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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 42m

So delighted to finally have a copy of Ellen Dillon’s _Butter Intervention_ in my hands. 🧈 ☘️

Small paperback book about the size of a block of butter. Cover art looks like an Irish butter wrapper.

Back cover:

Nothing less than a history of Ireland sculpted in semi-solid emulsion, 'Butter Intervention' is sceptical about narratives and their revisions alike, as refined and as salty as the creamery product it subjects to forensic documentary survey and lyrical deconstruction.
- Kit Fryatt
Ellen Dillon takes the everyday and reveals it as strange, beautiful, poetic and political. I never realised before how much I needed to know about butter. And now I do, I'm grateful and amazed.
- Wendy Erskine

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 2h

Cc: @citizenrobot.bsky.social

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 2h

Very handsome set! Looks invaluable.

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Autumnal Dunks @dunks.bsky.social · 3h

“we accidentally figured out why men are increasingly insane”

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 4h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 3h

Same, but still. Jesus. 😱

Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 17h

The good Blake (😇).

Very glad to have Will Smith catching for Roki tonight.

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 17h

Right??

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 17h

Can we go back in time and leave Snell in?

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 18h

He’s utterly repugnant.

Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 18h

😂😂

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 18h

Sucks all the life out of one of the most magical potentialities of the medium.

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Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · 19h

"free indirect discourse" is an absolutely terrible phrase to describe one of the most important features of prose fiction and we should have found a new term decades ago

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 19h

Freddie!!!!!

Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 19h

🎪 🤪 www.mlb.com/news/near-ho...

Near home run robbery causes chaos on basepaths, bizarre double play

Nobody on the field was quite sure of the situation in the fourth inning of NLCS Game 1 on Monday night, even Brewers center fielder Sal Frelick, who was at the center of the chaotic play when he leap...

www.mlb.com

Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 19h

Blake Snell utterly unphased. Stone-cold fourth inning after that bizarre double play force out. Go, Dodgers!! 💙💙

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 21h

Very apt guest for the end of an era: in podcasting and in US liberal democracy. 😞

Marc Maron @marcmaron.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the final episode of the show! wtfpod.com

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 22h

The Waves >>>> Ulysses

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22h

NO

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 22h

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a source