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Gaza freedom flotilla ship Madleen, due to enter Palestinian waters at around 2am local time Monday, has been intercepted by Israeli vessels and quadcopter drones in international waters. The ship has been sprayed with an unknown substance; crew are reporting the ship is being

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"Animated Activism" exhibition University of Leeds -- recreated 1980s feminist action hot desk (with Crass making a mug cameo), and Cel artwork from "Give Us A Smile" (1983), imagining seedy Soho aflame, the night reclaimed.

crocifissione / crucifixion

orange wine, toasted meringue, fresh sourdough; Isca, Levenshulme

emergency bee revival in the garden, with my troubleshooting BEEVIVE Ltd kit... from honeycomatose to back to buzzing. #savethebees

Audio of my talk is here: benjaminhalligan.com/news-misc/

Reacquaintance with "The Last Days of Disco" this evening HOME thx to Lost Reels. Reacquintance? No! First proper meeting since it screened from 35mm. Whit Stillman in person too, fielding superb questions from the audience after. "Halston, Gucci, Fiorucci..."

To Watershed Bristol, Cinema Rediscovered #CineRedis25 fest: intros for John Akomfrah / Black Audio Film Collective's "Handsworth Songs" (which repays so much everytime it's rediscovered) & Vera Chytilova's "Kalamita" (40+ years late premiere, so more discovered than rediscovered!)

Gracie mille, Adriana Asti... e encore: "Chi non ha vissuto negli anni prima della Rivoluzione non può capire che cosa sia la dolcezza del vivere."

elevation is amazing news but anything St John Henry Newman brings to mind Lytton Strachey's camp reimagining of the dawning conversion moment in "Eminent Victorians" (1918): "Supposing - oh heavens! - supposing after all they were to lead to - -!" (punctuation Strachey's own)