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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 9h

Writing isn’t just about what you say, it’s about what you refuse to lose in the process.

Read my conversation with Cas Mudde on writing, voice, and resisting conformity in academia, in the media, and on the page.

🔗 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...

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Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 1d

- put down the damn AI.

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 4h

When people repost speeches by Badenoch or other Tories and say things like ‘It doesn’t matter what they’ll say, they’ll never be in power’, it’s like they’re not aware that the most influential British politician over the past decade only became an MP last year

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 4h

For the inaugural issue of Draught Journal @draughtjournal.bsky.social:

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks.

draughtjournal.com/article/on-b...

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins

<p>There is something indescribably intimate about the act of interrupting one’s reading, the act of marking one’s place in a book, a subtle gesture t

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you for being part of this

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Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 8h

Draught is now live!
www.draughtjournal.com
Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 6h

oh what's this

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Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 8h

Draught is now live!
www.draughtjournal.com
Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 7h

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 7h

I don't know if you remember but some time ago I said that we'd have something to share soon.

Anyway, it's this

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 1d

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased for her

Cup O' Coffey @ammathor.bsky.social · 1d

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it was beautifully done and very moving. I’m certain to be recommending it.

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 1d

No doubt there are interviews in which Robert Jenrick speaks about 'ghettoisation', and bemoans a lack of integration after visiting predominantly white areas of the country, which would prove that he isn't a massive racist

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 2d

Very good of them to repaint the room to match your top. Sign of a good host.

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 2d

That's a great achievement — well done!

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 2d

Spike Milligan and cast walking towards the camera and out of shot saying 'What are we going to do now?' when they didn't know how to end a sketch.

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 2d

If you've not yet read it this is excellent.

The agony and ecstasy of restoring a Fra Angelico masterpiece

How a 15th-century altarpiece by the early Renaissance friar was painstakingly restored for a major exhibition this year

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 2d

It has some beautiful music in it, too, and when the Messaien kicks in … oof

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 2d

Have just watched this and, yes, it's extraordinary — incredibly moving.

(It's a film about loss and grief, btw, if you want to avoid that kind of thing for the time being.)

Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 4d

Hold Me Tight for me, Vicky Krieps’ masterpiece, I think – & for the life of me I cannot understand why it didn’t get more attention

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 2d

Looks more like a Gazebo than a Bellini

Gillian Darley @gmdarksky.bsky.social · 2d

This is how the Fondazione Querini Stampali has chosen to welcome home its exquisite Giovanni Bellini. Outrageous and inexplicable.

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 2d

I've not read this but Ken's a fantastic writer.

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 3d

As the only player on his team who’s allowed to use his hands he sure does like to dive in feet first

Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 3d

Pickford once again trying to injure an opponent while making a save

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