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Patrick Christie

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Writer with work in The London Magazine, The Oxonian Review, Litro Magazine, Review 31, Necessary Fiction, The Mechanics’ Institute Review and elsewhere. https://www.patrickchristie.co.uk

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Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · Dec 30

For Oxonian Review I've taken a look at recent campus novels and asked why British authors haven't followed their US counterparts in producing some form of 'adjunct lit' that reflects the pressures and hardships of modern academia.

oxonianreview.com/articles/the...

The Placards of Academe

Why hasn’t the UK developed an equivalent sub-genre of academic precarity to *adjunct-lit* — a *sessional-lecturer* lit? Patrick Christie goes looking for fiction that highlights the febrile atmospher...

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Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 22h

Let's go!

Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 2d

Frankie's Plastering: Contact Paul

Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 2d

I wanna say just after 3pm

Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 2d

I saw approx 15 mins of this and it was great !(leaving wasn't my choice)

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Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 6d

I have just learnt how Americans use cutlery...

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 7d

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Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 8d

Non riesco vedere neanche una salsiccia!

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Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 8d

But all their problems will be solved if they do!

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Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 8d

Same. He had chronic back issues.

Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 8d

It makes me happy that Philip Roth had a Philip Guston painting of a book above his writing desk.

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 10d

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" is such a good sentence.

JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 11d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 14d

Saul Bellow nailing* the importance of physical media (cf:, lps, cds, dvds, etc) from The Dangling Man, 1944.

* for me, anyways

From The Dangling Man by Saul Bellow:

“In the old days, when we had a flat of our own, I read constantly. I was forever buying new books, faster, admittedly, than I could read them. But as long as they surrounded me they stood as guarantors of an extended life, far more precious and necessary than the one I was forced to lead daily. If it was impossible to sustain this superior life at all times, I could at least keep its signs within reach. When it became tenuous I could see them and touch them.”

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Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 25d

If you were going to the Berlin for the first time, in which neighbourhood would you stay?

Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 28d

Is it good? I've been slowly working my way through Huxley's novels

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Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · Sep 9

Which one are you? Or are you taking the photo?

Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · Sep 8

Not big, but full and solid. Sounds like a description of my cats

Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · Sep 7

A nice stack of 'printed by Amazon' books if I ever saw one

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Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · Sep 3

I think there's a way to opt out of it

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Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · Sep 2

So pleased this has finally been republished. I've been wanting to read it for years but second hand copies are £££

Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · Sep 2

My cat needed eye surgery last year. The horror, the horror.

I'm pretty sure the partial payout they eventually coughed up was higher than the total we'd paid in to date. Though of course now, the premiums have gone up...

Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · Aug 28

- 'Mariko took her seat, brushing his foot with hers.
*Paragraph of narrator's thoughts*
Mariko gave him a kiss on the forehead before sitting down.'

Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · Aug 28

Just finished a novel put out by an established publisher that clearly wasn't give a final copy edit. With lines such as:

- 'Dan turned off the burner and moved the pan to another burner.'
- 'On the table of the small, circular kitchen table was a week-old, out of order Sunday Times

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Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · Aug 28

Did some performative reading of Bolano on my commute to work today, didn't I