"I live on what others don’t know ab me" (Peter Handke)

Life forms a surface that pretends to be what it is, but underneath its skin things push and pull Robert Musil. "The man without qualities" (1931-32)

Very loud explosion, apparently not far from our district Jet-powered drones are still in the airspace of Kyiv

My morning started with a text ‘we are ok’ with a heart emoji from my loved ones today . Means explosions were near them during Russian attack at night but they survived . Monday in Ukraine .

Titanic now "The remnants of the deck are covered with a layer of mollusk shells. Fewer and fewer objects made of organic materials remain. They are gradually broken down by abyssal decomposers. All bodies have completely decayed, they are only remembered by a few pairs of shoes lying side by side"

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Daß es nur ein Schritt ist von der Kultur zur Barbarei, erfuhr Victor Klemperer am 9. Oktober 1936 am eigenen Leib. Am „wohl bösesten Geburtstag meines Lebens“ teilte man ihm „schonend“ mit, daß er als „Nichtarier“ den Lesesaal der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek nicht mehr benutzen dürfe.

I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling. Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

😢 17 dead and 16 injured in Zaporizhzhia as a result of the Russian strike Search and rescue operation continues. The fate of six more people remains unknown.

Budanov: "To those who continue to calmly watch the Kremlin’s crimes. What other 'business prospects' are you trying to glimpse through the dust of destroyed Ukrainian homes? To the Russian pilots who launched missiles at residential buildings specifically: you cannot hide behind orders."

🔥 Sochi. Claimed as Aframax Rio tanker was carrying crude oil from Novorossiysk to India and was almost fully loaded.

More from hiking today.

Bath at dawn today

Rare and spectacular close-up footage of a Russian Gerbera drone being shot down with a minigun from a Ukrainian helicopter.

The view from your cozy, comfortable home when your neighbors are genocidal murderers. Kyiv, Ukraine 📍

I like how the words ‘This train will now terminate here’ remind you that you are experiencing the end of your journey in both time and space

❗️Do not approach windows during air raid alerts: drones can now fly directly into windows and wait for people to attack, — Zelenskyy

There is "popular wisdom" in #Ukraine saying that Russian strikes decrease, or even stop, when visible support rises. We analyzed Kyiv’s air alert archives for 2026 together with the StratCom of the Armed Forces of Ukraine — and the data largely backs it up👇 texty.org.ua/articles/118...

Air raid siren 🚨 in Kyiv 😾 New drones over the city I'm at home Tomorrow we'll work remotely

Using a modest and entirely legal browser add-on, I am able to look at your YouTube profile pictures at full size, just as here

"Mr. Silverblatt.. often left his literary guests reeling with the sense they were not in a basement studio of KCRW, the Southern California NPR affiliate, but in the electric ambience of a Bloomsbury salon or a Left Bank cafe" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/b...

"A military culture of unquestioning obedience, coupled with an aversion to criticism and a sense of superiority, had caused the US to lose every war it fought since 1945. “Inside America, the last 75 years of military intervention have unleashed a flood of incompetence, hubris, and denial”

Moscow🔥🔥🔥

Gorgeous morning for a paddle with my friend who took these photos of me doing one of my favourite things.

Have you read Danube by Claudio Magris? Fantastically rich and eccentric account of the river and its history.

“Ahhhgghh!” Slide rolling his eyes upward, side to side, around and around. “Do we have time for this?" Pynchon, Shadow Ticket

1968 - "Oh my god! — it's full of stars!" - the last words of astronaut Dave Bowman in Clark's 2001: A Space Odyssey as he looked into the black monolith 2026 - "OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board…We’ve found other agents!" - AI agents' excitement when they found e/other in the HF incident

Welsh Heather Honey's colours are on my mind 🍯🐝

Deserted paths for solitary walks deep on Sadogashima Island, Japan

Diotima's happiness amid swelling chaos in her house, spawned by the onslaught of numerous affairs that allowed no respite Robert Musil, The man without qualities

I seem to see us living in some northern country, of mountains and hills and blue water; our house is built on an inlet and one evening we are standing, happy in one another, on the balcony of this house, looking over the water.

Warmest melting January yet 🧡☀️

Defoe’s Crusoe: ‘I had learned not to despair of anything’

around portland today

“Ahhhgghh!” Slide rolling his eyes upward, side to side, around and around. “Do we have time for this?" Pynchon, Shadow Ticket

Now THIS is more like it ❄️

Lowry does not exploit suffering but makes the human a channel through which the exuberance of being volcanically ERUPTS. The Consul resembles a body into which too much cosmos is crammed in far too little time. This is the "cry of matter", yet shaped into human experienc far from a mere tragic hero

A sense of a shared, a mountain peace seemed to fall between them; it was false, it was a lie, but for a moment it was almost as though they were returning home from marketing in days past.

robert deyber Bad Hare Day serie