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Jeremy Noel-Tod

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Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about the bedtime poems my children have most enjoyed over the years, from a Cumbrian shepherd counting rhyme to Gertrude Stein someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/crap-poims

Crap Poims

Five poems my children have genuinely enjoyed at bedtime

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 1d

I was in fact thinking of him

Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 1d

I’m here all night

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 1d

The existence of the Great Barrier Reef implies the existence of the Great Barry Reef

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 2d

A Louise Glück miniature that appeared in The Threepenny Review in 2023. To my knowledge, it remains uncollected.

Passion and Form

Ah, they have kissed!
The rhyme
Comes in unnoticed.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 10d

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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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, we can't afford to give you your real-terms pay cut.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

'Staff at some institutions will not get even get the small rise due to them because of a clause in the negotiations that allows for a delay for up to 11 months if a university is facing financial difficulties.' So far, Dundee, Kent, Brunel, Coventry, Swansea.

Five UK universities tell staff they can’t afford pay rises

Negotiations over whether to honour 1.4 per cent increase ongoing at several other institutions amid financial crunch

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 3d

Imagining a mash-up of these two now:

I will howl all night in a deep lagoon
For an xbox

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not, but it sounds ominous

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 3d

That sweet Guinness Zero smoothing the path towards my fifties

Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 3d

You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to him

Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 3d

The quality of low alcohol beer has really improved in recent years

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 3d

Really enjoyed reading this! My favourite from this list? A toss-up between Harold Monro’s “Overheard on a Saltmarsh” and “Wy is School a Fing” by Sonny, aged 8.

Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about the bedtime poems my children have most enjoyed over the years, from a Cumbrian shepherd counting rhyme to Gertrude Stein someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/crap-poims

Crap Poims

Five poems my children have genuinely enjoyed at bedtime

someflowerssoon.substack.com

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 3d

This just gets better and better! (Our copy of World is Round has a later illustrator)

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 3d

I've just realised that the Margaret Wise Brown who wrote the great Goodnight, Moon is also the MWB who commissioned Gertrude Stein's book for children, The World is Round. This is a delightful connection to make on the bedroom shelves. And this story about the amusing cake is the perfect footnote.

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 3d

and here is MWB reading Stein’s manuscript for the first time, according to Leonard Marcus, accidentally celebrating with ‘an amusing cake in the shape of a boat’

A page from Leonard Marcus’s biography Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon (1992) in which he describes MWB receiving the manuscript of Gertrude Stein’s children’s book, The World is Round. ‘In the happy confusion, everyone forgot about supper and Margaret had not thought to pick up refreshments. The only food in the house was an amusing cake in the shape of a boat, which she had ordered for a friend’s going-away party and which the trio now appropriated in the name of experimental literature.’

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 3d

'...which the trio now appropriated in the name of experimental literature'

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about the bedtime poems my children have most enjoyed over the years, from a Cumbrian shepherd counting rhyme to Gertrude Stein someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/crap-poims

Crap Poims

Five poems my children have genuinely enjoyed at bedtime

someflowerssoon.substack.com

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 3d

I guess it does rhyme!

Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about the bedtime poems my children have most enjoyed over the years, from a Cumbrian shepherd counting rhyme to Gertrude Stein someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/crap-poims

Crap Poims

Five poems my children have genuinely enjoyed at bedtime

someflowerssoon.substack.com

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 4d

It’s the same problem as in higher ed: the people who control all the money don’t like or understand the product

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 4d

Please enjoy Marie Osmond (the smurfette of the Osmonds) discussing and reciting Dadaist sound poetry
youtu.be/USTQgu229Wc?...

ripleys-_dada.mp4

YouTube video by das ubuibi

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 4d

I love the respectful pause before she says '... it didn't make any sense'

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 6d

Because it made me laugh - from Joan Aiken’s short stories (written in 1983 and cosily evocative of the time*) about young Arabel and her pet raven, Mortimer.

First the Joan Aiken prose, then the brilliant Quentin Blake illustration.

*Arabel’s mother is temp secretary at a pirate radio station.

because we didn't have him last time she came," Arabel went on anxiously, looking at the raven, who had piled a foot-high mound of tea-bags on the lid of the washing-machine, and was trying to stand on his head on top of the pile. He was the wrong shape for standing on his head, and, each time he tried, he fell heavily on his back, and the tea-bags flew all over the kitchen floor. They were getting rather dusty. Mr Jones supposed he ought to stop Mortimer, but he had too much else on his mind.

A lovely Quentin Blake illustration of a raven standing on its head on a pyramid of tea bags atop a washing machine.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 5d

He's just letting Taylor have her moment

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump has not been seen in public since Tuesday and has no public events on his calendar today

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