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What You Are About to See From Oleshky, Ukraine, Is a Lie

The Kremlin is staging whitewashed tours of a city it has terrorized.

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TL,DR

Sam Byers@sambyers.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Obviously this is excellent, detailed, and in many ways pretty terrifying - essential reading for anyone with even a passing concern for literature, thought, learning etc. I would only add that there is an even broader crisis here around attention. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Byline Times seems to be seriously misrepresenting the story, and I think it is exploitative because they waited until the Arday story was starting to die down, until the white supremacists made another move, to manipulate the feelings of people who feel harmed by how Arday was handled.

Solution to Sunday Night blues is fresh (and in this case new) William Morris bedding.

Finally framed the v. jolly large linocut I bought in Avignon in August, for the office

What are your shopping blindspots? Things you buy despite knowing, really, that they won't work on you. E.G.: I've wanted this Ferragamo hoodie from Maximilian Davies' first collection since I saw it and am tempted again secondhand (and still really expensive) despite never suiting red, ever.

Talking about Rejoin certainly flushes out all of the people who must be allowed nowhere near any Rejoin campaign that intends to win.

*man* has Hacks got incredibly soft in Season 5

"A distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

Enough Of That Now@andygilder.bsky.social · 5d ago

“A distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence”

Found at auction, it turns out you can actually buy an abstract noun. For "irony" may I suggest the Hermès Sac à Malice bicentenary french revolution edition?

Pleasingly strange Christopher Bailey-era Burberry sweater arrived. With literally ropes on. Now to take a big gulp of coffee and check the laundry instructions...

Every time

Well, I'm on Prep? Does that count

Zack Polanski only appears to cite antisemitism in two contexts. There's the antisemitism that happens to him (real, terrible) And there's the antisemitism that the rest of the community speaks about (apparently deserving of denial, disparagement or conspiracy theories).

Unfortunately it turns out Trousers Will who lives in a cave and buys hundreds of pairs of trousers is an outlier and should not have been counted

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · 6d ago

I take the GfK series very seriously. And this is pretty grim. www.ft.com/content/74bb... ‘Relentless’ cost of living pressures behind collapse in UK consumer confidence

The only thing worse than this tweet is the surprising amount of people agreeing with it

James Ball@jamesrball.com · last wk.

...Blade Runner.

Pierce Brosnan's Bond contract forbade him from wearing black tie in any other film which is why he wears an undone white bow tie in The Thomas Crown Affair's party scene.

Amy "Thunderjam" Chase@amythunderjam.bsky.social · last wk.

We all know the "Viggo broke his toe" story but what's another movie fact you're personally compelled to bring up every time without prompting? For me, it's the fact that Robin Tunney is wearing a wig in The Craft because of having just shaved her head to save her job filming Empire Records.

"An undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is"

Daniel McElroy@danielmcelroy0.bsky.social · last wk.

Amol Rajan’s membership tiers…that is scandalous.

Decided to watch Vision Quest and: never change, Americans

Just saw them looting Celine in Paris and you know they mostly ignored the clothes and took the bags and dammit

Military leaders becoming amplifiers of obviously false politically-motivated messages is a norm breaking danger sign.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2w ago

Yikes. In a desperate-sounding video, CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper insists the Strait of Hormuz is “controlled by the United States… not Iran” and “open for business,” despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Cold and dry: cropped double cashmere coat and sunglasses time! The best season! Top half Bottega, bottom half Burberry, but both with Daniel Lee as designer.

New job, new glasses. Hoping for a "faintly amoral European lawyer" vibe, thus Zegna

Correct, these are the best

Stephen Collins@stephencollins.bsky.social · 2w ago

I asked you your favourite biscuit and you said 'oh a hob nob' or 'digestive' or 'bourbon' and you thought it would make me think you authentic and real but you should have said 'the poshest ones I can find for the posh ones are the best' as that is the truth you hide and now I know you are a coward

"children's author"

BladeoftheSun@bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2w ago

Irish Children's author Sally Rooney has been banned from selling books in the UK because she expressed support for Palestine Action. What a ridiculous North Korea style place the UK has become.

That thing that we will all live to see cannot happen too soon, tbh

Oleksandra Matviichuk@avalaina.bsky.social · 2w ago

And not a word about Putin, who started this bloody war and is killing Ukrainians. Trump is Putin's friend, as he himself says.

I just want to say that after some consideration I'm firmly Team Kelly Clarkson on the mechanical bird story

Actually good gilets exist. Or my good gilet exists, anyway. Marine Serre, made from raschel blankets

Katie Martin@katie0martin.ft.com · 2w ago

the shade. it... it burns "The world of technical gilets is often misappropriated: think glossy nylon shells from Canada Goose or Moncler intended for the Alps but worn to meetings in Moorgate... By all means buy one, but wear it on a Saturday." www.ft.com/content/f01b...

You know what I would watch live streamed? [TERMS OF SERVICE VIOLATION REDACTED]

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 3w ago

U.S. has threatened to block arms for Ukraine over its attacks on Russian refineries, lobbying European capitals and Kyiv in an attempt to end the attacks on Russian oil refineries. - FT