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Philipssite! in my university town, the city I hold dear.
I just devoured a glorious slab of branzino with a green salad. And all I have left to say is: Non, je ne regrette rien. Edith Piaf, Non, Je ne regrette rien www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Kv...
“La muerte es una casa, una casa universal, un destino absoluto.” Arnoldo Kraus, La morada infinita (1951-2025) DEP
Guillermo del Toro reflects on what makes us human through a brilliant take on Mary Shelley’s novel, staying with what’s truly meaningful and timeless in the story.
All signs seem to point to Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein marking a return to one of his most powerful storytelling gifts: tenderness. And in times like these, it’s something many of us could learn from—simply by paying attention. So ready for this.
Sylvain Amic, président des Musées d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie, est mort à l’âge de 58 ans
“Les Justes” celebrates those whose moral courage shapes history. Real heroism often lives in the everyday choices of ordinary people.
El “Bracelet Pouch” de ellos mismos, hecho en piel napa de cordero plisada, está brutal. Es súper pequeño y no entiendo cómo le cabe tanto ($1,500 USD)
Cyclists cross the Charente, turbines turning above them. The image speaks of our century: speed, endurance, and the silent power that reshapes the horizon. The fragile geometry of progress. ©️ Xavier Pereyron 2025
Mariemont, 28.X.2022 (ruins…) 🇧🇪
Betty Gerhard Richter (Ludwig Museum) 1977
30 August 1905 | A Polish woman, Wanda Moraczewska, was born in Winniki. A teacher. In #Auschwitz from 13 October 1942. No. 22537 She perished in the camp on 1 December 1942.
In her essay “Picturing Scent: The Tale of a Beached Whale”, @Lizzie_Marx follows a “whale-trail” across history to discover the olfactory paradoxes of the Dutch Golden Age: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-scent
Worried about the status of NSF #grfp ? You need to need to make sure NSF gets the message directly! Even a brief note to NSF helps; see below and take 5 minutes. Share with your colleagues on and off social media.
Belgium: where church and State divorced in 1831 but still sleep together on special occasions. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
We made it to Friday, but at what cost!?
« Ce soir, je suis mort de fatigue. Une semaine terrible. […] Et puis les nouvelles. Chaque jour son coup de pied au cul pour la nation. Cette sacrée nation, la plus bête du monde, qui avait tout et n'a su que tout perdre. J'enrage depuis cinquante ans après. » (Paul Valéry, lettre du 24 mars 1939)
Studio House Hankar, Saint-Gilles, #Brussels Built in 1893 to the designs of the #architect #PaulHankar #Architecture #ArtNouveau #AdoorableThursday #IronworkThursday
Daily Mirror February 1930
Another mother's breaking Heart is taking over When the violence causes silence We must be mistaken The Cranberries - Zombie www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejg...
Untitled by Alexander Calder, 1971 #artbots #guggenheim https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137440
If children are killed and leaders respond by praying in public, not governing in public, then faith becomes performance, a mask. Prayer should be private and political power must be visible. Anything else is a moral abdication, solemnly dressed.
How does age affect people’s experiences in times of humanitarian crisis? This forthcoming book coedited by @ceschmidt.bsky.social, Betsy Anthony, and me explores the lives of #OlderJews before, during, and after the #Holocaust. wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814352052/
Antwerp police handed over to FelixArchief a WW2 deportation list recording Jewish residents and others taken by the Nazis. A straightforward record that exposes a dark chapter in the city’s history and the human cost behind administrative facts www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/20... felixarchief.antwerpen.be
St Just in Penwith, #Cornwall A four hundred year old carved bench end. #Woodensday #WoodcarvingWednesday
Medieval murder maps reveal the surprising geography of violence in 14th-century English cities. phys.org/news/2025-08...
Twenty minutes very well spent! The second half of the podcast shows what ending nearly $500M in mRNA vaccine funding really means in everyday life. Beyond COVID, this research targets deadly cancers like glioblastoma, HER2+, pancreatic, and more. We must listen [and act.]
Emmanuel Carrère, Class Trip Translated by Linda Coverdale.
Ausencia: a series of 9 lithographs created at La Máquina in Oaxaca. After completing the print, I gradually erased the drawing to underscore the fact that both the Mayan stingless bee (Melipona beeicheii) and the vanilla orchid are currently endangered due to environmental impact. #art #lithography
On Friday, the Trump Administration shut down an almost-completed wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island on unspecified “national security” grounds. Why is their war on wind and sunpower getting more aggressive?
Work to cover the Senne river in Brussels in the 1870s, partly to prevent cholera outbreaks. The contractor was Waring Brothers of York. They were railway specialists and previously created the vaults and approaches to Saint Pancras, extracting cholera victims from Old Saint Pancras churchyard.
scanning a fractal, every headline reveals deeper disorder, yet patterns emerge, hinting at a logic that feels both urgent and unknowable.
Love it! Great idea! They both blend sharp introspection with dark wit & existential themes, perfect for immersive, thought-provoking reading in French. Reading builds intuition for grammar, and expands vocabulary in context.
I dreamt that the film La classe de neige (1998) didn’t exist. And I was like: - “but I’ve seen it! There’s even a short novel by Emmanuel Carrère.” Then I woke up feeling normal… and now I’ve remembered it and started doubting myself. Here is it!
Truman Capote in Brooklyn Heights. David Attie 1958
Until mid-20th century in Belgium, milk sellers delivered fresh milk in small carts pulled by sturdy dogs, the iconic dog carts.
This Monday feels like it’s been going on for three days, and it’s still not done yet.
Paris, August 25, 1944. Crowds celebrating the liberation of the city. © Robert Capa © International Center of Photography | Magnum Photos #Paris1944 #RobertCapa 📷
“You will generally observe that, of all Americans, your foreign-born citizens are the most patriotic - especially toward the Fourth of July.” — Herman Melville, White Jacket or, the World in a Man-of-War #MelvilleMonday
With prose both incisive and humane, Amélie Nothomb’s novels lay bare the fragility of identity and the paradoxes of power. Absolutely unmissable!
Cacahuates, ajos fritos, chiles secos, y este combo llevaba Doritos enchilados (super pocos) "Cacahuates botaneros con ajo y chile." www.univision.com/delicioso/re...
"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?" Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.
The Brutalist architecture of the Igualada Cemetery in Catalonia.
Beer also pairs beautifully with the classic Oaxacan cantina combination.
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus https://www.wikiart.org/en/pieter-bruegel-the-elder/landscape-with-the-fall-of-icarus-1560
24 August 1905 | Dutch Jewish woman, Debora Gans, was born in Amsterdam. She emigrated to Belgium. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 15 September 1943. She did not survive.
Pete Buttigieg.
Preston Bus Station is a gorgeous building with real clarity, beauty & function of architecture. The Lingotto of Lancashire.
They said: -“I’m going to talk about two things: first X, then Y.” And then they started with Y. My brain still hasn’t recovered.
"The sole concessions to modernity are safety boots for everyone, glasses for those cutting stone, & ropes and carabiner clips for people working on the castle’s #medieval -style timber scaffolding (which itself must be health & safety approved)." #architecture www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
It could be due to several factors: who prepared the edition (for instance, if it’s a critical edition), the costs of translation (including the number of specialists involved), copyright and licensing fees, the publisher’s pricing strategy, regional tax differences. ¡Y un largo etcétera!
A perfect storm of mischief, tension, and orchestral storytelling! Edvard Grieg, Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: IV. In the Hall of the Mountain King. Performed by Nicolò Foron & the London Symphony Orchestra: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqvH...
Vincent van Gogh Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1887
La Pelicotiación”, Dominique Pelicot, es uno entre muchos. Tremendo y lamentable.
"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil." - Hannah Arendt
We made it to Friday, but at what cost?!
🚨1000 authoritarian actions. 7 months🚨 I've been tracking Trump's authoritarian actions. From dismantling democratic institutions to militarising immigration enforcement, Trump is reshaping America. In my new post I highlight key authoriarian attacks christinapagel.substack.com/p/grand-desi... 1/2
Ypres, August 1917. A wasteland where mud swallowed steel, beasts, and men alike; war reshaped the earth into a swamp of futility and pain.
Bronze door handle Fernand Dubois. 1902 The studio and home of the sculptor Fernand Dubois was designed by #VictorHorta However, Dubois designed the #ArtNouveau door handle himself. (See ALT text for details) Musée Royal d’Art & d’Histoire, #Brussels #Belgium #IronworkThursday #AdoorableThursday
Early today, I was this 🤏 close to posting: ‘we made it to Friday’ on a Thursday. That’s been my week…
Excited for having recieved @comicsgrid.com HQ a review copy of Comic Fascism. Ideology, Catholicism, and Americanism in Italian Children's Periodicals by Zane Elward (2025). Thank you @ohiostatepress.bsky.social! ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... #ComicsStudies
It's been an exciting and super busy editorial year at The Comics Grid. Processing times have not been short. We appreciate the kind, ongoing patience of all involved authors and reviewers. Scholarly goodness is coming. Bear with us! It will be worth it. #Researcherled #OpenAccess
Hannah Arendt a analysé les régimes totalitaires. Pour comprendre comment ils surgissent. Et surtout : comment les empêcher de revenir. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/GQh
Blue[Magritte]Sky Actually a 3979C1 bluesky
Today, while everyone’s talking about H. P. Lovecraft BOTD, I’m just gonna say his doppelgänger is Michael Phelps. I’ve got this [useless] superpower of spotting lookalikes.
Happy to share our contribution to #PediPath. I hope you find it useful! Pathology reporting of hepatoblastoma resections: recommendations from the international collaboration on cancer reporting - López‐Terrada - Histopathology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Discover Carrie Rickey’s A Complicated Passion, a deeply researched tribute to Belgian filmmaker Agnès Varda, a trailblazer who redefined cinema with heart, wit, and fearless innovation. Seems a must-read for cinephiles.
The USPS will honor Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner, with a stamp in the “Distinguished Americans” series. A tribute to his legacy and the immigrant spirit that shapes and inspires America.
Spain is having its worst year for wildfires. In terms of square kilometers burned, the 2025 season far outstrips all previous years. Many fires are still active.
In a moment of crisis, their mental clarity cut through division. Despite their differences, they stand united to protect the common good with courage and purpose. Jews in Defense of UC (letter at the end of Jeremy’s thread)
How ugly it must be to be Utrecht next to Delft, watching Vermeer.
The Mariaplaats with the Mariakerk in Utrecht Pieter Jansz Saenredam 1659
Het venijn zit in de… tja, soms in de staart, maar vaak ook in planten. Ontdek in dit artikel van UGent-magazine Durf Denken enkele straffe weetjes over giftige planten in huis en tuin, gedeeld door prof. Lars Chatrou. www.durfdenken.be/nl/onderzoek...
Matisse: Drawing with scissors in art and illness
Exit through the gift shop… 2028 merch cap on display.
We are delighted to announce that our perspective article, “Steering towards safe self-driving laboratories (SDLs),” has been accepted for publication in Nature Reviews Chemistry. Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Don’t miss the chance to read or watch anything by Henry Marsh. Here’s a glimpse into the latest documentary about his life, a look at a brilliant mind facing memory, regret, and what it means to have truly lived. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
IKB Postage by Yves Klein, 1958 #artbots #guggenheim https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137900
From lab to life: This study shows how some childhood cancers after treatment are caused by the treatment itself. Genomics turns into better care, safer decisions. 📄 @sjdhospitalbarcelona.org Jaume Mora et al. Origins of Second Malignancies in Children pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
William Utermohlen’s self-portraits trace the neurodegenerative process of Alzheimer’s. His art shifted from detailed realism to distorted forms as memory faded.
#MelvilleMonday “The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.” — Herman Melville, White-Jacket or, the World in a Man-of-War
Make a band food: Red Hot Chili Con Carne Gustavo Cerati y Soda Bread Depeche Mole
If you’re going to dive into that world, ¡dale hasta donde tope! (go all the way.) Make raspberry or strawberry jam with chipotle, it’s perfect for Brie.
The [real] game-changer is the copper pot. I have one, and it’s amazing for making jams, jellies, candied citrus peel, and nuts (on salad toppings, it takes them to the next level).
From lab to life: this study from Hospital Clínic Barcelona shows how a genomic test cuts through the theory to bring personalized risk insights to early HER2+ breast cancer patients, this is science and care in a real, tangible way. Love it! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
In 🇮🇱, the workweek runs Sunday to Thursday–Friday half-day. Today, a strike was held in protest. These marches began before 10/7, and since then, they also call for the release of the hostages in Gaza. Will you see the full picture or just one side?
A 🇮🇱, la setmana laboral és de diumenge a dijous–divendres mig dia. Avui hi ha hagut vaga com a protesta. Aquestes marxes ja es feien abans del 7/10 i ara també reclamen l'alliberament dels ostatges a Gaza. Veureu tot el quadre o només una part?
En 🇮🇱, la semana laboral va de domingo a jueves-viernes al medio día. Hoy hubo paro como protesta. Estas marchas ocurren desde antes del 7/10 y desde entonces, suman la petición para la liberación de los secuestrados en Gaza. ¿Van a mirar todo el cuadro o seguir viendo solo un lado?
New hope for childhood cancer! Targeting the epigenome in pediatric cancer: JHU researchers review epigenetic therapies targeting DNA methylation & histone mods, key drivers in low-mutation tumors. A step toward smarter, less toxic treatments for kids. www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/16...
Hundreds of thousands march in Tel Aviv demanding a hostage deal and end to the war on Gaza. (1/2)
If you want to know more about this, check out my podcast episode on Topf and Sons! thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...
There are videos of Spaniards reacting to non-Spanish “paellas," they're both hilarious and profound. Food, like art, carries meaning. It's heritage, identity, community, dignity. Honoring that is what great chefs, and great paellas, truly do.
Sometimes I feel that to truly understand or describe Mexico, you have to approach it as if you were in a fever dream.
A superb highlight of Mexico City’s culinary cosmovisión: the classics ‘quesadilla with cheese’ and ‘quesadilla without cheese.’
Barcelona, August 17, 2017 Since then, terrorist strategies have evolved from large-scale, coordinated attacks to operations that combine smaller-scale violence with psychological warfare, spread through online propaganda.
Not the Spaniards making trouble over religion… Sephardics could have told you that a century earlier.
What’s the best Bruegel book and why is it Jürgen Müller’s?
Duvel imperial blonde
Michael Lobel 