from the file name, photographer could be Rafael Vilka
(photo dated 2025nov12)

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L1 lens, 2018 photo by LSST ( Large Synoptic Survey Telescope ) first put into service this year, in June 2025 • CC BY 4.0
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LOL. Sorry, but that reminds me of...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bwvl...

Glad to hear of your success abroad! Here's hoping for more book sales.

About your brief walking tour in Bloomsbury, there's a Wikipedia entry for Holborn Bars, built on the site of the former Furnival's Inn building of the Inns of Chancery.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holborn...

@gerry2020.bsky.social

scheduled relevant post for tomorrow noon, with link to this article:

#MilitaryEmissions #bootprintexemption

www.scientificamerican.com/article/warf...

In this street-level vid, a view of a hollowed-out seaside store, swept clean through the building from back to front, from unprotected beach to the blown-out street frontage.
(The ruined St. John Anglican Church depicted in the still doesn't actually feature here)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hhjW...

The satelite views of Black River, St. Elizabeth Parish, on the southern shore, are dramatic enough. But the street-level views even more so.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=FojG...

Kodak and its subsidiary Eastman Chemical were recently profiled by Grist Magazine, under the rubric of the lack of corporate accountability, for both #legacypollution and ongoing environmental insults.

#HazMatSpills
#toxicplume
#PopularEpidemiology
#envhist

grist.org/accountabili...

more coverage:
Homes in Nunapitchuk, Alaska have been sinking into the melting permafrost, and residents have decided their only choice is to move the entire village to higher ground, 3 miles inland.

#CoastalRetreat
#TippingPoint
#PermafrostThaw
#envhist

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The above is the species' 2nd brood, or fall flight--aka "fabricii" form--emerging late Aug into Oct. Said to be able to overwinter hidden in bark or crevices.

i'll look out next year for the summer flight and the "umbrosa" form--as in this photo by Linda Smith, from Bethany, OK, 22 July 2025

Now with AI's spread on campuses we see the further degradation of the educational system via "the AI coalition" working to create "a vast corporate-backed lower order of luckless pupils" whose instructors do little more than facilitate (serve?) AI chatbots

#LLM

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Ran across today: "Trumpian stupidity ... needs to be confronted, without falling into the trap of 'sanewashing' or inflating strategic cunning to the point of conspiracy theory." (from n+1 magaxine, "Stupidology" issue 51, Fall 2025)

#EnglishAsSheIsSpoke

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...