statement from Julian Assange’s union


thanks to Caitlin Johnstone for a related article*

see also archived version of page the tweet links to*



20210104T1505−08*
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holobiont – defined in this video

holobiont [HOH-luh-,bahy-ont, HOL-uh-]*
a host organism and its associated microorganisms: bacteria, viruses, and fungi

Pierre Jacques Antoine Béchamp (October 16, 1816 – April 15, 1908) was a French scientist now best known for breakthroughs in applied organic chemistry and for a bitter rivalry with Louis Pasteur.

… Béchamp's work continues to be promoted by a small group of alternative medicine proponents (also known as germ theory denialists), including advocates of alternative theories of cancer, who dismiss Pasteur's germ theory and argue that Béchamp's ideas were unjustly ignored. They accuse Pasteur, as did The French Academy of Sciences, of plagiarising and then suppressing Béchamp's work, citing work such as Ethel Douglas Hume's Béchamp or Pasteur: A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology from the 1920s.

source: Wikipedia item on Antoine Béchamp (!w2)
Louis Pasteur and Antoine Béchamp (!?)


20201226T1516−08*
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a socially distanced Andrea Bocelli performs O Holy Night in St Paul’s Cathedral

O Holy Night was created in 1847 by French opera composer Adolphe Adam, who also wrote the ballet Giselle

While initially popular in France, the carol quickly fell out of favour after its premiere, when Adam’s Judaism and poet Placide Cappeau’s socialism worried the Church so much that they banned performances.  

However, eight years later, John Dwight, an American Unitarian minister and classical musical critic, translated the carol into English, bringing its text and melody to a new audience.

archived source*

see also: an archived article* on backstories to the top ten carols for 2020 from a BBC poll


20201225T1536−08*
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ISO 8601 style for date and time: quick notes posted 2020-12-18T01:54Z

image credit: Fabrizio Verrecchia*

quick notes on ISO 8601 style for date and time:
date and time values are ordered left to right, from largest unit of time to smallest, / ISO 8601 (!w2, !?)
and the sequence may end with any unit: year, month, day, hour, minute, …

basic format separates date from time with a capital T

extended format uses hyphens and colons to separate units within these fields

use extended format, not basic, in running text

midnight – 00:00 in extended format – marks the start of a day

time with no date: T00, T0000, T00:00, and 00:00 / examples for midnight

local time is implied if no offset is appended

to relate local time to UTC, append an offset* (negative for west of the IRM*)

a compliant offset for PST is −08, for PDST, −07  / Unicode minus sign, U+2212 (!?)

compliant offsets for UTC, aka Zulu time, include +00 and Z


2020-12-17 / date also listed as a link to this post at bit.ly/dateposted – along with more about posts … T17−08*
*asterisks may link to anything (!*) – hover/click on links for destinations* / items below are notes for this post



2023-09-13 … screenshot of teaser for 2023-01 piece on Substack

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Michael Palin does Biggles … and Algy … and Ginger

Michael Palin* – a Biggles (!i) fan as a 12-year-old – reads a story he wrote in the style of W.E. Johns

The video, with Danish subtitles, is of an (almost) solo performance in The Secret Policeman’s Ball (1979).*

See also a 2013 piece on W.E. Johns by Patrick Cockburn in The Independent: Biggles flies uncensored.*


20201215T2155−08
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