Post Election round up

Counting starts 0900hrs; exit polls say: FG FF SF troikaed on 22% ± 1.3%. Labour 4.5% have been flushed down the toilet of history, with Greens 8% taking their place as the not-Right not-RA alternative. Ho hum, same old same old, so.
Other matter. Have you contributed to RNLI yet this year?

Other hilarious integrations of search-rescue ships

• Did someone mention elections? Cedric Villani [prev] is running for Mayor in Paris [NYT]
• Magnus Carlsen bloody bold and resolute
• Music
• Tu Bardh drums with Clanadonia - Scotchic
• Dance me to the end of love - Tango chic
• Les Yeux Noirs - French chic
• Pie Jesu
• Ruth Coker Burks - the cemetery angel [backstory from Arkansas Times]
• I had two classes on Friday and, in both of them, one of the students announced Philip Schofield is gay. Deaf-aid me heard them say Philip Schofield is dead, which would have a been a bigger surprise, I guess, because the dude is only 57. The feeling of whatevs in the class was touching. Maybe we're getting towards a society where people can be their true selves and get on with the righteous lives without being told that they are sinners.
• Tonight I can write the saddest lines - te extraño

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.

Escribir, por ejemplo : 'La noche está estrellada,

y tiritan, azules, los astros, a lo lejos'.

El viento de la noche gira en el cielo y canta.

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.

Yo la quise, y a veces ella también me quiso.

Words by Pablo Neruda