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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 16h

Everything about reading is good.
Grégoire Borst, Full Professor of Developmental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience of Education at Université Paris Descartes, speaks to Eve Irvine who, as it happens, is from my home town!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9hd...

How books shape minds and societies, building cognitive resilience and civic mindedness

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English

www.youtube.com

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you for sharing this!

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Grave Boneyard @dconrad.bsky.social · 15h

It's like what some guy is alleged to have said over in the near east a couple thousand years ago, "what you have done for the least of these..."

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 16h

I'm reading Judith Butler's "Antigone's Claim. Kinship Between Life and Death". It's interesting, I like it but somehow I had a wrong idea of it and I think I have to read it again with a bit of distance to truly do it justice.
Strange, isn't it, how expectations can hinder understanding.

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 16h

Reading inspiration:
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Don Cthulhurren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 20h

What’s everyone #reading this weekend?
#books #BookSky

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · 23h

Wer mal in der Nähe von Jamlitz ist, denen sei der Besuch des Dokumentationsstätte und des Gedenkorts KZ-Außenlager Lieberose nahegelegt. Beklemmend, auch deshalb weil es wie so viele ähnliche Stätten zeigt, alle haben es wissen können. Sie haben es nicht wissen wollen.

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 2d

Francesca Albanese's 3 reports for the UN can be read here (free e-book) :

A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness - Pluto Press

A devastating indictment against international complicity in Israel’s genocide in Palestine

www.plutobooks.com

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 1d

... oriental principles of composition: high horizon, flattened space and asymmetry. The generalised handling of the landscape and the use of thin paint anticipate his first nocturnes."

(image, quote, more info see link above)

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 1d

"Whistler spent six months in Chile in 1866 at the time of a brief confrontation between Chile and Spain. (...) His extended stay led to important breakthroughs in his art. This painting and its related Valparaiso views are the first in which Whistler incorporated ...

University of Glasgow Collections

www.gla.ac.uk

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 1d

JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER
(1834-1903, born in Lowell/Massachusetts, died in London)

The Morning after the Revolution, Valparaíso, 1866

Painting of a harbour with boats, it has a sketch-like quality. Some boats and the people on the pier are just like hinted at, there presence doesn't feel manifest. Maybe more like a hazy memory.

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 1d

We published the open access paper “Genocidal Surveillant Assemblage in Palestine: A Socio-Legal Analysis,” by Mais Qandeel and Özgün Erdener Topak, as part of the forum “Gaza: International Humanitarian Law and Genocide,” on October 8, 2025.
tinyurl.com/mr3272ut

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much for sharing this, what a lovely image and story!

Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 1d

Free to read and download:

"The Giraffe as the Mythical Qilin in Chinese Art: A Painting and a Rank Badge in the Metropolitan Museum" - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

www.metmuseum.org

Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 1d

I wanted to know a bit more about this giraffe and found a short article by James C.Y. Watt:

"The Giraffe as the Mythical Qilin in Chinese Art: A Painting and a Rank Badge in the Metropolitan Museum" (2008)

It was gifted to Ming-emperor Yongle in 1414 by the king of Bengal.

XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social · 1d

When a giraffe arrived at the Ming(1368–1644) court after Zheng He’s first voyage, Emperor Zhu Di saw not an exotic beast but the long-dreamed Qilin, a herald of peace and prosperity in Chinese mythology.
The reticulated Somali giraffe, with its towering neck and patterned hide, 1/2

《瑞應麒麟圖(It reads 'An auspicious painting of Qilin', :) )》明沈度

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 1d

... the library of Oberlin College points out:

" (...) Most editorial pieces are not subjected to the same rigorous fact-checking standards as those presented in news reporting (...)"

I didn't know, however, nor would I have imagined that this laissez-faire attitude would allow authors to ...

LibGuides: Evaluating Popular Non-fiction and News: Is this source reliable? Facts

libguides.oberlin.edu

Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 1d

I just learned that opinion pieces generally aren't fact-checked in Ger. newspapers, especially when written by non-journalists. I wish I had known that earlier!

Apparently, it's similar in Anglophone newspapers as ...

Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 1d

Es ist leider so, dass kaum ein Medium Meinungsbeiträge factcheckt - und in diesem Fall ist auch klar, dass die Autoren keine Journalisten sind. Trotzdem ärgerlich.

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 1d

Das ist dann wohl der "Vorteil" von Meinungsbeiträgen. D.h. da kann jemand einfach schreiben, was er will, solange es der Redaktion gefällt, auch wenn es - leicht überprüfbar - inhaltlich nicht stimmt. Das sind ja dann völlig wertlose Beiträge, warum sollte das jemand lesen?!

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 1d

PS: You put it so well, that's what I love about him, too!

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I couldn't live without some form of Social Media any more! I "discover" so much here, just thanked Shiva Balaghi because I think I know Hyperallergic because of her. It starts to resemble the other site in a positive way where everyone shared what they love.

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't know any of this, thank you for writing it! It's very well possible that I know of Hyperallergic because of you, so thanks again!

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 1d

Fact-checking ist out, oder was, @taz.de ?

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 1d

A man stares out over the fertile olive groves of Gaza, ca. 1911.

One of 125 photographs of life in Palestine before the British Mandate, ca. 1896–1919, we gathered from the collections of @librarycongress.bsky.social and others: publicdomainreview.org/collection/p...

A stereoscopic photograph showing a man in traditional dress standing among prickly pear cacti on a hillside, overlooking the cultivated fields and scattered trees of Gaza, Palestine. The landscape stretches into the distance with the town visible on the horizon. Published by Underwood & Underwood around the early 20th century.

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · 2d

It seems absolutely insane to me to read so much news about the ceasefire while Gaza is still being bombed and Palestinians there are being killed. Also, I don't believe in conversations that do not include accountability for a genocide. All of this feels absolutely dystopian.

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 2d

... Naples. Mount Vesuvius features frequently as a marvel of nature, both for its haunting presence as an active volcano and for the fertility it brings to the surrounding soil. In addition, this fan contains a depiction of Virgil's Tomb."

A bit more here:

Anonymous, Italian, 18th century - Fan Design with Views of Mount Vesuvius and the Tomb of Virgil - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

www.metmuseum.org

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 2d

Fans like this one were tourist souvenirs for the upper class youngsters on their Grand Tour on the continent:

"A veritable industry of souvenirs was built to cater to the tastes of these early tourists. Hand-painted fans, like this one, commemorate the landscape and historic sites around ...

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