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Mallorca, Spain (by Kees de Vos)

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GASPARD ULLIEL in IT’S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD (2016), dir. Xavier Dolan

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‘We’ve made some changes to the structure of your organisation. Ever since you began to build your empire, you’ve had a crutch to lean on. Last night, we kicked away that crutch. From now on, it will be us that you lean on.‘

Peaky Blinders | 6.01 “Black Day”

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Ways to support Ukraine 🇺🇦

More than 500,000 people have already left Ukraine due to the invasion by the Russian Federation. The European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management estimates that roughly 18 million Ukrainians will be affected by the conflict in humanitarian terms, with 7 million internally displaced and 4 million seeking refuge elsewhere. To help those still in Ukraine, as well as Ukrainian refugees, we’ve compiled this list of resources.

HelpUkraineWin.org has a collection of vetted and trusted resources, charities, and organizations to help Ukraine.

Some additional ways to donate:

Vostok SOS provides immediate evacuation support.

Malteser International provides essentials for Ukrainian refugees.

Ukraine Crisis Media Center provides fundraising links and a list of tips for sharing information.

Misinformation spreads fast on social media. It is more important than ever to share accurate, verifiable news and information. Here are some resources to learn how to identify misinformation:

This link from the nonprofit WITNESS shares tips for identifying authentic video sources (available in English, Spanish, Ukranian, Russian, and Arabic).

These visual verification tips, also from WITNESS, provide information on verifying images and videos (available in English and Spanish).

This interview with NPR contains tips for identifying fake TikToks.

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Parents are supposed to love their children, right? It’s one of those values so hard-coded into our societies that we almost take it for granted. We know, though, how often parents don’t love their children, and we know how often parents put their own self-interest ahead of their kids’ futures. Succession’s argument extends this core sadness out to an entire species and an entire planet.

But we keep believing anyway. The children of abusers hope that, finally, their parents might see them and love them, and Succession puts us in the shoes of abuse survivors over and over again, as they hope that Logan will just turn some corner and do the right thing. But we know he won’t. He can’t. He’s too far gone. Sometimes, parents don’t love their children. This is one of those times.

So you find love elsewhere. And what changes in season three of Succession is that Kendall, Roman, and Shiv finally realize they have each other. Nothing has changed; everything has changed.

-  Nothing changed and everything changed in Succession’s third season, by Emily VanDerWerff

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Jude Law in The New Pope (2020)

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Shakespeare & Co. (Paris, 2019)

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Happy or sad? Sad.

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“I had the devil to fight, and now nothing.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry c. October 1928 featured in “Diaries,”

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They are stealing the race from us

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“I am fond of lovers but I cannot love, I am too far away, am banished,”

— Franz Kafka, from a diary entry wr. c. January 1917 featured in “Diaries,”

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Château de Moissac ♡

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King’s College Library, Cambridge University