France is providing a wonderful example of why if and when we dumped the British Monarchy, a Canadian Republic would probably be best not to go to a fully elected Presidential system but rather keep the appointed and largely powerless Constitutional head of state with the same Parliamentary system.
There is something to be said for not only the simplicity of our Parliamentary system but also the election of MPs that turn into a Cabinet and PM.
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🌳 ‘It has a heroic, Roman quality’: how Arkansas’s timber university building could revolutionise architecture
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/aug/26/it-has-a-heroic-rom…
🎧 Listening (at 1.5x speed … 😅) to a wonderful conversation between two of my favourite people: @… navigating the world of web #accessibility with @…
Here are my favourites from the National Portrait Gallery's Portrait Award 2025. It's a fantastic selection this year, and free to see as always.
#art #portraits #painting
In case anyone’s wondering how today’s going, my wife’s feeling ill, so I threw on a stained, torn t-shirt for to fetch her favourite breakfast—cheese kransky—only to arrive at the supermarket a full hour before it opened. 🤦🏻♂️
Schloss Johannisberg, Rheingau Musik Festival: Alexander Malofeev, Klavier
I'm left to wonder about his finale, Skrjabin's Fantasie h-Moll op. 28. The hall got warm by the end. I suspect it got to this otherwise superb young pianist (along with a cellphone ringing during Listz's Funérailles). He played the Fantasie for 3–4 minutes. It's described as lasting ca. 9 minutes and requiring the full, immense skill of the performer while stretching the limits of the instrument…
Interesting testimonies, I wonder what the men* think about "dating in 2025” (whether you're in the USA, like in the article, or elsewhere..)?
Generally, maybe people would be more happy if they paired up with someone else independently of that person's gender, but focusing more on shared values and goals? Our societies are very "husband & wife" - oriented, but they don't have to!
‘Men seem to make life for women worse’: single US women share the woes of dating in 2025
As we were touring potential new office locations earlier today, a coworker mentioned to a potential landlord that our office had a kitchen before Google existed.
So I felt obliged to share that my recollection was that when Google was small, they wrote us and said that they had noticed that we had a chef and wondered how that was working out for us. We said we loved it!
(They knew us because our web browser @…