My money's on character actress Margo Martindale

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Can't wait for this! It's so exciting.

So grateful to @mmagency.bsky.social, esp. @agentbal.bsky.social who helped me figure out this book (and how to not write like an academic!), and to @christofi.bsky.social at @torvabooks.bsky.social and @sarahhaugen.bsky.social at @harperbooks.bsky.social who are excellent editors. I got so lucky. 🥰

my heart goes out to the hand wringers who simply don't know how best to make all that lovely money

Articles like this remind me of when the news could be fun
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I find it so funny that royals give themselves so many badges and buttons to show they are good at kinging, it's like a 5 year old found the teacher's sticker drawer. Bless

Thank you!

Honestly - one of the mysteries of my childhood was why none of the grown ups ever produced said tooth comb. I imagined it must be a kind of multi-flosser.

This has shaken me to my core

'what is your citation house style?'
'plagiarism'

I did it.

The new Terry Deary book has my favourite endpapers I have ever produced. It's like something by Francesco Bassano but way more surreal

And you thought all the news in the UK was doom and gloom
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i'm the guy who invented the spike traps that pop out of temple walls. i hate my job. every day my boss says "why haven't we killed any archeologists" and i say "they haven't invented that yet." they pay me in tomb juice. i hate tomb juice. honestly i might just start working on my big boulder idea

It seems that actually understanding things is no longer necessary, laments - *checks byline* - Rod Liddle?

In the bookshop this morning:

PARENTS: “Okay, we’re leaving now.”

CHILD: *pulls another book from the shelf and sits down *

CHILD: “Then I guess this is goodbye.”

The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.

*pauses for two full seconds, before nodding once, decisively*

This 2,500 year old Siberian tattoo goes hard.
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Love old papers. Fancy having such a list today!

Amazing to see America, América by Greg Grandin longlisted for the Cundill History Prize - a book that makes you look at the Americas (and particularly Latin America) anew.

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So migrants are workshy benefit scroungers who are stealing our easy and lucrative food delivery jobs? Bit confused

Hot off the press!

- Plato