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johnheyderman.bsky.social
Library Assistant. Philosopher. Not necessarily in that order. https://philosophicalbibliotherapy.wordpress.com/ Loves #EastDulwich
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THERE ARE ALTERNATIVE MATHS

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British Film Industry on hearing Trump’s tariff proposals.

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15000% TARIFF ON ENDLESSLY QUOTING NESTED POSTS

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So, the people working on Grove Vale found out that, guess what? Water mains run underneath London streets. I mean, who knew? @elliereeves.bsky.social @transportforlondon.bsky.social @lb-southwark.bsky.social

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“I’d sell my soul for that fawn of a boy night walker to sound of the ‘ud & flute playing who saw the glass in my hand said “drink the wine from between my lips” & the moon was a yod drawn on the cover of dawn—in gold ink” -Shmuel Hanagid 11th Century Spain

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On this Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Rememberance Day), I am remembering my great-uncle Georg Heidermann and my great-great aunt Röschen Blum (nee Heidermann), whose lives were taken at Auschwitz, and my great-aunt Marga Heidermann and her daughter Ruth Heidermann, murdered in the forests near Riga. z"l

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Poem from the Underground

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I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.

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What greater joy could there be for a meglamaniac than to be given the entire world economy as his plaything?

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On this #InternationalRomaDay consider this: Roma children standing outside a farmhouse in the Austrian village of Kleinpetersdof, in 1928. They were part of a family that included two brothers: one the local blacksmith, the other a farm worker. 1/5

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April 8 is the International Roma Day. Remember & learn about the fate of some 23,000 Sinti & Roma who were deported to the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz. Some 20,000 were murdered there. Lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_roma_ausc... Podcast: podcasters.spotify.com/auschwitz-me...

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Just chanced upon this sparse and haunting remix of Björk's Hyperballad, and now my world will never be the same again. youtu.be/BDuhIo7HB5M?...

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This is genius

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Put the kids on this little fun train ride round Exeter City centre this morning but the ungrateful little buggers complained they “couldn’t see anything” and “it smells”. Children today, honestly.

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