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When Isaiah Berlin paraphrases Heinrich Heine the results are pretty powerful. I’d forgotten this passage from the opening of Two Concepts of Liberty (1958). ALT text may be easier to read.

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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

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vulcantothesky.org/articles/sky...

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‘The Citizen Kane of rock movies’: glam rockers Slade and their bid for cinema greatness

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‘The compass retains a sense of romance. It’s pleasingly approximate, twitchy and impulsive. It feels alive in a way that Google Maps does not, partly because it is a natural instrument.’ @jjvincent.bsky.social on the history of direction: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Oodles. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOodles 📷

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crookedtimber.org/2025/04/13/s...

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How Twitter feels right now #Xodus

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Reminder that a house can serve very effectively as a containment zone for the insane bullshit that is tormenting the unluckiest and hardest to work with homeless ppl. Instead of being insane on the street they are insane within an enclosed private space.

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Still life with a cat, Sebastiano Lazzari, 1760. #Caturday

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‘There is nothing so sacred you are not allowed to touch it. You can hold in your hand a seashell Gray picked up on a trip to Fairlie beach with some friends on 7 February 1994.’ @danigaravelli.bsky.social visits the Alasdair Gray archive: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism" "That theory has been debunked" "One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"

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Morning. Bramblefinch, George Brookshaw.

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Wish that you spent your Friday doing something besides checking if TikTok was banned or not? Try out @skylight.social — a video app built upon the same open network as Bluesky. You can login with your Bluesky account, and all of your followers seamlessly come with you.

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Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens

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This is high art

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Christopher Thompson The Blue Kimono

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Hours of fun!

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Love this. Tucked away in a corner of Tehran's Grand Bazaar ~ Mohammad Rafi, surrounded by all the colours of the rainbow in his tiny shop that sells nothing but coloured pencils www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

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Turkish textile artist Irem Yazici creates embroideries that show often magical, fairy tale-like worlds #womensart

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Terrific @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social article by @danhayesjourno.bsky.social about the making of the series Adolescence: www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/adolescence-...

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💰 Health Wealth Gap Widest in US A new study found wealth significantly predicts lower mortality in older adults, with wealthiest Americans having survival similar to Europe's poorest. The wealth–health link is stronger in the US than Europe. 🔗 nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMsa2408259 #SciComm🧪

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Andrew Mellon, architect of The Great Depression:

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Super interesting @poltheoryother.bsky.social podcast interview on @quinnslobodian.com 's new book soundcloud.com/poltheoryoth...

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Here’s an excellent discussion with Stephen Soderbergh: www.onedecision.com

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Anyone? Anyone? www.youtube.com/shorts/Mj6N-...

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Anyone? Anyone? www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOH...

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What if you’re so outrageously incompetent you get it done in a matter of minutes?

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These (Trumponomics) calculations somehow affirm my intuition that mathematics is not Eternal (but almost always embedded in its various sociopolitical contexts & practical applications). Perhaps it's also why we need a 'critical mathematics curriculum' (as per Danish philosopher, Ole Skovsmose).

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It's an ill wind "How ironic it is that Trump’s tariffs could do more to reduce consumption/disposal of fast fashion waste, single use plastics, etc. and carbon emissions through a U.S. & potentially global recession than any green mandate or NGOs have ever accomplished. "

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