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Anne Carson’s 2025 LRB Winter Lecture, ‘Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind’, announced her Parkinson’s diagnosis and the effect it was having on her hands and handwriting. Read: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8fP...
Anne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind
This is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like...
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Younger son and his girlfriend moved in with us six months ago to save up to go back to Japan. But now they're about to leave 💔
But Channel 4 isn't publicly funded?
Reuters@reuters.com · 20h agoExclusive: Britain's BBC and Channel 4 held preliminary talks with the government about a broader tie-up of some operations, two people with direct knowledge of the discussions said, in a potential shake-up of the country's public broadcasters reut.rs/3VsSFyx
Went to Korea at the BM after failing to get Bayeaux tickets. Small but beautiful
Only person I know who enjoyed Jeffrey Archer's novels was my dad, a hardcore Thatcher fan. We had some cracking rows about him and her
Tend to agree but I like listening to rather than reading William Burroughs
Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · 3d agoUnless the poem has been written for performance, poets should never read their poems out loud. No, nor actors neither. 90% of all poems should exist solely between the page and the reader.
The plague death story broke two days ago - now Rubio has commented it's suddenly news
What? Is Presbyterian AI/autocorrect for Parisian? 'Celine single shoulder crossbody music, Presbyterian Arc Triomphe mini Tote bag'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=75V4... Not the show so much, just this
Doctor Who (1963) - Original Theme music video
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Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 4d agoIn honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?
Every South American election recently has basically been: Jesús Marx Bonaventura de Corruption (Alliance to Not Kill Puppies): 48.9% Pedro Sanchez-Hitler (Reform): 50.01% Geraldo Demonslayer (Bitcoin Liberation Front): 1%
🎵5 British peeeerves... 4 Persian drones, 3 hacked phones, 2 Saudi loans, And a Pope from the Windy Ci-i-i-ty.🎵
Belgian Town or Onomatopeia for Vomiting? • Erps Kwerps? • Heuvel? • Hechtel-Eksel? • Wuustwezel? • Grobbendonk? • Peute? • Ulvenhout? • Rucphen? • Chaam? • Luykgestel? • Eerstel? • Houthalen-Helchteren? • Ichtegem?
Funniest thing about Middlemarch is rich people buying newspapers and everyone despising journalists. I had vaguely thought there was once a golden age
Trying to identify this plant, getting metal suggestions like rush skeletonweed and stinking hawk's beard
We had a carpet like this in blue and green. Used to pretend I was sailing the couch through a storm at sea
Des@desdelboy.bsky.social · 5d agoMorning all. Schoolboy in his living room posing for the photographer, Pepys Estate, Deptford. Photographer Tony Ray-Jones, 1966. Note the Subbuteo game under the couch and Parsley the lion on the TV.
I've just taken a picture of an ammonite and used my phone's object identifier because I genuinely couldn't remember the proper name. No, Samsung. It is not.
Why don't they split BBC news and documentaries from entertainment and just fund news? At least they wouldn't have to run constant ads for their meh shows
Need to make a voodoo doll of Michael luvvie Testicle if he doesn't get off the screen
Middlemarch loobies sound like Edinburgh gumbies - or maybe gumbies were UK-wide
Kemi: We will introduce a quadruple lock, where the pension will go up by net migration Farage: We will introduce a quintuple lock, where the elderly may kill one immigrant per year
Have to say, Burnham is so far better than I expected as PM which is a first in four decades
