Slavenka & Obi

»What a question« by Anatol Knotek

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Thu, 8 May 2025 08:58:00 +0200

Visual-Poetry

Mixtape

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:35:00 +0200

Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber

Banksy

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:26:00 +0200

BSA

Something has happened somewhere.

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:20:00 +0200

World bids farewell to Pope Francis

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 20:50:00 +0200

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Face to Face

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 20:45:00 +0200

Photograph: Ukrainian Foreign Ministry/AFP/Getty Images

Donald Trump, left, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Rome for Pope Francis’s funeral, deep in conversation in St Peter’s Basilica.

Nicola Jennings on Trump’s wild west redux – cartoon

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:24:00 +0200

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Word On The Street

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:15:00 +0200

Alex Itin

BSA Images Of The Week

The Morning Will Change Everything, Sebas Velasco

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 11:38:00 +0200

There’s a world out there, Jess Allen

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 11:29:00 +0200

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Something has happened somewhere.

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 11:19:00 +0200

This is how we must proceed, Gordon Brown.

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 11:02:00 +0200

What’s clear after recent events is that the fourth global order cannot be restored.

We are not only in a more protectionist era but are moving from a unipolar world where the US was the sole hegemonic power to one that has many more centres of decision-making power.

But because we are also a more interconnected world, we are more vulnerable to crises – from pandemics and climate emergencies to financial contagion.

All the more so because countries can, as we saw this week, weaponise that interdependence and the choke points it creates for their own advantage.

So if we are to have anything approaching a values-based order we will have at some point to agree an updated global charter for our common future, something that builds on the Atlantic Charter of 1941 and the UN Charter of 1945, but is geared to a completely different century.

Waiting Room, Tristan Martinez

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:52:00 +0200

“Waiting Room” is a celebration of transitional moments and experiences which may be otherwise overlooked.

Martinez describes the work as “the feeling of being on the cusp of a moment, just as something is about to happen or just after something has happened.”

Blue light, Joe Webb

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 09:09:00 +0200

Despite everything.

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Wed, 9 Apr 2025 09:52:00 +0200

Personal Message

There’s great news coming from Philadelphia Zoo.

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Wed, 9 Apr 2025 09:36:00 +0200

A 100-year-old tortoise, aptly named Mommy, has become a first-time mom with the hatching of four critically endangered Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo.

Since there were only 44 individual tortoises of their kind in all U.S. zoos combined, the arrival of these baby turtles is essentially a lifeline for the survival of this species.

Unlikely Friendship

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Wed, 9 Apr 2025 09:31:00 +0200

A woman was amazed when she realized her cat had slipped out the door only to find him relaxing in a tree — while getting "groomed" by a wild bird.

In reality, the excited bird couldn't believe her good fortune, picking at an unlimited supply of fur for a nest she was building.

According to the TikToker who posted the video, the cat made his way up the tree the next day for another round of the spa treatment, while the bird returned for more free building materials.

Kam. S. for Washington Walls. Brooklyn, NY.

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Mon, 7 Apr 2025 10:43:00 +0200

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Speed Trap, Clark Winter

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Mon, 7 Apr 2025 10:33:00 +0200

Clark Winter’s car photographs, taken during his travels around the globe, revel in nostalgia and reveal our strangely intimate relationships with our vehicles.

Empty Places, Farhan Ajram

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Mon, 7 Apr 2025 10:22:00 +0200

The song remains the same, Dan Climan

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Mon, 7 Apr 2025 10:10:00 +0200

For many of us, the United States means music, progress, hope.

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Mon, 7 Apr 2025 10:03:00 +0200

Illustration: Nathalie Lees/The Guardian

My first sense of the US’s allure came when I was a four-year-old, watching the glorious educational TV show Sesame Street, and being spellbound by its multiracial cast, and the way it offered a much more thrilling take on letters and numbers – and life – than the staid fare we got from the BBC and ITV.

A little later on, I can recall a few lucky childhood friends returning from American holidays – in Florida, usually – coming home with comics and sweets that increased my sense of the States as a beguiling land of dreams. And then came the clincher: a great mountain of music, which still sits at the heart of my understanding of what the US is, and how it may survive its current crisis.

By John Harris, continue reading.

Sarah's Scribbles

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Tue, 1 Apr 2025 12:18:00 +0200

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Tell me about it, Michael Pederson

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Tue, 1 Apr 2025 12:13:00 +0200

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Ain’t nothin on, William Greiner

noreply@blogger.com (Slavenka) — Tue, 1 Apr 2025 12:10:00 +0200

this isn’t happiness