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"The subtlest and most pervasive of all influences are those which create and maintain the repertory of stereotypes."

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · Jan 7

I worry so much about not being on the ball, being provincial or bourgeois, as if not being those things was my most important political responsibility.

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 11h

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

1. Initial Proposal: The White House is managed by the National Park Service (NPS) but used by the Executive Office of the President (EOP). Any proposed change, even by a sitting president, begins internally through the Office of the Curator and the White House Facilities Management Division.

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 11h

"Thoughts die the moment they are embodied in words."
—Schopenhauer

This certainly seems to be true of category theory. The diagrams? Yes, also dead.

Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 15h

The notion that islanders can't fully appreciate freedom of movement is based on misplaced concreteness. Finland is linked by land to the EU mainland, and is in the Schengen area, but it's a long and impractical drive (no trains) around the Gulf of Bothnia to get from Helsinki to Berlin.

Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 15h

'European unity' means a lot for Ireland. How about the fact that university students can study anywhere and pay local fees? Owen lumped the island of Ireland in with Britain, but this isn't the emotional truth of Irelands relationship with the EU.
ireland.representation.ec.europa.eu/about-us/ben...

"When I lived in the Schengen Area in the early 2010s, I liked to stare at the departure boards of Warsaw’s Centralna railway station. You could just get on a train from here to Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Berlin, Amsterdam, Vilnius, and on none of these trains would you be expected to produce anything other than your ticket to prove your right to be there. In fact, you could take a train further afield still, to Kyiv, Minsk, Moscow and, until 2013, even to Astana in Kazakhstan. Unlike in Britain or Ireland, ‘European unity’ meant something very tangible – the ability to travel unharassed across an immense and diverse space."

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Draculaura E. Hall 🎃 @lauraehall.bsky.social · 15h

A Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin’s dad is going to read him a bedtime story.

First panel:
Calvin’s dad, scanning a bookshelf: “What story would you like tonight? We can read anything except—“
Calvin, from bed, excited: “The Voynich Manuscript!”

Second panel:
Calvin’s dad, deeply exasperated: “NO! No Voynich Manuscript tonight! We’ve tried to decipher that book a million times!”
Calvin, yelling: “I want the Voynich Manuscript!”

Third panel:
Calvin’s dad, trying to reason with him: “Look, you *know* how the story goes! You’ve memorized the whole thing! It’s completely unreadable!”
Calvin: “I want mysterious glyphs and sigils!”

Fourth panel:
Calvin, in bed and staring wide-eyed into the dark: “Wow, the story was different *that* time!”
Hobbes, also in bed and staring: (a long string of incomprehensible characters).

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 15h

If a human had a huge vocabulary *and* could accurately define and even mostly accurately use every word in the vocabulary (not just be able to mention them), would we call that intelligence or just some kind of freakish purely linguistic facility?

Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 15h

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Foreshore at Charlton – Castles Shipbreaking

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 15h

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Timber stack, Charlton

Photo by N. Cohen

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 15h

An archaeological investigation of the site on the foreshore: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2009/au...

UCL archaeologists uncover London's lost warships

Links:

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 15h

"A large stack of old ship-timber which still exists in the Thames foreshore at Charlton is thought to be from these large ships; not sold on at the time (typically for making garden furniture and some building use) it was later abandoned when the facility closed." www.rmg.co.uk/collections/...

Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 15h

This NMM photo of the Hannibal as a hulk is testament to the accuracy of Brangwyn's etching.
via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Han...

Black-and-white photograph showing the bow of HMS Hannibal during the ship's time as a hulk: the deck has been roofed over and the masts largely removed. Apparently from the National Maritime Museum's collection.

Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 15h

Frank Brangwyn
Breaking up the Hannibal, 1904
Zinc etching

www.goldmarkart.com/collections/...

(I posted a thread like this one previously on Twitter)

A slightly sepia-toned engraving showing the hull of a large sailing ship resting on the shore. Its masts have been shortened and the deck enclosed and roofed over: it is a hulk. The ship is heeling toward the water.

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 21h

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan...

Buridan's ass - Wikipedia

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 21h

Dial-a-Poem for an age of hyperlinks (you are required to install an app 🙄) crossedlines.co.uk/the-phone-bo...

The Phone Book - Crossed Lines

Dial-a-Poem connects you to new poems about the telephone by writers from around the world. The Dial-a-Poem mobile app isContinue Reading

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 21h

It looks like I'm never going to get used to the way curators introduce artists as "living between" (for example) London and Lisbon. It's a real abuse of the word "between", although "divides his/her time between" would be OK, of course.

Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 22h

Here's a project on similar lines: jonathanzong.com/projects/bio...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9Y...

biometric sans

YouTube video by Jonathan Zong

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 22h

Near Life: the Gipsformerei – 200 Years of Casting Plaster, exhibition view, James-Simon-Galerie, 2019 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker (via kvadratinterwoven.com/totally-plas...)

Photo: plaster casts of sculpture displayed on thin metal shelving in a white cube gallery.

Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 23h

You may be aware of the term "fist", which used to be used to refer to each individual operator's identifiable Morse keying style.

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 23h

Illustration by Harry Clarke for Poe's Descent into a Maelstrom, 1919.

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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 2d

Trapped in traffic and stuck travelling long distances to work because of car-centric planning?

Be grateful, says Mercedes-Benz’s latest advert which aims to persuade us that spending two years of our lives stuck inside a car is somehow actually a good thing.

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 2d

'Despite earning the nickname “iron road,” railroads utilized a greater amount of wood than any other material and accordingly placed a great strain on American forests'

foresthistory.org/education/tr...

Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 3d

Painting by Duri Baek, 2024

Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 3d

The book of love is long and boring
No one can lift the damn thing
It's full of charts and facts and figures
And instructions for dancing
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The book of love has music in it
In fact that's where music comes from
Some of it's just transcendental
Some of it's just really dumb

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

The reason for this is that this class of people has internalized the idea of conservatives as the American Volk, an idea downstream of the senate and EC giving them more power than their numbers that has somehow become a quasi spiritual belief about the nature of the country

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Theo Honohan @theohonohan.bsky.social · 4d

LMS poster by Norman Wilkinson ("To Ireland")

A painted poster of small passenger vessel at sea, apparently off South Stack lighthouse (having just left Holyhead).

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