Jon Fell

‘Portrait of a man’, who was 18th-century Corsican independence leader, goes on sale Painting of Enlightenment figure, whose constitution for the island inspired revolutionaries in US, is up for auction Thirty years ago, a painting by the British artist Sir William Beechey was sold as “portrait of a man”. The anonymous buyer, however, knew precisely who the unnamed man in the picture was: Pascal Paoli, the 18th-century Corsican independence leader and icon of the Enlightenment. Continue reading...

‘Portrait of a man’, who was 18th-century Corsican independence leader, goes on sale

YouTube video by 60s70sVintageRock Booker T. & The MG's - Time Is Tight (Live, 1970)

RIP Steve Cropper 🎸

Incidentally, quite a few of the markets featured in that WHO report, including some with reportedly high adolescent / adult consumption ratios, have e-cigarette bans in place according to the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control

Not to mention the fact that arguably the relevant comparison would anyway with be with younger adult age groups given that it's common for e-cigarette prevalence to be lower in older age groups.

I don't have the time to dig into this in more detail right now, but you only have to look at the mis-matched years, and some of the countries cited with the biggest ratios, to wonder about data quality.

I think the claim comes from this recent WHO report: www.who.int/publications...

Many happy memories of the Grand Méchant Loup!

Absurd; cf also the wearing of black arm bands which now seem to be worn more often than they’re absent

Congrats and thank you, London Centric’s brilliant

Nice to see Bob Scribner too

Le sketch pénible en cours ici est une amusante parabole.
Le lieu revendiqué de la bienveillance et des valeurs devient un nœud de vipères où des minorités très sûres de leur supériorité morale s'excluent mutuellement dans des guerres inexpliables d'une rare perversité.

Hope you’re going to check out one of those dental floss farms

Stefan Collini · Agent of Influence: Christopher Hill’s Interests Christopher Hill devoted his attention almost exclusively to 17th-century England; he wrote far more about intellectual...

Interesting discussion, via a new biography, of the historian Christopher Hill, in the latest @lrb.co.uk:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

#History 🗃️

New blog post for Cambridge MAA / Nouvel article de blog pour le MAA de Cambridge Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s Digital Lab has recently posted a new article on the statuette of Campu Fiureddu, Layers of Meaning: A Corsican figurine at MAA, available via this l...

Link to new blog article for the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, avec une traduction française

ouch, sympathy from someone who's been dealing with the same since Friday

Thank you!

Did you ever hear the Gil Scott-Heron inspired version of this from @bendavisauthor.bsky.social ? Genius. I’ve only seen it elsewhere but if we ask very nicely perhaps we could persuade him to put it here

A female figurine carved from green stone with facial features and limbs indicated by grooved lines. To the left are fingers in latex gloves.

Easily overlooked amongst the teaching collections at MAA, a small figure from Corsica has a history entwined with archaeology, folklore, and cultural identity. In his blog post Jon Fell traces its journey from a 1926 auction to the debates surrounding it today: www.maadigitallab.org/blog/2025/04...

There’s a fucking Twix advert, when I am listening to podcasts, that has made me never ever wish to purchase a Twix in my life again and I will make it my mission to ensure that nobody I know buys that twin sticked chocolate monstrosity in the future.

I know where you're coming from, but I see marble cake

The only place

Hmm I think I mean both really cos the tighter mocknecks look quite different

very cool

Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #310 - We are some students in an elementary school, from 12 and 13 years. We have studied with our teacher about the death in your music. We’ve got some questio... Dear Children from the College of Corsica, Thank you for your letter. I liked it a great deal. Your questions are so open, honest, curious...

Nick Cave rispondi à i culleghjenti di Moltifau.
Un testu incù prufundezza, unistità, umurisimu è sopratuttu tracolmu di gentilezza: l'umanità benevulenti senza gnagnulimi. Ci cambia appena.

www.theredhandfiles.com/students-in-...

Do you know what this type of neck is called? Bought it about 10 years ago and really like it but I haven’t been able to find another 🙏

Enjoying your singles Jamie, some bangers in there

good point, always a risk I'd imagine

does he microdose?

Indescribably terrible—just a real collapse of the human purpose of the thing itself, self-inflicted, for some reason