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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · 3d

Book 73: Jonathan Buckley's One Boat (from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) and an LHG x Põhjala Bestla.

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · 8d

Book 72: Daniel Saldaña París's The Dance and the Fire (from @charcopress.com).

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · 10d

Book 71: Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night (from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) and an Unbarred 3 B's.

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · 14d

Book 70: Annie Ernaux's The Other Girl.

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · 15d

There are no way there will be any #ThatcherBham students on Bluesky, but if there were...

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 15d

Some lovely polling published by the Policy Inst at KCL today on partial quotations www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-insti...

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · 20d

The next step, of course, would be that you have to wait for the ad to finish playing before the door unlocks and you can get to your cheese...

The Verge @theverge.com · 20d

Samsung brings ads to US fridges

Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.

buff.ly

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · 26d

Book 69: Sophia Rosenfeld's The Age of Choice - which maybe I will have read for Tuesday - and a Deya Unsteady Rolling Man.

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · 27d

While I enjoyed this from @nickmiller79.bsky.social, I am a little disappointed that Wolves being the first (and as far as I know only) Premier League side to go through a full game without committing a foul did not make the cut...

Premier League one-time wonders: Extreme examples of things happening only once

From a striker who touched the ball only once to the young star stuck on one win, we look at the more niche Premier League statistics

www.nytimes.com

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · 28d

Am always pleased to see @wolvesfc.bsky.social involved in projects like this. There is a lot not right at the club at the moment, but they are getting this stuff right.

Wolves supporting ‘Together Against Suicide’ campaign

Wolves have joined fellow Premier League clubs in supporting to the ‘Together Against Suicide’ campaign, helping fans affected by suicide or suicidal th...

www.wolves.co.uk

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · Sep 8

When I looked for the full text of Nye Bevan's comment about sending the Foreign Secretary "naked into the conference chamber" last week, Google AI helpfully told me that there was no record of him attending any international summit in the nude.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Sep 8

On the one hand, I could just use DuckDuckGo, which would have told me if my recollection about whether Major said "the dispossessed and the never-possessed" or "the never-possessed and the dispossessed" much quickly, or I could be chided by Google's terrible AI Mode for a question I wasn't asking.

AI Overview:
The phrase "dispossessed never possessed John Major" is not a direct quote from or reference to John Major but likely a misunderstanding, as the search results point to Ursula K. Le Guin's novel The Dispossessed and a line referring to "From the dispossessed and the never-possessed" within the context of the Premiership of John Major, suggesting a connection to social groups or policies rather than a literal personal statement by Major.

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · Sep 5

Book 68: António Lobo Antunes's Midnight Is Not In Everyone's Reach and an Unbarred Stoutzilla.

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · Sep 2

If any broadcaster would like to test this theory, I am available for a modest fee.

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · Aug 30

Football punditry should be done by university lecturers, not ex footballers. Lecturers can critically appraise the match & present rational evidence based arguments & citations for their analysis of the match, player and referee performance. Trust me this is a winning formula.

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · Aug 30

Book 67: Geetanjali Shree's Our City That Year and an Unbarred Bueno Shake.

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · Aug 27

Book 66: Chiara Valerio's The Little I Knew.

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · Aug 27

Also, frankly, anyone who sees me out and about reading Thomas Bernhard or Dasa Drndic or whoever and considers that a sign that I am a potential sexual partner is probably in need of psychological intervention.

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · Aug 27

As someone who reads in public quite often - on trains, in pubs - I want to confirm here that I am doing it, not for attention, but because I want you to leave me the fuck alone.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · Aug 27

Dying at the book he's reading

FB post from the Independent, "are modern men really using literature to get laid?", the hot bloke in the picture is reading Harry Potter

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · Aug 25

Book 65: Leonora Carrington's The Stone Door.

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · Aug 24

Book 64: Jen Calleja's Fair - a @vocebooks.bsky.social purchase - and a Fuerst Wiacek Crab Hands. 🦀

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · Aug 21

Book 63: Joanna Pocock's Greyhound (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social).

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · Aug 21

Of course, say what you like about Thorpe, but I am fairly certain that no other party leader ever jammed with Hendrix...

A black and white photograph of disgraced Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe inspecting Jimi Hendrix's rather beautiful Flying V guitar (with a floral pattern on the body), while Hendrix explains the volume and tone controls.

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · Aug 21

She's one hovercraft away from being a full-blown Jeremy Thorpe tribute act...

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Aug 20

"The dog in question is alive"
www.politico.eu/article/czec...

Plot to hire dog-slaying hitman rocks Czech election race

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · Aug 20

If you know me even a little bit you not be surprised to learn that I loved this, from @pelliclemag.com, on the interconnections of Dublin's craft beer and football scenes.

I went to Richmond Park (and Rascal's) last year and can confirm that "ramshackle charisma" nails it. A great little ground.

I Have a Love — The Resurrection of Beer, Football and Community Under Dublin Floodlights — Pellicle

On 15 July 2009, Stephen Clinch landed in Salzburg, tired and confused, after jetting from Dublin to Sioux Falls, Minneapolis, back to Dublin, and finally, to Munich. He’d been buying equipment for hi...

www.pelliclemag.com

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hmmmm. If she has moved on, I hope the club are not going to let it pass without comment. She was a very important player for a long time!

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · Aug 18

Did I miss an announcement on Summer Holmes leaving as well? She's not mentioned in that article, but has disappeared from the squad list...

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · Aug 16

Book 62: Ave Barrera's Restoration (@charcopress.com) and a Vault City DDF Churros.

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