Fiona
@dysphemist.bsky.social
Spiteful octopus.
Random.
Sweary.
Random.
Sweary.
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"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."
—FDR, 1936
—FDR, 1936
January 5, 2026 at 11:00 PM
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."
—FDR, 1936
—FDR, 1936
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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"A place of leisurely afternoons, exquisite paintings, and long conversations in shabby Baroque rooms...."
From my essay on Henry James's Venice in @theatlantic.com
From my essay on Henry James's Venice in @theatlantic.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"A place of leisurely afternoons, exquisite paintings, and long conversations in shabby Baroque rooms...."
From my essay on Henry James's Venice in @theatlantic.com
From my essay on Henry James's Venice in @theatlantic.com
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It feels real now that there’s a publication date and a cover uolpress.co.uk/book/explori.... Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage: Access, Use, Value and Sustainability, by Eirini Goudarouli, @amsichani.bsky.social and me, will be out on 7 May 2026 (open access).
December 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
It feels real now that there’s a publication date and a cover uolpress.co.uk/book/explori.... Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage: Access, Use, Value and Sustainability, by Eirini Goudarouli, @amsichani.bsky.social and me, will be out on 7 May 2026 (open access).
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Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
December 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
This article is absolutely wonderful: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
‘I could watch the final 30 minutes on a loop till the end of time’: Guardian writers’ favourite Rob Reiner moments
The director’s incredible versatility and talent meant that he could reduce to tears with anguish or laughter effortlessly pivoting from comedy to courtroom drama, romcom to rock mockumentary
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This article is absolutely wonderful: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
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This new study highlights why we support science:
• 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19
• 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality
• No increase in 4-year mortality
• Vaccinated people had lower risk of death from any cause.
ht @cbarbermd.bsky.social
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
• 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19
• 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality
• No increase in 4-year mortality
• Vaccinated people had lower risk of death from any cause.
ht @cbarbermd.bsky.social
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
jamanetwork.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This new study highlights why we support science:
• 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19
• 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality
• No increase in 4-year mortality
• Vaccinated people had lower risk of death from any cause.
ht @cbarbermd.bsky.social
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
• 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19
• 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality
• No increase in 4-year mortality
• Vaccinated people had lower risk of death from any cause.
ht @cbarbermd.bsky.social
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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'As scientists, we are increasingly being asked to tell the public the truth about the crises we face in simple and direct terms.
The truth is that we are shocked by the ferocity of the extreme weather events in 2023.
We are afraid of the uncharted territory that we have now entered.'
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The truth is that we are shocked by the ferocity of the extreme weather events in 2023.
We are afraid of the uncharted territory that we have now entered.'
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December 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
'As scientists, we are increasingly being asked to tell the public the truth about the crises we face in simple and direct terms.
The truth is that we are shocked by the ferocity of the extreme weather events in 2023.
We are afraid of the uncharted territory that we have now entered.'
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The truth is that we are shocked by the ferocity of the extreme weather events in 2023.
We are afraid of the uncharted territory that we have now entered.'
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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Today has been a trying day. But I got C+ in Balatro so... swings and roundabouts 🤷♀️
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Today has been a trying day. But I got C+ in Balatro so... swings and roundabouts 🤷♀️
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time to kick off the holiday season with a real Christmas movie.
December 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
time to kick off the holiday season with a real Christmas movie.
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Great interview with New Zealand anthropologist and @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Anne Salmond including this on life as a female academic
www.nowtolove.co.nz/celebrity/da...
www.nowtolove.co.nz/celebrity/da...
December 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Great interview with New Zealand anthropologist and @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Anne Salmond including this on life as a female academic
www.nowtolove.co.nz/celebrity/da...
www.nowtolove.co.nz/celebrity/da...
Really lovely piece on Tom Stoppard by Patrick Marber: ‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom Stoppard
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/d...
‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom Stoppard
The director worked with theatre colossus Tom Stoppard on two smash hits. Here, he remembers their heated rehearsals, the night they stayed up watching Jaws – and the last four cigarettes they smoked ...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Really lovely piece on Tom Stoppard by Patrick Marber: ‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom Stoppard
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/d...
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The Indian state of Rajasthan produces more solar than any other. It has rejected a 3.2 GW coal power plant, because the bids to build it were more expensive than bundling renewables with batteries.
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
India’s Desert State Reignites Coal-Fired Power Debate
The competitive cost of batteries is making clean energy a viable alternative to coal in parts of the country.
www.bloomberg.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The Indian state of Rajasthan produces more solar than any other. It has rejected a 3.2 GW coal power plant, because the bids to build it were more expensive than bundling renewables with batteries.
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Clover and Bird, by Endô Kyôzô
Japanese, 1897-1970
c. 1930
More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/24022
Japanese, 1897-1970
c. 1930
More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/24022
November 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Clover and Bird, by Endô Kyôzô
Japanese, 1897-1970
c. 1930
More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/24022
Japanese, 1897-1970
c. 1930
More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/24022
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
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Watched the first episode of Wong Kar-wai’s Shanghai Blossoms. Incredible. All his sumptuous style and historicizing + flashes of pulpy mystery fun. Already crave more.
November 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Watched the first episode of Wong Kar-wai’s Shanghai Blossoms. Incredible. All his sumptuous style and historicizing + flashes of pulpy mystery fun. Already crave more.
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Another baby has just died of whooping cough in Kentucky, thanks to RFK Jr. and his merry band of anti-vaxxers.
My feeling toward RFK Jr. and the Republican Senators who confirmed him is utter contempt.
My feeling toward RFK Jr. and the Republican Senators who confirmed him is utter contempt.
Third Kentucky infant dies from whooping cough as statewide cases surge
A third Kentucky infant has died from whooping cough in the last 12 months, the Kentucky Department for Public Health said Monday.
www.wlwt.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Another baby has just died of whooping cough in Kentucky, thanks to RFK Jr. and his merry band of anti-vaxxers.
My feeling toward RFK Jr. and the Republican Senators who confirmed him is utter contempt.
My feeling toward RFK Jr. and the Republican Senators who confirmed him is utter contempt.
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Just for fun, I tossed a few snacks on the patio. I haven’t done that for a while. This was near the end of his visit and he trotted off to do #roadrunner things. 🪶
November 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Just for fun, I tossed a few snacks on the patio. I haven’t done that for a while. This was near the end of his visit and he trotted off to do #roadrunner things. 🪶
These are all amazing, but Alice is the absolute bomb ❤️
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
These are all amazing, but Alice is the absolute bomb ❤️
Ohhhhh for $25m... The Stahl house is on the market for the first time ever.
1635 Woods Dr, LOS ANGELES, CA 90069 Detail Page www.theagencyre.com/ldp-share/CL...
1635 Woods Dr, LOS ANGELES, CA 90069 Detail Page www.theagencyre.com/ldp-share/CL...
1635 Woods Dr, LOS ANGELES, CA 90069 For sale - 25,000,000 | The Agency Global Boutique Real Estate Brokerage
Property for sale at 1635 Woods Dr, LOS ANGELES, CA 90069 | The Agency Global Boutique Real Estate Brokerage
www.theagencyre.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Ohhhhh for $25m... The Stahl house is on the market for the first time ever.
1635 Woods Dr, LOS ANGELES, CA 90069 Detail Page www.theagencyre.com/ldp-share/CL...
1635 Woods Dr, LOS ANGELES, CA 90069 Detail Page www.theagencyre.com/ldp-share/CL...