Jan Zachwatowicz’s ‘Vistula Gothic’ replacement after the WW2 destruction was a great improvement IMO, taking typically clever advantage of the postwar regime’s nationalist-communist ideology.

‘Defensive Wall: Why Ukraine’s Culture Is Everyone’s Fight’ by Uilleam Blacker
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londonukrainianreview.org/posts/defens... 6/10

Yeah, I'd like to hear less about mastering and odysseys, more about the humbler rewards of speaking a different language even if you have no idea how you're going to finish a word when you start it

Yeah, I'd like to hear less about mastering and odysseys, more about the humbler rewards of speaking a different language even if you have no idea how you're going to finish a word when you start it

not sure Lizdeika would have been able to make much of that one ;)

Wonder what they would be, or are, saying now

apparently this is a map of where the elite live petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com?petition=730...

Thanks. I may be missing it, but I haven't found any reference to that specific concern in those reports. The way that it has now come to the fore feels like a measure of how far things have gone since 10–15 years ago.

Did you publish or discuss those comments anywhere? Were these interviews for the 'A Sense of Place' report?

also if they can't see what time it is when they wake up, press the lock screen, tap customise, change wallpaper, select the time and switch back to solid.

now to figure out how to deal with that retro wristwatch clockface

absolutely, look how well that's done in Poland, endless factional fun including the departure of a party rejoicing in the name of Together

As a child I gazed in awe at my father's slide rule, with its mysterious inscriptions, and imagined that one day its secrets would be revealed to me. But by the time that day came, they'd been rendered obsolete by calculators.

And yes, I do still have it.

Turn it into family heirloom, to be brought out when older members are watching football on TV and feel the need to explain the expression 'slide-rule pass'. Hours of fun then trying to explain how it actually worked.