Alex Mircea

Detail of a black mosaic with a white skull, the boney arm of the skeleton raised, and a few ribs.

Mosaic with black background, reclining skeleton with cup of wine in hand with two loaves of bread and an amphora upright in a stand.

Happy #Halloween!
A wonderful 2nd century AD Roman mosaic found near Antioch, Turkey showing a skeleton, cup of wine in hand, reclining on the floor of a dining room in a house reminding guests to enjoy life: ‘ευφρόσυνος’

Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness

Russian army chiefs torturing and executing soldiers who refuse to fight in Ukraine, report says Investigation lists 101 superiors accused of tactics such as using drones to ‘finish’ off retreating troops and sending soldiers on death missions

Ukraine is fighting a truly psychotic opponent. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

"Are we the baddies?"

The reason the extremely wealthy can imagine living in space is that space is effectively where they already live. They go from remote site to remote site under heavy protection and behind tinted windows, completely disconnected from their surroundings. That’s basically space travel, every day.

Le mépris des conservateurs-restaurateurs du patrimoine épisode je n'arrive plus à compter : des collègues étrangers en convoiement à Paris ont découvert avec stupeur qu'il n'y avait pas de restaurateurs salariés dans les musées français : "mais comment vous entretenez vos collections ?".

Whoah that's mad. I think I was alone there when I took my own pic in 2009.

Après le casse du Louvre, un nouveau vol frappe un musée en Haute-Marne, "un trésor de pièces d'or et d'argent" Au lendemain du spectaculaire cambriolage du Louvre, un second vol vient frapper le monde culturel français. Ce lundi 20 octobre, les agents municipaux de Langres (Haute-Marne) ont découvert qu’une pa...

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Et bah soutien aux camarades du musée Denis Diderot, j'imagine que ça ne fera pas les actualités mais voilà, la mode est la, il y a de l'or dans les musées, il faut les dépouiller.

A reminder that this is the same man who voted to keep the German men’s right to rape their wives, so it’s not sexual violence against German women he’s opposed to.

Some say: it was long ago! He was an adult politician, and never apologised.

So the main culture war in Germany, fought by the country’s leader, is that despite mass deportations there are still too many non-white men in German cities: which needs to change so that white German daughters can feel safer. That’s an actual position that he is taking. An incitement to violence.

Would you sign up for my seminars if this was week one? (These are not all obligatory ..)

Oui : c’est la responsabilité totale de la direction du musée. Pas des agents•es de surveillance, parce que ça fait des années et des années qu’ils et elles alertent sur le manque d’effectifs, et la détérioration des conditions de travail (alors que le Louvre a une fréquentation toujours plus forte)

I never used those "thread roller" kind of tools but I think they may be useful...

Are you rewriting the twitter threads in their entirety? They were unvaluable resources for me. I had them bookmarked.

I enjoyed listening. You're such a good interviewee 👌

TBF I'm fine with picking anyone off that generation of (mostly) equally gifted players. My personal favourites at the time were, I think, Hagi, Zidane, Mendieta and Simeone but most other possible combinations sound mouth-watering

When he didn't have to deal with Guti, Raul, Macca, Helguerra, Savio etc occupying that exact same space, yes

There are different roles in midfield indeed, to a much greater extent compared to what there was in the '90s. But the flair guys still get to play deep, they just do it differently from holders and DMs. They go there to use their vision, their passing or their ball control, instead of say strenght

No, but he did play a lot in central midfield at Real. It was a great disappointment of mine as a young football fan, I just could not understand it.

In that famous match from next season Real Madrid blew Man United while fielding only one actual midfielder, but what a midfielder: Redondo

Tbf Redondo would have needed to achieve something with Argentina so that I could crown him now as the best of that generation

An attacking midfielder and a central midfielder are both midfielders, Miguel

That said, Zidane spent a lot of time in central midfielder wearing 5 on the back while at Real Madrid, because there were too many stars upfront who needed to play. It doesn't get more midfieldery than Zidane's career

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

It's been a long few months building a huge website from scratch, but it's now live!

Hypha Curates is a new UK arts sales platform where 70% of sale goes to the artist & 30% funds the work of Hypha Studios, the cultural charity I'm director of.

hyphacurates.com

Shouldn't the Brewers' number 10 be celebrating? Unless I missunderstand what's happening

‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature On the Road

A “very significant” unpublished story by Jack Kerouac described as “a lost chapter of the On the Road saga” has been discovered after languishing in the files of an assassinated Mafia crime boss for at least 40 years. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Diateza reflexivă ("te amăgești") servește în limbajul curent exact acestui scop. Exprimări ca "te autoamăgești" sau "te amăgești pe tine" tind în consecință să fie percepute ca pleonastice

An exciting thing I've been doing is Hypha Curates, a new platform for artists to sell their art directly to a new audience, keeping 70% & 30% going to the charity I'm Director of, Hypha Studios.
It's all revealed Tuesday with this inaugural exhibition, come along:

hyphastudios.com/hypha-curate...

The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

always read @alexshephard.bsky.social on Literature Nobel Day newrepublic.com/article/2015...

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