I was just reminded of my visit to #ancient #Roman sites in #Tunisia in 1997. @lightacandle.bsky.social @linda2.bsky.social @tjmiddleton.bsky.social @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social @riprap007.bsky.social @tonylarch.bsky.social @fauxpaschick5.bsky.social @chapps.bsky.social

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A million times this. 👆 A lot of people don’t want to hear this, because it (depressingly) implies their preferred solution either won’t work—or has been tried and didn’t. Toby Buckle goes further, and implies that prosperity is an actual handmaiden to the fascism we’re seeing. I tend to agree.

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When you are definitely familiar with what wild animals look like. As seen on a Flemish tapestry at the nicely reconstructed and very informative Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in Vilnius.

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In many ways, the sight of flames engulfing France has become a damning symbolic image of Macron’s presidency, with the cultural tragedy of Notre Dame bookended by the political tragedies of the Yellow Vest movement and the protests of this past month. Gift link.

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just asked my tailor if he disavows the muslin brotherhood

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