Afternoon run.

#20c here! That’s hot (for Scotland in April). 27k, road and trails. And the wild garlic is out.

Luckily (for the dug) there are a lot of puddles. Memo to self, his water bottle comes tomorrow.

#running #ScottishBorders #BorderCollie #DogsOfMastodon

Trying to science. My first attempt at making a h&d curve by contact printing a wedge directly on film. Includes a home made contact printer. This is #Kentmere 200, pyrocat HDC 1+1+100 #20c, 9:30s

#AnaloguePhotography #Darkroom

Francisco Carcaño was a military engineer and an amateur novelist and journalist. His texts are one of the few litarary descriptions of Melilla at the beginning of the #20c. Most importantly, he was VERY HORNY. In my newest book chapter, I explore his works: (p. 121) 🗃️ www.viella.it/libro/979125...

Mediterranean Mobilities Betwe...

Vladimir Nabokov's tiny Berlin mystery 'The Eye' is an incel Sherlock Holmes (and Victor Hugo's 'Les Misérables isn't).

https://bowblog.com/2024/01/15/on-the-spectrum/

#literature #novel #history #19C #20C #Nabokov #VictorHugo #review #humanism #misanthropy #revolution #France #Russia

On the spectrum

Two novels, one small and mean, one vast and generous, both magnificent This year I started a bookclub in our house – with mixed results if I’m honest. It’s called ‘The Sma…

Issues: absent from the Republican performative debate. VR repeatedly disqualified himself, falsely claiming CC solutions have killed more ppl than CC... & RD, by expressing authoritarian vows of violence by promising to render any drug dealers at the border ‘stone cold dead’. Journalists are failing as they cover the elections like the #20C instead of explaining: Rs’ fascism, dangerous anti-social mvt, calls for violence, dehumanization of others…🚨#GOPRacism #GOPLies https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/media-2020-election-trump-authoritarianism-20230827.html
Journalism fails miserably at explaining what is really happening to America

Momentous week of GOP debate, Trump's arrest gets "horse race" coverage when the story's not about an election, but authoritarianism.

https://www.inquirer.com