Very interesting... new artist to me. I found this article from a member of the artists family, giving some background and family history...

kilkie.org/2023/08/27/l...

Weird! analog copy of digital artifact!

I was sure there was one of hers in Tate Britain I'd seen recently and was trying to find it (unsuccessfully)

From a UK obsessed by Andrew, Fergie and Mandelson, it looks like nobody from the US featured in the files...

Permanent protest camp on the Mall... permanent camp is something that's often been a vehicle for civil protests in other nations (e.g Georgia)

The damage to the UK is now all too apparent: 4 or 5 damaging storms each winter, continuing floods, landslides, damage to agriculture...

2 in 3 summers have heatwaves and drought.

Seurat and the Sea Explore the first ever exhibition devoted to the seascapes of the Neo-Impressionist artist Georges Seurat.

If any of you reading this are in London UK, this exhibition starts soon:

courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...

Dr Richard North is a long time EU-phobe and Climate Change denier who, before the 2016 referendum, wrote ‘Flexit’ a template and guide for a permanent EU exit for the UK. Quite a clever man, if he also is disparaging of Farage everyone, especially members of Reform, should be very concerned!

Knight, Laura, 1877–1970 | Art UK Laura Knight (1877–1970)

An extraordinary range of work... dressing rooms, gypsies, Nuremburg trials...

artuk.org/discover/art...

As I understand it, they have already put out written statements (accounts)

Suely there's a prominent Tory in those files somewhere?

‘Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.’

Yes, I'd say Rousseaus's ideas are still relevant.

Drashigs!

British Museum...

I loved that. A very diffrent take on the detective novel

A great though melancholy read... in complete contrast in tone to the also wondeful time travel book 'To Say Nothing of the Dog'

Judge blocks Trump administration’s stripping of Haitians’ protected status Up to 350,000 Haitians legally live and work in the US due to being granted temporary protected status

Some good news. Note what the judge says about the Haitians involved in the case vs what Noem says about them

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I saw Antiques Roadshow was trending and I just found out that they also have this in America. Which potentially doubles my consumption of my favourite show... my wife will be furious there's more... thinks I watch enough already!

#antiquesroadshow

There was an article on the radio about how primitive pre humans had invented kissing.

I heard it as 'tipping'. My wife asked 'how on earth did you think that could work?' I admitted I thought perhaps they gave each other fruit...

He's also on the wall in Salisbury museum, in a picture showing him being arrested at Stonehenge.

It is odd being related to a player character!

This guy.

CoreCivic - Wikipedia

Core civic seem an even worse firm.

(Thanks for pointing out these two)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoreCivic

A distressingly high percentage of GEO is owned by investment firms... it is highly profitable... I'm looking for the key 'insuider' share ownership

And don't get me started with wossiname who wrote 'The Name of the Wind'....

Connected with Trump and his pals I should think?

On another note, Martin wrote some excellent SF early in his career, mostly short stories... the Sandkings anthology, for example.

A Glastonbury Romance - Wikipedia

Try 'A Glastonbury Romance' by John Cooper Powys.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Glast...

Get up to date and then you'll have to wait over 15 years for the next one. I've been waiting since 2011...

What you need to ask is who is running the centers and how much are they making from it...

They really believe this stuff, don't they? Soros pays all the protestors, Hunter's laptop, Obama was Kenyan... no hope for these people.