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A model in a skimpy black dress & high heels sits on a tall stool with a beret on her head & a baguette under her arm.

Jeanloup Sieff
Essai de promotion pour la chaussure française aux Etats-Unis, Paris, 1983

This is great, Jeanloup, but could we get you to make it a bit more French?

Probably the first time ever that war-time communications have been conducted in the tone of someone utterly sick of next-door’s kids kicking their footballs over the fence.

LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE. [This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him]. After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts: Unloosed, unheralded, You soar toward me Across the dying afternoon. bright disc of childhood, Long since thrown wide Of Youth's green imaginings, Your slow declining arc Figures a sky-written truth: We will all succumb, and soon To earth's hard oblivion. [The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground. [Ends]

Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore

Rory Johnston on How Oil Could Surge to Over $200 a Barrel Podcast Episode · Odd Lots · March 10 · 37m

there it is

@roryjohnston.bsky.social on Odd Lots walking through the practical, material effects of even a mildly extended stoppage of traffic through Hormuz

as he says, it's so bad it's traditionally been used as a thought experiment for how bad things can get podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Three men in coats & hats next to a wireless & gramophone, with wires draped over them.

Here's Seuphor in another cool group photo by André Kertész, from MoMA, 1927.

He's on the right, with the Belgian writer Paul Dermée & the Italian futurist painter Enrico Prampolini. Lord knows what these crazy avant gardistes are up to!

A scene from above: A lonely figure in the middle of a field. Behind him, a Paris streetscape with three streetcars.

The Metropolitan Museum has a single photograph by Michel Seuphor - the only one I've seen. It was taken in Paris in 1929.

Turns out in war, TACO may not be an option.

Emotions weren’t like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all to view.

—Beryl Bainbridge, An Awfully Big Adventure

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

Russia's deportation of Ukrainian children amounts to crime against humanity, UN says Vladimir Putin's direct involvement in the forcible deportation of Ukrainian children has been visible from the outset, the UN says.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sex with Scorsese, beef with Sondheim … and inventing the moonwalk? The wildest moments in Liza Minnelli’s memoir From Peter Sellers dressing like a Nazi, to having to manage her mother Judy Garland’s addiction, jaws will drop at Minnelli’s anecdotes

Clear my schedule, I am reading literature www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

🚨 WATCH: Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the jury trial reforms

"I waited 1,088 days to go to court. We've been told [by the Government] that if we have concerns about this Bill, it's because we've not been raped"

In my headcanon, The Barbican killed
Leon Krier, don’t try to convince me otherwise

POV when it rains acidic petrochemicals on a city of seventeen million people.

Fake AI Content About the Iran War Is All Over X X’s Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war.

X’s Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war. www.wired.com/story/fake-a...

The Trump administration's refusal to respond to malign Russian activity, even when it's directed against the US, should be a sharp wake-up call for any NATO leaders still hoping that compromise with the White House will ensure US support in other areas, such as Ukraine.

Why...did CNN do this

This lunch includes all five of the main Dutch food groups: cheese, cucumber, geometry, boredom and sorrow, with most of the vitamin content provided by the soul-destroying view of endless flatness spilling off the far-flung horizon.

📊sondage @ipsosus.bsky.social :

➡️29% des Américains approuvent le conflit en Iran (+3) dont 66% des républicains (+11) / 43% désapprouvent (=)

➡️60% pensent que le conflit va durer

➡️64% disent que Trump n'a pas expliqué ses buts

➡️73% sont inquiet de l'impact sur le prix des carburants

2/2 Outdoors, indoors, everybody in Louis de Caullery's world is dancing. Because today is his day!

Graffito on a page in a copy of Tristram Shandy: a line drawing in profile of Slawkenbergius, recognizable because of his large nose.

Niche but cool. I mentioned in class that there was little evidence that #18thc readers had ever responded to the invitation tendered by the blank page in Tristram Shandy & drawn the Widow Wadman. & then a student revealed the portrait of Slawkenbergius she found inscribed into her copy of our novel

a drawing of a monk wearing dark glasses and rolling dice at a table

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

This is a terrible and very uninformed take of Tim who should know better.

- heat pumps save around 80% gas today compared to gas boilers

- using renewable electricity is one of the most effective ways to reduce gas consumption

- the marginal emissions argument is deeply flawed (more in comments)

i don't get it. you can lift at the gym. being a softhanded scribe is like the pinnacle of civilized life, tens of thousands of generations of your ancestors would have murdered to be a softhanded scribe

It seems to me the easiest way to calm fears about crude oil would be for the US Navy to actually execute a safe escort of an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz.

That they haven't done this yet is a tell, IMO.

A lot of the elite became very online for the first time in the pandemic and it’s hit them like smallpox in the Americas

Laureates of the European Parliament's Order of Merit 2026.

To mark the 75th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration in 2025, Parliament established the first European distinction of its kind, a European Order of Merit.

The first laureates were announced today in Parliament.

Learn more: link.europa.eu/RhTbxW