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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Halfway through this excellent memoir - recommend!

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Paul Halpern @phalpern.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Publishers Weekly praises THE GREAT ATOM DEBATE: "Halpern... delivers a solid account of two Austrian physicists who famously debated the existence of atoms... [I]ntriguing intellectual history... [and] an accessible look at a critical scientific era." www.publishersweekly.com/9781541607224

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The old man AND the sea? In this economy?

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This one has been growing on me a bit lately...

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

New recording of Shostakovich's 8th - let's see what this is about (already a bit slow for me at the start)...

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Saw that this is on Criterion Channel - need to find time...

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We have been robbing you but you vote for us we might give some of the loot back?

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Took me a second but the commitment to the bid is admirable - William BYRD, you see?

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

While reading about Edmund Campion I learned of the existence of 'priest hunters' - I imagine not as glamorous as 'demon hunters' but still - good knife work, I see...

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Men, what stops you from looking like this?

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Paul Halpern @phalpern.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

'It was Ernst Mach who, in his History of Mechanics, upset [my] dogmatic faith [in Newtonian mechanics]... I see Mach's greatness in his incorruptible skepticism and independence.' -Albert Einstein #Einstein #Mach #GreatAtomDebate #science #physics

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Reading about anyone in England in 15-16th century: Robert Hacomblen (also spelt Hacomplaynt, Hacumplaynt, Hacomplayne, Hacomblene, Hacumblen)

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Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Germany's disgrace, a regional population gleefully votes nazi again. 1/3

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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Summer, don't go. Eric Rohmer's A TALE OF SUMMER (1996)—now playing on the Channel!

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

More Canadian metal this morning...

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Listening to Canadian metal out of solidarity with our Canadian comrades - go Eaten by Sharks - The Undertow of Hate

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ah, the mythical "swing voters" are back in action - Democrats' favorite scare tactic against any progressive candidate or policy innit?

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Fun fact: KSR's Red Mars has the international team launch for Mars in January 2026, the not-so-distant future, innit?

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I will only listen to your story if it is told through food…

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Accidentally reading 3-4 books of memoirs about pre-1917 Russia at the same time - not sure anymore whose life is being remembered…

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Gorky's final unfinished rambling epic appeared in English in 1930s (shortly after it came out in Russian) BUT since then was never re-issued or re-translated.

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Indoor track at the gym put up signs about 'rules' on the track: running on the outside, walking on the inside tracks. Five old ladies walking all over, one on a loud phone call, no one cares for the rules: a microcosm of America, innit?

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I wasn't going to spend $60 for a paperback of this interesting book but I see an excellent deal for an electronic version - now that's a reduction in price I can get behind!

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I know we complain a lot about the state of technology but I have to say reading a book on my iPad and watching movies discussed in the book on the same iPad isn't so bad...

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I rewatched I Vitteloni yesterday (reading a Fellini bio) and I have to say Fausto is one of the most despicable characters one has to endure on screen... Also, a weird variety of posters for the film trying to 'sell' it as different things...

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A side quest from E. P. Thompson who writes about these as proto-unions and examples of workers' mutual aid and support organizations...

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Don't judge a book by its cover, judge it by the List of Illustrations...

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I really wish we would embrace the term “palace” for our giant stores - “house” is for losers…

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

According to footnotes, this is all very graphic and sexually explicit…

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

E P Thompson goes hard on them Methodists in chapter 11, oi…

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

C’mmon now, buddy, a wig isn’t it?

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Trump's new wig as a metaphor - everyone can see it's a wig, no one around him bold enough to tell him it's ridiculous, no one in the media is going to ask him, he will act like it's not a wig, we will all just groan about it and move on...

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Just saw a “Skylar” restocking shelves at a grocery store. You just don’t expect a nobly named person like that working, do you?

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Not normally my kind of metal but warming up to this one (mainly I think because of all the 'math' stuff rather than the normal gore stuff prevalent in the genre)... www.angrymetalguy.com/sallow-moth-...

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

American culture war has two triggers: Oh no, someone didn’t like the thing I liked! Oh no, someone liked the thing I didn’t like!

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Reviving my old 'empiriocriticism' meme...

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Evgeni V Pavlov @evgenivpavlov.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

An interesting read: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md...

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