thanks to the constant dunking on teenagers ineptly moralising the default posture on this website has become "thinking politically about art is absurd", genuinely I think a worse place to be than the moralising in the first place
Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago
"stir the risotto constantly" oh sure guess I'll get right on that while the mushrooms chop themselves
About ten years ago, after constantly losing my sunglasses, I bought an expensive pair thinking that it would motivate me to look after them. And it did, I still have them! And then I thought, ooh, buying expensive sunglasses is fun, and I bought two more pairs. And now I've spent way more money.
even more difficult: a good book by a good person
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · yesterdayalright let's do real discourse: five books *by bad people* that are still good or great books V.S. Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER Allison Pearson, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT Kevin Myers, WATCHING THE DOOR Yukio Mishima, CONFESSIONS OF A MASK Neil Gaiman, BRIEF LIVES.
The amount of harm that's been done by sensible moderates convincing themselves it's a little bit cool and naughty - or maybe even intellectually virtuous, stepping outside the bubble - to give credence to far-right politics is honestly unfathomable.
I have the correct take on Covid lockdowns but if you weren't on here around 14.30 Central Africa Time then you missed it.
If we’re discussing covid, back in August 2020 the Prime Minister of the UK, Rishi Sunak, introduced a programme that subsidised £850m for people to congregate in enclosed spaces and get infected with the disease that killed people, then the state broadcaster depicted him as a superhero
unsurprisingly to yet again expend this level of agita and venom about fauci, early reactions to COVID online, etc, rather than ever mourn or really confront how we live in a society that can and will easily normalize preventable mass death in the name of efficiency and profit
Can't believe you can still get published writing "Irony is mean, kill the part of you that cringes 😢" in 2026. This is 90s shit! Get new material!
The short story is an underappreciated form. I actually think all the story anthologies in the Horus Heresy are good.
A phoenix, gazed by all as that sole bird, When, to enshrine his reliques in the Sun's Bright temple, to Egyptian Thebes he flies. At once on the eastern cliff of Paradise He lights, and to his proper shape returns V, 272-276
The BBC refuses to let me on Would I Lie To You? because they're afraid I'd upstage David Mitchell. I keep telling them I enjoy his schtick but they don't believe me.
done a nice dinner for my friends, who enjoyed it. huge waste of time that could have been spent on my unreadable novel
think there's a non-zero chance we get a movie of that tiger poem by the seven year old
Daniel Tunnard@danieltunnard.bsky.social · last wk.Are there any other poems that have been made into films? Could Nolan have a crack at "This is just to say"?
latest writing workshop feedback gratefully received 🙏
carmine bee-eater@cafeconlethe.bsky.social · last wk.I refuse to believe in nonsense like "The characters lack emotional depth."
facts, kill the adaptation cop in your head
Jack Kennedy@jackkennedy.ie · last wk.Okay that's my cue to log off for the night
I refuse to believe in nonsense like "The characters lack emotional depth."
Some natural tears they dropt, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. XII, 645-649
did searching for videos on youtube take a severe hit in quality in the last few days or what
Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain, Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolved With all his legions to dislodge, and leave Unworshipt, unobeyed, the throne supreme, V, 666-670
if i were the bbc in 2026 i don't think i would be encouraging reflection on what i had done
