This map feels like a metaphor for how we live our lives. We carefully step around conflicts (that are in no way inevitable in the first place) and carry on with our banalities. I’m not saying we shouldn’t but it does feel representative of our condition.
"As a nation, you either shape events or are shaped by them. I fear that in our handling of this crisis, we have fallen into the latter category. Britain had no affirmative role in the planning or execution of this operation. But that hasn’t protected our sovereign territory from attack, or insulated our economy from the aftershocks. We must learn the lessons of this episode."
False dichotomy and wishful thinking here from Sunak. The idea that UK involvement would have significantly changed Trump and Netanyahu's approach, or reduced the consequences for the UK, is laughable. More thoughtful than Johnson, but with the same simplistic vanity, the desire to feel in control.
Add for the Seattle Opera with woman in red dress
Got to give it to the Seattle Opera...
Marguerite Duras and a book loving cat
#Caturday
Lydia Davis The Dog Man A man in our office is really a dog. He does not do well, is slow and clumsy though extremely good-natured. There is also a dog in our town who is really a man and is tormented by his inability to handle things and to express himself and thus cannot be good-natured but is sly and furtive and ashamed of himself. He is hated by everyone and kicked into the corner of the room. Of course that is only one kind of dog who is really a man: another kind of dog who is really a man is like the man who is really a dog in our office, and he does very well because he is really most comfortable as a dog. From issue no. 97 (Fall 1985)
Very much enjoyed this Lydia Davis Poem
@secondmentions.bsky.social
"squishy, bouncy potatoey pillows"
Sandro Botticelli
Primavera - détail
Embedded value. Remains of the 19th-Century Grands Magasins de la Bourse uncovered by the demolitions for the new Dome project. This column survived the enormous fire on 29 July 1948 which destroyed most of the building, including the original 'dome'.
Un lieu d'exception devenu un espace d’échanges autour de l’art contemporain à Bruxelles
Sean Penn looks like Wile E. Coyote after a TNT mishap
if I could plug my laptop into a tree I wouldn't bother with anything else. I settle, begrudgingly, for the tree+solar panels combo
A tabby cat sits on a chair in a sparsely-furnished room
Jeanloup Sieff
Chat solitaire dans un décor inhospitalier, 1973
#caturday
A beige pottery with two handles and a narrow neck, decorated with intricate dark brown patterns depicting a stylized octopus. The vessel is displayed on a white pedestal in a museum setting.
We all need a timeline cleanse right now, so let's start the day with this lovely jug with an octopus motif, dating ca 1200-1100 BC.
On display at National Museum Copenhagen.
A lovely weekend to all of you!
📷 me
🏺
#archaeology
Not seen: A farmer with a boat and a bag of grain scrumpling up his plans and throwing them away in a tearful fit of defeated pique
Prévert holds a cat, a cigarette in his mouth. He's sitting on a stone wall, in front of a very large cactus plant.
Jacques Prévert, Vence
📷 Gisèle Freund, 1953
#caturday
SUN - NIL.
SEA - NIL.
SEX - NIL.
Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads #Crufts2026
Photo of a toddler with short, dark hair, crouching on a sunny lawn to gently pet a tuxedo tabby kitten.
Babies. Photo from my collection- according to the back this is Lance and Fluffel in 1963.
Perec poses with a black cat on his shoulder. The black cat turns back to look at the camera, his tail in Perec's mouth.
Georges Perec & his cat Duchat-Labelle, by Anne De Brunhoff, 1978
Everyone's favourite Perec portrait, by the grand-daughter of Babar creator Jean De Brunhoff.
#caturday
Staggering jump in average diesel prices over the last 168 hours:
Texas ⬆️98c/gal
New Mexico ⬆️91c/gal
North Carolina ⬆️89c/gal
Arizona ⬆️89c/gal
Tennessee ⬆️87c/gal
Mississippi ⬆️87c/gal
Georgia ⬆️85c/gal
West Virginia ⬆️82c/gal
Florida ⬆️80c/gal
Louisiana ⬆️80c/gal
The original interview is absolutely sending me what were these four THINKING sitting for this. Not exaggerating when I say they might have torched their careers with it. h/t @morgan03.bsky.social
@reaDonald Trump Iran, which is being beat to HELL, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors, and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore. This promise was only made because of the relentless U.S. and Israeli attack. They were looking to take over and rule the Middle East. It is the first time that Iran has ever lost, in thousands of years, to surrounding Middle Eastern Countries. They have said, "Thank you President Trump." I have said, "You're welcome!" Iran is no longer the "Bully of the Middle East," they are, instead, "THE LOSER OF THE MIDDLE EAST," and will be for many decades until they surrender or, more likely, completely collapse! Today Iran will be hit very hard! Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death, because of Iran's bad behavior, are areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP 263 ReTruths 808 Likes 3/7/26, 6:11 AM
6:11a on a Saturday what are we doing here.
Over and over:
Either the ridiculously reckless Trump gamble kind of works out, in which case they learn they are unstoppable God-kings immune to consequences, or it doesn't and there are terrible ramifications for... mostly other people.
So utterly bleak.
Finally a YARN. It sort of defies description. Maybe a cross between Indiana Jones and the Salt Path. Buckle up. as.ft.com/r/ec71d4ba-6...
"Every year at the beginning of the English summer, they arrive in vast numbers. Young, horny and stupid, drawn inexorably by uncontrollable sexual drives to mass along the coast. No. Not teenagers. Mackerel." Tim Hayward writes brilliantly on a fish crisis
as.ft.com/r/12c57450-b...
Vendredi, deux journaux américains ont révélé que la Russie fournissait, notamment avec des images satellites, l’emplacement de cibles américaines pour l’Iran.
Cover design still looks like the future.
Sheffield, August 1966, photo by Roger Mayne.
- Ne t’inquiète pas, ils ne s’amusent pas. Ils font semblant.
Sempé
- Ne t’inquiète pas, ils ne s’amusent pas. Ils font semblant.
