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Simon Reynolds

@semperaliquid.net

Probationary valetudinarian who delights in words, drama, science, history, nonsense. My nephew Les painted the birds above, and though the witty labels are mine, the©️ is his. Enjoy his art on a scale it deserves at https://lesliereynolds.africa.

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Citizen Screen@citizenscreen.bsky.social · 2d ago

Happy birthday, President Barack Obama “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

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Simon Reynolds@semperaliquid.net · 2d ago

This is a tiny, microscopic, minimal, vanishingly-small, nanoscale proportion of the white... Oh, what's the use? Not even repeated repetition can convince me of the truth of that cliché. Not any longer. <Weeps>

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 2d ago

The entirety of the NHS, from inception, was made possible thanks to non-white immigrants. Every accusation is a confession. They don’t want talented people regardless of skin colour. They just want white people regardless of skills.

Simon Reynolds@semperaliquid.net · 6d ago

On a trip down memory lane (sentimental, I know), I came upon this assertion by the US President that there were 21 trillion illegals in America (million million=trillion, right?). More than the global population. I remember at the time thinking it odd nobody seemed to pick up on that. #history

Screen-grab from Trumpstruths.com from a copy of Donald J. Trump's Truth Social post dated May 26, 2025, showing the first four lines, which read [oh God, do I really have to retype all this? Very well, but I'm not doing it in capitals]: "Happy Memorial Day to all, including the scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country through warped radical left minds, who allowed 21,000,000 million people to illegally enter our country, many of them being". It's the split infinitive that really hurts.
Simon Reynolds@semperaliquid.net · last wk.

Interesting how the Greeks now qualify as “white” among groups who have viewed Mediterranean peoples as candidly not quite the thing. The Odyssey’s unwhite Helen, they say, betrays Homer. I say the poet is well-served, with his Then matchless beauty played by the Now matchless beauty. Can’t wait!

Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · 2w ago

Ken Paxton ruined this woman's life over what an appeals court just said was insufficient evidence to shut down her midwifery clinics

Garnet Henderson@garnethenderson.com · 2w ago

This is good, but as Rojas’ attorneys said, it will be next to impossible for her shuttered clinics to reopen. Her midwifery license is still suspended. All because she was doing things midwives do, like treating miscarriages and carrying misoprostol, an essential obstetric medication

Simon Reynolds@semperaliquid.net · last wk.

And Poe, Somerset Maugham, Faulkner, Tennyson, Anonymous—the list is endless. My own preference – for what it's worth – is the less-dashing, looser-fitting en dash. But my background is humble newspapers, not Proud Academe—and besides, whores are more fun than strait-laced patriarchs (so I'm told).

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · last wk.

"Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."

Douglas Main@dmain.bsky.social · 2w ago

Have a story in @theguardian.com today, please read or share if you have a minute: Border wall threatens Quitobaquito Springs, home to an Indigenous cemetery and three extremely rare species — two of which live nowhere else on Earth www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Total chaos’: the biological wonderland threatened by Trump’s border wall

Environmental groups are sounding the alarm over plans that threaten a desert spring that’s home to rare fish and turtles and sacred to the O’odham people

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