Saw this and then opened the NYT piece to cause myself immense pain.

The only bookstore that didn't have a "BookTok" section in Sofia has also fallen.

Uncritical support. Cede no ground to the despicable class of building managers.

God, I've seen what you've done for other people, and I want that for me, etc.

Famously, autocracies are very predicatble. They should be left alone. I'm sure no sudden violent outbursts of madness will occur. That always works out great.

That is correct. A rabid dog doesn't get to whine about precious sovereignty if the only consistent thing it does with it is bite everyone and everything around. If Russia can't try to exist without attempts at imperial subjugation, it should face the consequences. Cry about it.

Andrew Ryan would be a chill, well-mannered guy to have drinks with (if you can tolerate him yapping about the surface parasites and leeches non-stop).

If you have those, you won't have to do this all day:

Bored, so I'm reading some Simone Weil essays that I never got around to. Even her really obscure stuff is phenomenal.

Helmschmied posting will continue until morale improves.

The harnesses made for Maximilian I and others by Lorenz Helmschmied have been living rent-free in my head since I saw them half a decade ago in the Kunsthistorisches Museum. You're not a serious person if you don't consider him one of the greatest artists of the Late Medieval/Renaissance period.

My Arabic tutor desperately trying to decipher my incomprehensible scribblings.

I forgot Macron existed for a short time, only for him to do the most "white boy who loves orientalism" tour of all time.

Many scholars do not, in fact, think that, unless we are still living in the 19th century. It was enormously expensive to maintain. Major local political instability was what caused decline, not a disinterest in books. The Mediterranean was far more literate in 400CE than the Hellenistic period.

Looks genuine to me. I have no further questions.

I'll be unironically Khan posting all day.

I went through these, and the important thing to note: when film critics are raving about Nolan by pointing out how 'big' and 'loud' it is, this means it's a Dark Knight Rises/Tenet situation. An absolutely incoherent and poorly made disaster (I'm very excited to see it). Dedicated hate watcher.

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Consult the image.

I, for one, am thankful for getting so many uses out of this.

Oh my god, the influencers are trying to rehabilitate Kaliningrad Oblast now. The place is usually so nightmarish that Russian state media is forced to use footage of Polish or Lithuanian cities to make it seem appealing.

Relevant

The problem is that I forgot what he looks like and when saw I nearly fell off my chair.

This fella is from Wroclaw Zoo.