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i don't care if people use the word 'genocide' but the degree to which people are chummy with those who don't just reject the word but who are in basic denial of what has happened is a bit disconcerting. and no 'netanyahu is a bad man' doesn't cover it

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 23h

The White House is bragging about reducing immigration (including refugees) from Muslim-majority countries to near 0. The U.S. is a nation of 340 million or so people. It was letting in just 18,000 people or less per month from these same countries prior to Jan 2025. Obvious anti-Muslim bigotry.

White House about reducing immigration from Muslim-majority countries to near zero

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 23h

San Franciso Voter Pamphlet: 256 pages California Voter Guide: 175 pages 25 propositions or ballot measures We vote for too many things.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The California Earthquake Authority is a publicly managed, privately funded, not-for-profit organization that provides residential earthquake insurance and encourages Californians to reduce their risk of earthquake damage and loss.

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California Earthquake Authority (CEA) | CA.gov

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And, in "It never gets old" territory, this from tenured pundit:

Headline from March 2026: 'The War Is Going Better Than You Think'

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I read your novel The Children of the Dead as a series of cinematic pictures. Yes, it is. It owes a lot to splatter and horror movies-the 1960s film Carnival of Souls by Herk Harvey, for instance. I wrote an essay about it. Maybe that's because I live like one of the living dead. - Elfriede Jelinek

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Marcel Schwob is among the people Fleur Jaeggy writes about in These Possible Lives.

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The Pataphysical Society of New York @patanyc.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Fortunately for English readers, @wakefieldpress.bsky.social has issued far more accessible editions of Schwob's work in translation, including Imaginary Lives (along with other pataphysical and pataphysics-adjacent writing. All writing is pataphysics-adjacent, but some more than others.)

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Presumably it was Army because it was next to the existing Navy (now 26th). So the question really becomes - why Navy?

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Don't Call It Army Street

It's not just a been-there-done-that. "Army" keeps around more than tradition.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: Judge Timothy Kelly grants CNN, MS NOW, and Politico’s TRO against the Trump administration, ordering that the reporters affected “immediately” have their White House hard passes reinstated. The TRO is in effect for 14 days. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

For all these reasons, it is hereby ORDERED that:
1. Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order, ECF No. 2, is GRANTED.
2. It is further ORDERED that Defendants (except for President Trump) and their agents, representatives, and all persons or entities acting in concert with them shall immedi-
ately return, reinstate, and restore the White House "hard pass" press credentials held by employees of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO that were revoked on or about September 18, 2026, until further Order of the Court or the expiration of this Temporary
Restraining Order.
3. It is further ORDERED that this Temporary Restraining Order shall remain in effect for 14 days.
4. It is further ORDERED that Plaintiffs shall post a $1.00 bond in accordance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c) by October 1, 2026.
SO ORDERED.
Is/ Timothy J. Kelly
TIMOTHY J. KELLY
United States District Judge
Date: September 24, 2026

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

San Frans Opera demanded a 5-year wage freeze for its musicians while the General Director's salary jumped from $424k to $729k. 30 minutes before opening night, the orchestra packed up and walked out to join the picket line for the first strike in the opera’s 100 year history.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Welcome to the Atrocity Exhibition” The Warfield San Francisco, CA

Peter Hook playing a bass guitar. He is performing as the leader of Peter Hook & the Light.

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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy 118th birthday, spacetime. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ Hermann Minkowski addressed the 80th Assembly of German Natural Scientists and Physicians #OTD in 1908, offering a radical four-dimensional reformulation of Einstein's theory of special relativity. Here is how he opened his address.

"The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality."
- Hermann Minkowski, 1908

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Simon Callow was a phenomenal Amadeus in the original stage version.

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Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One of my favourite postbox facts is that in Scotland the Royal Cypher for Queen Elizabeth II is a crown to avoid controversy because Elizabeth I wasn’t a Scottish queen. I’ve told some people in person today so now I’m telling you. Read more here www.postalmuseum.org/blog/royal-c...

A red pillar post box on an Edinburgh street scene with light stone Georgian style buildings behind

A close up of the crown cypher on a red pillar postbox with the words Post Officr underneath

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Abandoned restaurant — Victorville, California.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There are so many things wrong in this article, let me focus on two: on the perverse logic argument against sanctions, and on the betrayal of Israel's human rights and anti-occupation activists. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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This Israeli election could be the country’s last – this week I saw that for myself | Jonathan Freedland

Spend time on the ground and you see how high the stakes are for next month’s contest – for Israelis and Palestinians alike, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What more do you need? Isabelle Huppert in a film scripted by Elfriede Jelinek based on a novel by Ingeborg Bachmann.

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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Isabelle Huppert 'Malina', Werner Schroeter, 1991

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I liked Gowers' response to the Fields' Medalist LLM letter and his Two Cultures essay. (Indeed, I thought his math explanations were sufficiently interesting that I bought his Princeton Companion to Mathematics book.)

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Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter

[This post has been cross-posted to Terence Tao’s blog.] When I was around 11 I heard for the first time about Fermat’s Last Theorem. I was immediately captivated by the problem stateme…

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you are unsure to which class you belong, then consider the following two statements. (i) The point of solving problems is to understand mathematics better. (ii) The point of understanding mathematics is to become better able to solve problems - Timothy Gowers, Two Cultures of Mathematics

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Israeli demand to strip NAZA filmmakers Abraham and Szor of citizenship so that they can be executed, their homes demolished, and their families expelled is neatly illustrative of how and why the apartheid state renders Palestinians as non-human www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

A speaker at the demonstration also called to execute the film's co-creators, Szor and Yuval Abraham, while the crowd chanted
"Execute the traitors.' The man also called for their families' houses to be
demolished.
"When they return to Israel, they should be put on trial and sent to the gallows.
And their family should be deported and their home sealed, just as is done to terrorists," a man said through a megaphone.
"That is the only solution for traitors.
There is only one language to use with traitors. We're tired of being on the defensive. The people of Israel need to go on the offensive so that the next person knows not to mess with IDF soldiers."

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Eccentric in just about every way, this trilogy shares no characters (unless you count an image of Frederick the Great on a broken teacup that makes brief appearances in both Pigeons on the Grass and The Hothouse). - Deborah Eisenberg

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Out of the Rubble | Deborah Eisenberg

In novels written immediately after World War II, Wolfgang Koeppen mined the conscience of Germany.

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Part Two (17th September 1979) "Well dammit, there was no reason to suppose the phone was tapped" "There was every reason"

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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Wanda @itswanda.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Is this what winning looks like?

Chevron sign. Gas is 6.99 a gallon, diesel is 9.05.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Expecting things to be different in the future, without fundamentally reforming SCOTUS (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) & ending the imperial presidency (👇), created by both parties since WWII, is the definition of insanity.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Negativland Internet Archive San Francisco, CA

The two members of Negativland performing music against a red-orange background.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In San Francisco Waymo is far safer than regular drivers. Further, many gig drivers are not local so don’t know their way around even with maps. I’ve twice had gig drivers miss the freeway exit to SFO.

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Tear Garden The Independent San Francisco, CA

Guitar player, Erik Drost, in front of an overlayed projection of grey and purple circles.

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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

1/2. Maiden Castle, the Iron Age hill fort in west Dorset, must be one of the most extraordinary and atmospheric locations in the UK. While looking at Paul Nash's rather more famous photographs of Avebury, I spotted these that he took of Maiden Castle in 1935.

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Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the clouds pass by quickly the world is heavy

[Lady with a Cup of Tea by Laura Muntz Lyall (1896)]

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In San Francisco you are far safer walking in front of a driverless Waymo doing an unprotected turn than you are walking in front of a cargo bike with a kid in the back doing the same turn. The rider always focuses on cars and never sees the pedestrian trying to cross the road - so I always wait.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started

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Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Elisabeth de Waal also wrote several novels. Persephone Books published The Exiles Return.

Cover of the Persephone Books edition of The Exiles Return by Elisabeth de Waal.

It is in the Persephone house style of solid light grey with the name of the book and author in a white offset.

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