Literatura casi siempre en serio. Fútbol y política casi siempre en broma. Alguna otra cosa, según me dé.
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Como el rey don Sebastián.
El rally Dakar 2027 comenzará en Portugal y terminará en Marruecos.
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Louis Jenrel retweeted
really? what a narrow view! Anderson did in fact write sympathetically & convincingly about girls & women; even Hemingway has a story from an adolescent girl's perspective, "Up in Michigan," that is a knockout; not to mention D.H. Lawrence, Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Hardy & (not least) Shakespeare.
if men can't write about women, women presumably can't write about men.
educated people can't write about lesser-educated people, Black writers can't write about brown people, people from Maine can't write about people from Vermont, no one can write about anyone except the sickly face in the mirror.
Cuatro decenios antes que George RR Martin escribe Mujica Lainez la expresión "tempestad de espadas".
Ojalá Kaspárov entrando en el Kremlin con una recortada al grito de "if you come at the King, you best not miss".
Hoy desvelamos en @elmundoes que Rusia lleva meses planeando matar al ajedrecista y líder disidente Garry Kasparov en Estados Unidos. elmundo.es/internacional/202… Este verano las autoridades de EEUU comunicaron al fundador de Free Russia Forum que era "objetivo" de un plan del Kremlin para matarlo y se le puso protección especial por primera vez desde que se exilió y se instaló en Nueva York en 2013, según han desvelado fuentes de su entrono.
Más avanzados estaban los planes para asesinar a Ilya Ponomarev, él único diputado ruso que votó contra la anexión de Crimea y que desde el exilio ha colaborado sobre el terreno con la defensa armada de Ucrania.
(En Vilna, dos exiliados rusos en la mirilla. Uno recibió protección cuando la red de asesinos se puso en marcha en 2024)
Un reclutado a las órdenes de Moscú filmó dos emplazamientos de una de las víctimas en EEUU, respondiendo a instrucciones precisas formuladas en clave: "medir terreno"= grabar, "construir"=matar. Cada tarea tenía un precio, pero no hubo acuerdo para la segunda.
@ElMundoInter
Apparently for the NYT there are no TV Shows in any language other than English. Borgen, The Bureau, Squid Game or Money Heist, for example. But of course, no disrespect for Breaking Bad, if The Wire is not at the top, you missed the king.
Hacer transbordo en un viaje aéreo es un rollo, pero si es en el aeropuerto de Los Rodeos por lo menos es trópicamente coherente.
Louis Jenrel retweeted
This is the kind of movie that pretentious douchebags like to recommend to people
But then you watch it and it's actually amazing
Con el de tu cuñado ya este año.
Chris Williams, CEO de Afterlife: "En cinco u ocho años podrás hablar con el holograma de un familiar fallecido en la mesa de Navidad" elmundo.es/papel/el-mundo-qu…
El rey Harald V ha muerto al poco de que Noruega fuera derrotada por Inglaterra y casi 960 años exactos después que Harald III, en una derrota de Noruega ante Inglaterra.
Y esto se aplica también, con matices, a los Sanfermines, las Fallas, la Feria de Abril, etc... Son para los locales.
Vamos a ver, las fiestas de los pueblos son una soberana mierda. A cada uno le gustan las del suyo y las considera las mejores pero es simplemente porque en tu pueblo estás con tu gente. Deja de vendernos que comerte una pancetada en la plaza bebiendo cerveza caliente en un vaso de plástico mientras suena Coyote Dax es un planazo imperdible.
Rielando.
On August 12th, 2026, the Moon totally eclipsed the Sun and cast its shadow across Siberia, Greenland, Iceland, Spain, and Portugal. Today’s image features two total solar eclipses viewed from Zaragoza, Spain, one over the Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar and the other reflecting in the Ebro River. For a few moments, Spain saw its first major total solar eclipse since 1905. Those witnessing totality may experience a chill in the air, the quieting of birds, the confused chirps of insects, and the shared awe of many. It’s the corona’s time to shine as the Sun’s bright disk is blocked by the Moon. Among other reasons to study eclipses, they help scientists understand why the corona is millions of degrees hotter than the Sun’s surface. Enthusiastic citizens can contribute to these studies by recording how wildlife responds, imaging the corona, and monitoring air temperature and clouds.
Image Credit & Copyright: Ruiyu Zhang Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)
Louis Jenrel retweeted
Witnessing a total solar eclipse is doing what is, mathematically, almost impossible. The odds of simply existing in such brief, harmonic alignment with the sun and moon are near zero; the fact that we’re able to do it — and plan for it — is a series of astronomically improbable miracles.
Simply the *existence* of a total solar eclipses is enough to make one believe in a higher power. The sun is 400 times wider than the moon, and yet the moon is 400 times closer. They can align perfectly for just a few seconds or minutes (up to 7 minutes 29 seconds). To our knowledge, doesn’t occur as perfectly anywhere else in the galaxy.
We just happen to occupy the one space rock that gets to see something like this somewhat regularly (about once every 18 months somewhere around the globe).
Even still, most humans will never see one. Any given location on Earth only sees a total solar eclipse once every 375 years on average. That’s four average lifetimes; we each get only one.
The ability to travel into the path of totality is even more unfathomable. The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. Humans have been around for about 200,000 years. Until the past 1,000 to 3,000 years, we couldn’t accurately or reliably predict eclipses. Only in the past century has air travel existed, and international air travel only became accessible for upper middle-class citizens of developed countries in the past 40 to 50 years. Remember — half of humanity still lives on under $7 a day.
In a few hundred million years, total solar eclipses will no longer exist. The moon is drifting away from Earth at the infinitesimal rate of 1.5 inches per year. That’s just enough that, someday, the moon will never appear big enough to cover the solar disk again.
If you saw Wednesday’s solar eclipse, count your blessings. Existing at this precise moment in spacetime, and having the knowledge and means to be in the path of totality, is far more special than one-in-a-million; it’s like going to a beach and choosing one specific grain of sand that happens to be the lucky winner.
Those who know me know I studied atmospheric sciences at Harvard. I’m all-science through and through. But this is the sort of stuff that keeps me faithful. If you get to experience a total solar eclipse, it’s hard not to be.
En Navidades trágicas de Agatha Christie sale un millonario sudafricano que empezó con una mina de diamantes, multiplicó su fortuna fabricando máquinas de su invención, tiene un montón de hijos, un peculiar sentido del humor y al que todo el mundo odia #LifeImitatesArt