#Rafah - 1.5m people crammed into an area about the size of Limerick City. Aerial photos in EL PAÍS show the surge of tents from October (L) to April (R). Aid not getting in, hunger widespread - and now the fear of bombs & tanks arriving. Trying to flee again. #CeasefireNOW

why is nobody making affordable linen suits in zingy colours for the girlo dandies among us... where are all the foppish and insouciant ladies getting their tailoring these days?

currently this article uses the 'civil conflict' infobox (the same template used for Tiananmen Square massacre, Iranian Revolution, Stonewall Riots, Arab Spring, and the Jan 6 Capitol attack)

trains are obviously Cinema. but what's less commonly appreciated is that buses are Literature

devoured this book over the weekend while painting my front door (also a kind of art I say), it's excellent, a top Complicated Friendship memoir and surely will be one of the nonfic books of the year

.New York Magazine's new cover package, in partnership with the Columbia Daily Spectator, is an intimate look at the events on the ground at Columbia University in the midst of antiwar protests. It is written and photographed entirely by staff at the Spectator. Read more: nymag.com/press/article/…

The Book of Kells should be in the National Museum not Trinity College Dublin

My cold take on this is that ChatGPT was hyped and framed as a general artificial intelligence that could do just about anything, when in fact it’s a specific form of artificial intelligence that does just a few things well (including faking the ability to do many others)

it's that time of year, on his date of execution, when I mention that when Thomas McDonagh taught his last ever class at UCD on Jane Austen, he signed off with 'There's no one like Jane, lads!' and then went out to start a revolution

The British Museum has many Irish artefacts of unknown function in their stores and I think it would be good if they were honest with us which are among the 'missing' and stolen artefacts theguardian.com/culture/2023/a…

“i never thought it would make it more difficult for vulnerable people like ME to vote,' sobs man who is an elected representative for the Making It Harder For Vulnerable People To Vote Party

reporting live from muppet wiki fandom page “flattened characters”

My The New Yorker column this week: Websites are back baby!!! type in a homepage URL today, fight the homogenization of the platform internet. ft. nilay patel, Ben Smith, Defector, Arts & Letters Daily newyorker.com/culture/infini…

requiring voter ID and accepting 60+ travel passes but not student travel passes (or even student ID!) is blatant and obvious youth voter suppression don't get it twisted

Cover Reveal! Here is Issue Seven. We commissioned the amazing photographer Jim Fuller for the image with cover design, as always, by Sarah McCoy. You can pre-order Issue Seven here: tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue-s…
#HotTolkaSummer #Manifest

I’ll actually be sad to see this go. Some people considered it an eyesore.
Personally I always thought it was more akin to an artwork. Specifically, it’s v similar to installations by Rachael Whiteread, the English artist who famously cast the insides of a house in London.

when the ambient music contains bird field recordings

Very sad to hear that Paul Auster has died. Can’t tell you how much his early novels affected me. This, in particular, a book about language, identity, writing, anxiety, and melting into the city. Absolute magic.

Londoners: have you ever worked in the Gherkin?

I'm looking for people to talk about what it's like to spend the working day in the City's best-loved skyscraper (either now or years ago - doesn't matter).

For a thing. DMs open, as ever.

it's her birthday today... also international workers day.... no jokes please.