Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club), page 54

UK Parliament: If we pathetically wallow in indecision long enough, the EU will rescue us by agreeing to, uh, "something."

EU: First of all no, and second, you have to tell us what something is that you want us to agree, before you can demand we agree to it.

UK: Hold my beer while the Cabinet completely undermines and dis-empowers the PM and her own minority government, that should help.

EU: Face-palm... this could be going very much better...

The Genius of J.S. Bach’s "Crab Canon" Visualized on a Möbius Strip

Now this is genius…

http://www.openculture.com/?p=55685 https://t.co/ehp3YoYK9I

What Are the Most Influential Books Written by Scholars in the Last 20 Years?

Leading Academics Pick "The New Canon"

http://www.openculture.com/?p=1057637 https://t.co/Q5bS3cfdhc

Marilyn Monroe Reads Joyce’s Ulysses at the Playground (1955).

And made it to the very end.
http://goo.gl/qGSe7m https://t.co/qVjVk6mFKo

"On 30th March, Extinction Rebellion is calling for hundreds of brave people, regardless of age or background, to do their duty: for our children, for our communities and for this great nation. Together we will peacefully and non-violently block the motorway out of Dover."

Aaaaand XR's rhetoric is really starting to slide into ecofascism. On Brexit day, when the working class will be at its most vulnerable, they plan to block any and all movement through Dover. Nothing is being done to establish solutions, nothing is being done to help people actually vulnerable to food and medicine scarcity right now.

Unless I can find more, I literally only have meds up until brexit day. I'm not interested in whatever weirdly nationalistic point XR is trying to make about resource scarcity in the future, I'm concerned about the resource scarcity I'm already seeing first hand.

Extinction Rebellion is making it really fucking hard to be their ally

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau

Boost this toot and I’ll pull a tarot card for you.

‘Living backwards!’ Alice repeated in great astonishment. ‘I never heard of such a thing!’

‘—but there’s one great advantage in it, that one’s memory works both ways.’

‘I’m sure mine only works one way,’ Alice remarked. ‘I can’t remember things before they happen.’

‘It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,’ the Queen remarked.

- Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)

"Few citizens realize that our tradition of jokes about the foolishness of the middle child derives from a centuries-old humorous dialogue between Beszel's head rabbi and its chief imam about the intemperance of the Beszel Orthodox Church. It had, they agreed, neither the wisdom of the oldest Abrahamic faith, nor the vigor of its youngest."

The City and the City is both opaque and uncomfortably noir so far, but at least it acknowledges the Jews of Eastern Europe.

#books

Le Québec pourrait-il à son tour adopter la fin du changement d’heure? — Le changement d’heure a fait son temps. En tout cas, plus de 83 % des 2,1 millions de Français... — http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fluxdudevoir/~3/UGaWeKBaQSs/le-quebec-pourrait-il-a-son-tour-adopter-la-fin-du-changement-d-heure #Société

Behold Mystical Photographs Taken Inside a Cello, Double Bass & Other Instruments http://www.openculture.com/?p=1055877 https://t.co/pD2ZZvYQx7