Erica Wagner
@ericawgnr.bsky.social
Writer, reader, cook, friend, lover. Contributing Editor, Observer. Contributing Writer for the New Statesman, Consulting Lit Ed for Harper's Bazaar. Podcaster, various. www.ericawagner.co.uk
Loved interviewing Sue Black — a talk about death that was life-affirming…
The Observer@theobserveruk.bsky.social · 2d agoSue Black: ‘When I die they’ll boil down the bones and I’ll be a teaching skeleton’ In the grounds of St John’s College, the forensic anthropologist talks gutting animals as a child, identifying unseen sex offenders and making a friend of death. ✍️ @ericawgnr.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4fysgqD
Think you’ll enjoy, @girlonthenet.bsky.social
Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni@tubemapper.bsky.social · 6d agoI love capturing those moments where London Underground trains line up perfectly with station posters. With a little patience and a bit of luck, you can end up with some wonderfully amusing and unexpected shots.
Agree with Kirk completely AND — that there is such a fuss/outrage over this is surely evidence that we have just lost an expansive critical discourse —
Kirk McElhearn@kirkville.com · 5d agoI think it's great that classical literature has its moment, but this is turning into an acrimonious debate which is districting from the valid criticisms of the film. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/a...
“I had a million doses of Joker venom that my henchmen and I were prepared to pour into Gotham’s water supply. And the Bat-Man got Commissioner Gordon to stop me from doing that.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Peter Navarro: "I had a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in warehouses as the defense policy coordinator that I was trying to distribute to hospitals. And Fauci got the FDA stop me from doing that."
Doh, Steve, as a great intellect once remarked.
Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · last wk.I've written a few books and checked all the quotes (deleting some bangers because I doubted their authenticity) and if you're letting fabricated ones slip through then you're cutting corners in an egregious way. It is not the copy-editor's job to check every source, it's yours. Do the damn work
*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.
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Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
bbc.co.uk
This is stunningly shortsighted. And this is the PM who cares for the north? Along with every other part of this bizarre decision. I was lucky enough to to know Sir Bernard, who built this place — let us have his faith that we will overcome. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
bbc.co.uk
In Olden Times if you didn’t like a movie you would ignore it and maybe go see a different one instead of making hating the movie your personal identity for several weeks
There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.
Seriously, Andy Burnham, you're emailing me? Don't you have better things to do?
Meta are sending Fucko the Knife Robot to stab you in the knee. To disable go to Accounts> Settings> Robots> Knife Robots> Fucko> Opt Out
Hurrah for @wiltonsquare.bsky.social — picking up from the crash of Unbound, my anthology celebrating #AlanGarner, First Light, is available again. Here are Pullman, Atwood, Ali Smith, Stephen Fry and many more on a true hero of literature: wiltonsquarebooks.com/products/fir...
First Light
A group of well-known writers and artists celebrate the inspirational life and work of Alan Garner
wiltonsquarebooks.com
Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan
I'm watching in germany. The German commentators kept quiet for nearly the whole thing until suddenly the shot widened and we just hear with a German accent, "Oh, Miss Piggy"
Rooney saying "I thought it was crap" is what the BBC has done for me.
Sirens don't "lure men to their death" -- Sirens are just some ladies singing. Maybe let's focus on the men who seem to think every hot girl's song is an invitation to self-destruction.
As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water
Left: Venus, 1 March 1982 Centre: Titan, 14 January 2005 Right: Boston, 15 July 2026
Every small press goes through this stage – before you find a distributor, your home becomes the warehouse. This is Salt in Great Wilbraham, circa 2009. In the end, we filled the whole house. Hall, bedrooms, garage, bathroom – we made tunnels to get to the kitchen. 😄 #SaltBooks
Obviously, rewatching Jurassic Park — and reminded of another loss, the great Bob Peck…