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Pip Kazan

@pipkazan.bsky.social

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ME/CFS-afflicted novelist Philip Kazan. It’s better to burn out than it is to rust, and I wish somebody had told me that when I chose the rust option.

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 13m

It’s infuriating that so mediocre and crude a power as Russia is running rings round European democracies and that they have so many willing collaborators.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 3h

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

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Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 15m

“Ah! Take it all away! It’s true that I sought to undermine the tyranny of Nature with the artifice of a plastic lobster, but still I find myself suffering the vulgar reality of actual experience.”

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BEAVE @beaveinflow.bsky.social · 1d

Being a bibliophile is fun because I get to say things like “I’m reading” when I’m actually dissociating in silence.

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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 40m

Also seems like the sort of thing des Esseintes from ‘À rebours’ might do to pass a dull afternoon

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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 57m

‘Draught Punk’ was me as a teenager living in a leaky house with no central heating.

Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 1h

Yes Spinone! (Read the alt text)

Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 1h

What a gorgeous beast. Spinone?

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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 1h

Eyethankewe

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Dr David Robert Grimes @drg.bsky.social · 5d

Asked lots about this piece on Chronic Lyme disease, and disappointed in the @guardian (a publication I both subscribe and contribute to) for running it. Short thread explaining the multitude of problems with it, and why I consider it irresponsible to run as is..🧵

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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 2h

Canned whole chicken slides out of its can like Cthulhu suffering a prolapse

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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 2h

When we had a restaurant in Vermont I made real hand-raised, hot water crust pork pies for a special and let me assure you, the locals devoured them very happily indeed.

Brandon @bcfox.bsky.social · 9h

watching great British bake off and once again asking if the UK is aware that the war ended

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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 12h

It was, and it never gets less brilliant.

Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 13h

I don’t remember what made me buy this. I think the mad exuberance of the cover. Utterly life affirming? Hell yeah.

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Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 14h

Bottle being opened with a sword: ‘sabrage’

Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 14h

Read a fucking book, for the love of god

Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 14h

ANti-FÀ!

Pip Kazan @pipkazan.bsky.social · 14h

Doubly strange because the bloke looks like Anton Bruckner, who would probably been very happy with this arrangement, death-obsessed oddball that he was.