Jim Wald

Trump press conference very interesting

1) pivoted from war to talk about gold drapes
2) now messing up (!) description of Medal-of-Honor winner, saying heroic action of Roddie Edmonds in saving Jewish fellow-soldiers took place in *July* 1945

Historian here: V-E day is May 8

Ken Burns on revisiting America’s founding at its 250th anniversary The award-winning documentarian reflects on the complexities of the U.S.'s origin story — and the lessons it offers the present.

Ken Burns on revisiting America’s founding at its 250th anniversary

in which he talks about his @hampshirecollege.bsky.social education & how it enabled him to combine the study of #film + #history

You can see his senior thesis project here:
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all text from Washington Post Khamenei obituary

Although known for his fierce oratory, Herr Hitler never failed to have a twinkle in his eye when accepting a bouquet from a small girl, and he was devoted to his German Shepherd, Blondi.
He was famously passionate about classical music (especially opera) & the novels of Karl May

title against a background of spiral lines: THE CREEPING TERROR The Creeping Terror | English Full Movie | Horror Sci-Fi - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYPpET-6B9A

best monster film synopsis?

In a quiet town gripped by terror,a grotesque creature resembling a twisted fusion of a Chinese dragon puppet & the Pope begins devouring townsfolk whole,forcing a determined sheriff, his resilient wife, & a conspicuously “handsome” scientist to unite

simple horizontal woodcut text in Fraktur: at left, März in red at right, Lenzmonath in black image: at left, female figure in field, with house at rear at right, man with axe preparing to fell tree at center in semicircle suspended from upper frame, a ram (for Capricorn) and its zodiac emblem

And on the subject of calendars, seasons, & zodiac: In a much simpler vein, here is the image for the month of March from Allgemeiner Kalender auf das Jahr Christi 1828 published by Josef Greis of Steyr, Austria. These were truly ephemera: used & thrown away. This one survived

Lenten foods illustration: a red lobster draped over two blue-green fish Adieu, patés et saucissons, Dans ces jours d’abstinence Ce n’est hélas que de poissons Que se nourrit la France ! DE SAUZIERS—LE CAREME pageTrente-neuf

Here's Rabelais as seen in a 19th-century biographical work bearded man in orange-lined black gown over orange shirt, red shoes: holding a concial long-stemmed glass of red wine in his right hand, while the left rests on a gothic wooden stand holding two red-edged open books (one flat, one on a stand) net to a quill pen in an inkwell. The book on the stand seems to contain an illustration of a mythical or satirical creature, of the sort Rabelais has been credited with (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8169/8169-h/8169-h.htm#2HCH0035) from Le Plutarque français: vie des hommes et des femmes illustres de la France, depuis le cinquième siècle jusqu'à nos jours, avec leurs portraits en pied gravés sur acier, par Ed. Mennchet (Paris: Crapelet, edition of either 1835-36 or 1836-41) the entry makes the point that, although Rabelais's works presented him as a cynical satirist, he was also deeply learned and trained in the humanist tradition

The illustration might suggest astrology & Pisces, but the poem indicates it is a reference to Lent (Carême). This brings to mind my beloved Renaissance literature:

Erasmus on the eating of fish
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and Rabelais's Quaresmesprenant
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Lenten foods illustration: a red lobster draped over two blue-green fish Adieu, patés et saucissons, Dans ces jours d’abstinence Ce n’est hélas que de poissons Que se nourrit la France ! DE SAUZIERS—LE CAREME pageTrente-neuf

Happy March!
7 days to go till Daylight Saving Time, 19 till spring!

monthly illustration from:

Calendrier Gastronomique: Histoires de cuisine et cuisine de l’histoire par Marius Dutrey, dessins par Pierre Camin (Londres: Frederick Muller, 1938) #88/250 copies
1/3

“Excited to start my new job in Tbilisi air traffic control, now to pour myself a large coffee, put on my headset, and ease myself into the shift…”

screenshot: spell checker wants to replace Khameneo with Tutankhamen

Well, I guess they're both dead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

screen shot of NY Times obituary with photo of the deceased Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hard-Line Cleric Who Made Iran a Regional Power, Dies at 86

Benito Mussolini dies at 61. The gifted orator made Italy a Regional Power, Welcomed Africans into its Orbit.
Public already paying respects at Piazza Quindici Martiri, Milan.

Indeed.

And happened again during the January protests when Iran shut down internet access

Iranian-linked Scottish accounts fall silent again

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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screenshot of White House preference in which a Republican chides Ukrainian President Zenelsky for not wearing a suit

President Trump announcing war on Iran: at Mar-a-Lago rather than White House Oval Office wearing a jacket with no tie wearing white "USA" baseball cap commenter says we are bombing in business casual

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I hope that's a diaper

Grateful for their return to Frankfurt and the execution of the pogromists (28 Febr 1616) led by Vincenz Fettmilch, the Jews created a 2nd festival--Purim Vintz--analogous to the #Purim holiday commemorating deliverance from destruction in ancient Persia

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image showing chaotic fighting and plundering in the narrow street between half-timbered houses Jews (identifiable by circular badge they were forced to wear) fight attackers with clubs simple account along the standard lines: https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2016-02-28/ty-article/1616-anti-jewish-riot-leaders-executed-in-germany/0000017f-db93-db22-a17f-ffb3fb910000 fuller discussion: Fettmilch uprising - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fettmilch_uprising more complex historiographical discussion: Politics or Pogrom? The Fettmilch Uprising in German and Jewish History on JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/stable/4546068?seq=42

In 1614, guild members rebelling against patrician domination of Frankfurt vented their anger on the Jews in a pogrom. The Emperor restored order and had the rebels executed on 28 February 1616

The famous illustration of the pogrom is often used out of context 🙄

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Shmulik Fishman: thin, bald, wearing light yellow untucked short and dark pants, stands in front of projection screen showing him as a student in his residence. In the photo, he is wearing a suit, which, he explains, he did all the time back then but can no longer explain why Prof. Dahi, seen from the rear, is sitting in the front row About - Shmulik Fishman https://shmulikfishman.com/about/ Shmulik Fishman Of Argyle On The Future Of Money and Banking | by David Liu | Authority Magazine | Medium https://medium.com/authority-magazine/shmulik-fishman-of-argyle-on-the-future-of-money-and-banking-b49e73f9debd

Shmulik Fishman: thin, bald, wearing light yellow untucked short and dark pants, stands in front of projection screen showing books he read as a student: two lines, arranged in a "v" shape at left, works on economics, e.g. by Milton Freedman at right, works of philosophy and theory: Derrida, Foucault, Marx, Plato etc. About - Shmulik Fishman https://shmulikfishman.com/about/ Shmulik Fishman Of Argyle On The Future Of Money and Banking | by David Liu | Authority Magazine | Medium https://medium.com/authority-magazine/shmulik-fishman-of-argyle-on-the-future-of-money-and-banking-b49e73f9debd

For relief from all this talk of war

Yesterday, my Hampshire College colleague economist Omar Dahi invited our former student Shmulik Fishman to speak about how he went from philosophy to entrepreneurship (alt text)
Hampshire liberal arts education: preparation for all aspects of life

Understandably, much sadness and worry about the tragedy of war here on social media

A special place in my heart for academic colleagues who have already lost close friends in Iran today. Deepest condolences

alas, proven ever more true with every passing minute

Israeli officials informed Khamenei assassinated in Iran strike, body said to be found in rubble The body of Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader since 1989, was reportedly found under the rubble in Tehran. His death marks a major turning point for the Islamic Republic’s leadership.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was assassinated in an Israeli strike on Tehran, with his body found under the rubble caused by an Israeli airstrike, senior Israeli officials were informed on Saturday evening.

A close-up of a small horse figurine carved from mammoth ivory with a weathered surface. The figure features a bowed head and arched neck, and all four legs are broken off. It's displayed on a dark, speckled platform against a black background, with soft lighting highlighting its contours.

As I'm attending a conference in Tübingen today, for #findsfriday an #IceAge masterpiece that is on display at the University museum: a tiny but most splendid figurine from the Swabian Jura - a #horse carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago - the oldest known sculpture of a horse.

📷me

🏺

TBH I was somewhat puzzled that the attacks took place so late in the day vs. at the customary hour of late night-to-dawn ( for the traditional reasons)

Intriguing hypothesis

every fucking minute confirms what I just said

I took our daughter to a highly respected New England university and

a) heard student spokespersons say: hey, if you plan your schedule right, you can sleep late and not spend much time on study

b) found that the tour took us *around* the library but spent a great deal of time in the gym ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

always intriguing and instructive to visit another institution of higher learning as an insider when they don't always know what we bring to that experience 😀

Usually not up watching @cnnipr.bsky.social CNN international at this hour

They seem to think putting on a bunch of cretins w British accent will lend credibility to moronic drivel (+ by extension blathering of dimwit US 2nd-string journos)
a new world has been revealed to me 🙄

.@cnn.com calling it

"one of the most remarkable speeches in the history of the American presidency"

and not necessarily in a good way

Great, now I'm going to have to listen to an endless stream of inanity from dilettantes who think they understand the Middle East, military strategy & tactics, ordnance...

(remember when everyone became an epidemiologist & then a constitutional lawyer?)
Where's that mute button?

In Paris or here, when I have finished writing and walk out of the apartment building or strike out from the path over the hill, if I encounter a turd it destroys all my hours of work. That's what my pages are, it, him. Every turd I encounter is a torment every hour of the day. At night, the smell of them through the open window sneers at my next day's work. I shall write all the same. I want to be strong, like my mended basket hanging from the branch of a young oak, away from the ants, between the rocks where I am working. Yesterday I was sitting in X's basement. She combed my hair with her pocket comb. I told her that her comb in my hair felt like tenderness, that it was like kisses given to an old woman warming herself in the sun. How starved I must be! A thread. If it snaps I shall begin weeping again for a week, for months, for years. I shall blow my nose noisily, I will not weep. - Violette Leduc, La Bâtarde (tr. by Derek Coltman)

Violette Leduc on the sneering turds of her life.

Fotografie von Ossietzky als 26-Jähriger im Jahr 1915. Er trägt das Haar gescheitelt, einen Anzug und Krawatte. Er blickt ernst in die Kamera. Nachweis von wiki commons folgt.

Am 28. Februar 1933 wurde Carl von Ossietzky von der Gestapo verhaftet, gefoltert und im Gefängnis Spandau interniert.

"Was er an bösen und häßlichen Instinkten hervorgerufen hat, wird nicht so leicht verwehen und für lange Jahre noch das gesamte öffentliche Leben in Deutschland verpesten. [...]" 🧵

Sirens wail across Israel; Israelis told to stay near safe rooms; Katz says Israel attacking Iran Rubio demands US envoys avoid inflammatory remarks after Huckabee sparks regional fury * Secretary of state sends memo to envoys amid concern Huckabee's claim that Israel has biblical right to much of...

Sirens wail across Israel; Israelis told to stay near safe rooms; Katz says Israel attacking Iran

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