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Alex Christian

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Design & illustration at @thefence.bsky.social‬ by night, non-profit comms by day, embarrassingly online all the time

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · Nov 18

Just found out about this magazine. Considering buying 10000 copies, maybe you should too
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · 3d

Lad at my school made two grave mistakes. The first: he bookmarked a porn site on his family computer but renamed the bookmark to “Capital FM”, which his mum clicked on. The second, fatal: he told people at school, which led to “Capital FM” being his nickname and me recounting this 15 years later

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · 15d

I’ve just gone back and done some recent ones and not got above 8 – going along fine and then there’s some regional American thing that’s basically ungettable

Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · 15d

When I watched it last year the word that kept coming to mind was “sumptuous” – such a rich mix of cinematography, set design and costume

Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · 15d

Ooh that’s a good game

#460 - 9/10 🎉
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · 15d

No way does that get top billing

Newtowncashel (Irish: Baile Nua an Chaisil, meaning 'new town of the fort')[1] is a village located near Lough Ree in County Longford, Ireland. Newtowncashel won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1980.[2]

Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · Sep 5

The caesura into “Sonst” is a big sonnet move, but the stumbling-over-itself rhyme scheme of the tercets and the short last sentence obscure its sonnetry

Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · Sep 5

Good little sonnet that, by my reckoning the best I’ve ever read

Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · Aug 28

Really happy with how this illustration turned out. Would be even happier if you took the chance to subscribe to the mag!

The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · Aug 28

We've only got a couple of tokens left on our summer sale. The code is ICECREAM20 at the checkout. Move quickly!

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Aug 28

The best deal in magazines is even better for a few spare moments - run don't walk to rob us blind!

The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · Aug 28

We've only got a couple of tokens left on our summer sale. The code is ICECREAM20 at the checkout. Move quickly!

www.the-fence.com/shop/

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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · Aug 26

'In the week after our book, The Pub, is released, it's great to see the Daily Telegraph join us in lauding that great British institution... and in such a distinctive style too.

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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · Aug 21

Time to re-up our 2021 investigation into the figure that is Hilary Lawson, the property magnate and 'philosopher' behind HowTheLightGetsIn

www.the-fence.com/the-ideas-man/

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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · Aug 19

A treat from our new book, THE PUB.

We sent @clive_mart1n deep into the Cotswolds, long before the arrival of the Vances, to measure up the pubs and people currently cluttering the countryside. He was not a fan.

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You Can Ring My Bell

Clive goes to the Cotswolds

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · Aug 13

I like the Standard’s Backlash vertical
standard.co.uk/topic/backlash

Screenshot of the Standard’s “Backlash” vertical

Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · Aug 12

Waschbär is excellent though

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · Aug 12

I was going to bring up “Faultier” – and then remembered that we basically call them “Faulheit” so we’re in no place to judge

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · Aug 12

I drew some roses on my lunch break!

Anyway, get your dating mishaps in – we’ve got some good ones already.

The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · Aug 12

The Fence is FOR LOVERS, so for next issue's Fencepost, we want your most memorable, mundane, mortifying and miserable dating experiences.

So please reply, or issue a discrete DM, with your maddest, baddest, and raddest adventures in the dating game.

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · Aug 12

Of course the Lollards started this when they were distributing cracked copies of the Bible

Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · Aug 7

An fantastic place, and the only pub I know where you’ll see a 90-year-old belting out “What’s Going On” at 11pm on a Friday

Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · Aug 5

It should be a “no iquids ue”, the hypocrites

Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · Aug 5

Siraj flying, ball flying, stump flying

Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · Aug 5

Are you reading The Tiger’s Share?

Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · Aug 1

Seagale, surely?

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · Jul 29

Really enjoyed that piece, if not its implications

Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · Jul 25

This is a great article. What are those proteins up to!

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jul 25

‘It is now believed that every known neurodegenerative disease – from Alzheimer’s to Parkinson’s to ALS to Huntington’s to general dementia – involves a prion-like protein.’

Stephen Buranyi on prions: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Stephen Buranyi · Folding and Unfolding: Protein to Prion

How and why do proteins, which are produced by our body to build structures (such as skin and muscle) or carry out tasks...

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.bsky.social · Jul 20

Lots of reviewers (and Latronico himelf) refer to Perec, who I’m now ever more convinced I have to read, but I couldn’t help but think of the two family-downfall-precipitating house renovations in Buddenbrooks and Os Maias