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Interview with Miss Piggy from the Aug 1, 1981 issue of TV Guide.

The world's first org chart, drawn by George Holt for the New York & Erie Railroad in 1854-55. Make bureaucracy beautiful again.

'Window.' (1856) Anton Dieffenbach was twenty-five years old and still a student at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf when he made this work. It's an extraordinary painting; possibly it is his response to a momentary light effect.

“We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us.” — Charles Bukowski

"The Devil chooses to deceive some people in the following way. He will marvellously inflame their brains with the desire to uphold God's law and destroy sin in everyone else." - 'The Cloud of Unknowing', unknown author, c.1400's

Researching and so re-reading “Back to Slavery” by Du Bois about the fall of Reconstruction, and, just whew.

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This kind of thing is why I always read the letters page, especially in @londonreview.bsky.social.

Choose 20 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 17 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Choose 20 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 16 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Choose 20 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 16 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Choose 20 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 15 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Choose 20 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 14 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Choose 20 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 13 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Choose 20 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 12 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

"Keynes was a philosopher of war and peace, the last of the Enlightenment intellectuals who pursued political theory, economics, and ethics as unified design. He was a man whose chief project was not taxation or government spending but the survival of what he called civilisation"

Choose 20 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 11 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Best Books of The Year lists are my favorite because I figure out who I can’t trust.

Choose 20 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 10 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

What is the 'fiscal triangle'? @labourtogether.bsky.social's former Treasury adviser @jpspencer.bsky.social explains the key formula behind HMT decision-making 'start by picturing a big oval-shaped wooden table...'

Choose 20 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 10 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Choose 20 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 9 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Choose 20 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 9 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

A most gorgeous moving and funny essay by thee Brian Dillon on @vittles.bsky.social today www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-cant-g...

Choose 20 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 8 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Choose 20 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 8 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Choose 20 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 7 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Choose 20 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 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Choose 20 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 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Choose 20 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 4 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

.. and in answer to your questions, my phrase of last year was "soft bigotry of low expectations"

My phrase of the year was "Thought limiting cliche".

Choose 20 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 3 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Choose 20 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 2 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Choose 20 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! #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳

Ritz Cinema, Edgware 1932 Major W.J. King https://buff.ly/414RaHl

the word ‘dashboard’ originally referred to a board on carriages designed to protect it from mud – and yet much of action orientated decision-making has become do with getting your hands “dirty” with uncleaned, messy data

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