Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio.
Magic!
Goodnight.
We the anti-fascists outnumber the fascists by a mile. We are surrounding them.
Brighton is anti fascist
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In memory of the late David Hockney, the animated trailer (by Tom OMeara) for his 2017 exhibition at Tate Britain.
www.thomasharnettomeara.com/project/hock...
One of my favorite poems of all time, will always re-post when i come across it.
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Mark Sarvas
Mark Sarvas
Anne Korkeakivi
Stuff like this makes it possible to hate the Times just a little bit less. (This is my funeral song ... )
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/a...
Looks like it will be closer than it should have been, but it appears the Swiss aren't (yet) buying what the right wing SVP is selling ...
www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
One should always read James Meek; this one, especially so.
Mark Sarvas
We used to have the back and forth of actual conversation. Now we have phones filled with our friends’ rambling soliloquies, says lifestyle and culture writer Annabel Martin
Voters in Switzerland have cast their final ballots on Sunday on an initiative championed by the top right-wing party to cap the rich Alpine country’s population at 10 million. Early results showed Sw...
“trust the hours. Haven’t they / carried you everywhere, up to now?”
— Galway Kinnell
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This poem appeared in Mortal Acts, Mortal Words by Galway Kinnell, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1980. Shared here with deep gratitude.
‘His air of ordinary-bloke humility contrasted with his large and, for adherents of the post-Thatcher consensus, unsettling ideas. Unsettling not so much in respect of the future as of the past.’
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on Andy Burnham.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Read A Little Poetry
London Review of Books
It might be wise not to be too optimistic about Andy Burnham bringing miracles of delivery, and focus instead on his...
