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Laura Knight. Portrait of Ethel Bartlett, 1926.

Knight painted completely outside of the style of her times, and her reputation and success paid the price. I particularly like this portrait of a popular pianist.

#Painting

I’ve been recommending #Ghost instead of Substack for years.

I need to merge these notes bmannconsulting.com/notes/ghos

With a bunch of interlinked notes on my old LogSeq site notes.bmannconsulting.com/#/pa

I helped at least two projects launch on Ghost instead of Substack because I knew bad platform things would happen.

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It looks like Vivek just found out on X what Trump's thumb down really means.

Some good #covid19 news.

“Staying up to date on COVID-19 vaccines can cut the risk of COVID-related strokes, blood clots, and heart attacks by around 50 percent in people ages 65 years or older and in those with a condition that makes them more vulnerable to those events, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

arstechnica.com/science/2024/0

Is anyone else having trouble accessing #DuckDuckGo? And any #IsThisSiteDown site? Other sites load for me, but not these. Very odd. What don't you want me to know, Internet?

#Ucraina
I sistemi di difesa aerea #Patriot hanno già abbattuto 15 #missili #Kinzhal russi da quando sono stati utilizzati per la prima volta a maggio, ha detto il portavoce dell'Air Force Yurii Ihnat alla televisione nazionale il 31 dicembre.

"Il 4 maggio, il primo missile Kinzhal "impareggiabile" è stato intercettato con successo. Il conteggio è iniziato da quel momento", ha detto Ihnat.
kyivindependent.com/air-force-

The 2.300 Years Old Theater Of Epidaurus In Greece, Capable Of Holding 14.000 Spectators. #PastTimes

via Brian Roemmele from Twitter

274gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. bit.ly/3usoe #CO2

We're up to a half inch of rain at #ForkedMeadow #California where it's now 34f. All that rain is getting soaked into the snow and compacting the base. #CaWx

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Tom Shales died from COVID-19.

Sam Smith -The Washington Post reports that “Tom Shales, a Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic for The Washington Post who brought incisive and barbed wit to coverage of the small screen and chronicled the medium as an increasingly powerful cultural force, for better and worse, died Jan. 13 at a hospital in Fairfax County, Va."

2/10 would not recommend this bookend. Bookend is very noisy and judge-y. Expects to be fed treats despite poor work quality. #caturday

@strypey
I'm happy for you and your dad--me, I've never had much luck with 'em. Everytime I try to play my shoehorn all I get are footnotes.

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