JJ Merelo
@jjmerelo.bsky.social
Student of a BA in Art History by day, professor by another day.
Venetophile
Posts in English, Italian and Spanish.
Venetophile
Posts in English, Italian and Spanish.
Let’s go back to Denver (figuratively, I don’t see any good reason for going to the USA in the foreseeable future, to check out this, can you see where where it got its inspiration? It’s the Daniels and Fisher tower, that was built in 1911 as a simple milestone that marked a department store.
December 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Let’s go back to Denver (figuratively, I don’t see any good reason for going to the USA in the foreseeable future, to check out this, can you see where where it got its inspiration? It’s the Daniels and Fisher tower, that was built in 1911 as a simple milestone that marked a department store.
I managed to get in a retirement home that, managed by the Brotherhood of the Charity and Refuge, has inherited many works of art from the 17th century. I showed the building the other day, it’s a modernist work by Wilhelmi, a local architect. But this painting and others are something else.
December 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I managed to get in a retirement home that, managed by the Brotherhood of the Charity and Refuge, has inherited many works of art from the 17th century. I showed the building the other day, it’s a modernist work by Wilhelmi, a local architect. But this painting and others are something else.
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Winter sunlight illuminating the tower of Southwark Cathedral this morning. Here Shakespeare buried his younger brother Edmund, an actor aged just twenty-seven in December 1607, at the cost of twenty shillings “with a forenoone knell of the great bell.”
December 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Winter sunlight illuminating the tower of Southwark Cathedral this morning. Here Shakespeare buried his younger brother Edmund, an actor aged just twenty-seven in December 1607, at the cost of twenty shillings “with a forenoone knell of the great bell.”
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This was… expected
Europe’s hydrogen dream has swallowed €20bn with little to show for it
Europe’s hydrogen dream has swallowed €20bn with little to show for it
Despite generous subsidies, electrolyser numbers fall short of targets by a factor of 20
dlvr.it
December 2, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This was… expected
We’ve talked about stations several times before, and this one, Union Station in Denver, Colorado, USA, stands on its own. Built, as recorded in the side, in 1880. It’s got a clock, t’s got high arched windows, but this is America so a bit of neon can’t hurt. It’s now become, since recently, a hotel
December 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
We’ve talked about stations several times before, and this one, Union Station in Denver, Colorado, USA, stands on its own. Built, as recorded in the side, in 1880. It’s got a clock, t’s got high arched windows, but this is America so a bit of neon can’t hurt. It’s now become, since recently, a hotel
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
A “memento morí” that includes a copy of a “Gisant” or effigy originally created by Arnolfo di Cambio, a Tuscan sculptor in the 13th century.
The frame is Baroque, however. The “golden eggs” are the Chigi symbol, from Alexander VII, who intervened in Saint John of Letran in the 17th century
The frame is Baroque, however. The “golden eggs” are the Chigi symbol, from Alexander VII, who intervened in Saint John of Letran in the 17th century
November 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
A “memento morí” that includes a copy of a “Gisant” or effigy originally created by Arnolfo di Cambio, a Tuscan sculptor in the 13th century.
The frame is Baroque, however. The “golden eggs” are the Chigi symbol, from Alexander VII, who intervened in Saint John of Letran in the 17th century
The frame is Baroque, however. The “golden eggs” are the Chigi symbol, from Alexander VII, who intervened in Saint John of Letran in the 17th century
And owl mystery solved. It's simply a decoy to scare away pigeons and others www.bauhaus.es/repelentes-p... Someone placed it there to avoid them taking over the niche. Maybe there was something there before, maybe not, who knows. Thanks to Reddit user becs1932 www.reddit.com/r/askarthist...
November 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
And owl mystery solved. It's simply a decoy to scare away pigeons and others www.bauhaus.es/repelentes-p... Someone placed it there to avoid them taking over the niche. Maybe there was something there before, maybe not, who knows. Thanks to Reddit user becs1932 www.reddit.com/r/askarthist...
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$1.6bln: The amount of his fraud scheme
7: Years of his sentence
10,000: Victims of his fraud
1,000: Letters from victims to the court
13: Days he served
1: Pardon from Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
7: Years of his sentence
10,000: Victims of his fraud
1,000: Letters from victims to the court
13: Days he served
1: Pardon from Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
$1.6bln: The amount of his fraud scheme
7: Years of his sentence
10,000: Victims of his fraud
1,000: Letters from victims to the court
13: Days he served
1: Pardon from Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
7: Years of his sentence
10,000: Victims of his fraud
1,000: Letters from victims to the court
13: Days he served
1: Pardon from Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
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Hungary must immediately be stripped of their EU voting rights.
Hungary rejects EU push for media pluralism
Hungary broke ranks on Friday, rejecting the Council’s conclusions on access to reliable, free media, arguing that the EU is overstepping its authority and interfering in media freedom.
Hungary broke ranks on Friday, rejecting the Council’s conclusions on access to reliable, free media, arguing that the EU is overstepping its authority and interfering in media freedom.
Hungary rejects EU push for media pluralism
Hungary broke ranks on Friday, rejecting the Council’s conclusions on access to reliable, free media, arguing that the EU is overstepping its authority and interfering in media freedom.
www.euractiv.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Hungary must immediately be stripped of their EU voting rights.
While on an errand, I remembered this building a bit off the way and returned to take some pictures. It’s the Carmen de los Alarifes, and it was built in 1938, during the civil War, by the architect Francisco Prieto Moreno, a rather prolific architect in the city of Granada.
November 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
While on an errand, I remembered this building a bit off the way and returned to take some pictures. It’s the Carmen de los Alarifes, and it was built in 1938, during the civil War, by the architect Francisco Prieto Moreno, a rather prolific architect in the city of Granada.
Larry Wall has answered to an issue in #rakulang @gellyfish.uk opened in 2021... github.com/Raku/doc/iss...
Make the role of "leap seconds" more obvious in DateTime and Instant · Issue #3881 · Raku/doc
There was a question on Facebook where the poster was surprised that for a range of given date times the DateTime.Instant.Int varied from the perl DateTime->epoch by an increasing amount. Having lo...
github.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Larry Wall has answered to an issue in #rakulang @gellyfish.uk opened in 2021... github.com/Raku/doc/iss...
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Gloom. Despair. Agony. Illustration from America: A Prophecy in 1795 but very current sentiment as well. By William Blake, born on this day in 1757.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Gloom. Despair. Agony. Illustration from America: A Prophecy in 1795 but very current sentiment as well. By William Blake, born on this day in 1757.
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www.tumblr.com/ymutate/8014...
William Blake, 1757
Satan in his original glory: "You were perfect until evil was found in you. "Pen, ink and watercolor on paper, c 1805.
William Blake, 1757
Satan in his original glory: "You were perfect until evil was found in you. "Pen, ink and watercolor on paper, c 1805.
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
www.tumblr.com/ymutate/8014...
William Blake, 1757
Satan in his original glory: "You were perfect until evil was found in you. "Pen, ink and watercolor on paper, c 1805.
William Blake, 1757
Satan in his original glory: "You were perfect until evil was found in you. "Pen, ink and watercolor on paper, c 1805.
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Just 10k signatures needed now
Just 13k more signatures and the call for a public inquiry into Russian interference has to be debate in Parliament
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Just 10k signatures needed now
I found this while tagging pictures from 2016 and I couldn’t resist; the combination of message, urban decay and classicist decoration makes it a ready-made work of art in the style of Duchamp. And it all looks designed: someone didn’t want random people to sit on their garage or storage local.
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I found this while tagging pictures from 2016 and I couldn’t resist; the combination of message, urban decay and classicist decoration makes it a ready-made work of art in the style of Duchamp. And it all looks designed: someone didn’t want random people to sit on their garage or storage local.
It was sunny August when I visited Olten for a #rakulang workshop; it’s a picture-perfect town, as most in Switzerland are, and this is one of the features: the Rathskeller, a typical restaurant. I think we had a few drinks there, but I want to focus today on the art and architecture.
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
It was sunny August when I visited Olten for a #rakulang workshop; it’s a picture-perfect town, as most in Switzerland are, and this is one of the features: the Rathskeller, a typical restaurant. I think we had a few drinks there, but I want to focus today on the art and architecture.
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“I told the president that the Russian Federation has always wanted a peace deal. That's my belief," - Steve Witkoff
November 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“I told the president that the Russian Federation has always wanted a peace deal. That's my belief," - Steve Witkoff
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Putin is a child murderer
⚡️ A 12-year-old girl wounded in Russia’s strike on Ternopil has died in the hospital.
Her death brings the toll to 35 people killed in the attack, including seven children.
🧵 1/3 ⬇️
Her death brings the toll to 35 people killed in the attack, including seven children.
🧵 1/3 ⬇️
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Putin is a child murderer
BTW, the press revealed most of that years ago, and he’s kept his seat at the Parliament, initially as socialist, then as non-ascribed but always voting with the socialists, and even now he keeps his status, although he can’t vote from jail or will be receiving his wage.
Transport minister, general secretary of the party in power, and best buddy with current prime minister.
Also sugar daddy for many women for whom he got plush jobs in government or government enterprises, host to the illegal visit of the Venezuelan foreign minister and oh so many things…
Also sugar daddy for many women for whom he got plush jobs in government or government enterprises, host to the illegal visit of the Venezuelan foreign minister and oh so many things…
Spain’s Supreme Court ordered lawmaker and former Public Works and Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos to be jailed without bond today after deeming him a flight risk ahead of his corruption trial.
November 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
BTW, the press revealed most of that years ago, and he’s kept his seat at the Parliament, initially as socialist, then as non-ascribed but always voting with the socialists, and even now he keeps his status, although he can’t vote from jail or will be receiving his wage.
Transport minister, general secretary of the party in power, and best buddy with current prime minister.
Also sugar daddy for many women for whom he got plush jobs in government or government enterprises, host to the illegal visit of the Venezuelan foreign minister and oh so many things…
Also sugar daddy for many women for whom he got plush jobs in government or government enterprises, host to the illegal visit of the Venezuelan foreign minister and oh so many things…
Spain’s Supreme Court ordered lawmaker and former Public Works and Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos to be jailed without bond today after deeming him a flight risk ahead of his corruption trial.
Judge jails former Spanish minister ahead of trial, deepening deadlock in parliament
The imprisonment of José Luis Ábalos makes it virtually impossible for Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to pass legislation.
www.politico.eu
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Transport minister, general secretary of the party in power, and best buddy with current prime minister.
Also sugar daddy for many women for whom he got plush jobs in government or government enterprises, host to the illegal visit of the Venezuelan foreign minister and oh so many things…
Also sugar daddy for many women for whom he got plush jobs in government or government enterprises, host to the illegal visit of the Venezuelan foreign minister and oh so many things…
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Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face
Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face
Term was up against a shortlist including Ozempic face, blind box, ate (and left no crumbs) and Roman Empire
AI slop is here, it’s ubiquitous, it’s being used by US president Donald Trump and now, it’s the word of the year.
The Macquarie Dictionary dubbed the term the epitome of 2025 linguistics, with a committee of word experts saying the outcome embodies the word of the year’s general theme of reflecting “a major aspect of society or societal change throughout the year”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face
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Amazing in every way: Altarpiece of St. Vincent Ferrer, church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice. 1464. Paintings by Giovanni Bellini, whose day is today. Enframement also more than A+!
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Amazing in every way: Altarpiece of St. Vincent Ferrer, church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice. 1464. Paintings by Giovanni Bellini, whose day is today. Enframement also more than A+!
What’s in a painting? Depends on who you ask, there are materials, pigments, or color, design, shapes… and there are also symbols and what they mean. And this particular painting, a fresco by Ghirlandaio, the Florentine artist, in the Tornabuoni Chapel in Santa Maria Novella, made history.
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
What’s in a painting? Depends on who you ask, there are materials, pigments, or color, design, shapes… and there are also symbols and what they mean. And this particular painting, a fresco by Ghirlandaio, the Florentine artist, in the Tornabuoni Chapel in Santa Maria Novella, made history.
This is the Polytechnic building of the university of Granada that hosts a few engineering degrees, from environmental to civil. It’s relatively new, built this century, and has rotational symmetry, with most features interchangeable if you rotate it 90º. I can’t help but think of the Pantheon.
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This is the Polytechnic building of the university of Granada that hosts a few engineering degrees, from environmental to civil. It’s relatively new, built this century, and has rotational symmetry, with most features interchangeable if you rotate it 90º. I can’t help but think of the Pantheon.