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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 1d

Enrico Fermi
Francis Ford Coppola

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 1d

What an absurdly wonderful object

Ozma was at ACFI, you just missed sher @ozmaracc.bsky.social · 2d

The 1992 Columbus minivan, which I think is more of a maxivan and looks malformed, but it's Italian

A photo of a very odd 2 chamber minivan with a separate, upper chamber for just the driver seat

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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 2d

Enrico Fermi. No one else even close. An actual Italian-American, unlike Columbus. Like Einstein, Fermi was one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time. Unlike Einstein, he was also one of the greatest hands-on experimentalists of all time. Total badass. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_...

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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 1d

"If millions of Americans are feeling that — and I agree that they are — shouldn’t it get some news coverage?"

"...But instead, we still are encouraged to plumb the depths of Trump voters’ brains. Their feelings. Over and over again."

The media is largely ignoring the trauma of millions. Here's why.

Plus: Watch George Stephanopolous pushes JD Vance with follow-up questions, cringe at Bari Weiss's pep talk to CBS journalists; and more

margaretsullivan.substack.com

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

When I explain this to friends overseas I say: “in order to do a stupid Brexit we had to have a stupidly government. So they threw every clever person out of the party.”

Do you remember when they TOOK THE WHIP FROM KEN CLARKE?

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool on.ft.com/4qarx21 | opinion

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool

The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

on.ft.com

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure its largely myt fault, to be frank -- but thanks!

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 1d

Well fuck that for a game of soldiers

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James Felix Black @tft.io · 2d

For some reason, "propitiate the dromedary" is a phrase that is now stuck in my brain.

James Felix Black @tft.io · 2d

The traditional Canadian Thanksgiving propitiation of the dromedary

A photo of me, large bearded white guy, feeding a dromedary

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 2d

Despite SJ not running the Berlin-Hamburg-Stockholm night train any more from August 2026, the German company that owns the carriages - RDC - intends to continue on its own www.rdc-deutschland.de/de/presse/pr...

Still some open questions, but this is good news! #CrossBorderRail

RDC Deutschland wird Nachtzug Berlin Stockholm fortführen

Auch nach Ende der staatlichen Förderung in Schweden wird das Unternehmen die etablierte Verbindung weiter anbieten. Während sich die europäische Nachtzuglandschaft im Wandel befindet, setzt die RDC D...

www.rdc-deutschland.de

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 3d

From lunchtime. Several kestrels flying about and hunting

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

I have no issue with people marking the centenary of the birth of someone no longer alive. But wishing THEM Happy Birthday is weird by any measure.

On which note, Happy Birthday to the very much alive Nana Mouskouri!

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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EdinburghGary @photoscotland.bsky.social · 3d

Arthurs Seat, Edinburgh. Almost exactly 10 miles from where I was standing. Gotta love perspective compression 📸

#Photography #Nikon

Arthurs Seat, Edinburgh. Sunrise out of frame to the left with golden light hitting Edinburgh. Distant panoramic.

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Bill Higgins-- Retired Beam Jockey @beamjockey.bsky.social · 2d

New Bic 4-Color pens!

You know how the company's logo includes a little person with a big pen and a ballpoint head?

In this latest variation, a tiny silhouette of the character is molded into the handle.

Reminds me of that Dustin Hoffman movie from the Seventies.
You remember—Little Bic Man?

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 2d

I do hope all this adulation doesn’t alter President Trump’s gracious and unassuming character…

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 3d

I saw ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER at the Alamo Drafthouse last night,, which is probably the most dads who've ever been at a PTA meeting.

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 3d

That said: the coffee shop advertising its use a) offers to make the same coffee with and without this technology allowing you to do a blinded trial
b) makes fucking amazing coffee without recourse to this technology

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 3d

ncidentally came across this set of ideas this morning
events.humanitix.com/making-waves...

Making Waves: Coffee Reimagined with Apax & Waved Tech

Discover the power of the Waved technology when applied to coffee.

events.humanitix.com

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 3d

I agree, but the principle of the conservation of ire suggest we would be better place invesing it elsewhere

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 3d

Have you ever listened to "Cabin Pressure"?

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Jason Good 🌻 🇺🇦 @jasongood.bsky.social · 3d

That’s two right decisions in a row.

God help us next week 🫣

#strictly

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 3d

Ik twijfel nog over mijn stem, maar vandaag heb ik van iemand gehoord dat Frans Timmermans een vieze vuile kankerjood is en dat is voor mij een sterke argument om voor GL-PvdA te kiezen www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Anti-asielbetoging loopt toch uit de hand: aanhoudingen, vuurwerk en omgegooide scooters. ‘Kankerhoeren’ en ‘landverraders’

Demonstratie: Ook de tweede anti-asieldemonstratie in korte tijd is uit de hand gelopen. Na de Malieveldrellen werd het ook gewelddadig in Amsterdam, terwijl de betoging aanvankelijk kalm begon. Ieman...

www.nrc.nl

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James Felix Black @tft.io · 3d

Fucking awesome

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 7d

Stravinsky saw Charlie Parker play at Birdland

club of all time by performing for Igor Stravinsky at Birdland. Alfred Appel tells it definitively in his book Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce:
The house was almost full, even before the opening set - Billy Taylor's piano trio - except for the conspicuous empty table to my right, which bore a RESERVED sign, unusual for Birdland.
After the pianist finished his forty-five-minute set, a party of four men and a woman settled in at the table, rather clamorously, three waiters swooping in quickly to take their orders as a ripple of whispers and exclamations ran through Birdland at the sight of one of the men, Igor Stravinsky. He was a celebrity, and an icon to jazz fans because he sanctified modern jazz by composing Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his Orchestra (1946) - a Covarrubias
"Impossible Interview" come true.
As Parker's quintet walked onto the bandstand, trumpeter Red Rodney recognized Stravinsky, front and almost center. Rodney leaned over and told Parker, who did not look at Stravinsky.
Parker immediately called the first number for his band, and, forgoing the customary greeting to the crowd, was off like a shot. At the sound of the opening notes, played in unison by trumpet and alto, a chill went up and down the back of my neck.
They were playing "Koko, which, because of its epochal breakneck tempo
- over three hundred beats per minute on the metronome - Parker never assayed before his second set, when he was sufficiently warmed up. Parker's phrases were flying as fluently as ever on this particular daunting "Koko." At the beginning of his second chorus he interpolated the opening of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite as though it had always been there, a perfect fit, and then sailed on with the rest of the number. Stravinsky roared with delight, pounding his glass on the table, the upward arc of the glass sending its liquor and ice cubes onto the people behind him, who threw up their hands or ducked.
Parker didn't just happen to…

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 3d

I'd never get in the way of that...

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