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Wednesday, 20 August 2025

'Beefsteak Nazi' :

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Brown on the outside, Pink in the middle. Times change. Now we have Colonic Liberals and Social-democrats: transparent-pink on the outside a...

If Zelenskyy and Putin meet in Budapest

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(which is unlikely), here, for the Press Pack, is a brief guide to Hungarian politeness.   and for my many Magyar readers, here are my Maxim...

Another new word.

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Rami Kaminski thinks everyone is born an otrovert , but some resist the barrage of cultural conditioning that makes kids 'social' an...
Tuesday, 19 August 2025

Believe it or not,

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Toads don't have jewels in their heads, nor, ensorcelled, will they go back to being princes if you kiss them, but one species of toad s...

Not a recording studio.

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Execution Chamber ,  Nashville, Tennessee.

Hmm.

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I must order up a few hundred thousand heavy 'for-life' shopping bags-for life to throw around the countryside and do my little bit ...
Monday, 18 August 2025

Well, of course,

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since microplastics are everywhere, they are in mammalian testicles .

Today's cartoon

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by Nicola Jennings.  

Today's beautiful - and threatened - animal.

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Tajikistan used to be home to wolves, leopards, tigers, bears and the almost-eliminated gorgeous-eared striped hyena . Hyæna hyæna  
Sunday, 17 August 2025

Even at the 'height' of the 'civilising'

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Roman Empire , around 90% of its population lived outside towns and cities, thus leaving few traces in the archæological record. Today, mo...

Jostled but proud

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holding their own in Liège. photo by Martin on FlickR
Saturday, 16 August 2025

Gutenberg invented

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the printing-press, and about a month later pamphlets such as A true and most horrifying account of how a woman cruelly murdered her four ch...
Friday, 15 August 2025

Theatre of the Bizarre.

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Rummu, Estonia Mechanical diggers perform a scene during an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet where heavy goods vehicles and cars...

Hand-me-down hideousness

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that has probably cost thousands of dollars and, seemingly beheaded, is flaunted as Beauty to millions of crawlers.
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Not many people know...

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...that Donetsk in Ukraine was, in the bad old days re-named Stalino , just as Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd ) was re-named Stalingrad . [I am l...

Russia is where idealists die.

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America is where they resurrect as vampires.
Thursday, 14 August 2025

A Performance Poem

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by The President of the United States. "I got rid of – just one I got rid of the other night, you buy a house, they have a faucet in th...

Almost-Divine Truth.

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'A nation without religion is like a man without breath.' ~ Josef Goebbels, Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, German...
Wednesday, 13 August 2025

A kind of eruption

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known as a Mound Spring , in (usually dry) Kati-Thanda (Lake Eyre), Australia.

The Camera Does Not Lie.

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Selfie on a Good Day. Selfie on a Bad Day.

At prayer in Gaza.

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The best-documented outrage in history.   photo by Abdelrahman Alkahlou t
Tuesday, 12 August 2025

'They go together like a horse and carriage.'

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The sexualisation of affection and the romancing of lust; factory farming and mass extinction.

The Cliff Bookshop.

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Hechi, China.  
Monday, 11 August 2025

It would be fun

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to create a blog consisting only of details of famous pictures. Here is a detail of a begging-bowl from one of the first masterpieces I ever...

French heat.

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Today's temperatures. I live in the purple zone. I have a headache.
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Sunday, 10 August 2025

Kol Nidrei...

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9 Tishrei. There is no atonement. Except suicide.
Saturday, 9 August 2025

'Little Brown Jug'

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I remember that there was a book of songs kept in the Piano Stool in the Front Room (along with the scores of Chopin Nocturnes)  which inclu...

Our Rosy Future.

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Friday, 8 August 2025

'There was a bluebottle

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crashing against the glass. It explored the edges, and seemed to search for an opening and then went straight at the panes of glass in a ser...

Two Cities.

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Warsaw 1940. Warsaw 1945. Gaza 2025.

I feel it calling.

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Astronomers have identified what could be the biggest  black hole  known in the universe, estimated to be around 36 billion times more massi...
Thursday, 7 August 2025

Gary Shteyngart :

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'My parents got me out of Soviet Russia at the right time. Should my family now leave the US ?’   Where would you go ?  Finland is too c...
Wednesday, 6 August 2025

Aléxandre Dumas (the elder)

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won 600 glasses of absinthe in a double or quits game of billiards.  But he didn't claim them.* He estimated that they were worth 90 fra...

Hiroshima Day.

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 Since 1945  the world’s nine declared nuclear-armed states have amassed a firepower equivalent to 145,000 Hiroshima bombs – enough to destr...
Tuesday, 5 August 2025

Faust is German for 'Fist'

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and is the title of Goethe’s famous play about the successful but dissatisfied scientist Dr Heinrich Faust, who makes a deal with the devil....

Rustic Car.

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  Rubus fruticosus & Parthenocissus quinquefolia
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Monday, 4 August 2025

Feeding the brains of the old to babies in Palestine

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How things seem is not so much how they are than how we seem to ourselves, flatteringly or not. How they are is no more than partly-knowable...
Sunday, 3 August 2025

Thinking of Wallace Stevens,

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Too conscious of too much Too conscious of too much consciousness To be too conscious Doesn't mean too conscientious  But could mean too...
Saturday, 2 August 2025

Geronticus eremita

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is listed as an accidental species of African bird in Spain. It may already be naturalised. I know how your feel, dear, even without a red r...

History

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"is best told as a story of organised crime." Dr Luke Kemp
Friday, 1 August 2025

"I find it hard to accept

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the contemporary view that [human] life of any kind no matter how restricted and feeble is better than no life at all. The thing doesn't...
Thursday, 31 July 2025

vividmaps.com

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I love maps. I love 'eccentric' maps. Wondering about the borders of the Hungarian Empire before 1914, I found that it stretched fro...
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"The best way

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to deal with suffering is to imagine worse." ~ Tahar ben Jelloun, The Blinding Absence of Light.
Wednesday, 30 July 2025

A bit of Kinigling

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American English is full of Yiddish terms, just as American foreign policy is  full of Israeli leadership, i.e. by the nose.  This morning I...

Today's neologism.

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TECHNO-SOLUTIONISM.
Tuesday, 29 July 2025

Book Disease

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 Reading : the most refined of addictions. ' Escape into a good book ' is usually cheaper than a spliff or a substance, especially i...

Sailing by*

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They're coming to live in hotels. They're coming to take our jobs. They're coming to rape our daughters. But I doubt if they...
Monday, 28 July 2025

Electronic anæsthesia.

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It is not nearly so pleasurable to receive an e-mail from Empuriabrave as a postcard from Posterholt.

Death of another hero,

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who declared that he passed from adolescence to senility with no intervening maturity and whose songs, he said, spread like herpes . 
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Sunday, 27 July 2025

"Words were invented...

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 ...so that lies could be told."  – Mary Ellen Pleasant. If  “perception is controlled hallucination” morality is imposed insanity.
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