Sat 24 Oct · today

• 13:00–14:00 · Tennis, outdoor clay court 7 · Sportovní Areál Třebešín, Na Třebešíně 3215/1, Praha-Strašnice · 280 CZK

Sun 25 Oct

• Nothing timed.

Mon 26 Oct

• 08:00–15:00 · ShiftPanda meetings with Luca
• 19:00–21:00 · Dinner with Luca · private hold, no place set

• Intimissimi orders 2003989511 and 2003989496 · ready in store · Intimissimi SC Palladium, Náměstí Republiky 1 (daily 9:00–21:00) · show the email at the till · collect by about Wed 28 Oct (5 days from the 23 Oct emails)
• JP-Kontakt desk (order 20/2026/4730, VSS 180/70 white, with assembly) · paid, no delivery date in the mail yet

Lozova railway station, Kharkiv Oblast (Artemka, CC BY-SA 3.0). Wikimedia Commons

• Ukraine: energy strikes, deaths in Lozova. Overnight 22–23 Oct Russia hit energy sites in six regions, cutting power to over 500,000 people; 8 civilians were killed and 67 hurt in a day, many at a market in Lozova. Kyiv Independent · CNBC
• Talks in November? After Witkoff met Putin in St Petersburg, Putin says Moscow is ready to resume US-mediated talks in November; Zelensky wants a ceasefire with strong security guarantees.
• Oleshky ceasefire, prisoner swap. A local humanitarian ceasefire in occupied Oleshky (Kherson) is agreed, but start dates differ: 27 Oct per Gerasimov, 29 Oct per the White House. A 270-for-270 prisoner swap took place on 23 Oct. ISW
• Iran: seven conditions. No breakthrough: security council chief Rezaei set seven conditions before reopening the Strait of Hormuz or returning to talks; Iranian officials told Reuters they have plans to hit Gulf undersea cables if attacked again. Reuters
• Strike "absolutely" possible this weekend. US ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack said so; the E3, Italy, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt met in Istanbul and urged restraint. Al Jazeera
• IAEA ready. Chief Grossi says inspectors are ready to verify any US–Iran deal.

Garlasco, the castle tower (Awd, CC BY-SA 3.0). Wikimedia Commons

• Trial request now up to Pavia. The defence deadline after the second close of the investigation ran out on 18 Oct; prosecutors must decide whether to ask for Andrea Sempio to stand trial. Lawyer Taccia calls a request "very probable"; Cataliotti expects a preliminary hearing in spring 2027. Gente, 23 Oct
• 81 recordings and the shoe. On 19 Oct the defence asked to restore 81 untranscribed room-bug recordings, including Sempio's 2025 solo talk in his car. Its five expert reports argue the killer's shoe was about size 40, smaller than Sempio's foot.
• Ferri file; TV talk. Pavia prosecutors also opened a murder file in the separate Giovanni Ferri case. Unconfirmed TV talk: the Poggi family lawyer was seen at the Questura, prompting speculation about Stasi's revision.
• Video. Quarto Grado, "Garlasco: la scarpa può scagionare Sempio?" Mediaset Infinity

• Bitwig. No new release since 6.1.4 (13 Oct), which added rekordbox library integration; stem separation is promised "this winter". No new tutorial worth flagging from the last two days.
• Traktor. Still on Traktor Pro 4.5.1 (July); no new release and no fresh tutorial in the last two days.
• Ubuntu tip: tidy interface list. ip -br a prints one line per network interface with its state and IP addresses, much easier to scan than plain ip a.
• Package: glances. sudo apt install glances gives a one-screen live dashboard of CPU, memory, disks, network and top processes. Handy when the laptop suddenly feels slow.

Group chats have their own info pane too. Open a group (Briscoletta, say), then click its name in the chat header or press Cmd+Shift+I. Along with Routines you'll see a Members list, so you can check at a glance which bots are in the room. Close it with the X in the pane's header.

Snow leopard (CC BY-SA 2.0). Wikimedia Commons

• China's snow leopards have doubled. About 5,000 now, roughly twice the 2013 count, and a reintroduced female is raising a cub in the wild. Xinhua, 23 Oct
• Blue-crowned laughingthrush rebounds. In Jiangxi it climbed from under 200 birds in 2006 to about 660, thanks to protected village woodlands. Xinhua
• Minnesota's first breeding cougar in a century. A confirmed female with three kittens. Star Tribune

Venus in true colour from Mariner 10 (public domain). Wikimedia Commons

On Venus a day is longer than a year. It takes about 243 Earth days to spin once but only about 225 to go around the Sun, and it spins backwards compared with most planets. NASA

Image: Wikimedia Commons

Guido Cagnacci, Morte di Cleopatra (1660–62) · Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Oil on canvas, 120 × 158 cm, signed GVIDVS CAGNACCIVS. Cleopatra sits half-naked against a dark ground at the moment the asp's poison takes hold, head tilting back, her body lit like marble. Cagnacci, a restless painter from Santarcangelo who ended his career at the Vienna court, made a speciality of single, sensual heroines dying or swooning: sacred, tragic and erotic at once, which is why he was rediscovered in the 20th century.

«opere spiritualmente sensuali [del Cagnacci] che prefigurano il sogno di Federico Fellini»

Vittorio Sgarbi, lecture in Santarcangelo, 16 May 2019, about Cagnacci's sensual figures in general; the Cleopatra is the clearest example. Riminiduepuntozero

recondite (adj.): little known and hard to understand; obscure, for specialists.

• The lecture drifted into recondite details of 17th-century varnish.
• He loves recondite Czech films nobody else has heard of.

• antuka (AN-too-kah): clay court. Dnes hraju tenis na antuce. (I'm playing tennis on clay today.)
• míček (MEE-chek): ball (small, like a tennis ball). Podej mi ten míček, prosím. (Pass me that ball, please.)

Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo (1955)

Juan Preciado travels to Comala to find the father he never met and finds a town of whispering dead. Barely 120 pages, bleak and darkly funny, with the clipped, earthy voice you like in Hrabal and Fante.

Get it: Amazon.it · Italian edition, Pedro Páramo, Einaudi (Letture Einaudi, 2014), translated by Paolo Collo, preface by Ernesto Franco

The Long Goodbye (1973, Robert Altman)

Elliott Gould plays Philip Marlowe as a mumbling, cat-feeding drifter in 1970s Los Angeles. Altman turns Chandler's noir into a lazy, ironic and oddly moving film, shot in hazy light by Vilmos Zsigmond.

Trailer: official trailer on YouTube

Where to stream: Czechia (Dlouhé loučení): Amazon Prime Video; rent or buy on Amazon Video and Apple TV. Italy (Il lungo addio): Amazon Prime Video (also with ads); rent or buy on Apple TV and Amazon Video. JustWatch CZ · JustWatch IT

None of the four films is in Flora's programme yet.

• You Can See Everything (Uvidíš všechno) · not yet at Flora · Czech release 5 Nov 2026. Kinobox
• The Social Reckoning · not in Flora's current programme · in Czech cinemas since 8 Oct per distributor Falcon.
• Artificial · not listed · Czech release planned for late January 2027. Novinky
• Musk (Elon Musk documentary) · not listed at Flora yet.