Harry
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The thing about people with no vices is you can be sure they've got some pretty shitty virtues
The thing about people with no vices is you can be sure they've got some pretty shitty virtues
My brother went to Edinburgh on Sunday, and is in London ATM. I'm so jealous. Honestly thinking about a trip myself, maybe do the gallery and the BM
January 20, 2026 at 7:27 PM
My brother went to Edinburgh on Sunday, and is in London ATM. I'm so jealous. Honestly thinking about a trip myself, maybe do the gallery and the BM
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![At age eighty-one, as of this writing, David John Moore Cornwell, better known to the public at large as John le Carré, has just published his twenty- third novel. Viking’s release of A Delicate Truth (2013) coincided with Pen- guin’s issuing a fiftieth-anniversary edition of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1963), the author’s hugely successful third book, which one scholar in 1988 proclaimed “the best spy story ever written” and which Time magazine included in its 2005 roster of one hundred preeminent novels since the peri- odical’s founding. These events merged in the April 2013 issue of Harper’s, where promotional excerpts from le Carré’s most recent work were followed by the author’s reflections on the text that first conferred his celebrity as a writer:
The merit of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, then—or its offense, depending [on] where you stood—was not that it was authentic but that it was credible. The bad dream turned out to be one that a lot of people in the world were sharing, since it asked the same old question that we are asking ourselves fifty years later: How far can we go in the rightful defense of our Western values without abandoning them along the way?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreiexq3aereh57a5wbwhb5y7f7okwuxkvqabkmmelcidzyrsysoddpu@jpeg)
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No, sorry, I just can’t get on board with this weird, smooth quasi-anime Japanese stuff.
I like my train coupling filth properly European - rough, ready and slightly amateurish.
youtu.be/Q6LrZBEv5QY?...
I like my train coupling filth properly European - rough, ready and slightly amateurish.
youtu.be/Q6LrZBEv5QY?...
January 17, 2026 at 10:36 PM
No, sorry, I just can’t get on board with this weird, smooth quasi-anime Japanese stuff.
I like my train coupling filth properly European - rough, ready and slightly amateurish.
youtu.be/Q6LrZBEv5QY?...
I like my train coupling filth properly European - rough, ready and slightly amateurish.
youtu.be/Q6LrZBEv5QY?...
I'm going to start posting (or at least checking) this place more often. I promise.
January 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM
I'm going to start posting (or at least checking) this place more often. I promise.
I'd like to be able to cross post here to the other place and the other place to here automatically, does there exist such a program?
January 16, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I'd like to be able to cross post here to the other place and the other place to here automatically, does there exist such a program?
Good for her
Learning things I didn't need to know about Kristin Sinema; she (allegedly) slept with multiple members of her security detail.
January 16, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Good for her
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Finally got round to setting up a Substack! And I've published the piece I shared with a few of you last month - on the intellectual crisis within Labour's liberal wing.
thenewsocialdemocrat.substack.com/p/intellectu...
thenewsocialdemocrat.substack.com/p/intellectu...
Intellectually adrift, where does Labour’s liberal wing go from here?
The tradition of Gaitskell, Crosland, Jenkins, Blair and Brown stands at a crossroads.
thenewsocialdemocrat.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Finally got round to setting up a Substack! And I've published the piece I shared with a few of you last month - on the intellectual crisis within Labour's liberal wing.
thenewsocialdemocrat.substack.com/p/intellectu...
thenewsocialdemocrat.substack.com/p/intellectu...
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The thing that's always frustrated the right wing ideologues who've glommed onto Trump is that he doesn't have the attention span to actually be a committed ideological warrior. He can scream all the right culture war shit, but it's just WWE pugilistic showmanship. He basically has no belief system.
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The thing that's always frustrated the right wing ideologues who've glommed onto Trump is that he doesn't have the attention span to actually be a committed ideological warrior. He can scream all the right culture war shit, but it's just WWE pugilistic showmanship. He basically has no belief system.
And that ingrate is named Stephen Miller.
you genuinely have to wonder if there's at least one person in The White House wondering if they should pull the removal lever on Trump just because he's not the ideologue the New Right wants
November 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
And that ingrate is named Stephen Miller.
And god drew his finger across the sky making a rainbow, a special promise that you f**s were really gonna get it in the neck for a few thousand years, but you'll get a cool symbol at the end of it
fellas, is it gay to be christian
November 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
And god drew his finger across the sky making a rainbow, a special promise that you f**s were really gonna get it in the neck for a few thousand years, but you'll get a cool symbol at the end of it
I -do- think about this, and it's often torturous. I can't look at the ease and smugness with which certain politicians say and act as they do and come to the conclusion they feel the same.
not to sound like a fundamentalist here but you ever wonder if these people ever imagine standing before the Divine and justifying their actions
I suspect the line about cars, e bikes, &c points not just to attacking people applying from temporary work visas, but more generally to a future migration crisis stemming from a major European war.
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I -do- think about this, and it's often torturous. I can't look at the ease and smugness with which certain politicians say and act as they do and come to the conclusion they feel the same.
Not to go full boomer but if I write a reply to your email don't just like it in outlook
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Not to go full boomer but if I write a reply to your email don't just like it in outlook
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The status updates are getting increasingly pass-agg. Having managed a much, much smaller crisis like this, I can hear the 'every moment I'm explaining this to you is a moment I'm not fixing it' coming from engineering.
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The status updates are getting increasingly pass-agg. Having managed a much, much smaller crisis like this, I can hear the 'every moment I'm explaining this to you is a moment I'm not fixing it' coming from engineering.
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Cloudflare outage destroys all human communication except Bluesky, this is the weirdest sci-fi scenario I’ve ever seen
November 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Cloudflare outage destroys all human communication except Bluesky, this is the weirdest sci-fi scenario I’ve ever seen
Since twitter is down I'm reacquainting with the vibe here. Twitter for me is like being in the smoking area of some weird gay club, whereas this feels like the coffee shops I'd frequent as a student, all hanging plants and people typing their substacks
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Since twitter is down I'm reacquainting with the vibe here. Twitter for me is like being in the smoking area of some weird gay club, whereas this feels like the coffee shops I'd frequent as a student, all hanging plants and people typing their substacks
Cloud flare is down, halp
November 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Cloud flare is down, halp
I cannot conceive of a reality in which the Man In Black is not extremely cool. I'm not a country boy at all, but I am a Johnny Cash boy
Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.
Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?
Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.
on.wsj.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I cannot conceive of a reality in which the Man In Black is not extremely cool. I'm not a country boy at all, but I am a Johnny Cash boy
There should be an app that syncs my tweets here and vice versa
October 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
There should be an app that syncs my tweets here and vice versa
I think I'm going to have to get into my Sondheim again, I need the balm
October 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I think I'm going to have to get into my Sondheim again, I need the balm
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I'd so loved to have met DeGaulle, he's on my twentieth century dinner party list, along with Zhou Enlai, Chiang, Lenin, Judy Garland
October 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I'd so loved to have met DeGaulle, he's on my twentieth century dinner party list, along with Zhou Enlai, Chiang, Lenin, Judy Garland
My twitter is unusable because of a Hyacinth Bucket tweet, so I'm going to be here instead
October 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
My twitter is unusable because of a Hyacinth Bucket tweet, so I'm going to be here instead
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Getting mighty tired of the meme on here of “oh, it is just so difficult for the government to set the agenda”. The government (which literally employs thousands of press officers) is setting the agenda - it’s just that it is setting it on toxic ground it can’t win.
*wanking motion*
September 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Getting mighty tired of the meme on here of “oh, it is just so difficult for the government to set the agenda”. The government (which literally employs thousands of press officers) is setting the agenda - it’s just that it is setting it on toxic ground it can’t win.
Reading a manhwa and feeling A) like I'm 15 again, B) I should be out more at night and C) I really really want to start smoking again, fuck
September 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Reading a manhwa and feeling A) like I'm 15 again, B) I should be out more at night and C) I really really want to start smoking again, fuck
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I'm a modern languages and linguistics graduate and I think not enough young people study modern languages or linguistics
I'm a history and international relations graduate and I think not enough young people study history or international relations
The worst kind of policy moaner is a middle aged arts or humanities graduate grumbling that not enough young people study STEM subjects.
September 19, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I'm a modern languages and linguistics graduate and I think not enough young people study modern languages or linguistics