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The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Holocaust survivors fear Europe is forgetting the lessons of Auschwitz By Katya Adler www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 28 days ago • 12 comments

Love the Mel Brooks/David Lynch friendship so much

submitted 38 days ago • 27 comments

Snowy allotment from a few years ago. #allotment #snow

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I'm very late to the party here but it's good to see that even after all this time Neil Young can still wind up the knee-jerkers and dullards simply by being Neil Young.

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

A visit to the wonderful 'Chagall Windows' at All Saints Church in Tudeley, Kent. The only church in the world to have all its twelve windows decorated by the the great artist Marc Chagall. #churchcrawling

submitted 52 days ago • 5 comments

This rolling thread is one of my favourite bits of the DiS community People recommend things they find throughout the year. We have them for various genres This starts with the results of the 2024 ambient music poll if you’re looking for brain soothers community.drownedinsound.com/t/rolling-am...

submitted 54 days ago • 3 comments

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

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1/3 Florence Farr b1860 #Bickley was at the very centre of late 19C bohemian London – actress, producer, writer, novelist, ardent feminist, spiritual seeker. She inspired roles in plays by Shaw and Yeats, friend with Pound, Beardsley & Wilde, Image; The Sketch 28 March 1894 (BNA)

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When I say I remember nothing I mean what being nothing is: within density, without form. My mind has de-scripted what happened. I was forced off the road. It is unwritten down. A poem by Lavinia Greenlaw:

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A Norse myth tells that when Balder was killed by a mistletoe arrow, his mother Frigg, the goddess of love, held him and wept. Her tears fell upon the mistletoe and transformed into white berries that appear each year as a reminder to cherish our loved ones. #Christmas #folklore

submitted 66 days ago • 4 comments

So inspiring and joyful to see American composer Morton Subotnick, aged 91, share his stories and celebrate the background to the legendary Buchla 100 synthesiser. youtu.be/FWQtTRPUrVM?...

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

Songs, snow, mad pyrotechnics. #macca #paulmacartney

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'View from Albert Bridge Road,' by Terry Frost was painted from the window of his lodgings in Battersea in 1948. Then studying at Camberwell, he had met Victor Pasmore who would have a huge influence on his work. His first abstract painting, followed a year later.

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

this was us, this time last year. show your support!

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As we approach Midwinter, here's The Black Stag from the cave of Lascaux. Considered to be either a creature of Ice Age myth, or a rendering of an extinct Megaloceros. Deep in the ground it was drawn above geometric symbols, including 13 circles, the meaning of which is now lost. #AncientSky 🌙🦌🦣🏺

submitted 70 days ago • 29 comments

Registered vehicles on UK roads: 1991: 20 million 2023: 41.2 million Congestion is caused — and air pollution and climate change is made worse — not by cycleways or LTNs, but by too many motor vehicles.

submitted 70 days ago • 31 comments

Word of the day is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a dislike of company and the desire to be left alone.

submitted 70 days ago • 363 comments

Thank you everyone for sharing your finds for #WildflowerHour, you’ve really brightened a dark Sunday evening! It maybe getting harder to spot those blooms but some surprising early flowerers too! I wonder what the next week will bring, let’s meet again next Sunday to find out!

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Tonight, the Cold Moon rises. ❄️ Known too as the Long Night Moon or The Moon Before Yule, it rises during the darkest nights of the year, heralding the onset of winter’s chill. Its glow has guided ancient Yule traditions and marked the turning of the seasons. Moonrise: 15:09*

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Anna Airy, prominent artist, b1882 The Circus, Greenwich, where she grew up. Studied at The Slade and appointed a war artist in WWI, specialising in representations of industrial work carried out by women, returning to lighter, more conventional subjects after the war had ended. #womenartists

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Kemi Badenoch says sandwiches are what people eat for breakfast (via Spectator)

submitted 74 days ago • 220 comments

FT front page has a story that billionaire financier Michael Spencer whining that top CEOs should be "paid like footballers" to make us competitive. It then notes the average Premier League salary is £2.1m and the average FTSE 100 CEO earns £4.1m.

submitted 74 days ago • 28 comments

I see your wicker viruses and raise you a dramatically-lit wicker horse

submitted 76 days ago • 18 comments

Big shout out @zoezopf.bsky.social, provider of the Pet Shop Boys Christmas tree hangings, and this year - George Smiley (it says “how’s Ann?” on the back of the pack, an excellent touch)

submitted 78 days ago • 7 comments

Spring will come.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Good Day! Winter in Brabant by Joseph Albert (1886–1981) Oil on Canvas

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

The fact that Disney bought Star Wars and bought the Muppets and haven’t done a Muppets Star Wars is a crime.

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The Keeper of the Boneyard is 75 years old today. Happy birthday, Tom: Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em.

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

"Quiet friend who has come so far..." Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29 • Rainer Maria Rilke •

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@privateeyenews.bsky.social

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Margaret Bryan b 1760 taught astronomy and natural philosophy to girls at her school in Blackheath 1795-1806. Wrote 3 books, including ‘Compendious System of Astronomy’. They were well received & overcame the prejudice due to her sex.

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

It rained on me a lot today and I needed a reminder of sunnier days on the allotment #allotments

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submitted 85 days ago • 7 comments

One did my favourite pics of my dear Freya. Never keen on having her photo taken. #whippets #skyhounds

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Rather lovely sky this morning.

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