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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

... For he that correcteth them that offend, seemeth to cast their adversitie in their teeth : and he that telleth them plainly of their faultes, seemeth also to despise them.

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For adversity commonly maketh mens maners sower, cholericke, and very hasty : besides, slow to heare, churlish, and offended with every litle sharpe word...

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Rare occurrence of heavy rains over Uluru (Ayer's Rock), the sacred sandstone monolith of the Australian desert: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just a bloggerly ramble: what I'm reading now.

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Portland area: I'm in the Oregonian today, asking whether Portland and its region still care about public transit. In the next year, we're going to have to make some decisions about that. @trimet.org www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2026...

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Opinion: TriMet is shrinking. Do we care?

Does the region still care about TriMet and ensuring a strong public transit system, asks public transit design and policy consultant Jarrett Walker. While leaders face many competing priorities, the ...

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My breath is always slightly taken away whenever I see this mad fountain near the jardin des plantes

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"My dear boy, you are old. And certain privileges attend that state. One of them is being allowed to be prissy and abstemious in your diet. You don’t need to play the cerdo semental."

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I mean, that goal was the whole reason we ever play or watch sports. In a nutshell.

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

farefwd.com/index.php/20... A good review of Cahokia Jazz, by a Chickasaw historian

farefwd.com

Cahokia Jazz – Fare Forward

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I mean, quite apart from the trivial geographical mistake of a thousand miles or so, it makes nonsense of most of the plot. What on earth are US Federal agents doing in Deseret? How did a Mormon theocracy come to be a deep harbor of jazz and a heartland of matriarchy and multiculturalism?

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Good Lord. The Guardian's review of Cahokia Jazz places Cahokia (on the left bank of the Mississippi River, across from "real life" St Louis) in the Mormon state of Deseret ("Greater Utah," you might say.) Can their reviewer have actually read the novel?

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"Elephants will learn needlework before I will learn classroom teaching."

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Humans have invented a tech to read scrolls that were carbonized in the 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius. (The tech reads without opening them, as that would make them turn to dust.) Many ancient Greek/Roman texts that are lost to us could be there. scrollprize.org/firstscroll Go, humans!

scrollprize.org

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

PHerc. 1667, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end — without ever being opened.

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Raise high the roof beam, porters!

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Generally speaking, missing what American commentators have to say about futbol is not missing much :-)

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Adam Frank @adamfrank4.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Robert Thurman was force of nature bringing Buddhism to mainstream US culture. Also Uma Thurman's dad - "Kill Bill" awesomeness - so we can thank him for that too. Some thoughts on his passing in this weeks' Everyman's Universe post www.everymansuniverse.com/p/robert-thu...

everymansuniverse.com

Robert Thurmon Has Died. What Happens to Buddhism to America Now?

He was a force of Nature (and Uma Thurman's dad)

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I'd guess red pine, but I don't know what it would be doing in Colorado. Maybe vacationing out west?

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Oh dear. That's a pretty impressive failure!

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

That's my response too, Jarrett.

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Socrates @teamsocrates.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Tell me, do you think that those who govern themselves badly can govern others well? It would be a strange skill that ran out before reaching its owner. - Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.10

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Yeah, I know, it's June. But BlueSky hasn't been loading for me, for a few days, so my Late May poem has been hanging fire. Which seems about right, really.

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"why Homer’s story of a fatherless boy setting out to discover whether he actually has a heritage (and whether it is ever coming home to save him) would move me, was mysterious to me. But move me it did."

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I seem to be completely unstrung. A guitar turned into a not very useful percussion instrument: all you can do is thump on it. It’s a sound, I guess. But it’s not what guitars are meant for.

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Plank Knot @knotplank.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Read Kierkegaard. Don't read Kierkegaard. You will be baffled either way

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Maybe you're a more sensitive reader than I am. I can't tell.

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Sigh. There are no "tells" of AI writing. The "tell" is not really understanding what they're talking about. That's it. And much of the time, especially in short pieces, you can't really discern that, even leaving aside that real human beings also talk about stuff without understanding it.

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Taking the compost out, past the erstwhile shade garden.

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Yes! I'm sure that the kernel of Jack Aubrey was Austen's bluff, good-natured naval officers.

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

That feeling when people trying to get things done in US local government, and who have to make horrible trade-offs to save a million here or there, encounter a number like this. From @polgreen.bsky.social in @nytimes.com today. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/o...

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This is where American innumeracy really exasperates me. People look at that number and think, "wow, that's a lot of money" and think they've understood it. It's not "a lot of money." Its a huge, vast, obscene amount of money, enough to do an unimaginable amount of good.

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground; Kierkegaard's Sickness Unto Death -- the central image of a home that we can't or dare not inhabit appears in both of them. That's the touchstone image of anxiety, for me.

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

And, if it still needs pointing out, the only reason lazy academics could ever get away with not checking their citations was because the generation before them did check theirs.

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IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 17/05/2026

OK so just for the record, literally every researcher trained by every legitimate academic institution in the history of academia has been trained and required to read every paper they cite to support their research. All of us, every single one. Literature review is the first thing we learn to do.

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

...sent their sons to teachers who seriously believed this was the only book you needed to learn all the arts and sciences, and to become a compleat gentleman and a good person. And it's totally perverse. As well as SO GOOD.

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I just read again the first book of the Iliad, and 1) it is SO GOOD and 2) you will never understand Plato railing against poetry unless you understand that the Athenian MAGA (the people who judicially murdered Socrates) ...

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Dale Favier @koshtra.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I guess we just have to wait till he gets home to see which Manhattan he's sold for which handful of glass beads.

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