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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 1d

“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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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 22h

Yes…this.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1d

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 · 23h

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

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 1d

“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 · 1d

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 · 5d

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 · 1d

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 · 3d

The sky looked like a science fiction book cover last evening

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 2d

Congratulations from Rome!

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

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

Woke alone in darkness well before dawn, this morning: my wife had left our bed to sit with our youngest and listen to her speak of the heart-breaking horror that was her last year and a half in San Diego.

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

My wife has slowly come round to the miserable notion that she might never see ‘home’ again, let alone be able to live there. Certainly, we will not be able to live there together. And to think we are not even a year into this excruciating regime.

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 5d

The Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building is, one expert told me, “the Sistine Chapel of New Deal art.” GSA had a plan earlier this year to save it. Now Trump is rushing to sell it.

Save the Cohen, part 2, explains how we got here. Please share widely!

newrepublic.com/article/2012...

There Was a Plan to Save These New Deal Masterpieces. Then Trump Won.

A feasibility study was underway about restoring the ailing federal building that houses important Ben Shahn frescoes, Philip Guston murals, and other FDR-era artwork. But the Trump administration put...

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

Mid-Mediterranean calm.

Video by Given Rozell.

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · Aug 27

'Entr’acte'
"They are making a film together, in the days before making a film had anything like a settled recipe or routine... Someone gives you a camera and you think: What kind of crazy fun can we have with this? It seems we can do anything we want!"
—Ian Penman, 'Three Piece Suite'.

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · Aug 27

Working on #Satie and death and, of course, I'll be including extracts of Entr'acte - the camel-drawn hearse and the final coffin reveal are absolutely priceless. Satie himself appears in the first couple of minutes: archive.org/embed/entrac...

Entr'acte ( René Clair, 1924) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

entr'acte

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 5d

Right now, we are relieved that, with help from Los Angeles friends, she is safe and ready to figure out a different future for herself.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 5d

Yes.

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 5d

Our youngest arrives in Rome tonight from Los Angeles. Given and I have spent time with her just once in the past five and a half years (a turbulent month in Berlin, last year) so we are excited…and nervous.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 6d

E-bikes are an absolute game-changer in terms of giving more people the option of going car-light or car-free, but adoption is threatened by the ongoing moral panic. As the article notes, the solution is not restrictions on e-bikes, but creating more infrastructure to support e-bike riders. 1/2

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6d

“The e-bike market is skyrocketing — and, according to some studies, outpacing electric cars…The question now is: Do officials double down on deadly car-centric urban design, or do they rethink cities to encourage people to ditch four wheels for two?”

Via @grist.org grist.org/transportati...

E-bikes could cut carbon, congestion, and costs — if cities take them seriously

E-bike sales are booming, providing a clean form of transportation that also improves public health. Yet cities remain committed to cars.

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