CoffeeBoy

@TooMuchCoffee
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The ballroom is a fiasco.
The reflecting pool is a fiasco.
The inflation is a fiasco.
The federal deficit is a fiasco.
The Iran war is a fiasco.

So please remind me again what makes Trump such a “winner”?

"When a young man came up to him in Zurich and said, 'May I kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses?' Joyce replied, somewhat like King Lear, 'No, it did lots of other things too.'"

Let's celebrate, today is Bloomsday!

Read the whole article in our June newsletter:
https://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/

Ulysses by James Joyce at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300

#Books #Literature

16 June 1928 | A German Jewish boy, Hans Iakobson, was born in Güstrow.

He was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.
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🎧/📖 The development of the mass murder infrastructure at Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/46ryjrT

"This, of course, is much better algae, the best algae. Algae like no one has ever seen before. I know more about algae than anyone. Everybody says so. Big, strong men have come up to me with tears in their eyes and said, 'Sir, we cannot believe how great you are at dealing with algae.' And it's growing bigly!"
Watch: Cat wanders onto stage during 'Romeo and Juliet' ballet performance #UPI https://twp.ai/E5CyZ9
Watch: Cat wanders onto stage during 'Romeo and Juliet' ballet performance - UPI.com

A ballet performance of "Romeo and Juliet" in Turkey went off-script when a cat wandered onto stage and interacted with the performance.

UPI

While Trump celebrates that the Hormuz strait is now “fully open” for ships to sail freely without paying any tolls, Iran is cebrating that they have made a deal with Trump that allows them to charge “fees” for safe passage through the strait, which is totally not a toll because it is called a “fee”.

In short: There is no deal. The US is led by a fool.

https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-international/2026/06/16/JRYHM67OQRESNPGARHWU6VWGLQ/

Iran shifts to service fees in Hormuz, testing navigation freedoms - CHOSUNBIZ

Iran shifts to service fees in Hormuz, testing navigation freedoms Service charges plan in the Strait of Hormuz sparks legal doubts and navigation freedom concerns

CHOSUNBIZ
Today I have been at G1 summit.

#Bloomsday reading: The late Frank Delaney's 2012 essay "Seeing Joyce" in which he explores the visual qualities in James Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake... https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/seeing-joyce #Bloomsday2022

Pictured: James Joyce's own sketch of "Poldy" (Leopold Bloom) from his notes.