unknown quantity. Homer, more exact, leaves Helen unpainted: a war is her portrait. Miss Nyong'o has hers already; the little Thersiteses are typing her scholium
July 19, 2026 at 10:09 PM
“Chris Nolan has lost his integrity,” writes Mr Musk on X, that unknown quantity. Homer, more exact, leaves Helen unpainted: a war is her portrait. Miss Nyong'o has hers already; the little Thersiteses are typing her scholium
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February 21, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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January 19, 2026 at 8:31 AM
The young make errors of attention. The old inherit the bill.
December 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The young make errors of attention. The old inherit the bill.
The thought, once stripped from its owner’s skull, acquires a migratory soul. It travels lighter than its maker ever could, unburdened by the particular mortality, the biographical scaffolding, that propped it into existence.
December 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The thought, once stripped from its owner’s skull, acquires a migratory soul. It travels lighter than its maker ever could, unburdened by the particular mortality, the biographical scaffolding, that propped it into existence.
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Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom
Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom
The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty and boredom.
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October 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom
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Opinion by @maxmccoy.com: The work of Kansas artist Blackbear Bosin straddled rivers — and worlds #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/10/12/t...
The work of Kansas artist Blackbear Bosin straddled rivers — and worlds • Kansas Reflector
“The Keeper of the Plains” is Blackbear Bosin’s 44-foot steel sculpture of a Native American, hands lifted to the heavens. It is installed on a rocky plinth above the confluence of the Arkansas and Li...
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October 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Opinion by @maxmccoy.com: The work of Kansas artist Blackbear Bosin straddled rivers — and worlds #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/10/12/t...
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There is a part in Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat when Andree Blouin describes fleeing Congo under the cover of night by plane wih documents for Patrice Lumumba hidden in her chignon.
Film spoke a lot about her role as a strategist, connector of people and ideas. She was friends with several leaders.
Film spoke a lot about her role as a strategist, connector of people and ideas. She was friends with several leaders.
March 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
There is a part in Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat when Andree Blouin describes fleeing Congo under the cover of night by plane wih documents for Patrice Lumumba hidden in her chignon.
Film spoke a lot about her role as a strategist, connector of people and ideas. She was friends with several leaders.
Film spoke a lot about her role as a strategist, connector of people and ideas. She was friends with several leaders.
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“Why do you want me to be like a sunflower, turning toward the sun? I am the sun.”
Elder wisdom, a message to my fellow Black Americans 🌻🖤
Elder wisdom, a message to my fellow Black Americans 🌻🖤
March 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“Why do you want me to be like a sunflower, turning toward the sun? I am the sun.”
Elder wisdom, a message to my fellow Black Americans 🌻🖤
Elder wisdom, a message to my fellow Black Americans 🌻🖤
One thing Americans can’t claim is that they hadn’t been told.
February 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM
One thing Americans can’t claim is that they hadn’t been told.
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
― Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
― Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
January 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
― Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
― Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
America really elected President Eric Cartman.
January 31, 2025 at 4:17 AM
America really elected President Eric Cartman.
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“Footfalls echo in the memory,
down the passage we did not take,
towards the door we never opened,
into the rose garden. My words echo
Thus in your mind.”
—T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
#BookChatWeekly
#TSEliot died 60 years ago on this day
#DiedOnThisDay
📸My First Edition
down the passage we did not take,
towards the door we never opened,
into the rose garden. My words echo
Thus in your mind.”
—T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
#BookChatWeekly
#TSEliot died 60 years ago on this day
#DiedOnThisDay
📸My First Edition
January 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
“Footfalls echo in the memory,
down the passage we did not take,
towards the door we never opened,
into the rose garden. My words echo
Thus in your mind.”
—T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
#BookChatWeekly
#TSEliot died 60 years ago on this day
#DiedOnThisDay
📸My First Edition
down the passage we did not take,
towards the door we never opened,
into the rose garden. My words echo
Thus in your mind.”
—T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
#BookChatWeekly
#TSEliot died 60 years ago on this day
#DiedOnThisDay
📸My First Edition
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I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.
December 27, 2024 at 11:07 PM
I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.
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my armchair psychological diagnosis is that the drive to accumulate as much wealth as possible eats away at the drive for self-improvement or the internal desire to cultivate any skills or tastes. these people build huge mounds of treasure and then essentially just sit around looking at it, empty.
find it genuinely delighting that people with enough money to never work again (and do literally anything they want anywhere in the world at any time) seemingly have nothing going on in their lives and are so miserable they are just spending the holidays frantically posting
December 27, 2024 at 9:28 PM
my armchair psychological diagnosis is that the drive to accumulate as much wealth as possible eats away at the drive for self-improvement or the internal desire to cultivate any skills or tastes. these people build huge mounds of treasure and then essentially just sit around looking at it, empty.
Choose 20 MORE books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. In no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6/20
Discourse on Colonialism
– Aimé Césaire
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
Day 6/20
Discourse on Colonialism
– Aimé Césaire
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
December 27, 2024 at 12:48 AM
Choose 20 MORE books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. In no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6/20
Discourse on Colonialism
– Aimé Césaire
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
Day 6/20
Discourse on Colonialism
– Aimé Césaire
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
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Indian environmental leader, eco-feminist, philosopher, and quantum physicist Vandana Shiva talks about her involvement with the Chipko Movement.
Women decided to prevent further cutting of trees. "We will sacrifice our lives, these trees won't go."
chipko means "to hug"
youtu.be/i3EDEqr7haU?...
Women decided to prevent further cutting of trees. "We will sacrifice our lives, these trees won't go."
chipko means "to hug"
youtu.be/i3EDEqr7haU?...
December 25, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Indian environmental leader, eco-feminist, philosopher, and quantum physicist Vandana Shiva talks about her involvement with the Chipko Movement.
Women decided to prevent further cutting of trees. "We will sacrifice our lives, these trees won't go."
chipko means "to hug"
youtu.be/i3EDEqr7haU?...
Women decided to prevent further cutting of trees. "We will sacrifice our lives, these trees won't go."
chipko means "to hug"
youtu.be/i3EDEqr7haU?...
Choose 20 MORE books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. In no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 5/20
The Story of Philosophy
– Will Durant
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
Day 5/20
The Story of Philosophy
– Will Durant
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
December 25, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Choose 20 MORE books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. In no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 5/20
The Story of Philosophy
– Will Durant
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge
Day 5/20
The Story of Philosophy
– Will Durant
#BookSky 💙📚 #Books
#BookChallenge