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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You're sailing again! Junk-rigged.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Outside la Chiesa di San Calisto, Piazza San Calisto, Trastevere, Rome, 2021.

A woman an child walk past the entrance of an old church, its high bronze doors shut. An old man sits on the steps, reading, another sits in a chair close by. On otherchairs, a young, attractive woman sits alongside an old man, talking to him, as he leans over with his hands clasped, as if in prayer. Two bikes rest against a nearby wall.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A favourite mid-afternoon snack: a small bowl of uncooked, shredded cabbage drizzled with soya sauce (nothing else), a simple but unexpectedly satisfying pairing (even better if eaten with your fingers).

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ah, this is is the easy stuff of old age.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Scraping together spare change from pockets and the bottoms of old bags to pay for two boxes of Ciprofloxacin 500mg and a six pack of two-litre bottles of mineral water to treat my increasingly painful kidney infection.

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Your trust in the world, in people, disappears. You can’t trust because you can lose…….. everything is broken. Drawing confronts the world but hides from it at the same time.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In our family, someone is always on the move.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As we finish unpacking into our temporary gaff, our son starts packing for a six-week journey through Thailand, Japan and South Korea. He has just returned to Rome from Istanbul and a 48-hour commercial shoot. He'll spend the next 48 hours editing and doing laundry before he heads to the airport.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Who is included in 'North America'? If this were a question of continents, much of the world might quickly settle the issue by pointing out that it is all one landmass, called America."

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The Mexico that seeks to homogenize everyone inside its borders and annihilate difference is the imaginary Mexico, a violent European-facing project built by the descendants of Spanish colonialism that, in order to make any sense, requires the extermination of Indigenous communities."

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The Mexico/Guatemala border cuts a volcano in half. Better put: the governments of Mexico and Guatemala say they can cut in half a volcano that reaches 13,320 feet in height, is still active, and whose name is Tacaná." – Linda Quiquivix [via @placesjournal.bsky.social]

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Cutting the Earth in Half

What can the border between Mexico and Guatemala tell us about the limits of North America?

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"We have no regrets about what we're doing. There's a new, unmapped path ahead of us, so there is hope — and possibilities — if not yet an end to our long journey." The latest update to @liznangel3.bsky.social's @gofundme.com appeal for us. www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...

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Donate to Support a Voyage to Find Home, organized by Liz Cullinane

Hello, my name is Liz Cullinane and for the past five years, I have been inspired to raise… Liz Cullinane needs your support for Support a Voyage to Find Home

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Having a million opinions about everything comes cheap and easy, whereas actually doing something can cost you quite a lot.” – the late writer, Gary Indiana [via @parisreview.bsky.social]

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

gofundme.com

Donate to Support a Voyage to Find Home, organized by Liz Cullinane

Hello, my name is Liz Cullinane and for the past five years, I have been inspired to raise… Liz Cullinane needs your support for Support a Voyage to Find Home

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 26/09/2026

‘“Hard borders” are a creation of the modern age. Until the late 19th century, borders almost everywhere were more or less open, often fuzzy or undecided.’ Ferdinand Mount on immigration and emigration in the English imagination. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Ferdinand Mount · Modest and Misunderstood: Wretched Strangers

In the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It...

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've long aspired to this level of, um, disarray.

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

At night, the sea with its ships enters my room. -Yannis Ritsos (tr. Paul Merchant)

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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 08/08/2026

“…language, in refusing transparency, only ever shows itself as the possibility, and not the guarantee, of communication and of truth.” Read some of my thoughts on a couple of my obsessions: Václav Havel and Wim Wender’s Until the End of the World.

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Marguerite Duras on nighttime reading: “The darkness around you adds greatly to the absolute passion that develops between you and the book.”

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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Choose your self presentation carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.” ~ Erving Goffman

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In the medina at Asila, northwest Morocco, 2024.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"There is always a box. And authoritarians will put everyone they can inside it." – @andreapitzer.bsky.social degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/there-is-a...

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm a fan of @ianmcque.bsky.social's work: he has the classical skills to depict fragments of the present I live in now as well as the future I dreamed as a young boy.

Ramshackle rusty sky ships above medieval, European rooftops.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

"The very fact that things of any kind exist at all should be enough science fiction for most people." – @fadesingh.bsky.social

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

May he suck on the pus from every one.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trumpian logic: a triumphal arch, despite no appreciable triumphs during Trump's regime.

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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

“It is incumbent upon us not… to get into debates about who is the tail and who the dog, when both are simply different heads of the same ravening beast.” I wrote a letter from Beirut for The Markaz Review themarkaz.org/we-live-in-a...

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We Live in a Time of Monsters

Our senior editor writes from Beirut as Israeli warplanes and drones search for new targets across the city.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I would like to move with the teens to a land that lacks GLP-pressure. What I am seeing locally is 💯 nuts. Like a religion. Everybody constantly yapping about their weight and protein shakes. Am I a zombie? Is this pseudo-hell? The gods are starving themselves.

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Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Colin the boatman crossing the sound, Ynys Enlli/Bardsey Island.

Rain clouds empty over a distant horizon while the Bardsey ferry crosses the sound in sunlight and the rocks of of Enlli’s little mountain grace the foreground.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The can of golden syrup: a childhood bane.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Pretty much an accurate description of seafaring in any age.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19/09/2026

> In the Netherlands, the scores marked a historic low point, setting troubling new records in reading literacy, where a record 39% of 15-year-olds now lack the basic skills required to navigate modern society, evaluate the credibility of sources or process multi-page texts

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European education powerhouses rocked by falling scores in global study

France and Germany among countries with low Pisa scores, which show how well 15-year-olds use school learning in life

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ohmyfuckinggod, it's raining. Hard.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For me, it was the dichotomy of being mentally/emotionally soothed, yet increasingly, physically stressed aboard. The compromise will be a home in the littoral — or maybe something like this:

youtube.com

Freedom Cove, A Couple 31 Years Living Off Grid Floating Island | Human Documentary

YouTube video by HUMAN DOCUMENTARY

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wake to the unfamiliar rumble of trains and morning traffic and a Vespa revving in the street below our open bedroom window. I already miss the gentle motion of the boat, the random slaps of water (and fish) against the hull, the sibillant whisper of the wind.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Street art in Trastevere, Rome, 2020.

Paste up of Italian-style Superwoman within an arch on a peeling wall in Trastevere, Rome. Photo by C.C. O'Hanlon.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The worst of it was later in the day, in Rome, hauling them up four flights of stairs to a second-floor walk-up that will be our bolt-hole until November.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Our day began at 6am: a tedious series of chores to decommission our boat before sliding eight bags and suitcases across a narrow gangplank from our neighbour's boat onto a floating jetty, then carrying them two at a time to the marina office, 300 metres away, to await a cab to the airport.

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Lost at sea, as they are… No body in the grave. The sea keeps them. They’re lost… because of the storm. It was ever thus.” Les feux de la mer (Jean Epstein, 1948)

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Despair — cos' not enough money to cover our travel (with excess luggage) to Rome — just turned to elation: a couple of discounted tickets through Aeroitalia's web site.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm looking forward to a life in which the winds have less importance.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A couple of hours before sunset and we've managed to move 85 of 120 kilos of luggage from below decks on our boat to our dock-neighbour's after-deck, freeing space to clean Wrack and finish packing. The transition from sea-dwelling to settlement ashore has begun.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 31/08/2026

Guerrilla Girls. 1991

Q. What's the difference between a prisoner of war and a homeless person?

A. Under the Geneva Convention, a prisoner of war is entitled to food, shelter and medical care.

A PUBLIC SERVICE MESSAGE FROM GUERRILLA GIRLS 532 laGuardia PI. #237, NY 10012

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It doesn't help that my much-travelled, 13-year-old, 85-litre North Face duffel has lost its wheels.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Fortunately not. He has just returned to Rome from Istanbul. Having fallen aboard into the harbour's toxic swill once this year, I'm not looking forward to it.

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