My friend in sussex saw the eclipse from a cliff where 'the local astronomy society' was handing out glasses. Sometimes you have to love this country
Ben Morgan
@benjlmorgan.bsky.social
Medea in Corinth - 2nd edition 2025 from Poetry Salzburg poetrysalzburg.com/medea.htm https://benmorganwriter.wordpress.com/
Heads up! It’s Harold Pinter night on BBC4 tonight from 10pm, repeating the 1987 production of The Birthday Party (with Pinter himself as Goldberg), followed by parts 1 and 2 of the 2002 Arena special. Not to be missed! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
The Birthday Party
It's Stanley's birthday, but the party that is thrown for him is not quite what he was expecting. Written by Harold Pinter.
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I started a website for my writing! I will share drafts of essays and prose poems, maybe even poems (which feels weirdly 'wrong' when it comes to poems why?) first post: benmorganwriter.wordpress.com/2026/08/08/k...
kew gardens
this story is true: in his final days in hospice, my father’s sheets were changed, and i think his body was occasionally washed, by a blind nurse. the thought of a blind nurse oddly bothered …
benmorganwriter.wordpress.com
I started a website for my writing! I will share drafts of essays and prose poems, maybe even poems (which feels weirdly 'wrong' when it comes to poems why?) first post: benmorganwriter.wordpress.com/2026/08/08/k...
kew gardens
this story is true: in his final days in hospice, my father’s sheets were changed, and i think his body was occasionally washed, by a blind nurse. the thought of a blind nurse oddly bothered …
benmorganwriter.wordpress.com
My mother once again struggles with whatsapp's accidental voice transcription
I am a centrist. I enjoyed the film of the Odyssey AND the Wilson review.
Chinese poster for the new Spider-Man film makes me want to start buying film posters again.
George Garnett is the author of a study of the role of providential history in the thought of the fourteenth-century Italian theorist Marsilius of Padua, but try telling that to anyone ever again, George
Richard de Nooy@richarddenooy.bsky.social · 3w ago“Oxford academic Prof George Garnett counted 93 penises in 2018 – with 88 belonging to horses and another five to men. But Dr Christopher Monk said he had counted one more on another man.” bbc.com/news/article...
by the time people are speaking to me in person the fact that i am not 13 is already clear to them
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 3w agoI'm actually fine with sounding old.
Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM
Labour leader will visit king to accept role on Monday and will start making cabinet appointments that afternoon
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I'm very uncomfortable with the burnham ascension. we don't have a presidential system. we don't pilot people in. i know he worked his way through the system but in a weird way. i prefer him to starmer but this feels wrong. it isn't how this job is appointed
The oxford comma would not dispel ambiguity here. Sure it would show shes not shah of iran but it wouldn't do anything about the first term Anyway they always have to use headlines to demonstrate this bc in most cases there's context Smug, fussy little yuppie i hate it!
Sean Marshall@seanyyz.bsky.social · 4w agoWhy I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
Its so sad that this comprehension-friendly, indeed prescriptive, set of books has to be regarded as an induction into nuance
🌈 Drawn&Quoted 🦄@drawnandquoted.bsky.social · last mo.This is addressed to everyone, but especially Americans under the age of 30: Read dystopian novels. Read 1984, and Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451, and White Noise, and—fuck—even Hunger Games. So many of you just aren’t getting what’s been happening just because you don’t read.
Ahh crap. This is a sad one. Brilliant actor, good bloke. 7news.com.au/entertainmen...
Beloved actor and Jurassic Park star Sam Neill dies aged 78
Neill only recently revealed he was living cancer free with his family saying the loss was ‘sudden and unexpected’.
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Big Bin is using Binface to preserve its stranglehold on trash Not many people know this but Nigel has been fighting to store trash in his own face Typical Nigel - He takes on the fights no one else will You're not going to hear this from the mainstream media Google image 'My mouth is Bin'
I've never found Count Binface funny. But the right having a humourless strop about Count Binface is the most joyous political phenomenon in recent memory.
'we thought we'd hit rock bottom, then somebody knocked from below' - russian saying
I am surprised at myself but every time i walk past this bookshop i instinctively think, 'oh do sod off' and not even in a 'naughty' [🤢] way
Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.
Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out
Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human ...
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Extreme clarity is a mystery. -- Mahmoud Darwish
imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2mo agoShe has a neck the size of an adult human, legs that are just as long and an unforgettable coat. And she’s missing.
Annoying to agree with Kemi Badenoch about something, but I would actually quite like Steve Bray to shut up. With that surname he's like an allegorical character from a (boring) early modern play. STEPHEN BRAY AND STEPHEN SILENT.
trump reminding us we need never choose between anti-semitism and islamophobia. we can always have both. don't be trapped into binary thinking
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoTrump: "Schumer has lost his way. He's become, essentially, a Palestinian. I've asked for a beautiful silk outfit to be sent in the Palestinian traditional. Chuck Schumer is Jewish."
I love when doctors say "avoid stress" like I can just unsubscribe from economy and become a decorative gargoyle