Alex Kanefsky (he/him)

@alexkanefsky.bsky.social

Writer, theatre-maker, bread enthusiast. Book-writer: Cable Street. AD of Paper Balloon Theatre. Living/working with chronic illness OUFC 💛 AlexKanefsky.com JBR Creative Management

Well, those are the last words on the first draft of my first ever novel. I started writing it 3 years ago, when much more unwell, but frustrated enough & bored enough to need a creative outlet. As always with these things, it feels quietly anticlimactic, so I’m marking it because I feel I need to

A picture of my laptop, with the last line of my novel, and the white space of an empty page underneath it. 
I’ve blurred the text, as should anyone wish to publish one day, maybe I shouldn’t start with spoilers

Trying to make a martyr of a wife beating nonce just because he hilariously burped the theme from Rainbow at the speccy garden party or whatever is very funny, I hope they keep it up, the pathetic dv enablers

Oscar Hammerstein had a terrific 1943, with Oklahoma! opening in March and Carmen Jones opening in December. Finding himself the toast of Broadway again after a long string of failures, he took out a self-deprecating ad in the January 5, 1944 issue of Variety listing his flops. An absolute legend.

Holiday Greetings
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN, IN
author of
Sunny River
(Six Weeks at the St. James Theatre, New York)
Very Warm For May
(Seven Weeks at the Alvin Theatre, New York)
Three Sisters
-(Sis Weeks at the Drurs: Lane, London)
Ball At The Savoy
(Five Weeks at the Drury Lane, London)
Free For All
-(Three Weeks at the Manhattan Theatre, New York)
I'VE DONE IT BEFORE AND I CAN DO IT AGAIN

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

i'd say "pay attention to who has kind things to say about rod liddle, the racist pedophile, following his death" but to no surprise it is the entirety of the mainstream british press

guide to world domination: 1. defund all major humanities departments 2. fund masses of public and priv money into AI 3. ensure said machines are controlled by the 1% 4. spread bollocks across the internet with future generations incapable of critical thinking 5. do whatever you like

“Quitting the job he never did, for people he never liked, in a town he is never in, he calls a by-election for the ages. Can he vindicate himself by defeating a man with a bin on his head?” @mrhenrymorris.substack.com envisages… BBC will probably follow www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...

Farage The Movie: The world’s most persecuted man

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the European Union… it’s the feel-bad movie of the summer!

thenewworld.co.uk

Today we observe Porajmos (Roma Holocaust) Remembrance Day. on the night of 2–3 August 1944, 2,897 Roma were murdered at the Zigeunerfamilienlager at Auschwitz-Birkenau. We remember them and the half a million Sinti and Roma murdered by Nazi Germany and fascist collaborators. Na Bistaren.

Monument to the Memory of the Holocaust of the Romani in Borzęcin, Poland

The Republican Party has gone full mask-off Nazi; meanwhile the media narrative being pushed 24/7 is “ahhh! Democrats are being taken over by socialist radicals!!” and their terrifying examples are Miss Rachel, a doctor who wants you to have healthcare, and the friendliest mayor in American history.

hammancheez@hammancheez.bsky.social · 4d ago

Party that spent the last decade grooming and funding and encouraging blind nazi ideologues to run for office and government positions : uh oh

Deeply concerning. Exeter University one of many in the UK firing many faculty, especially in the humanities. It’s not only the impact on the faculty and students in often-popular programs. We are dismantling knowledge structures that took dozens— even hundreds of years to build.

Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 4d ago

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.