Jeremy Solomons

Things, I'm reading, looking at, listening to, thinking about and links to my web posts. www.jcsolomons.com www.anglojewishliterature.com www.booksjcsolomons.wordpress.com

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Tonight is even more ominous! And we got the warnings again.

#amazingarizona

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Tonight is even more ominous! And we got the warnings again.

#amazingarizona

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Last night's skies led to a storm warning on our phones.

#amazingarizona

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Team from a country of 5.6 millions tying a team from a country of 213 million!

##brazil

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I have read a lot by Rebecca Solnit, and I am stull inspired by her book Hope in the Dark. This interview is on the occasion of the publication of a sort of sequel to that book.The Beginning Comes After the End

https://youtu.be/sOJ_uaffG5s?si=Flgep0GFtciczCu-

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Arizona sky this morning, Mar. 3, 2026. Alane's first AZ carer started yesterday!

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Arizona sky. Mar 2, 2026. This is what you post when you have so much on your mind that you don't know where to start.

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Thank you #RichardOsman for this:

“After writing an email, a text, anything really, you can simply run the whole thing through ChatGPT and it instantly deletes your personality. It flattens you out, irons your creases, washes you away, quirk by quirk, until you disappear.”

It's from We Solve Murders published last year.

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My latest cartoon for @guardian books

(I had to delete the previous version because tumblr made the colours weird. Sorry.)

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A friend just recommended an article by Dorothy Thompson. It's called "Who Goes Nazi". I think it could make a terrifying game show, and it will ruin your next Thanksgiving.

"It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi."

https://harpers.org/2015/12/who-goes-nazi/

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Never seen this before. It's wonderful

https://youtu.be/_pc1HLaC4ng?si=t-cwSNfI8uJdnDd8

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Arthur Miller lives!

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To all the people who are "not prejudiced" but who nonetheless object to trans people or gender queer people using the pronoun in the singular.

"But that’s nothing new. The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular #they back to 1375, where it appears in the medieval romance William and the Werewolf."

https://www.oed.com/discover/a-brief-history-of-singular-they

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Check out the #DickGaughan: R/evolution 1969-84 - an 8-disc box set. If you love Gaughan's music as I and so many others do, this is a very cool, and althought is doesn't solve the Celctic Music debacle, it looks like a great project.

Dick Gaughan: R/evolution 1969-84 - an 8-disc box set

Preservation, celebration, remuneration - recreating a fabulous lost legacy of music and rewarding the artist directly

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I guess this is a good thing. In the hospital waiting room.

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Timothy Snyder: "Don't obey in advance!"

Read the book. It called "On Tyranny."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-america-fascism-authoritarianism-resist-election-2024-1235157764/

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Sunday New York Times Opinion front page.