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On Youtube, nothing but ads for Febreze and Lenor and natural-smelling bin odour eliminators

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I mean this is the whole, anthropologically-sound answer to the Progress Studies programme.

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Josef Albers is not gesturing at the world of colours...

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At the Hans im Glück Brunnen, Stuttgart

Colour photo: A stone building with a corbelled corner, extravagantly moulded.

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It's a long time since it was the best plan listen to middle-aged inhabitants of NY in an attempt to keep up with radical chic (or the insights and attitudes of the Downtown scene etc). This is the disappointing thing about Roni Horn: she's a bona fide NY art world participant, but not interesting.

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"ALL ORDERS ARE HANDLED BY OURSELVES. WITH PRECISION, RESPECT AND LOVE FOR OUR PROFESSION. *** HILDE, JOHAN, BABS, EMMA, CELINA EN BASILE" www.copyrightbookshop.be/en/ Reminds me of the famous line: "not onely an Ability for Commerce of all kinds, but a strong aptitude, love, and delight in it"

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Tanya Marcuse Fallen No. 45, 2010 tanyamarcuse.com/fallen/

A colour photo of windfall peaches on the ground. The colours of the fruit and green mould are subtle and the image is very sharp.

Born (1998): "Hothouse Flowers' first album since 1993's Songs from the Rain confirms the accusations that have been pointed at them since their inception: Don't Go notwithstanding, they have as much pop sensibility as a pack of barking German Shepherds." gilliver.net/hothouse/rev...

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In the tower of the Dreieinigkeitskirche, Regensburg.

Colour photo. Medieval-looking, but pale, timber framing in a church tower. One beam has what looks like a date starting "17" scratched on it, in the style of a carpenter's mark.

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In the porch of the Basilica of St Emmeram, Regensburg.

Colour photo: picturesque arrangement of memorials on the wall of a large church. The most prominent memorials are plaques with complex baroque or rococo borders.

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Staircase in the Landesmuseum (Altes Schloss), Stuttgart. This is very plain and precise in an old fashioned way. I like to photograph it even if the craft of the stonemason is too exacting for modern attitudes

If you want a big tower, you need a big drawing. Ulm

Photo of my mother inspecting a drawing for the tower of Ulm Minster, which is more than twice her height.

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nuremberg: monument on Museumsbrücke. Photo from a trip earlier in the year

Colour photo of baroque monument (detail)

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Local bookshop doesn't really get "merchandising". It's perpetually full of stacks of recently delivered books. This was the front window on Saturday – it's often full of books, but the level of attention to appearance is consistent. They have no idea what impression they're giving. Self-absorbed

Window of bookshop. The display shelves are bare except for a Dolly Parton book, a Nigel Farage book, and "Best in Travel 2027". There are two photocopied "No Pokémon Cards" signs.

Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

'Our canon is sexless, obsessively nostalgic, wary of responsibility, and not a little naive. In other words, it is literature for boys, squeezing its eyes shut at the unwholesome “facts of wooing, marriage, and child-bearing.”' thebaffler.com/outbursts/it... (August 2026)

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It’s a Boy’s Boy’s Boy’s World | Zoë Hu

Can American fiction ever escape the high-low conundrum disparaged by scholar and critic Leslie Fiedler?

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“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness; those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” (George Santayana, 1955) via www.academia.edu/18046947/The...

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Iain M Banks called a port city Oubliette in his book Feersum Endjinn. I hadn't realised until just now that Bodrum, Türkiye, is a real life case of such a toponym: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bodrum

Screenshot of part of the Wiktionary page I linked to. Bodrum is defined as 1) basement, cellar 2) underground hole 3) (archaic) prison cell.

A GUI operating system for the 48K ZX Spectrum, in Z80 assembly github.com/mindbox77/zx...

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pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Counterfactual thinking centers on insights into what might have been different if some details of the past had been altered. These insights are a common feature of the mental landscape, and past research has long linked them to emotional experience. The first generation of counterfactual research in psychology assumed that such thoughts are dysfunctional; that is, instances of error, bias, or difficulty in coping (Gleicher et al., 1990; Kahneman & Tversky, 1982; Landman, 1987; Macrae, 1992; Miller et al., 1990; Miller & McFarland, 1986; Sherman & McConnell, 1995). The second generation of research, dating from the 1990s (and forming the bulk of this article), pointed to a functional perspective, in which counterfactual thinking serves a largely beneficial function of behavior regulation (Johnson & Sherman, 1990). Working on a job, dining with friends, conversing with acquaintances, studying for exams, mapping out finances for retirement: All such daily acts require planning, management, organization, and frequent course correction. Problems are inevitable. Accidents happen, glitches arise, and people struggle to fix what has blocked the road to their desires. Counterfactual thoughts do sometimes bring bias or difficulty in coping, but balanced against this cost is a larger benefit in terms of the coordination of daily behavior. Counterfactual thinking connects directly to course correction, to goal cognition, and to behavior regulation. As data from imaging studies in cognitive neuroscience continue to accumulate, we hope that this summary of the functional theory of counterfactual thinking can serve as a useful framework with which to understand them.

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This conversation is similar to the story around the invention of rigid designators. It's not that any events/phenomena, in parallel universes, necessarily or metaphysically correspond to each other (I don't believe that they ever do), but for practical purposes you have to use the "same" names.

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

School years should be about, among other things, healthily broadening the pupils' horizons. So it's incomprehensible to me that a secondary school with an impoverished set of clubs / after-school activities would think a bridge club was a good move. This is what happened in my school in the 90s.

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Reposted by Theo Honohan

Brilliant mathematician Emmy Noether was initially barred from teaching at University of Göttingen because she was a woman. She taught for 4 years as a "guest lecturer" under David Hilbert's name. Hilbert, exasperated at the stupidity of the rule: "Gentlemen, this is not a bathing establishment."

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From Algebra to Airplane Crashes, Emmy Noether’s Lasting Influence on Mathematics

Emmy Noether, whom some consider the “Mother of Modern Mathematics,” continues to shape modern research and the studies of mathematicians today; including research into the investigation of airplane c...

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"[H]is radiant visions of what is usually held to be a drab and sordid neighbourhood will come as a revelation – a revelation nnot merely of the beauty of Camden Town but of the greater fact that beauty is not an external phenomenon but something a man carries about with him in his own soul."

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Something weaselly about saying "There's so much money in it [fashion]". I mean, to say there's money in something is a piece of practical advice, but the statement seems to blur that with the luxury aspect of the business: you're seeing money go past everyday, which isn't the same thing at all.

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"When will the Arctic become seasonally ice-free given the trajectory that we are on? It’s hard to pin a date on it, but mid-century is a pretty good bet, and it may be considerably earlier." (Mark Serreze)

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This has got to be hands-down the most oneiric image from all of contemporary art, for me

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If I have to hear about LLMs, I only want to hear the thoughts of people with T-shaped personalities. I'm not listening to specialised exotic creatures or other people whose platform derives entirely from performance in one domain

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Figure from "Les Travaux de Mars" by Alain Manesson Mallet (1685) archive.org/details/les-...

Combined section and perspective view of a dry moat and the various earthworks on each side of it.

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Photo from Pinterest of the Schwarzenberg Palace, Prague. Must be a challenge to restore the sgraffito acceptably, but it looks pretty good to me.

Colour photo showing a window and eaves of a building with bold ornamental black-and-white sgraffito paintwork.