Its an increbly trite observation that people come from all over and spend thousands of dollars to go to a simulation of a dense, walkable urban environment with incredible public transportation.

But I will still make it.

YOU HAVE TO HURT OTHERS TO BE EXTRAORDINARY

My collection of fridge magnets from art gallery outings is coming along well. It was either this, or go down the model train route again, which is significantly more expensive/time-consuming.

Don’t know who made this but thank you

nothing's aged better than the thing so many people said would age poorly

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I like this graphic because it implies that the opposite of violence is Irishness

I had a British lecturer who was wonderful and usually sensitive to/critical of marginalising/othering language. Completely nonchalantly, she used the phrase “throwing a paddy” in a seminar. It was in relation to a French academic, but can’t recall who. A disorientating, disheartening moment. Sin é.

the world if bernie had good campaign staff:

Stefan Zweig on borders is almost too much to bear

Waiting for the conversation to begin between Avi Shlaim, Chris Agee, and Francesca Albanese at Féile am Phobail

not just the aristocracy, Scots were all across the empire - disproportionately represented in multiple imperial professions. the general Scottish position today about the empire, however, is that a big boy did it and ran away

and we're going to be calling it the American Century of Humiliation, folks. the Century of Humiliation. we've never been humiliated like this before, folks, but now we're being humiliated in a big way in very many fields. big, strong men come up to me, crying, saying sir, the hegemon has fallen,

My last Sunday in Paris for a while; hopefully not for too long.

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