Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
Achilles Micawber
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Runner. Reader. Music and history. Poetry. Shakespeare. Film. Tweets in English and German. Currently listening to a lot of music from 1977 and 1978.
And so to Titus Groan, again, a book that scares the very pants off of me from its very second paragraph.
I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
It’s just THREE days until Women, Walking publishes. I’m so excited to see it in the world! Featuring work by Josie Giles, Polly Atkin, Kate Norbury, Helen Mort, Kate Davies, Beatrice Searle, Anna Fleming, Linda Cracknell, Gail Simmons and Anita Sethi #BookSky
The whole thing, because Zendaya, as the kids say (?), EATS.
Tom Holland’s “Singing in the Rain” & “Umbrella” vs. Zendaya’s “24k Magic” | Lip Sync Battle
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It’s truly the hardest thing to remember, so please: if anyone’s art has done anything for you at all, tell them, even if it’s a simple “Thank you.”
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3w agosorry to vaguesky but I saw someone whose work has meant quite a bit to me personally sharing that their accomplishments affirm, for them, only their own feeling of uselessness. In empirical fact when we feel useless it is an illusory feeling. we have to Internalize and know this.
Finished Julian Barnes‘ The Sense of an Ending. Clever, but not too clever for its own good, succinct style, and with a story to tell. The first-person narrator perspective presents a very unreliable narrator. Absolutely recommended.
To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary--embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day. July was a bit of a whirlwind, and not just because of the pyrocumulonimbus clouds.
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Grant McPhee takes us through an oral history of the early days of one of 90s Glasgow's fiercest live bands, Urusei Yatsura Teen Dreams: Kitten Frenzy, Urusei Yatsura & the 90s Scottish Indie Scene @omnibuspress.bsky.social buff.ly/NTCtKsv
It’s incredible how much fascism’s greatest weapon is liberalism’s (small l)’s lack of faith in itself
What's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.
One of these years, I'm going to read more books than Barack Obama...
odysseus returns home, frustrated that there’s no word to describe what he’s been through
This hearing is driven entirely by Elon Musk's algorithm. Not a single normie voter alive today has thought about Anthony Fauci for at least five years. On X this is a pressing issue - maybe the pressing issue - of the day. It doesn't matter at all.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
I can't compete with this. www.npr.org/2026/07/28/n...
Trump shattered ethics norms. Will voters trust Democrats to fix them?
Democrats are making the case that now is the time to tackle anti-corruption reforms — to serve as a check on Donald Trump and to overhaul a system voters say is co-opted against their interests.
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