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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 5h

Tintarella di luna

Tall trees with copper leaves against a dark grey sky with light, luminous grey clouds and a full moon behind them. The top of a chimney can be seen in between moon and tree.

Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 4d

During the military dictatorship in Brazil, Stendhal’s The Red and the Black (1830) was seized by censors looking for subversive literature (red = communist) 🤷‍♀️

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 5d

moonlight

Moon over group of silhouetted trees. Tiny lights appear to the left of a sculptural dead tree.

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 7d

Five swans

Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 8d

International Translation Day. St Jerome is tired and being told to reconsider his career choices.

Olivier Roth @olivierroth.bsky.social · 8d

En cette journée mondiale de la traduction, Saint Jérôme, fatigué, se demande s'il doit commander des fleurs ou une couronne. À ses pieds, ChatGPT lui suggère de se reconvertir dans l'immobilier.
(Crédit photo : James Bradley)

Statue en marbre de Saint Jérôme, lion et crâne à ses pieds, tenant un parchemin.

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 12d

fox, turning away

Blurry, almost abstract night picture with a reddish-brown shape on green

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 13d

This made me v v happy (plus opening hours that work for me)

David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 13d

Two of my favourite places are about to become one favourite place: www.hardens.com/uk-london/25...

Nose-to-tail browsing comes to Bloomsbury

Two London institutions combine next week with the opening of a new café from the St John stable at the London Review Bookshop, around the corner from the British Museum in Bloomsbury.</p>

www.hardens.com

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 14d

And here’s @badaude.bsky.social’s book, a very good read!

Book on a train seat: Amateurs! How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters, Joanna Walsh

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 14d

During their strictly controlled leisure time, watch factory workers buy and swap postcards of anarchists who are glamorous as today’s film stars. Photography going from surveillance to resistance, anarchists becoming objects of commercial exchange 2/3 tinyurl.com/yn5f8ckj

TRAILER - Unrest (2022)

New technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland. Josephine, a young factory worker, produces the unrest wheel, swinging in the heart of the mechanical watch. Exposed t...

tinyurl.com

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 14d

In her new book on internet culture, @badaude.bsky.social discusses the use of photography as facial recognition technology during the Paris Commune. It reminded me of Schäublin’s exceptional film Unrest, following Kropotkin’s 1877 visit to a Swiss village transformed by capitalism and anarchy 1/3

I'd add that portrait photography was also used as a nine-teenth-century FRT (facial recognition technology). In the first state-sponsored large-scale photo-portrait project in France, arresting officers captured the faces of revolutionaries during the 1871 Paris Commune, ensuring they could be recaptured if their identities ever went viral on the contemporary media net-works of daily papers. These photographs were not produced or received as works of art, but they were aesthetic. In a time when a selfie was a once-in-a-lifetime privilege, communards had their best clothes brought to jail for their (literal) photo shoots.
The same impulse that led me to mess around with my Al image led to many rearrests.

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Tom Phillips @tomphillips.bsky.social · 17d

“Huge crowds packed the squares and beaches of some of Brazil’s biggest cities to voice their opposition to rightwing endeavors to help Bolsonaro escape jail for his failed power grab”

Brazilians protest in their thousands against granting Bolsonaro amnesty

Huge crowds pack the streets to oppose endeavours to help ex-president escape jail

www.theguardian.com

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 17d

Absolutely! The spacious separateness of the first three syllables falling into the softening and slowing down of the middle ones, the ending gently disappearing into thin air, an inbuilt pause after it, so so pleasing. Enough to fall in love with language :)

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 17d

Those five syllables, per-di-da-men-te, their final ‘e’ merging seamlessly with the initial ‘e’ of e-na-mo-ra-do, walking you through meaning and experience… Perfect words.

Twitter/X post by @springpard reads ‘I'm sorry that English lacks the expression "perdidamente enamorado": lostly in love. You could say "madly in love", but it doesn't have the same ring. It reminds me to the 17th c. French analogies to love: drowned in the Sea of Passion, lost in the Forest of Love’.

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 17d

Fab news and fab place, huge congrats! 🥂

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 21d

Never mind the ruby-necklace-gifting ritual — Patricia Lockwood sang, beautifully and unprompted (reasons to attend book launches, occasional series) @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk

The Conway Hall’s audience seen from above. A LRB rests on the viewer’s lap.

Patricia Lockwood blindfolds the event’s interviewer.

Lockwood leads the blindfolded man to the expecting members of the audience, by now standing right in front of the stage.

Lockwood gifts the necklace to the winner, a very tall man.

Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 22d

The Fall of Civilisation

Kenneth Clark’s book Civilisation on a pavement, resting against concrete, weeds, and black metal.

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 27d

Guilty

Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 27d

At 2pm (GMT -3) Justice Cármen Lúcia will begin her vote in the trial of the coup plotters.

If she votes in favor of conviction, the Supreme Federal Court will form a MAJORITY to convict Bolsonaro and his allies

ERIKA HILTON @erikahilton.bsky.social · 27d

🚨 Em breve, às 14h de hoje, a ministra Cármen Lúcia dará início ao seu voto no julgamento dos golpistas.

Caso ela vote a favor da condenação, o Supremo Tribunal Federal formará MAIORIA para condenar Bolsonaro e seus aliados.

Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 27d

At 2pm (GMT -3) Justice Cármen Lúcia will begin her vote in the trial of the coup plotters.

If she votes in favor of conviction, the Supreme Federal Court will form a MAJORITY to convict Bolsonaro and his allies

ERIKA HILTON @erikahilton.bsky.social · 27d

🚨 Em breve, às 14h de hoje, a ministra Cármen Lúcia dará início ao seu voto no julgamento dos golpistas.

Caso ela vote a favor da condenação, o Supremo Tribunal Federal formará MAIORIA para condenar Bolsonaro e seus aliados.

Foto da ministra Cármen Lúcia encarando o ministro Luiz Fux enquanto aponta, com o dedo, seu próprio olho

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 29d

Ha, thanks! Good to learn the need for bookmarks is not universal :)

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · 29d

I know, but not all is bleak — now we have bookmarks!!

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · Sep 8

Covid messes up with your immune system, making you more susceptible to secondary infections, could be that 🤞 The likelihood of Long Covid unfortunately increases with each infection. Resting/avoiding exercise really essential during & after the acute phase. Probiotics wouldn’t hurt. All the best!

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · Sep 7

‘If you do not have a compatible device, you’ll still be informed ... The emergency services have other ways to warn you when there is a threat to life.

Emergency Alerts will not replace local news, radio, television or social media’ 2/2

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · Sep 7

Yes! It doesn’t disable connectivity like airplane mode. Found this: ‘Not all devices will receive the alert. Older phones or those not connected to 4G or 5G networks may not be compatible with the system’ 1/2

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · Sep 7

I didn’t get it last time because Airplane mode was on. Today I made sure it wasn’t and it worked. There might be other glitches and, if so, I hope they’ll sort it!

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Vania Schiff @vaniaschiff.bsky.social · Sep 7

First catch your cloud and carefully place it on top of your chosen artwork 2/2

A puff of cloud comes out of the shiny metal pole that intersects a half-raised, unmade bed in Richard Dean Hughes’s sculpture Under a Painted Ceiling

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