Nadia Bailey
@nadiabailey.bsky.social
PhD candidate and freelance writer for hire | Researching intersections between Spiritualism, queerness and the First World War www.nadiabailey.com
Tired: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Wired: Roberto Calasso’s The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
Hello I released a new collection of precious jewellery today inspired by the complex natural systems that turn decay into life again. The collection is called Loam and it’s available on aliciahannahnaomi.com and via e.g.etal in Melbourne’s CBD.
"twt is dead!" "bsky is dead!" all of these websites are dead. we scavenge the bones, cavernous ribcages of bygone giants arching overhead like cathedral vaults. and in the diffused shade cast by these dead web gods, we grow gardens
“I saw the best minds of my generation writing lists about which of the Muppets were most fuckable.” Much to relate to in this, via @patricklenton.bsky.social
The Devil Wears Prada sold me the journalism fantasy. The sequel captures the unglamorous reality | Patrick Lenton
I don’t know a single journalist my age who hasn’t ricocheted around the rapidly shrinking media industry, through multiple buyouts, redundancies and pivots to video
theguardian.com
it's true that LLMs are functionally no different to that guy who isn't actually that good at his job but keeps getting promoted because he's cultivated an air of sounding like he knows things, however we should not dignify this in any way by calling it intelligence
An astonishingly good profile via @nowvoyagermagazine.bsky.social, the kind that both paints a complex portrait of its subject, while delighting on the sentence level nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/a-...
Who Is Pietrangelo Buttafuoco? The Conservative Who Is Defying Expectations at the Venice Biennale.
Buttafuoco’s appointment as Venice Biennale president has divided his critics. He is proving far more complex than expected. A closer look at his beliefs and the contradictions that define him.
nowvoyagermag.com
[At the café. I pick up my phone and start typing]: Friend: I thought you didn't have social media. Me: I don't. Friend: But- you're... What is that, Bluesky? Me: It's not social. It's not media, either. Friend: Bu- Me, exasperated: It's a POST,
It’s a beautiful weekend — and for 300 lucky people who click the free link it can begin with reading this absoluyely mad yet undeniably insightful story from today’s egg-themed magazine. Jemima’s fever dream brought to life as.ft.com/r/2472cb26-a...
Can Jemima Kelly recreate Martha Stewart’s mythic midnight dinner party?
[FREE TO READ] Thirty guests. 111 eggs. A one-bed flat. A fearless host attempts the impossible omelette supper of her dreams
as.ft.com
These people who want to “generate a book in a day” will never know the joy of getting to know a character layer by layer, the relief of solving an intractable plot problem, the satisfaction of PUTTING IN THE WORK and seeing your story flower into life. Absolute soulless motherfuckers
I cannot get to Europe for this but you can bet your ass I’d write the hell out of a paper on how the Catholic Church reckoned with the demoniac spectres of Spiritualism during WWI
Kristof Smeyers@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 6mo agoHi everyone, I'm organising a conference in Leuven, 4-5 June, and you're all invited*! It's called 'Performing evil: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres 1700-2000' and here is the call for papers (get in touch if you'd like a pdf!). Please share widely! *to submit an abstract before 21/3
you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
henry.codes
Oh no, thank you, I actually just had a year.
I deleted my Spotify account a few months ago. Zero regrets. Currently using a mix of Bandcamp and my old library of ripped CDs loaded onto an iPod classic and let me tell you, the iPod still fucking rules
Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 8mo agoSpotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
Guess I’ve found the topic of my next PhD www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde
Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers
theguardian.com
I simply love an album with churchlike organ, eerie violins and a tremulous children’s choir as back up. Hilary Woods gets it hilarywoodsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/night-...
Night CRIÚ, by Hilary Woods
7 track album
hilarywoodsmusic.bandcamp.com
May have gotten slightly trigger happy placing holds at my local library (I regret nothing)
Wonderful review/essay hybrid on the civic purpose of trains, via @europeanreview.bsky.social
Glory to the rails - The European Review of Books
Millions of Ukrainians left the country during the first weeks of the invasion; four million were evacuated by train, including a million children. Thousands of dogs, cats and other pets, too.
europeanreviewofbooks.com
Considered the oldest complete seventy-eight card tarot deck in existence, the 15th-century Sola Busca — named for the family of Milanese nobles who owned it for some five generations — is also one of the most mysterious: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sola-busca
