Elizabeth James
@lizijames.bsky.social
I like books, but not just any books.
I eschew disregard of the shared path etiquette.
Too far east is west.
Equal opportunist.
I eschew disregard of the shared path etiquette.
Too far east is west.
Equal opportunist.
Pinned
Elizabeth James
@lizijames.bsky.social
· Feb 13
"Humanity now stands alone and alienated in the limitless universe. Bereft of parents and far from home, each of us has now to become a center unto himself or herself, and find the spiritual strength to hang unsupported in the void, drawing support from within not from without."
Arthur Zajonc
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Arthur Zajonc
🌌
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Happy Winter Solstice to all of you.
Only six months now before the day start getting shorter again.
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Only six months now before the day start getting shorter again.
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December 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Happy Winter Solstice to all of you.
Only six months now before the day start getting shorter again.
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(Please see next post before replying.)
Only six months now before the day start getting shorter again.
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(Please see next post before replying.)
Gawd bless the Online Safety Act* 🥳 ~
To wit: 🤬Sorry, this content is not available in your region🤬
*and laws of that ilk
To wit: 🤬Sorry, this content is not available in your region🤬
*and laws of that ilk
December 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Gawd bless the Online Safety Act* 🥳 ~
To wit: 🤬Sorry, this content is not available in your region🤬
*and laws of that ilk
To wit: 🤬Sorry, this content is not available in your region🤬
*and laws of that ilk
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‘The White House says the Trump administration is the "most transparent in history"’
Well, there’s no doubt we can all see through it.
Well, there’s no doubt we can all see through it.
December 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
‘The White House says the Trump administration is the "most transparent in history"’
Well, there’s no doubt we can all see through it.
Well, there’s no doubt we can all see through it.
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Textures of the desert…
From recent trip to the Emirates.
From recent trip to the Emirates.
December 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Textures of the desert…
From recent trip to the Emirates.
From recent trip to the Emirates.
Aside from their immediate impact, there are implications: "due to their composition, these cables could persist in the environment for more than 600 years" 😔
bou.org.uk/blog-morelan...
bou.org.uk/blog-morelan...
December 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Aside from their immediate impact, there are implications: "due to their composition, these cables could persist in the environment for more than 600 years" 😔
bou.org.uk/blog-morelan...
bou.org.uk/blog-morelan...
They asked him some pretty interesting questions.
And what a dream job!
And what a dream job!
December 20, 2025 at 11:07 AM
They asked him some pretty interesting questions.
And what a dream job!
And what a dream job!
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Yorkie under trees
December 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Yorkie under trees
Stuff that can swirl thru my mind in the wee, small hours, neatly &comprehensively stated.
The torn web of life needs more than random patching up.
#swifts #insects #UrbanPlanning
open.substack.com/pub/protectt...
The torn web of life needs more than random patching up.
#swifts #insects #UrbanPlanning
open.substack.com/pub/protectt...
Mandatory swift boxes under consideration?
Even if they were, providing nesting sites would be just part of reversing huge declines
open.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Stuff that can swirl thru my mind in the wee, small hours, neatly &comprehensively stated.
The torn web of life needs more than random patching up.
#swifts #insects #UrbanPlanning
open.substack.com/pub/protectt...
The torn web of life needs more than random patching up.
#swifts #insects #UrbanPlanning
open.substack.com/pub/protectt...
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Those who compare AI with the Industrial Revolution only know about the Industrial Revolution from AI.
Oh no the Governor of the Bank of England compared AI to the Industrial Revolution
December 19, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Those who compare AI with the Industrial Revolution only know about the Industrial Revolution from AI.
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“Climate action” is just another way to say “we want our beautiful complex planet to continue to be a good place to live, and to continue to be both beautiful and complex”. So much climate damage comes from assuming that Earth is simple, that it is easy to control and that it will bend to our will.
December 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
“Climate action” is just another way to say “we want our beautiful complex planet to continue to be a good place to live, and to continue to be both beautiful and complex”. So much climate damage comes from assuming that Earth is simple, that it is easy to control and that it will bend to our will.
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Out now – fully open access 🎉
The ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion is one of the most significant developments in international climate law. ⚖️🌍
This new volume shows why – and explores its implications for global climate governance.
Get your free copy here:
👉 verfassungsblog.de/book/the-icj...
The ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion is one of the most significant developments in international climate law. ⚖️🌍
This new volume shows why – and explores its implications for global climate governance.
Get your free copy here:
👉 verfassungsblog.de/book/the-icj...
December 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Out now – fully open access 🎉
The ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion is one of the most significant developments in international climate law. ⚖️🌍
This new volume shows why – and explores its implications for global climate governance.
Get your free copy here:
👉 verfassungsblog.de/book/the-icj...
The ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion is one of the most significant developments in international climate law. ⚖️🌍
This new volume shows why – and explores its implications for global climate governance.
Get your free copy here:
👉 verfassungsblog.de/book/the-icj...
Our local library is all out of Jeff VanderMeer, for some reason. So how about a bit of Olaf Stapledon, I wondered. None of him there, either. So which of his to buy? 'Sirius', about a dog..? I wonder if Robert Frost had read this before he wrote his 'One More Brevity' poem?
#sirius #literature
#sirius #literature
December 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Our local library is all out of Jeff VanderMeer, for some reason. So how about a bit of Olaf Stapledon, I wondered. None of him there, either. So which of his to buy? 'Sirius', about a dog..? I wonder if Robert Frost had read this before he wrote his 'One More Brevity' poem?
#sirius #literature
#sirius #literature
A ba-dum-cha! vibe going on here 💀
Brynymor Road sinkhole shuts street again just hours after councillors’ photo‑op
A fresh sinkhole has ripped open Brynymor Road in Swansea, forcing another closure less than 24 hours after councillors posed for triumphant photos beside the repaired void.
A fresh sinkhole has ripped open Brynymor Road in Swansea, forcing another closure less than 24 hours after councillors posed for triumphant photos beside the repaired void.
Brynymor Road sinkhole shuts street again just hours after councillors’ photo‑op
A fresh sinkhole has ripped open Brynymor Road in Swansea, forcing another closure less than 24 hours after councillors posed for triumphant photos beside the repaired void.
swanseabaynews.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A ba-dum-cha! vibe going on here 💀
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Fascinating.
Holloway Road seems likely to have been a woodland path for many centuries, and maybe this could be integrated with a new map.
www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic...
Holloway Road seems likely to have been a woodland path for many centuries, and maybe this could be integrated with a new map.
www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic...
England's mysterious sunken roads
A new mapping project by Natural England will help unearth the deep history and mystery of this ancient network of subterranean tracks.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Fascinating.
Holloway Road seems likely to have been a woodland path for many centuries, and maybe this could be integrated with a new map.
www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic...
Holloway Road seems likely to have been a woodland path for many centuries, and maybe this could be integrated with a new map.
www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic...
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🇺🇸 🇻🇪 Looking forward to the press briefing of "Department of War" explaining that what's happening in Venezuela is, by all means, absolutely not a war but rather a Special Limited Military Operation.
December 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🇺🇸 🇻🇪 Looking forward to the press briefing of "Department of War" explaining that what's happening in Venezuela is, by all means, absolutely not a war but rather a Special Limited Military Operation.
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Good man. Neil Duncan-Jordan MP is to launch a private member’s bill in the new year to close loopholes that allow fox hunting to continue, including banning trail-hunting.
December 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Good man. Neil Duncan-Jordan MP is to launch a private member’s bill in the new year to close loopholes that allow fox hunting to continue, including banning trail-hunting.
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Blue Community Ambassador Erin O’Donnell recommends this article:
How the myth of ‘aqua nullius’ still guides Australia’s approach to groundwater.
blue-community.net/2...
How the myth of ‘aqua nullius’ still guides Australia’s approach to groundwater.
blue-community.net/2...
December 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Blue Community Ambassador Erin O’Donnell recommends this article:
How the myth of ‘aqua nullius’ still guides Australia’s approach to groundwater.
blue-community.net/2...
How the myth of ‘aqua nullius’ still guides Australia’s approach to groundwater.
blue-community.net/2...
🐶🐰🐭🗯️The UK Govt is pushing through a new, little-noticed, Statutory Instrument, to redefine animal testing facilities as “national infrastructure”.
I can't find the date for it😞
✍️ link to Protect the Wild's open letter on Substack: protectthewild.org.uk/animal-testi...
#AnimalTesting #UKLaw
I can't find the date for it😞
✍️ link to Protect the Wild's open letter on Substack: protectthewild.org.uk/animal-testi...
#AnimalTesting #UKLaw
December 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🐶🐰🐭🗯️The UK Govt is pushing through a new, little-noticed, Statutory Instrument, to redefine animal testing facilities as “national infrastructure”.
I can't find the date for it😞
✍️ link to Protect the Wild's open letter on Substack: protectthewild.org.uk/animal-testi...
#AnimalTesting #UKLaw
I can't find the date for it😞
✍️ link to Protect the Wild's open letter on Substack: protectthewild.org.uk/animal-testi...
#AnimalTesting #UKLaw
My dream interview combo: Verfassungsblog meets Kim Lane Scheppele.
Just 5 questions.
Just 5 questions.
Courts vs. Trump:
In our editorial, we spoke with @kimlanelaw.bsky.social about judicial backsliding, authoritarian strategies in the US & beyond – and how to cope with the daily doom and gloom.
verfassungsblog.de/danger-becom...
In our editorial, we spoke with @kimlanelaw.bsky.social about judicial backsliding, authoritarian strategies in the US & beyond – and how to cope with the daily doom and gloom.
verfassungsblog.de/danger-becom...
December 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM
My dream interview combo: Verfassungsblog meets Kim Lane Scheppele.
Just 5 questions.
Just 5 questions.
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Fresh developments in inter-faith cooperation: a student of one of Poland’s main Catholic universities has been detained on suspicion of preparing to bomb a Polish Christmas market on behalf of Islamic State.
Służby: Mateusz W. miał wspierać tzw. Państwo Islamskie
lublin.wyborcza.pl/lublin/7,487...
#wyborcza #Lublin #KUL
lublin.wyborcza.pl/lublin/7,487...
#wyborcza #Lublin #KUL
ABW zatrzymała studenta KUL podejrzewanego o przygotowywanie zamachu na jarmarku świątecznym
Wcześniej mężczyzna pozyskiwał wiedzę o sposobach samodzielnego wykonania materiałów, które miały posłużyć do przeprowadzenia aktu terrorystycznego - podał Jacek Dobrzyński.
lublin.wyborcza.pl
December 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Fresh developments in inter-faith cooperation: a student of one of Poland’s main Catholic universities has been detained on suspicion of preparing to bomb a Polish Christmas market on behalf of Islamic State.
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🎁 We're giving free access to 100 Papers That Shaped Our Thinking. 📜🔓
Today's #philosophy paper is The Ethics of Punishment, by W. D. Ross (1929).
➡️ Access the free paper here: buff.ly/ZAMAwkn
Today's #philosophy paper is The Ethics of Punishment, by W. D. Ross (1929).
➡️ Access the free paper here: buff.ly/ZAMAwkn
December 16, 2025 at 8:17 AM
🎁 We're giving free access to 100 Papers That Shaped Our Thinking. 📜🔓
Today's #philosophy paper is The Ethics of Punishment, by W. D. Ross (1929).
➡️ Access the free paper here: buff.ly/ZAMAwkn
Today's #philosophy paper is The Ethics of Punishment, by W. D. Ross (1929).
➡️ Access the free paper here: buff.ly/ZAMAwkn
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OMG it’s the 8.10 story on Today on Radio4!! WTAF!!!!
Trump sues the BBC is the stupidest story ever
Of course, cover it but please, please point out - early - how stupid it is.
And don’t put it at the top of the news. Because it’s really, really stupid.
Of course, cover it but please, please point out - early - how stupid it is.
And don’t put it at the top of the news. Because it’s really, really stupid.
December 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
OMG it’s the 8.10 story on Today on Radio4!! WTAF!!!!
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All but the last two (lots about freedom of expression, but no absolutists). Bonus Wild West, AI chatbots, online-offline equivalence and anti-lock brakes.
Online Safety Act repeal debate bingo:
- Children
- Terrorism
- Tech giants
- Small but high risk
- Algorithms
- VPNs
- Safety by design
- We all knew it wasn't perfect
- Should go further
- Freedom of expression absolutists
- Critics who haven't read the Act
- Children
- Terrorism
- Tech giants
- Small but high risk
- Algorithms
- VPNs
- Safety by design
- We all knew it wasn't perfect
- Should go further
- Freedom of expression absolutists
- Critics who haven't read the Act
December 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
All but the last two (lots about freedom of expression, but no absolutists). Bonus Wild West, AI chatbots, online-offline equivalence and anti-lock brakes.
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the snow rhododendrons of Montclair-Himalaya
/ occasional series
/ occasional series
December 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
the snow rhododendrons of Montclair-Himalaya
/ occasional series
/ occasional series
This is why I say that I like only *some* books.
Went on BookSky for a look. I came off it before as it mostly consisted of people posting the cover of their favourite book, or their own book, which, come to think of it, maybe well be the same. But was reminded of the paradox of books. They are so hard to write. But there are so many of them.
December 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This is why I say that I like only *some* books.