This is kind of old, but have you read Mark Dotyβs Still Life with Oysters and Lemon? Very beautiful, very ekphrastic
11.03.2026 22:25
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This is kind of old, but have you read Mark Dotyβs Still Life with Oysters and Lemon? Very beautiful, very ekphrastic
agreed
It is my enormous pleasure to share the most recent issue of #ResDiffJournal, Res Diff 2.2 (2025).
"Rez Diff: Indigenous Perspectives," guest-edited by Ashley Lance (@aerl.bsky.social) and Tara Wells.
#OpenAccess
resdifficiles.com/res-diff-2-2...
#BREAKING: Israel just bombed right next to the ancient temple of Baalbek, a UNESCO listed site in Lebanonβs Bekaa valley
When ISIS bombed Roman temples in Palmyra, Syria, the west launched an international coalition that send them fleeing to the ends of the Earth
I spent 45 minutes trying and failing to convince a full bird Colonel with multiple Afghanistan and Iraq deployments that Afghanistan is not an Arabic speaking country. I was helped in this discussion (to no avail) by two Afghan interpreters who were more polite than I was.
Sheβs waiting until after the primary to tack right again
Noem's one-minute $220 million ad cost more than nearly every film nominated for Best Picture at the upcoming 2026 Academy Awards:
* Frankenstein
* Marty Supreme
* Sinners
* Bugonia
* Hamnet
* Train Dreams
* Sentimental Value
* The Secret Agent
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
βAn open room with 70 people breathing the same stale air. The lights that never quite dim. The strange intimacy of strangers forced to share space, each person trying to carve out a fragment of dignity where none could be found.β
Even this list of Mamdani-focused articles doesn't give a real perspective. 7 of this guy's last 11 pieces are about the mayor.
Which raises a question: what's the editorial decision making here?
Did an editor decide they needed a "Mamdani might be bad, actually" column?
Mamdani acting like a traditional politician in the face of an alleged terrorist attack is a problem for the NYT? He puts out a measured statement & does a serious press conference & that's somehow bad now? I'm so sorry but what the hell?
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
Brooklyn has been graced with the appearance of a swan so rare that experts say there have been no recorded sightings of the bird in New York Cityβuntil now.
Pope Leo XIVβs Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves β killed in President Trump's military strikes β on its front page.
I live in NJ. The state of NJ, in both percentage and absolute terms, lost more manufacturing jobs than any other state in the union and it's not even close. Every single NJ county lost more jobs than the US average, and most lost >58% of jobs
And yet, nobody interviews "the forgotten man" here.
More evidence for this: reading yesterday's big NYTimes article on last fall's AI-faciliated NEH cuts, and following through the attendant legal filings, I'm reasonably certain that the reason the TEAMS Middle English Text Series grant got flagged as DEI is because they produce "critical editions"
Library and Archives Canada has been hobbled by underfunding for decades, as anyone trying to use their online tools knows. This will effectively be a death-blow to its basic functionality.
A country facing multiple credible threats to its sovereignty but that also cares this little about its own history isn't long for this world.
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribeβs approach to water management is helping to integrate sovereignty and conservation into water policy in Montana.
[October 31st, 1980] The U.S. assured Iran it recognizes Khomeini's regime and would lift sanctions if Americans held hostage are released. Officials denied any imminent breakthrough in the hostage crisis and reaffirmed support for Iran's current government, not the exiled Shah's son.
me, poking at the second trump presidency: "want to see a (soon to be) dead body?" youtu.be/ozvWGx_Re9A
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.
This directly contradicts Trump and Hegsethβs claims that Iran bombed the area where the Iranian school was hit. We knew it, but itβs good to have the video.
I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.
Feels so weird that I am an Iranologist and that Iran as a country might no longer exist. I know the culture goes way beyond the nation-state, & that I work on the pre-modern period, but it still is a bit odd to be a specialist of a land that everyone seems to hate & gleefully watch being destroyedβ¦
I was there during Nowruz
I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth
[March 8th, 1986] Sheila E. performed a notable concert at The Warfield in San Francisco, California, as part of her Romance 1600 tour
