Eleanor Fuller

YouTube video by Platonic Soul Why life is like a prism for your love (Ep. 70)

Love will never leave us alone, because it makes its presence felt at every moment of our lives. Eros in the Platonic tradition is not just one emotion among many but rather the principle of emotion.
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Thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social for the chance to think about this very good question.

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

this reminds me

Pause the Document by Monica de la Torre ⁦‪@nightboatbooks‬⁩

#poetry #sealeychallenge

Swimmer
Alex Colville
1962

Haze
Jennifer Walton
2017

Swimmers
Mike Gough
2025

Print featuring a stylised glass of juice with straw and lemon slice against a reddish patterned background

Yayoi Kusama, Lemon Squash (5) (1999), screenprint #WomensArt

August is Women in Translation month and this will be my first read - On The Calculation of Volume 1 by Solvej Balle translated from the Danish by Barbara Haveland and it comes highly recommended by @ronanhession.bsky.social @sweetoblivion.bsky.social and @rickoshea.bsky.social

The fetishistic allure of the exotic, perfectly represented in Willem Kalf's amazing global still-life paintings, here from 1662. Today is his day.

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“The Bridge Stood Fast,” by Anne Enright These are the things that change a child, he thought, but what can you do?

Always a good day when. . .
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Bauhaus textile artist Gunta Stölzl, design for double woven cloth, 1926 #WomensArt #UnravellingWomensArt

Out today, the audiobook of Michael Pedersen’s lyrical debut novel Muckle Flugga is beautifully narrated by Jack Lowden. Here, Jack speaks about the experience of narrating the audiobook.

Washed Plums
Mary Pratt
1987

two deer standing on snow, tracks behind them, a cluster of red houses and red-roofed white church before them. Trees on either side of them (conifers and three bare deciduous).

Two Deer, Sunset
Maud Lewis.

Condon Lighthouse
Maud Lewis
c. 1958

Congrats Gladwell Pamba!
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‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths NEW YORK—Claiming that the humanizing of occupied peoples is not what the newspaper stands for, The New York Times issued an apology Tuesday for reporting on Palestinian deaths. “Our thoughtful and ac...

From The Archives: ‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths

Excerpt from Robyn Braun's story "God's Kaleidoscope", published in Issue 175 of The New Quarterly.

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Robyn Braun's "God's Kaleidoscope", from Issue 175! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/gods-k...

Painting of a curving golden sandy beach under a stormy inky sky with white house to the right and sea with white waves to the left

'Rhossili Beach' by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #WomensArt

I should hate to hurt your feelings because in a strange way I feel that we are very much alike.

Drawing of a very stylised Bigfoot with these words written on it: “I am your dear friend Bigfoot and I bring you a pokey-stick to brighten your day”

George Bernard Shaw and his cat Pygmalion.

Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

Steve is 'Working from home' today.
He's trying his best.

Famine now unfolding in Gaza, says UN-backed monitor – Middle East crisis live Airdrops are not enough to avert the humanitarian catastrophe, says the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative

The UN's Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative (IPC) has declared that Famine is now unfolding in Gaza. They describe this as "the worst case scenario."

The World Food Programme describes the famine as "unlike anything this century"

As Gaza starves, the next generation may also endure the consequences U.N. officials say many people in Gaza are experiencing "famine-like conditions." Health experts who have studied past famines warn that the fallout can reverberate across generations.

U.N. officials say many people in Gaza are experiencing "famine-like conditions." Health experts who have studied past famines warn that the fallout can reverberate across generations.