Chris Brooke
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
"an already elusive subject is considered here from a variety of oblique angles"
Now I know what I shall be reading on the sofa this evening, after I mix my Old Fashioned.
James Butler@piercepenniless.bsky.social · 2h agoFor the new issue of the @lrb.co.uk I read J.D. Vance's tremendously unpleasant memoir of his conversion, which is at once an evasion of moral responsibility and a pre-2028 argument for a generic Christian nationalism. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the stacks below...
alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 19h agoi don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
A consistent opinion that I have held for more than thirty years now is that Sanjay Reddy is so very splendid. (We were graduate students together in the 1990s, working in different departments in the same building.) Shame on the New School!
Ingrid Robeyns@ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 7h agoThe New School for Social Reserach in NYC is, essentially, killing itself, killing what it was, killing what it stood for. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/n...
just had a horrific vision of the future in which Zack Polanski and Kemi Badenoch have a podcast and now I need a lie down
If this was a normal politician, you’d think he was blackmailing her or something, but I think she genuinely is just having a huge fight about toxic online shit in her head, literally all the time, and doesn’t have the sense not to let people know that.
The view that I hesitate to admit to in polite company is that the majority of published social science is either of very marginal value, or negative value. And the exceptions mostly have to fight to find space
I'm in Halberstadt where I have been sent by the lovely folk over at Orbital Studies to witness and write about the 17th chord change of John Cage's "As Slow as possible" which has been playing on an organ here since 2001 and is projected to keep playing until the 2600s.
Emily Herring@emilyherring.bsky.social · yesterdayI'm in Germany for mysterious reasons
Attn @robinbunce.bsky.social.
Art Deco Society UK@artdecosocuk.bsky.social · yesterdayAre we about to lose another 1930s Great West Road Building? Article by Mark Amies (our speaker next month’s Art Deco in the Air. Aircraft, Airports and Poster Design. online talk) explains more. Here is the link for the full article: wordsbymarkamies.com/2026/07/17/a...
Just noticed that Peter Marsh's v. useful book "Bargaining on Europe: Britain & the First Common Market, 1860-1892" splendidly confuses Michel with Maurice Chevalier. #ifanightingalecouldsinglikeyou #etc
This is a measured and damning thread from Sunder - you just have to continue reading past the first post which is obviously too much for some people.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2d ago66 seems a young age for Rod Liddle to die. Talented comic writer, insightful about football.obvs took much pleasure in transgressing political correctness But just lied when caught being much more indefensibly racist+ sexist online in his Millwallmonkey persona www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
This remains the very best thing about the English common law. #cats #freespirits
Kieran Healy@kjhealy.co · yesterdayBut not if it’s a cat! In common law, cats are technically free spirits.
Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...
I used to enjoy getting emails from people to say that they enjoyed reading one of my books; now it’s a time-consuming source of suspicion and wondering for what purpose AI is being employed to manipulate me.
New post: those wanting Jason Arday to face 'justice' of some kind are not going to get what they want willd10.substack.com/p/how-the-ja...
How the Jason Arday affair will fizzle out
Truth is a social system. Sorry.
willd10.substack.com
For those interested in this case, in light of recent developments, up to 20 further apparent cases of plagiarism have been reported to the university, and although there appear to be ‘investigations’ they have been proceeding for two and a half years now.
Charles West@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 4d ago
Something from my area for @chrisbrooke.bsky.social 's collection of "why beavers are great" facts. globalnews.ca/news/1200496...
Beavers and a Tim’s card: a very Canadian solution to a firefighting challenge - Halifax | Globalnews.ca
The Indian Point Volunteer Fire Department has wanted to install a dry fire hydrant since its founding in 1955. A group of busy beavers is lending a hand -- or paw.
globalnews.ca
no, YOU'RE googling 'pervert glasses' every few days just to see if the term is sticking
Someone said they told my neighbour an Evri joke, but he'd never heard if it.
I was telling my own joke about Evri the other day, but I bollocksed up the timing.
🦇🤘 Miscreant Jennie 🔶️🏳️🌈@rigg.lgbt · 5d agoWeird. *I* had a joke about Evri but my delivery was terrible
As for the idea that the same person wrote the review and produced the Wilson translation of the Odyssey? Well, it’s possible…just about. But stylistically and thematically, the two works are so different that it’s unlikely. ‘Emily Wilson’ is best thought of as the name for a set of disparate texts.
C'mon Manchester: this is the *only* photo that has appeared today with the #dogsatpollingstations hashtag. Do better. #caninedemocracy
Graham Horsman@grahamhorsman.bsky.social · 6d agoYou’re joking! Not another one! #dogsatpollingstations
Just saw another screenshot of The Tiger by Nael (aged 6). Apparently it’s a decade old now and it’s fun to think that he’ll be old enough to log on to Bluesky and see his own work as a meme just 19 years from now.
Yes, @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social filed a review with τῇ καλλίστῃ jotted as a title and nobody thought about the consequences. (Fortunately you can access the living oral tradition on the podcast feed.)
Lydia Polgreen@polgreen.bsky.social · last wk.Uh, did Emily Wilson's Odyssey takedown crash the @lrb.co.uk website?
