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Read: Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah 📚Aunt kills toddler nephew. It’s and accident. Or is it? Kinda courtroom, kinda psychological, thriller. Fast, tropey read, which is not a bad thing. #booksky #books #readingcommunity

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@gsoh31.bsky.social My favourite thing is where the students ask pertinent and thoughtful questions that aren’t mostly about submission dates and none are pissing about on their phones. Also, 5 minute lectures that give a Wikipedia-level overview.

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Read: The Age of Wonder by Holmes, Richard 📚British scientists and breakthroughs in the wider culture where they happened, from about 1760 to 1830. Sounds pedestrian but it’s rivetting storytelling. #books #readingcommunity #booksky

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Read: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 📚Gleefully weird and Vonneguts gonna Vonnegut. He seems to slip under the ‘problematic’ radar with some of his language. He’s using it to making a point, but that doesn’t always stop the Bad Word Police. So it goes. #books #readingcommunity #booksky

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@drjennings.bsky.social Maybe it comes down to not saying all of what we think.

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@drjennings.bsky.social Nothing to do with Burnham specifically. Just there’s an assumption that politicians should ‘say it like it is’ but for instance it could ruin relationships with defensive allies and make the country vulnerable, or split your party into many factions and make governing impossible.

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@drjennings.bsky.social Did you research how much saying what they think can also fuck up international relations and destroy their party unity? They usually have reasons for prevaricating.

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@davidforbes.bsky.social “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.’

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2/2

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@davidforbes.bsky.social To quote Douglas Adams:

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’“But the plans were on display…”
\n“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
\n“That’s the display department.”
\n“With a flashlight.”
\n“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
\n“So had the stairs.”
\n“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
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@stubsackfiction.substack.com Thanks!

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@stubsackfiction.substack.com Thanks!

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@watsoncomedian.bsky.social I’d love to be in a carriage of people applauding a well-wrought Shakespearean sonnet, or gasping ‘OMG’ at the end of a chapter of a Mick Herron book, or whooping supportively as Emma Woodhouse gets her come-uppance.

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@ajaxsinger.bsky.social It was common, but as a depressed British teenager in 1986 (ie Morrissey’s core demographic), saying shit like that was more commonly very very unacceptable to most of us. He doesn’t have the fig leaf of ‘it was universally seens as okay then’. It wasn’t.

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@brendelbored.bsky.social …Never get a directional cardioid mic in a stand pointing at your mouth because this would improve your sound quality at a stroke.

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@brendelbored.bsky.social Always always get an over priced omnidirectional condenser mic that will pick up all the sound from miles around but looks cool on camera. Or failing that, hold your lav mic in your hand…

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@timmarchman.bsky.social You’re new on social media aren’t you?

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Read: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 📚Very, very belatedly read this and remembered how weird and good Vonnegut is. Grim, black humour and immensely readable. So it goes. #books #readingcommunity #booksky

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@bookowl.bsky.social The puddings are harvested from the Lakes Of Strong Tea, where they are farmed commercially.

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@bookowl.bsky.social The Yorkshire vowel mines. Mostly, they supply ‘eee’s, but there are traces of i, o’s and u’s, since Yorkshire folk are careful with their money.

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Graham Greene made spy novels respectable, but he (probably) never stopped spying himself. I interviewed the director of the Graham Greene Festival about Greene’s writing, spying, and friendship with Kim Philby.

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#books #booksky #readingcommunity

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spybrary.com/graham-gr…

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@bookowl.bsky.social The ‘s’ on LEGO can be removed and returned to the word ‘math’.

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Signed

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A Brit.

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Quick question. What does ‘the privilege of my life’ actually mean?

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@john-self.bsky.social Maybe her fringe will be take it over entirely.

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@richardj.bsky.social He’s kind of a human LLM. Reliably and confidently wrong about everything.

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@rami.spaceaustralia.com No, I am Binface.

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No, I am Binface.

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No, I am Binface.

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etc

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@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social You’re new here, aren’t you?

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@thesinankose.bsky.social ok

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@thesinankose.bsky.social I hope you don’t use email. Nazis use email too.

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@thesinankose.bsky.social A debate winning point. Well done.

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@thesinankose.bsky.social Oh look, whataboutery. Do I take it you’re conceding the actual point, which is that they’re right to carry the resignation of the leader of parliamentary party?

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@thesinankose.bsky.social It’s no more handing over editorial control than it did when it carried Starmer’s resignation live.

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There’s a clear subtext about these complaints. You just object to Farrage getting covered, and adding the BBC into the complaints is just a bonus here.

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Read: Agent Sniper by Tim Tate 📚Real life Zelig-esque Polish spy/defector (and massive fantasist) in the Cold War, clearly written and researched. A good read.#booksky #books #reading

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Pulp Asylum has just published my latest short story, The Man Who Said Too Much, which features an ice storm, stealing old chairs, and a Russian genius. Read it here: bit.ly/4y6ypBF #crime #thriller #amwriting #writingcommunity #writersky

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Read: Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum 📚 on audiobook, which came out two years ago. So much of what @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu says about countries run by greedy narcissistic bullies could now be said about the US. #booksky #books #reading

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Read: Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark 📚 One of those ‘how autobiographical is this?’ games about a struggling 1940s writer. Snarky and funny and far more tricksy than I expected. #reading #books #booksky

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Read: The Pretender by Jo Harkin 📚Peasant Pretender puppeteered by powerful Plantagenet proponents. Wolf Hall minus the portentousness. #booksky #reading #books

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Read: London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe 📚As in his ‘Say Nothing’, Keefe clearly disentangles a lot of complicated world views and confabulations to illuminate a particular world, though the overarching story isn’t as sharply defined. #reading #books #booksky

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Read: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt 📚Cormac McCarthy with a sense of humour and optimism, and also an editor, and all the more likeable for it. #books #reading #booksky

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Read: Last One Out A Novel by Jane Harper 📚Her usual territory: resident returns to Australian small town and insular relationships (often between 3 male friends) which led to a tragedy a few years before. Realistic characters, well observed interactions, but nothing new. #booksky #reading #books

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Read: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe 📚Fantastically researched especially the bits the TV series smoothed over. You do wonder exactly why Adams hasn’t sued over the allegations it makes about him. #books #booksky #readingcommunity

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Read: Pearl by Siân Hughes 📚Hughes is an award winning poet, and it shows, in a good way as her narator writes intensely and immersively about her mother’s death. As someone who felt no cause to grieve my own mother’s death, it was… informative. #books #booksky #readingcommunity

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Read: Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell 📚Big, detailed, accurate and gruesome. Also a cracking story (though not exactly genre-expanding). Great for immersion… #booksky #books #readingcommunity

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Read: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow 📚Freshman outrage at the shock of big companies being unscrupulous about how they make money. Nothing you can’t hear him perform any day of the week for free. #books #booksky #readingcommunity

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Guardian top 100 novels of all time I’ve read 25/100 and given up on a lot more on the list. Maybe I tried them too young. Also… no Hemingway? And I really don’t think Middlemarch (one of my DNFs) is the best novel of all time. #booksky

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Read: Agents of Innocence by David Ignatius 📚Drips realism and apparently the CIA uses it as an exemplar of Middle Eastern espionage. The detail draws you in and the conflicts between ethnicities and sects is tragically still relevant. #booksky #books #readingcommunity

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People complained that the printing press meant people wouldn't put in the effort to learn things off by heart. matthewhurst.micro.blog

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Read: Golden Hill by Francis Spufford 📚Dark smart pastiche of Fielding, Sterne, etc, in late 18th century New York, but there’s more to it than just quality fanfiction. The characters are ludicrously alive and you can smell the horse shit and ambition. #booksky #books #readingcommunity

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Read: The Unwanted Dead by Chris Lloyd 📚 Juicy atmospheric procedural set in Paris just after the Germans marched in during June 1940. Not spies, but feels like Furst, Gerlis, Robert Harris. #booksky #books #readingcommunity

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Baseball. Invented by BF Skinner: matthewhurst.micro.blog

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Read: The Pariah by Dan Fesperman 📚Happily facetious palate freshener involving the a murderous Eastern European dictator, metoo’d American comedian, chimney cakes (whatever they are), delicate egos and many violent deaths. #booksky #books

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