Andrew McCabe

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King's Speech Day The usual phantom Bill to penalise Sheriffs who declare Outlaws without having advertised The most ludicrous real Bill is one to boost the number of female Bishops in the House of Lords. Why are there any Bishops in the House of Lords. Why are there Lords in the House of Lords?

Coffee order. Big fan of Algerian Coffee Store in Old Compton Street.

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The Story Behind a Rare 19th-Century Portrait of a Person of Color Emerges

The Story Behind a 19th-Century Portrait of a Person of Color Emergesnews.artnet.com The Baltimore Museum of Art debuts a 19th-century portrait of Mary Ann Tritt Cassell likely commissioned by her mother, who was born enslaved.

Ping pong dim sum at Waterloo. Tré appears to be filling out an exam paper. They make you write down your order like a laundry list but it's kinda cute.

Guardian: "...new mayors in Greater Lincolnshire and Hull and East Yorkshire." not "Greater Lincolnshire, Hull, and East Yorkshire" due initial 'and' not one place due "mayors" Is it "Greater Lincolnshire and Hull, and East Yorkshire" or "Greater Lincolnshire, and Hull and East Yorkshire"?

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I have some news… For the next school year, I will be the artist-in-residence at Harvard Medical School as part of the MS program in Media, Medicine and Health. This fall, I’m teaching a course on how the memoir functions within systems of power. I’m excited, nervous and ready to make good trouble.

Wearing my England Euro Losers T-shirt today. This from 2021 and three guys who missed penalties in the final. Sorry-O England ⚽

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Now listening to the new album, Thugs from Amritsar, by Pataka Boys. Hip-hop exploring the Indian Diaspora, it’s complex and layered. Mellow, insistent.

Thugs From Amritsar, by PATAKA BOYS | PAV4N sonnyjim Kartiksudherapav4n.bandcamp.com 14 track album

Family Sunday

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An improperly stored borzoi may get tangled.

An elevator costs $158,000 in New York City, but only $36,000 in Switzerland. US elevator union’s contract forbids prefabrication, and European elevators are sized for a wheelchair but US needs stretcher team capacity. USA has only same number of elevators as Spain. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/o...

Opinion | The American Elevator Explains Why Housing Costs Have Skyrocketedwww.nytimes.com An illness led Stephen Smith to study why America has so few elevators. What he learned explains why housing costs are so high.

Seiko Laurel in sterling silver and 18k gold case, high-end 4S24 hand-winding movement introduced 1992 for an experimental period coinciding with the reintroduced Grand Seikos and other high end mechanical Seikos and based on Seiko 52 movement, retired in 1976. Rare watch, underappreciated. 37mm.

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Untitled, by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1979, 📸 by @franck_fife

New watch day. Cellinium.

"sickle cell sufferers have long complained about not having their requests for pain medication taken seriously and having to wait in A&E for hours before getting relief" Yes 😞 Supacell's creator, Rapman, (Andrew Onwubolu) wants sickle cell to be seen and heard www.theguardian.com/society/arti...

Hit Netflix show Supacell is raising awareness of sickle cell anaemiawww.theguardian.com Supacell follows a group of south Londoners who develop superpowers, interspersing real-life issues that affect Black and mixed-race Britons

I've ordered a Black Friend on Amazon GOP supporters in the US and Tories in the UK: yes it's possible

The most Oyinbo food ever

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Saul Steinberger for March issue 1955 Flair magazine.

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PSA for discerning Classicists, looking for only the finest of Greek-inspired housewares: I found this kylix-looking ice bucket on sale in the dollar spot area at my local Target for $2.50!

Rachel's housing speech prompted mum (95) to describe her move from a tenement flat to a house about 1935 and her older sis went in and ran back out to say "WE HAVE A BATH! WE HAVE A BATH! and mum said why can't we just do that today, why can't we just BUILD like when the tenements went down

Dr. Patricia McCabe (age 95) at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, where she used to work until age 90. Chester Beatty was an early 20th century collector of western, eastern, and middle east print works, manuscripts and fabrics who donated his collection to Ireland

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This essay is dedicated to those who have experienced a Nigerian University, to the things we learn outside the classroom, to life and hope and joy and survival. folukeafrica.com/death-and-th...

Death and the King’s Universityfolukeafrica.com Most things I know about death & trauma I learnt in Ile-Ife

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A sneak peek at part of our new fountain pen.

When a 95 year old lives life to the full it enriches us all. Here's Dr.Patricia - driving dangerously - knitting a outrageous sweater - walking in the woods - reviewing the National Gallery of Ireland from her perspective as an art historian takes a lil effort but payback is wonderful

5 seats rather than 4 seats will I think garner Reform a million rather than £350k in parliamentary short money, due 21 pence per vote, rather than £350k max, kicking in. @chadbourn.bsky.social

I've voted and now I'm leaving the country, flying to my motherland, where I'll pick up general election results overnight Sunny day in Acton Town

General Election sleep plan: - nap after dinner - up for exit poll 10pm - doze 1030 to 1am, with eye open for Basildon c.12:15 - up 1 to 3:45 as result crystallises - sleep until 8am then catch last hour of BBC R4 Today - doze til Podium and Palace and Palace and Podium hour

It's dogs at polling stations day!

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One of the essay topics for my Roman Political Thought module last term: “How did a political culture founded through the overthrow of monarchy and obsessed with the dangers of excessive individual power come to terms with the rise of unfettered autocracy?”