Happy birthday for next week!

Always on my mined...

I haven't seen Bloom. But I nominate Watchmen, Zack Snyder's 2009 film of the graphic novel: it assumes you will inhale 40 years of backstory from a montage during opening credits. Honorable mention for Jane Campion's Portrait of a Lady, which confirmed my suspicion that the book is unfilmable.

@srd.bsky.social This is a fascinating connection between the ideas of the two Mamdanis!

Similarly in Mozambique - this is a fascinating study of Frelimo's 'urban cleanup campaigns' that reveals a preoccupation with the city as a place of moral decay.
www.ohioswallow.com/978082142583...

If the road accident in Paris hadn't happened, we'd be appalled today if Charles tried to bring a case of Rex versus Ex.

One consequence of Bluesky being predominantly US & anti-Trump is the interesting phenomenon of USians seeing in the UK analogies (with Epstein being the link) with their own increasingly monarchical situation.

Did you read Asterix as a child? The fact that the canine character was called Dogmatix in the English translation put that thought into my head.

"Tapirs are often thought to be meek and gentle
animals, however their behaviour can be very
unpredictable and they have been known to
attack without warning. Keepers should not trust
the animal to be tame. Tapir attacks can result in
serious wounds, the loss of fingers, or even death."

😯

I honestly thought this was an Onion headline the first time I saw it.

I know. I was just making a very poor joke based on Moldova's best-known musical hit.

Munching almonds and dates as I type.

It's amazing, isn't it? Sometimes I get a better signal at the airport than in my own university building.