Juliet J. Fall

Actually standing on the Republic of Cyprus (“south”) side, looking “north”.

I found my grandparents in an archive, enjoying a sports day circa 1953/4!

Military barriers across the city, but almost always with cat flaps. The numerous & well cared-for feral cats enjoy free-movement. 🐈🐈‍⬛

Non-essential personnel to leave UK airbase in Cyprus after suspected drone strike Apparent attack on RAF Akrotiri took place hours after the UK agreed to let the US use British military bases to attack Iran’s missile sites

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A graffiti in red paint sprayed using a stencil, on a wall with low buildings behind it showing Disney's Snow White holding a machine gun. She looks cutesy. The slogan reads "Fight Sexism".

Seen in Nicosia.

The Green Line: the buffer zone across the two sides on the island of Cyprus, a fence with barbed wire

The Green Line: the buffer zone across the two sides on the island of Cyprus, where my mother’s family lived in the 1950s, during British colonial times, before the island was divided. Intimate geopolitics in the field.

Geographical quiz-time: where am I?

Extraordinarily worrying. Anti-trans hate really is the gateway drug to fascism.

Très loin des promesses, l’intelligence artificielle est accusée d’augmenter la charge de travail, le stress et le risque de burn-out en entreprise

Une étude parue dans la «Harvard Business Review» montre que les outils d’IA n’allègent pas le travail, mais l’intensifient systématiquement. Des experts basés en Suisse romande partagent leurs expériences, et lancent...

Visible mending in rainbow colours on a wool jumper

On a balcony up high in the mountains overlooking the Alps & Léman

Lots of dribbly sounds of melting snow at 1100m but I am sitting out in a shirt mending wool. Perfect Sunday in the sun.

The Trojans have entered the group chat.

Mais qu elle est belle la fac de Geneve (Uni Mail)

Isn’t it fun how we ignore all manner of improbable sports then get emotionally over-invested every four years? I was watching “ski alpinisme” last night (gold for Swiss woman!) which seems to reward running straight up mountains for 1 minute in ski boots & being quick taking your skis off & on.

Boohoohoo… 🇨🇭

Bridge in Crassier across the river Boiron showing the border marker mid-way across

Enjoy!

Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU, ITV poll finds

Why would you pig-headedly ignore the voice of the next generation? Why would you saddle them with debt, shrink the job market and limit their opportunities? It runs counter to everything politics and society should want for them. For all of us. They’re the future.

www.itv.com/news/2026-02...

Si vous passez au Boulevard Carl-Vogt (où se trouve Unimail), vous apprécierez peut-être cette petite BD sur le bâtiment universitaire qui l'honorait, désormais renommé, que j'avais écrit en protestation à sa consécration (Pdf en open access en lien depuis cette page):
www.unige.ch/actualites/a...

Bienvenue chez nous! (Et navrée pour la météo ici-bas...)

Guy Parmelin exclut les sciences humaines des fonds de recherche nationaux Les sciences sociales et humaines sont absentes des six nouveaux Pôles de recherche. Près de 1000 universitaires dénoncent une décision politique du ministre UDC.

Guy Parmelin exclut les sciences humaines des fonds de recherche nationaux
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We are SO MAD that this amazing project didn’t get funded. It got to the last round and then…

“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does.

Rest in power, Jesse Jackson
🙏🏽

Wow.

Promotional image for the book Speaking in Pictures by Neil Cohn

After taking 7 years to write and draw, my new graphic novel, Speaking in Pictures, about language, cognition, comics, and visual communication is out in less than a week! At long last! www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip

Et je découvre Suisse-Man, le cousin romand de Croix-Blanche (et qui a lui de vrai pouvoir).

One on left is a black dog and above it the words “Reality”. Below it is “I chased a squirrel” One the right is a black dog and above it says “LinkedIn”. Below it says, Proud to announce that I effectively executed a rapid-response squirrel displacement strategy to mitigate potential yard intrusions. Humbled by the unwavering support of my family and local stakeholders. This experience reinforced the importance of vigilance, ownership, and continuous improvement. Looking forward to scaling this impact in future engagements.

😂

Screenshot of title page of Marvel’s Sentry magazine 2000

Screenshot of comic page showing the Swiss (?) superhero with a tight red shirt clinging to his muscular torso, with a white cross on it. His trousers are like a banker’s floppy pair. He doesn’t say anything but just stands there looking a bit awkward with glasses on

He’s in the background looking away, while two badass women do the talking. It’s a bit like the UN: Switzerland with a discrete role in the background. A bit awkward but pleased to be involved.

Screenshot focusing on Weisses Kreuz: William Tell he is not, but he’s trying to project some strength while wearing his superhero/banker-vibe costume

La géniale pépite du jour. Trop chouette!
If I were ever cool enough to teach a popular geopolitics class like @nsousanis.bsky.social ‘s Superhero one, I’d have to feature Weisses Kreuz, the short-lived non-speaking hero onto whom we can project all sorts of ambiguous Swiss values! (Sentry 2000 #4)

Palantir's Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge | NewsCase Switzerland's military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence ag

"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"

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Hurray! Well done you! Congratulations on this next exciting step!

Many speak of these as concentration camps, but another pertinent analogy might be the Soviet & now Russian gulags. People disappeared into a vast networked archipelago system.

The Gulag archipelago…