Mirabilia
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That’s a skilful and elegant answer to what’s intended as a bear trap question. Mamdani doesn’t dodge, doesn’t quibble, doesn’t compromise his own views. Puts it forward simply in his own terms. Turns it back to NY & affirming his care for all NYers. He really is exceptionally good at this.
Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.
October 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
That’s a skilful and elegant answer to what’s intended as a bear trap question. Mamdani doesn’t dodge, doesn’t quibble, doesn’t compromise his own views. Puts it forward simply in his own terms. Turns it back to NY & affirming his care for all NYers. He really is exceptionally good at this.
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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It's all happening for us train enthusiasts (or is it just me?) as today marks 200 years since the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened in 1825 - the birth of the modern railway.
So here are some of the many railway linocuts I have done over the years - too many, I hear you say? Surely not… 😂
So here are some of the many railway linocuts I have done over the years - too many, I hear you say? Surely not… 😂
September 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It's all happening for us train enthusiasts (or is it just me?) as today marks 200 years since the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened in 1825 - the birth of the modern railway.
So here are some of the many railway linocuts I have done over the years - too many, I hear you say? Surely not… 😂
So here are some of the many railway linocuts I have done over the years - too many, I hear you say? Surely not… 😂
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Look what we have here then.
September 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Look what we have here then.
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Nice lady on the phone: Why are you canceling your cable today?
Me: Politics. The media companies are truckling to the current administration and I don't wish to support them with my dollars.
Nice lady: I hear you. I can't say any more than that, but I hear you.
Me: Politics. The media companies are truckling to the current administration and I don't wish to support them with my dollars.
Nice lady: I hear you. I can't say any more than that, but I hear you.
September 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Nice lady on the phone: Why are you canceling your cable today?
Me: Politics. The media companies are truckling to the current administration and I don't wish to support them with my dollars.
Nice lady: I hear you. I can't say any more than that, but I hear you.
Me: Politics. The media companies are truckling to the current administration and I don't wish to support them with my dollars.
Nice lady: I hear you. I can't say any more than that, but I hear you.
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Die Berliner Verkehrssenatorin Uta Bonde (CDU) zur Schulwegsicherheit:
„Wir können nicht nach Gutdünken Tempo 30 einführen“
dazu der Rat:
„Helm tragen und ganz, ganz vorsichtig sein“
Währenddessen hat Paris Tempo 30 eingeführt und über 300 Straßen vor Schulen in Fußgängerzonen umgewandelt.
„Wir können nicht nach Gutdünken Tempo 30 einführen“
dazu der Rat:
„Helm tragen und ganz, ganz vorsichtig sein“
Währenddessen hat Paris Tempo 30 eingeführt und über 300 Straßen vor Schulen in Fußgängerzonen umgewandelt.
September 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Die Berliner Verkehrssenatorin Uta Bonde (CDU) zur Schulwegsicherheit:
„Wir können nicht nach Gutdünken Tempo 30 einführen“
dazu der Rat:
„Helm tragen und ganz, ganz vorsichtig sein“
Währenddessen hat Paris Tempo 30 eingeführt und über 300 Straßen vor Schulen in Fußgängerzonen umgewandelt.
„Wir können nicht nach Gutdünken Tempo 30 einführen“
dazu der Rat:
„Helm tragen und ganz, ganz vorsichtig sein“
Währenddessen hat Paris Tempo 30 eingeführt und über 300 Straßen vor Schulen in Fußgängerzonen umgewandelt.
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Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.
September 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.
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Standbad Wannsee, späte 1920er
August 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Standbad Wannsee, späte 1920er
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it's like having a sympathetic but fundamentally not-very-clever friend. which you know ACTUALLY can be perfectly fine in a friend, because cleverness is not the only thing! but in something that is trying to do writing for you it can be sickeningly reductive and v hard to find your way back from.
August 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
it's like having a sympathetic but fundamentally not-very-clever friend. which you know ACTUALLY can be perfectly fine in a friend, because cleverness is not the only thing! but in something that is trying to do writing for you it can be sickeningly reductive and v hard to find your way back from.
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Let me counter by suggesting that every one of these should in fact say "you are a nerd and also wrong" except for Carolingian, which should say "you are a nerd and also correct."
July 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Let me counter by suggesting that every one of these should in fact say "you are a nerd and also wrong" except for Carolingian, which should say "you are a nerd and also correct."
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My favourite of this week’s Six Things. A 2-minute film about the guys employed to drive the route of a Tour de France stage beforehand and alter anything painted on the road by fans that might be unsuitable for broadcast.
Here they are turning a cock and balls into an owl.
nos.nl/l/2294368
Here they are turning a cock and balls into an owl.
nos.nl/l/2294368
July 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
My favourite of this week’s Six Things. A 2-minute film about the guys employed to drive the route of a Tour de France stage beforehand and alter anything painted on the road by fans that might be unsuitable for broadcast.
Here they are turning a cock and balls into an owl.
nos.nl/l/2294368
Here they are turning a cock and balls into an owl.
nos.nl/l/2294368
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However, for the absolute last word on the moon landing, we must turn to citizen historian Dinah here:
July 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM
However, for the absolute last word on the moon landing, we must turn to citizen historian Dinah here:
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🧵This is a thread about Reply Guys. I like it when posts go viral coz I'm a big show-off and the internet is responsible for most of my career. When you go viral you get new followers, fun replies, sometimes even industry interest omg. But you also get: Reply Guys.
November 17, 2024 at 8:47 AM
🧵This is a thread about Reply Guys. I like it when posts go viral coz I'm a big show-off and the internet is responsible for most of my career. When you go viral you get new followers, fun replies, sometimes even industry interest omg. But you also get: Reply Guys.
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Not to be flippant but evolution did see to it that we're really good at getting food off of trees & bushes. We have a rather meaningful several-million-year head start over the robots here.
July 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Not to be flippant but evolution did see to it that we're really good at getting food off of trees & bushes. We have a rather meaningful several-million-year head start over the robots here.
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AS EVER it REALLY helps if you pre-order so that bookshops and places know that there'll be demand
If you like reading me on here, trying to say some sensible and sane things about the internet, then you will like this book.
I'll be posting about it loads but I'll try to make it interesting!
If you like reading me on here, trying to say some sensible and sane things about the internet, then you will like this book.
I'll be posting about it loads but I'll try to make it interesting!
RIGHT. Time to make an announcement. I have a new book out in November!
It is non-fiction, nice and short, a book about the current information crisis and how to survive it. It's titled with my top piece of advice:
Don't Burn Anyone At The Stake Today
tinyurl.com/yvt495z7
tinyurl.com/ye773689
It is non-fiction, nice and short, a book about the current information crisis and how to survive it. It's titled with my top piece of advice:
Don't Burn Anyone At The Stake Today
tinyurl.com/yvt495z7
tinyurl.com/ye773689
Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today: (and other lessons from history about living through an information crisis) a book by Naomi Alderman.
An electrifying, thought-provoking exploration of how the digital era is reshaping our world, by bestselling, Women's Prize-winning writer Naomi AldermanFrom the award-winning, bestselling author of T...
tinyurl.com
July 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
AS EVER it REALLY helps if you pre-order so that bookshops and places know that there'll be demand
If you like reading me on here, trying to say some sensible and sane things about the internet, then you will like this book.
I'll be posting about it loads but I'll try to make it interesting!
If you like reading me on here, trying to say some sensible and sane things about the internet, then you will like this book.
I'll be posting about it loads but I'll try to make it interesting!
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Anne Hildagos Begrünung von Paris "zeigt in der aktuellen Hitzewelle erste, teils spektakuläre Resultate", schreibt der Standard: In den renaturierten Straßen und Vierteln ist es um bis zu vier Grad weniger heiß, auf den begrünten Dächern sind die Dachtemperaturen von 67,5 auf 35,7 Grad gesunken.
July 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Anne Hildagos Begrünung von Paris "zeigt in der aktuellen Hitzewelle erste, teils spektakuläre Resultate", schreibt der Standard: In den renaturierten Straßen und Vierteln ist es um bis zu vier Grad weniger heiß, auf den begrünten Dächern sind die Dachtemperaturen von 67,5 auf 35,7 Grad gesunken.
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Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/i...
Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe
Moneypoint in County Clare, Ireland, joins the ranks of other European nations exiting coal by shutting off power generation at its sole remaining coal plant. Industry observers say Ireland’s increase...
www.pv-magazine.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/i...
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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
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Because,as we know, we learn by doing; we learn from mentors; structured teaching by humans. And ALL those things are specifically destroyed in this fraudulent 'revolution'. So we will no longer be able to do any of those things, see or correct the gross errors of glorified random number generators.
December 1, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Because,as we know, we learn by doing; we learn from mentors; structured teaching by humans. And ALL those things are specifically destroyed in this fraudulent 'revolution'. So we will no longer be able to do any of those things, see or correct the gross errors of glorified random number generators.
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Imagine if the headline were, "Trump refuses to show most basic decency" or "Trump continues to ratchet up tensions in wake of assassination" rather than "we hang on Trump's every word."
President Trump said that he had no plans to call Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota after a man assassinated a state lawmaker there and wounded another over the weekend.
"I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out, I’m not calling him," Trump told reporters.
"I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out, I’m not calling him," Trump told reporters.
Trump Says He Has No Plans to Call Walz After Shootings in Minnesota
“I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out, I’m not calling him,” the president told reporters.
trib.al
June 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Imagine if the headline were, "Trump refuses to show most basic decency" or "Trump continues to ratchet up tensions in wake of assassination" rather than "we hang on Trump's every word."
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Wir sehen gerade im Kontext von Kriegen und Konflikten eine immense Flut an Propaganda und Desinformation. Seid vorsichtig, was ihr teilt. Falschinformationen können gefährliche Konsequenzen haben.
Ein paar Hinweise für den eigenen Social Media-Gebrauch 👇
Ein paar Hinweise für den eigenen Social Media-Gebrauch 👇
June 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Wir sehen gerade im Kontext von Kriegen und Konflikten eine immense Flut an Propaganda und Desinformation. Seid vorsichtig, was ihr teilt. Falschinformationen können gefährliche Konsequenzen haben.
Ein paar Hinweise für den eigenen Social Media-Gebrauch 👇
Ein paar Hinweise für den eigenen Social Media-Gebrauch 👇
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Schüler:innen in der brandenburgischen Stadt Senftenberg haben über das Leben mit Rechtsextremen und ihrer Ideologie geschrieben und ein Buch daraus gemacht. Auszüge daraus könnt Ihr hier lesen:
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May 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Schüler:innen in der brandenburgischen Stadt Senftenberg haben über das Leben mit Rechtsextremen und ihrer Ideologie geschrieben und ein Buch daraus gemacht. Auszüge daraus könnt Ihr hier lesen:
archive.is/4MfbQ?fbclid...
archive.is/4MfbQ?fbclid...
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Verrückt, was es nicht alles gibt! 😳🥰
May 23, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Verrückt, was es nicht alles gibt! 😳🥰
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Wir beschäftigen uns damit noch, aber es gilt weiterhin, was wir ja auch mit Verweis auf die Ärztin Marianna Traugott in unserer Diphtherie-Folge sagen: “zückt eure Impffässe, schaut, wann eure letzte Impfung war und wenn die mehr als zehn Jahre zurückliegt, dann bitte auffrischen”.
Diphtherie I Im Kampf gegen den Würgeengel
Podcast Episode · Pandemia · 02/02/2024 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Wir beschäftigen uns damit noch, aber es gilt weiterhin, was wir ja auch mit Verweis auf die Ärztin Marianna Traugott in unserer Diphtherie-Folge sagen: “zückt eure Impffässe, schaut, wann eure letzte Impfung war und wenn die mehr als zehn Jahre zurückliegt, dann bitte auffrischen”.