foldedsunset.bsky.social
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British in NYC. Longtime in Brooklyn, now in Queens. Arts, housing, green spaces, maps, buses & subways, stuff on the street.
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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 2d
“When you had twelve boxes of kippers on your head, you knew you’d got it on,” quipped Billy, displaying his “brand new” hat, made only in the nineteen thirties.”

@thegentleauthor.bsky.social

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The Harvest Festival Of The Sea | Spitalfields Life
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EV Grieve @evgrieve.bsky.social · 2d
The randomness of a trombone serenade while on an early morning walk in the East Village.
A trombone player seen on an east village street corner, playing to passersby early in the morning.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
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andrewrmarshall.bsky.social @andrewrmarshall.bsky.social · 3d
Brian Harris took wonderful pictures for the Independent and others. I am sad to hear he is gone, and so happy I knew him and the other photographers of the Independent for a while. This is from Prague in 1989. I wasn’t there; Brian made me wish I had been and feel that maybe I was. lnkd.in/eqgeDpay
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 4d
Harold Edgerton, Cows and Flare at Stonehenge, 1944
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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 3d
Today is Brian O’Nolan’s (aka Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen et al) birthday.
With John Ryan, Anthony Cronin, Patrick Kavanagh & Tom Joyce (Bloomsday, Sandymount, 1954)
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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 4d
Late afternoon. More yellows than reds.
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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 4d
“In other words, Ms Levin is cut like a diamond in the rough, along the finest in the business. Her disc, Blackbird & Ancestors [Aldilá Records] is further proof of this fact. Listening to it over and over again is like dancing with genius.”

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 4d
Beth Levin: Blackbird & Ancestors - Jazz da Gama jazzdagama.com/music/beth-l...
a nice review yesterday....
Beth Levin: Blackbird & Ancestors - Jazz da Gama
Beth Levin is one of the most noble musicians to touch the piano. Not only is she one of the most prodigiously gifted, but she is also one of the best-trained, students in music [of course you have to...
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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 4d
“It is a sort of family, a very strange family. Most of my staff have been with me a very long time and we are very close. Eighty per cent of my customers are regulars and we are all close to each other. We help each other through everything. To be honest, I do not know what I would do without it.”
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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 4d
“On the road to the French house, Lesley performed with a python in cabaret before graduating to managing a strip club in Old Compton St in 1979, where admission cost 50p and senior customers brought sandwiches to stay all day.”

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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 4d
Oatcakes are very hard to find here, & insanely overpriced. So I order in bulk direct from Walker’s. I suppose the tariffs will kick the price up tho’.

But I really miss Lancashire cheese.
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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 4d
10 turkeys in the field. Never before have they seemed such a wholesome distraction.
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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 5d
Now I’m in Queens, I have to give a shout out to the International C-Town on 34th Ave. Not a big supermarket, but quite comprehensive & yes, some specialties. It’s really well run and the staff are great. Only wish it was closer to home.
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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 5d
This sucks. Steve’s was my just-round-the corner regular market for decades, & a neighbour of mine was still working there last time I saw him over the summer.
How about city mandates for fair rents for affordable supermarkets?
These are staples NYers need.
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Park Slopers rally after Steve’s 9th Street Market abruptly closes, urge affordable grocery replacement • Brooklyn Paper
After serving the Park Slope community for decades, Steve's 9th Street Supermarket between 5th and 6th avenues, shuttered permanently on Sept. 30 with little
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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 5d
Lovely interview with Alex Niemi, translator of THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, just up at @literaryhub.bsky.social . . . on "sonic suspense" and more!

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Alex Niemi on the Process of Translation and the Rhythm of Language
I’ve known Alex Niemi since 2012, when we both started a graduate program in literary translation at the University of Iowa. We co-edited our program’s literary translation journal, Exchanges, and …
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 5d
A new exhibition at the Mystic Seaport Museum reveals the oft-ignored ancestral knowledge and innovation that flow from Black and Indigenous communities’ sacred relationship to seafaring and artmaking.
The Sacred Waterways of Black and Indigenous Communities
An exhibition at the Mystic Seaport Museum takes visitors on a journey through centuries of interrelated traditions of seafaring and artmaking, revealing oft-ignored histories.
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 5d
absolutely fascinating piece from @smaldo.bsky.social today:
They Live Below Sea Level in NYC. Now, the City Could Buy Out 'The Hole'
The low-lying neighborhood on the Brooklyn-Queens border will be the first place in New York where officials may buy properties proactively — instead of in response to a disaster.
www.thecity.nyc
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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 5d
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
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WWF Scotland @wwfscotland.bsky.social · 5d
Just a few days until October’s full moon! This year it falls on the 7th & is sometimes called ‘Gealach a' Bhruic’ in Gaelic - the ‘Badger Moon’. Folklore says under the moonlight, badgers would gather grass, getting their setts ready for winter. 🌕

#DailyDoseOfNature #WildlifePhotography #Nature
A badger photographed in Scotland, on it's hind legs leaning against a tree and sniffing the bark. Framing the badger is a warm, golden glow and out of focus leaves.
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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 6d
After listening to Jay Bernard sing ‘Songbook’ every time I read it now I sing it too.
At 6:12 on the link below, but you really should listen to it all – they will give you goosebumps

#NationalPoetryDay
#poetry
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Jay Bernard reads from 'Surge'
YouTube video by T. S. Eliot Prize
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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 6d
Have been spending time with a solitary ring-necked pheasant. What a splendid bird it is. It’s stayed in the same patch of brush for a week at least, and it tolerates my presence as long as I’m not too close. Yesterday, a bit of excitement as an otter dashed by, heading straight for the pond.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 7d
We Apologise for the Unintended Relevance of this Poem
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 7d
For want o luve we live on hate,
For want o Heven praise the State,
For want o richts we worship rules,
For want o gods the glibbest fules…

—Sydney Goodsir Smith, “Prolegomenon: The Deevil’s Waltz”
in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS
#Scots #poem #poetry #Scotstober #richts
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Sydney Goodsir Smith Prolegomenon The Deevil’s Waltz Rin an rout, rin an rout, Mahoun gars us birl about, He skirls his pipes, he stamps his heel The globe’s gane gyte in a haliket reel. There, the statesman’s silken cheats, Here, the bairnless mither greits, There, a tyrant turns the screw, Here, twa luvers’ broken vows. Enemies out, enemies in, Truth a hure wi the pox gane blinn, Nou luvers’ lips deny luve’s name An get for breid a chuckie-stane, We kenna hert, we kenna heid, The deevil’s thirled baith quick an deid, Jehovah snores, and Christ himsel Lowps in the airms o Jezebel. The sweit that rins frae his thorned brou Is black as the staunan teats o his cou In the waltz o tears, an daith, an lies, Juliet’s fyled wi harlotries. O luve itsel at Hornie’s lauch Skeers lik a caunel i the draucht, The dance is on, the waltz o hell, The wund frae its fleean skirts is snell. It whups black storm frae lochan’s calm, Sets banshees in the house o dwaum, Gars black bluid spate the hert o me —An watters guid-sirs’ barley bree! A few damned feckless fanatics Wad halt the borneheid dance o Styx, Their cry o truth the whirlwind reaps, For pity’s deid, and mercy sleeps. Orpheus alane dow sauve frae deid His ravished Bride gin but she’d heed— Ay, truth an luve like Albyn’s life Hing wi a threid, kissed be a knife. Ilk derkenin owre some huddered toun The pipes an fiddles screich an boom, The cauldron’s steered by Maestro Nick Wi a sanct’s shin-bane for parritch-stick. He lauchs his lauch, the angels greit Wi joy as they dine on carrion meat; Ablow, bumbazed, dumfounered cods, We seek the starns in dubs an bogs. Oor ingyne’s deaved, oor mous are shut, Oor saul contract like a runkled nut, Een cannae see the trees for the wuid An hert is cauld for want o bluid. For want o luve we live on hate, For want o Heven praise the State, For want o richts we worship rules, For want o gods the glibbest fules. Obey, Obey; ye maunna spier! (Libertie’s disjaskit lear!) While Cloutie pipes it’s crime tae think, —It’s taxed e’en higher nor the drink! O, rin an rout, we birl about, Tae the rhythm o the Deil’s jack-boot, Black as auld widdie-fruit, Mahoun Bestrides a kenless mappamound.
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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 8d
A little time out.
Fall view in New England. Fallen leaves, shadows & a meadow in the distance. More leaves on the ground. Shades of yellow, brown and green. Shadows of tree trunks in the foreground.
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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 10d
Stephen King on Daphne du Maurier.
‘She wrote the best first line – and the most chilling stories’: Stephen King on the dark brilliance of Daphne du Maurier
From Rebecca to The Birds and scores of creepy short stories, Du Maurier was queen of the uncanny, writes the US horror maestro
www.theguardian.com
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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 9d
Perfect.
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New York Shitty @newyorkshitty.bsky.social · 9d
Lol
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Dan Przygoda @dprzygoda.bsky.social · 9d
I did it. I added some Keystone Cops music to this:
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