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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you, all of you, who have supported our latest appeal either by contributing to it or promoting it. It has, quite literally been life-saving for us and for our youngest, who is now safe with us in Europe.

We wish we could hug you all.

c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 3d

“We are in a lot of trouble. Our difficulties are multiplying and becoming more complex and challenging. Whatever short- or medium-term plans we have are having to be revised or discarded daily…”

Can you help us, even just with an RT?

Donate to Support a Voyage to Find Home, organized by Liz Cullinane

Hello, my name is Liz Cullinane and for the past four years, I have been inspired to raise… Liz Cullinane needs your support for Support a Voyage to Find Home

www.gofundme.com

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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve called so many things “tipping points” that the public can’t tell when one really tips. Antarctic sea ice may have just crossed a threshold for real. The crisis is clearer than the language.
apple.news/A5tAA09s3SQm...

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas — New Scientist

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

apple.news

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 16h

Aww, thank you.

DM me sometime and let usknow how you are doing?

Love from us to you !

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 1d

“If you remember better times / you know they were lies, because they led / to this”
- Alice Notley

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 2d

For the inaugural issue of Draught Journal @draughtjournal.bsky.social:

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks.

draughtjournal.com/article/on-b...

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins

<p>There is something indescribably intimate about the act of interrupting one’s reading, the act of marking one’s place in a book, a subtle gesture t

draughtjournal.com

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Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social · 1d

André Breton's Studio, 42 Rue Fontaine, Paris

www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/26/ol...

B/W photograph of André Breton’s studio, May 1960 by Sabine Weiss; extensive collection of artworks displayed

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John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · Apr 20

New York story: seeing composer John Adams solitarily dining a few tables away in a tiny Thai joint on Amsterdam near 79th. He poked one-fingeredly at a cellphone as one does now (in place of the folded newspaper or paperback of yesteryear).

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John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · Apr 20

As I likely suffer a mild prosopagnosial disorder, it wasn’t—would never be—me who recognized him, but my violinist son, who was thrilled.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 3d

Global condemnation is mounting as hundreds of international activists remain in Israeli prison days after the military raided and captured dozens of boats in the Global Sumud Flotilla. Greta Thunberg told Swedish officials she was held in a cell infested with bedbugs and deprived of food and water.

Journalist on Gaza Flotilla Describes “Torturous Conditions” in Israeli Custody

“They were throwing people’s medicine in the bin in front of them and laughing in their faces,” says Kieran Andrieu.

truthout.org

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1d

Weather by Raymond Briggs, vibes by Samuel Beckett, soundtrack by a small child outside, wailing like an ambulance

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 3d

Really pleased to see my & @benjaminredding.bsky.social article on the much beloved BBC Shipping Forecast is getting some traction - we loved writing it! Read it @uk.theconversation.com here:
theconversation.com/why-the-bbcs...

Why the BBC’s Shipping Forecast still entrances people after 100 years

Designed to ensure safe sailing for those on the sea, a dedicated shipping forecast was first broadcast by the BBC in 1925.

theconversation.com

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not covered by any national health insurance so they cost me nearly €400 but yes, far cheaper than in the USA.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 2d

Yes…this.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 2d

It troubles me that I’m starting to feel the same way about Bluesky that I do about the UK. Like: it sounds great, and some of the people I know are great, but the leadership is making some weird choices and I’m a bit worried it may all be over in a couple of years.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 2d

One of my son’s flatmates is a gifted sommelier.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 3d

“We are in a lot of trouble. Our difficulties are multiplying and becoming more complex and challenging. Whatever short- or medium-term plans we have are having to be revised or discarded daily…”

Can you help us, even just with an RT?

Donate to Support a Voyage to Find Home, organized by Liz Cullinane

Hello, my name is Liz Cullinane and for the past four years, I have been inspired to raise… Liz Cullinane needs your support for Support a Voyage to Find Home

www.gofundme.com

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 3d

So far, so not. We’re back to the boat at the weekend but with nowhere we can/should go in my current state.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 7d

The wind got up in

the night and took our plans away

-John Berger,
"Ten Dispatches About Endurance in Face of Walls”

#everynightapoem #ofsorts

"Ten Dispatches About Endurance in Face of Walls”
(October 2004)
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The wind got up in

the night and took our plans away

(Chinese proverb)

#everynightapoem #ofsorts

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 3d

Temporary refuge and recovery space in Rome (with prescription drugs).

A light, open room with polished wooden floorboards, pot plants and utilitarian furnishings and books. Several boxes of medications on a coffee table in foreground.

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peter stridh @pinoseed-connect.bsky.social · 5d

The sky looked like a science fiction book cover last evening

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 7d

you used to be able to wildly burn the old you at midnight, now you have to sort the fragments so they can be cast into the correct bin at the municipal dump, somehow it's not the same vibe

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations from Rome!

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 4d

I’m afraid my daughter’s experiences there were much worse, the stuff of every parent’s nightmares. We’re relieved that she’s with us and safe.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 4d

We’ve postponed a return to the boat, in Cagliari, and are looking for somewhere else to stay in Rome. My son’s flatmates return on Wednesday.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 4d

I am not recovering as quickly as was hoped, a few weeks ago, when I was discharged from hospital. I have had adverse reactions to a couple of the new medications that were prescribed and this week, I will undergo further tests to determine whether something other than my heart might be of concern.

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