The 100. *What* was all that stuff about a new planet somewhere
“Ordinary people could not what these monsters did. We are ordinary people, therefore we cannot commit such crimes. But once you get closer to the real people who committed those crimes, you see that the syllogism doesn’t really work.”--Slavenka Drakulić (1949-2026), observing trials in the Hague
This has been some of us since 1997.
A bit of local news about the new Reform council in Calderdale (which covers Hebden Bridge - lesbian capital of the north - and Shibden Hall - home of Anne Lister/Gentleman Jack). No pride flags or other 'symbols of division' for us 😡
www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/people/...
Marci Shore
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Dr Sam Hirst
More public bodies backing down on supporting Pride events due to ‘recent legal developments’: Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service this time www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/mer...
Catherine Baker
"There are colors that I want to show you, but I can’t. They exist in the real world. You probably saw some of them today, but I can’t show them to you on a screen. … Unless you have specialized equipment, they are entirely absent from the digital world.
"Most of them are cyans."
Hampshire police helicopter once got called out to track a ‘white tiger’ that turned out to be the same kind of lifesize plushie one of the tat shops on Southampton high street had outside…
For a graduation ceremony at the Berlin Philharmonic.
Yet another public policy responsibility that is going to become universities’ job to sort out 😬
My hundredth essay at my newsletter (in just under 500 days). It's about beauty and pleasure, films and trees and singing, about the small things,and their relationship to democracy and the large things.
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This is the one-hundredth essay at Meditations in an Emergency. Thank you everyone who has joined me here.
A while back I bought a first edition of a Willa Cather novel for nothing much at a library ...
