Gould reads a score by Bach as his producer Howard Scott looks on.
"Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven & Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe."
- Douglas Adams
π· Glenn Gould by Gordon Parks
Gilmour onstage with his guitar
David Gilmour performs at Douglas Adams: The Party, on what would have been Adams' 60th birthday, March 11, 2012
π· Dave M. Benett
Black & white portrait of Adams, his hand to his face.
Douglas Adams by Steve Pyke, 1994
"He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left."
- an Adams quote from The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
An extreme closeup of Adams' face, with his fingers partially obscuring it
Douglas Adams by Dan Callister, Santa Barbara, 2000
"You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a chicken."
A printing press. To the left a plate full of set moveable type and 'spacers', to the right the other part of the printing press.
'The difference between workaday βwords on a pageβ and βdesignβ is, invariably, mostly in the whitespace.'
Greatly enjoyed @loreandordure.com on learning the process of typesetting & printing on a moveable-type letterpress.
ucldigitalpress.co.uk/BOOC/Article...
a creature so stupid that it assumes if you can't see it, it can't see you
βEddies,β said Ford, βin the space-time continuum.β
βAh,β nodded Arthur, βis he? Is he?β
Eleven year old me laughed at that hysterically for hours.
Fifty-four year old me is grinning from ear to ear even now.
Historian friends, anyone got any reading recommendations on the Disability Discrimination Act / related campaigns in Australia? And/or on the way that different anti-discrimination Acts related to each other esp. in the 1990s?
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But it's alright ma, I'm only bleeding
I know Iβve got some Labour local govβt types following me, so I want to say this clearly so that you can share it internally as appropriate: I will never again vote Labour while these policies, or Wes Streeting, are in place. I will not vote Labour at any level because of this.
Resharing this for any interested #skystorians and scholars in adjacent fields #EnvHums #EnvHist #CoastalHist #STS
Resharing this for any interested #skystorians and scholars in adjacent fields #EnvHums #EnvHist #CoastalHist #STS
Reminded of buying a second hand copy of the 2003 Donald Barthelme's *Sixty Stories* in Penguin Classics and finding this. Guess which website no longer exists?
No injustice anywhere is a "distraction" from a liberation struggle elsewhere.
Our freedom is bound up together, just like our oppressors are.
And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.
"Utterly failed"
@rachelmillward.bsky.social lays out the reality of privatised water - explaining why water must be returned to public hands.
I sometimes wonder if we just named "soft power" something like "tall turgid thrusting power" would these guys have been more in favour of it and thereby less self undermining.
files and carefully store them to make sure they remain available. Could this not be grounds to have the verdict rescinded? Also, it is rather surprising that nobody in the House of Lords has commented on this, given that the report was by cross-parliamentarian workgroup "European Union Committee".
as an expansive term to include trans people in the classes of male and female. All this evidence is dated AFTER the reference that Supreme Court used when referring to the sex and their interpretation of what it meant for the Equality Act. I have taken the opportunity to download all the evidence
evidence to support that point, mentioning how they were at that time out of step with most European countries. Also, that interpretation is further supported by all subsequent discussions in the House of Lords about the Equality Act 2010. Each time sex differences are mentioned they use "gender"
Earlier today I found in the national archives undisputable evidence showing that the Supreme Court were wrong in their interpretation. The explanatory memorandum is clear about a GRC effectively meaning that someone is of the sex they acquired. And the explanatory note linked in it further provides
ELIZA's creator was so alarmed by the fact that people mistook the chatbot for a sentient being that he wrote an entire book about why this implementation of computer technology was a huge problem and it is a staggering achievement
The only difference between my children and your children is where they were born.
"Ahhhhh the elusive Mr F!"
Poster for Sense & Sensibility in a creamy yellow with Kate Winslet spinning above and Emma Thompson looking like sheβs looking at Kate Winslet below - the tag line is Lose your heart and come to your senses
Re?watched Sense & Sensibility and I love how they show Hugh Grantβs Edward Ferrars caring for all the Dashwoods, especially Margaret who they also develop with an adventurous spirit and a travelling tree house π€
Does anyone have a list of a) books/culture journalists or b) bookstagrammers that you would contact with a news story? Posting in the hope that one of you might be able to save me a lot of time...
A moment to reflect on what it means, what it feels like, to work in a profession dedicated to veracity, factuality, rigour and open debate, in a world spiralling ever-faster into the unchallenged reign of liars, ramming their lies home at gunpoint, as they kill thousands and make millions.
There I was the other day, tutoring a student for his MA dissertation, a student I first taught as an undergraduate in 1994, straight off an Access Course, who became a teacher, and is now the head of an International school in India.
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kΔkΔpΕ chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
