middle-aged white male political journos composing their social media odes as we speak

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 12h ago

Phoebe Bridgers: Lost Weekend review – long-awaited return is a thrilling, daring study in dislocation

fun night doing improv with these idiots (Two Chairs Improv) at @pleasance.co.uk last night

Yes, they do. #BookSky

the sense of a fatal build-up of emotional reserve - David Stubbs

also known as USA

Ronan Fitzgerald@rmkf.bsky.social · last wk.

This Odyssey clusterfuck has really left a lot of people marooned on Let People Enjoy Things Island.

imagine fleeing war and famine and your first contact with the British people is human barnacle chris philp incredible pond life exclusive from @lbc.co.uk

Trump couldn't get anyone to come to his great rah rah america fair basically because he isn't an artist (Hitler managed 400 thousand people!)

The Odyssey is another great film in the genre of “let’s try to get Matt Damon Home”

Beautiful Borges

Sam Rasnake@samrasnake.bsky.social · 3w ago

Jorge Luis Borges, “To the One Who Is Reading Me” [Tr. Tony Barnstone]

lovely reflection from the late Sam Neill about the (sometimes) living hell of being an artist between jobs

Daniel Benneworth-Gray@danielgray.com · 3w ago

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

i don’t watch ufc (or any sports for that matter) but they’d be greatly elevated by having people with the literary and rhetorical sensibilities of a Mohammed Ali

Casket Based@cineblah.bsky.social · 3w ago

I used to have a casual interest in UFC but it's impossible to care since there probably isn't a more grim sport. You ever hear a UFC fighter open their mouths? Almost without exception they are mean, bigoted and ignorant pieces of shit. A fighter can be a Nazi rapist and none of them care.

The New Statesman - truly the voice of the proletariat, jfc

I have donated to Count Binface. I think this is the first time I have donated to a political candidate. Ko-fi.com/home/coffees...

Ian Dunt just supported Count Binface on Ko-fi! ❤️

Ko-fi lets you support creators you love with tips, memberships and shop sales!

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we must reclaim em dashes for all of humanity

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · last mo.

My upcoming book is absolutely packed to the brim with em dashes—more em dashes than any well-adjusted human being could possibly need or want—and if any of you tries to claim they are the result of some soulless LLM rather than my own unhinged compulsion I will fight you.

Whether it’s reading Knausgaard or Thich Nhat Hanh, it’s hard to overstate how damn good Edoardo Ballerini is at recording audiobooks. Often find myself looking as much forward to hearing his voice as the author’s

ICYMI: Alex Jones popped like a balloon. Get the real story at www.theonion.info.

Christ i really have to finish reading this fucking book, he said, after a month of still not having finished reading said fucking book

don't think this is really the place but I figure it can't hurt to drop a reminder that my wife and I lost our flat in a fire last year and are still looking for a new one – if you have any leads, please get in touch!!

youtubers of yesteryear

I‘m sorry, but this reads like somebody with an addiction that genuinely needs help. If a friend told me they were talking and acting like this I’d be really worried!

Techmeme@techmeme.com · last mo.

The rapid pace of AI progress has created a pervasive fear of missing out across Silicon Valley, fueling anxiety among founders, executives, employees, and VCs (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

nailed it

Ronan Fitzgerald@rmkf.bsky.social · last mo.

About half of London bus journeys feel like the driver is trying to tame a wild bus rather than drive one that's been broken in.

in Montpellier for the dance festival and everytime i go to one of these things i think holy moly isn’t arts funding amazing

observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Paperback of the week: You Must Live – New Poetry from Pa...

Poets from Gaza and the West Bank paint a bleak picture of the precarious nature of life amid the ruined landscapes of their homeland

observer.co.uk

grownup journos fan-girling about pop media has to be one of the most annoying legacies of social media

what is it about political journos and their violently beige cultural tastes? working theory is that they are so tuned into thinking about political leaders and movements and polling that they can experience art only in the most general terms

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Yeah I agree with everyone that the new Olivia Rodrigo album is a banger.

banging article about the mess of outsourced public services in the uk and the way it affects how we manage illegal migration www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...

How Britain lost control

Everything is broken. Nothing changes. Voters are mad as hell

newstatesman.com

Two friends of mine bantering on whatsapp about which one of them has the highest iq. Can’t help but notice an edginess to the performatively light-hearted patter.

Haydn says get off the internet kids

disney store staff member calls up a colleague to help with the queue: “Betty are you onstage right now?”