Doc Paperback
@docpaperback.bsky.social
Not the former drummer with Roxy Music.
Freelance researcher & writer with a PhD from St Andrews.
Author: 'Masculinity in Lesbian “Pulp” Fiction: Disappearing Heteronormativity?'
Mid-20c queer books. Queer spaces and phenomenology.
Freelance researcher & writer with a PhD from St Andrews.
Author: 'Masculinity in Lesbian “Pulp” Fiction: Disappearing Heteronormativity?'
Mid-20c queer books. Queer spaces and phenomenology.
Pinned
"I want peace. Piece of Greenland... piece of Iceland... piece of Canada..."
And @bjennings90.bsky.social's wonderful comment on the 'Board of Peace'.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
And @bjennings90.bsky.social's wonderful comment on the 'Board of Peace'.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ben Jennings on Donald Trump and his ‘board of peace’ – cartoon
The US president has claimed the world is ‘richer, safer and much more peaceful than it was just one year ago’
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:09 AM
"I want peace. Piece of Greenland... piece of Iceland... piece of Canada..."
And @bjennings90.bsky.social's wonderful comment on the 'Board of Peace'.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
And @bjennings90.bsky.social's wonderful comment on the 'Board of Peace'.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I mean do not LET Rojava fall.
Do not Rojava fall!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The revolutionary women of Rojava are in grave danger. That has consequences for us all | Natasha Walter
For a decade, the autonomous territory in Syria has been a bastion of gender equality. It holds important lessons for the fight against authoritarianism, says author Natasha Walter
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:00 AM
I mean do not LET Rojava fall.
Do not Rojava fall!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The revolutionary women of Rojava are in grave danger. That has consequences for us all | Natasha Walter
For a decade, the autonomous territory in Syria has been a bastion of gender equality. It holds important lessons for the fight against authoritarianism, says author Natasha Walter
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Do not Rojava fall!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
e-book out, hardback soon. Queer(ing) Urban Space eds. Sanchali Sarkar & Jessica A Albrecht, with my chapter Towards the Liberation of 'Terf Island'? A Phenomenological Approach to Gender(s) and Space(s) in Britain.
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brill.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:03 AM
e-book out, hardback soon. Queer(ing) Urban Space eds. Sanchali Sarkar & Jessica A Albrecht, with my chapter Towards the Liberation of 'Terf Island'? A Phenomenological Approach to Gender(s) and Space(s) in Britain.
brill.com/display/titl...
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I am half way through 'Wrath Goddess Sing' by @mayadeane.bsky.social, getting used to familiar names like Aeneas rendered as 'Anyasha'.
So I wonder if Amazon trans man Brisewos ("a witch told me I would be a king one day, and found my own city in the west") is Brutus, legendary founder of Britain.
So I wonder if Amazon trans man Brisewos ("a witch told me I would be a king one day, and found my own city in the west") is Brutus, legendary founder of Britain.
January 19, 2026 at 9:22 AM
I am half way through 'Wrath Goddess Sing' by @mayadeane.bsky.social, getting used to familiar names like Aeneas rendered as 'Anyasha'.
So I wonder if Amazon trans man Brisewos ("a witch told me I would be a king one day, and found my own city in the west") is Brutus, legendary founder of Britain.
So I wonder if Amazon trans man Brisewos ("a witch told me I would be a king one day, and found my own city in the west") is Brutus, legendary founder of Britain.
That's the post.
January 19, 2026 at 8:50 AM
That's the post.
Since I first heard John Lee Hooker when I was about 13 in 1963 I have dug the blues. It still speaks to me. Here's R.L. Burnside telling it like it is.
I *love* these RL Burnside videos of him strumming on an old guitar through an old amp on his natural Mississippi habitat. They never get old to me.
youtu.be/K_DOnKJ232M?...
youtu.be/K_DOnKJ232M?...
R.L. Burnside: See My Jumper Hanging On the Line (1978)
YouTube video by Lomax Film Collection
youtu.be
January 18, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Since I first heard John Lee Hooker when I was about 13 in 1963 I have dug the blues. It still speaks to me. Here's R.L. Burnside telling it like it is.
Hardly surprising. Since Thatcher HMC&E and HMIR staff has been cut, and cut, and cut, and cut, and cut, and the two departments merged as HMRC and the staff cut, and cut.
The message to staff has been "Make bricks without straw. And bring your own mud."
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
The message to staff has been "Make bricks without straw. And bring your own mud."
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
HMRC taking more than a year to pay out tax rebates
Taxpayers talk of having to borrow cash and wait for months amid ‘significant backlogs’ in processing of claims
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Hardly surprising. Since Thatcher HMC&E and HMIR staff has been cut, and cut, and cut, and cut, and cut, and the two departments merged as HMRC and the staff cut, and cut.
The message to staff has been "Make bricks without straw. And bring your own mud."
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
The message to staff has been "Make bricks without straw. And bring your own mud."
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
I was rushed into hospital yesterday with a suspected heart attack. Thank heaven it wasn't.
The NHS nurses were brilliant. My two doctors - both with a heritage outside Britain - were thorough, professional, & caring.
If you vote for #Reform & #Farage kiss goodbye to all this.
The NHS nurses were brilliant. My two doctors - both with a heritage outside Britain - were thorough, professional, & caring.
If you vote for #Reform & #Farage kiss goodbye to all this.
January 17, 2026 at 5:39 AM
Time for another #Bookshelfie. Please feel free to ask questions.
January 11, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Time for another #Bookshelfie. Please feel free to ask questions.
My dear American friends, I beg you:
1] FORGET the National Myth - the SYSTEM got you where you are.
2] There's no going back to how things were, you are going to have to do something new to protect yourselves as individuals and communities. Please do not miss this opportunity.
1] FORGET the National Myth - the SYSTEM got you where you are.
2] There's no going back to how things were, you are going to have to do something new to protect yourselves as individuals and communities. Please do not miss this opportunity.
January 9, 2026 at 6:31 PM
My dear American friends, I beg you:
1] FORGET the National Myth - the SYSTEM got you where you are.
2] There's no going back to how things were, you are going to have to do something new to protect yourselves as individuals and communities. Please do not miss this opportunity.
1] FORGET the National Myth - the SYSTEM got you where you are.
2] There's no going back to how things were, you are going to have to do something new to protect yourselves as individuals and communities. Please do not miss this opportunity.
I have an Apple #iMac (2021 M1 chip)with a problem not on any forum:
Recycle bin hangs, won't empty
Finder beachballs
Relaunch - finder won't open
Restart - problem still there
Can't empty bin, can't use Finder
Any other #Mac user know how to deal with this please get in touch. Thank you.
Recycle bin hangs, won't empty
Finder beachballs
Relaunch - finder won't open
Restart - problem still there
Can't empty bin, can't use Finder
Any other #Mac user know how to deal with this please get in touch. Thank you.
January 9, 2026 at 4:42 PM
I have been asking the same question.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Slowly but surely, a state can repress its people. Why is the UK channelling Viktor Orbán’s Hungary? | Lydia Gall
I know enough about the erosion of civil rights to fear what I now see in the UK. Britons should understand how this ends, says Lydia Gall of Human Rights Watch
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:27 AM
I have been asking the same question.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In Pride And Prejudice, Mr Bennet's given name is never mentioned.
I have a feeling it's Gordon.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice #literature
I have a feeling it's Gordon.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice #literature
a man with white hair and a beard is wearing a blue jacket and white tie
ALT: a man with white hair and a beard is wearing a blue jacket and white tie
media.tenor.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:26 AM
In Pride And Prejudice, Mr Bennet's given name is never mentioned.
I have a feeling it's Gordon.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice #literature
I have a feeling it's Gordon.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice #literature
Cor blimey - THIS!
January 7, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Cor blimey - THIS!
The Guardian calls Venezuelan gold in the Bank of England a "conundrum." The Telegraph simply says we're keeping it. For now. Not that the stuff actually moves anyway.
And you wonder why the Starmer junta wouldn't condemn the US military raid.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
And you wonder why the Starmer junta wouldn't condemn the US military raid.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Deep in the vaults: the Bank of England’s £1.4bn Venezuelan gold conundrum
Nicolás Maduro’s seizure by US reopens question of who controls country’s reserves held in the UK
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 6:11 AM
The Guardian calls Venezuelan gold in the Bank of England a "conundrum." The Telegraph simply says we're keeping it. For now. Not that the stuff actually moves anyway.
And you wonder why the Starmer junta wouldn't condemn the US military raid.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
And you wonder why the Starmer junta wouldn't condemn the US military raid.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Get out of my head!
CHEESE TOASTIES 🚨
January 6, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Get out of my head!
“The British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.”
-- Alistair Cooke (attrib.)
-- Alistair Cooke (attrib.)
January 5, 2026 at 1:02 PM
“The British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.”
-- Alistair Cooke (attrib.)
-- Alistair Cooke (attrib.)
Jings! He wisnae wrang!
January 4, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Jings! He wisnae wrang!
"Trump says US will be 'very strongly involved' in Venezuela oil industry."
Oh. What. A. Surprise.
#Oil #Venezuela #TrumpsWar #Trump #Maduro
I don't like Maduro much, but I like a powerful country's undeclared, sneaky act of aggression, purporting to be about drugs but actually about oil even less.
Oh. What. A. Surprise.
#Oil #Venezuela #TrumpsWar #Trump #Maduro
I don't like Maduro much, but I like a powerful country's undeclared, sneaky act of aggression, purporting to be about drugs but actually about oil even less.
January 3, 2026 at 4:30 PM
"Trump says US will be 'very strongly involved' in Venezuela oil industry."
Oh. What. A. Surprise.
#Oil #Venezuela #TrumpsWar #Trump #Maduro
I don't like Maduro much, but I like a powerful country's undeclared, sneaky act of aggression, purporting to be about drugs but actually about oil even less.
Oh. What. A. Surprise.
#Oil #Venezuela #TrumpsWar #Trump #Maduro
I don't like Maduro much, but I like a powerful country's undeclared, sneaky act of aggression, purporting to be about drugs but actually about oil even less.
The USA declares war on Venezuela with a sneak attack.
#RogueState #Oil
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
#RogueState #Oil
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Venezuelan president Maduro captured and flown out of country following ‘large scale’ US attack, Trump says – live
US president says ‘the United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela’
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:54 AM
The USA declares war on Venezuela with a sneak attack.
#RogueState #Oil
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
#RogueState #Oil
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Hold 'em all to account - Trump, Netanyahu, Orbán, the Iranian régime, and hell yes Farage (not in power) and Putin (not mentioned)! Let 2026 be the year we settle the hash of dictators!
#SmrtFašizmu
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#SmrtFašizmu
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From Donald Trump to Benjamin Netanyahu, let 2026 be a year of reckoning | Jonathan Freedland
These malign figures will do anything to avoid paying for the harm they have done, but accountability must eventually come to both, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Hold 'em all to account - Trump, Netanyahu, Orbán, the Iranian régime, and hell yes Farage (not in power) and Putin (not mentioned)! Let 2026 be the year we settle the hash of dictators!
#SmrtFašizmu
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#SmrtFašizmu
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
They usually do.
A recent coronal mass ejection may disrupt Earth’s geomagnetic field, forecasters said.
Northern Lights Forecast: 17 States Might See Aurora Borealis Friday Amid Geomagnetic Storms
A recent coronal mass ejection may disrupt Earth’s geomagnetic field, forecasters said.
www.forbes.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:13 PM
They usually do.
Time for another #bookshelf shot.
Please feel free to ask questions.
Please feel free to ask questions.
December 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Time for another #bookshelf shot.
Please feel free to ask questions.
Please feel free to ask questions.
Does this sound familiar in 2025?
#KatharineHepburn #KeeperOfTheFlame
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2gK...
#KatharineHepburn #KeeperOfTheFlame
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2gK...
Keeper of the Flame - Americanism
YouTube video by Fed-Up America
www.youtube.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Does this sound familiar in 2025?
#KatharineHepburn #KeeperOfTheFlame
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2gK...
#KatharineHepburn #KeeperOfTheFlame
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2gK...