🟨 Print Edition — Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’
The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling…
Tuesday Bins, @richardmortimer.bsky.social?
Ah, Flatbush...
Cosmati?
RIP Country Joe McDonald. We need you with us now...
Publishing scams are exploding. Writers, read this Author's Guild piece to protect yourselves. bit.ly/4rp2VCa
Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.
I wouldn't be too sure...
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Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades | New Scientist
www.newscientist.com/article/2518...
In contrast to the coverup of the EPSTEIN crimes here in America, there are ongoing investigations in the UK, France, Turkey, Poland, Latvia & Lithuania that is sure to expose his central, filthy role in the largest crimes against humanity case in world history. #AccountabilityIsComing
Right, JD.
This is disgraceful (and I can think of a number of other countries that shouldn't be there either...)
While she was a serious academic, she was also a published poet. One of her most famous poems, "The Conquest of the Air," was eerily prophetic; written before the Wright brothers' flight, it expressed a fear that aircraft might one day be used for war rather than peace. 🤯
Plummer was a polyglot who was fluent in French, Italian, German, and Spanish. She used these skills to travel through Europe and Mexico, writing a series of children's travel books like Roy and Ray in Mexico and Roy and Ray in Canada to help American children understand other cultures.
Mary Wright Plummer standing
3/8/1856 — b. Mary Wright Plummer, American librarian, children’s author. Library science pioneer; set-up first art reference dept + a kid-friendly children’s library. President, NY #Library Club (1896); 2nd pres, American Lib Assn(1915) #InternationalWomensDay #WHM2026 #LibrarySky #BookSky #KidLit
Can't remember which one I saw in Chile. Darwin mentions them.
White-throated Dipper (Cinclus cinclus) doing a little maintenace on its swimsuit. Chaffinch singing in the background. #BirdingHungary
Not the first consideration.
I heard that as 'bake shop', and I thought of the Great Fire of London...
Bit of a rothno, @richardmortimer.bsky.social?
What if the United States had a Congress or a Constitution?
Similar. Dropped out of A-levels after two months. Dossed around for a couple of years before getting a place at my local uni (UEA). Always exceedingly grateful for the system that allowed non-traditional entry and to the admissions tutor who interviewed me and gave me a chance.
A week left to reply for this fantastic role. Closes 15 March
They were a great comfort when I lived in Syracuse, NY, in 68/69, a lonely Brit with a green card. A colleague lent me a record player...
I just learned that Country Joe Mc Donald, whose words and voice delivered scathing defiance to the U.S. war on Vietnam, died in the early days of another monstrous imperialist conflict.
The irony is bile in my throat and its one two three what are we fighting for eu.usatoday.com/story/entert...
I saw them do this live, somewhere at a big festival in southern CA, back in the day.
With p, doubled.
The Fish! I had forgotten the name.
