Endangered Baudins Cockatoos drinking from a still river. A couple of weeks back. Murray River, Western Australia.
January 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Endangered Baudins Cockatoos drinking from a still river. A couple of weeks back. Murray River, Western Australia.
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I'd like to note the outrage of overediting a Nobel laureate in his area of expertise, and that a lot of writers (including me) have had horrible experiences of overediting in the legacy media: not just changing language but meaning and often values. Making your voice and views into theirs.
Krugman says the editors at the Times editorial page were increasingly trying to water down his columns and arguments www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...
Paul Krugman on Leaving the New York Times
The paper wanted to take away his newsletter or make him write less frequently, he says.
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January 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I'd like to note the outrage of overediting a Nobel laureate in his area of expertise, and that a lot of writers (including me) have had horrible experiences of overediting in the legacy media: not just changing language but meaning and often values. Making your voice and views into theirs.
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What books should you read this year? Try books in translation.
Make 2025 the year you read more books in translation.
It’s a funny time to think about national reading habits. I’ve been looking for escape pods, personally. Books that take me far from this particular time and zip code. Perhaps riding th…
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January 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What books should you read this year? Try books in translation.
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Who should you ask about the best poems of 2024? Poets, of course. And their picks are all available to read online for free.
49 Contemporary Poets on the Best Poems they Read in 2024
In the sea of endless year-end lists, poetry often seems to get sidelined, or forgotten—or maybe the critics and listmakers just aren’t reading enough poetry in the first place. Which made me…
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December 18, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Who should you ask about the best poems of 2024? Poets, of course. And their picks are all available to read online for free.
Suddenly Summer. ♥️
December 12, 2024 at 3:34 AM
Suddenly Summer. ♥️
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Also this excellent observation (because sometimes people think it's all up to the federal government).
The path to avoiding the worst of climate change runs through state senates and city councils, public utilities commissions and planning bodies, co-op boards and HOAs and PTAs and neighborhood associations. Remember the physics definition of power: it’s work over time.
November 26, 2024 at 3:34 AM
Also this excellent observation (because sometimes people think it's all up to the federal government).
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There are many valid explanations for the success of the far right around the world. But much of it comes down to this:
The right has realised that anything is possible, while the left has persuaded itself that nothing is possible.
The right has realised that anything is possible, while the left has persuaded itself that nothing is possible.
November 15, 2024 at 3:26 PM
There are many valid explanations for the success of the far right around the world. But much of it comes down to this:
The right has realised that anything is possible, while the left has persuaded itself that nothing is possible.
The right has realised that anything is possible, while the left has persuaded itself that nothing is possible.
a haiku
under cover of cloud
all day sun orchids
remain closed
under cover of cloud
all day sun orchids
remain closed
November 15, 2024 at 11:17 PM
a haiku
under cover of cloud
all day sun orchids
remain closed
under cover of cloud
all day sun orchids
remain closed
Christmas spider orchids and spiders: Perth Hills and in the garden. Antidotes to current news.
November 15, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Christmas spider orchids and spiders: Perth Hills and in the garden. Antidotes to current news.