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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 1h

Please make the London Review of Books have more followers than me @lrb.co.uk thank you

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1h

I cannot help with this as I follow you both already, national treasures as you are

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1h

ah! like our economy since the stupid Brexit!

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2h

this made me actually laugh out actual loud

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2h

I am going to guess that she identifies with Lord Vetinari. But Vetinari knew the value of the creative sectors.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 4h

coincidentally 'oh fuck off' was the phrase I wrote most commonly in the margins of Nick Clegg's book when I was reading it for review. it should have been called "I think Facebook would like it if I took the blame for banning Tr*mp"

observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · 18h

This 👇

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 20h

Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 4h

I mean it fails as an understanding of the simple value and meaning of this one human life that is all any of us get on this benighted planet.

But it *also* fails as a basic analysis of where the British economy is thriving and how to support that for desperately-needed growth.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 4h

Not to mention performing arts! The UK has some of the best talent in the world in film and TV. Not just actors but producers, lighting, ADs, makeup, costume, casting. High-end production companies come from around the world to make stuff here. Performing arts is a *massive industry for Britain*.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 5h

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 5h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 5h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 5h

like do they not know that thinking about things, coming to greater understanding and enjoying beauty are *it*?

I mean to say nothing of the incredible foot-shooting of the UK economy - a massive cultural exporter to the world - deciding that a degree in 'producing culture' isn't valuable.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 5h

have they read so little & thought with such shallowness that they think the purpose of human life is "be a valuable cog in the productivity machine of your country, purchase an acceptable home, keep it filled with the usual items, consume media but don't get any ideas, raise your replacements"?

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 5h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 5h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 16h

I mean he has the Devil in a glowing cube in a box.

I think his next move is to go back in time and sell it to Marsellus Wallace.

and that's how Luther ends up joining the International Monetary Fund.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 16h

there was such an opportunity to do a very cool stunt by having him know about the rigged parachute and jump, deciding to use it to break his fall for 10 seconds at the exact perfect moment near the ground/a river?

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 16h

COME ON

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 16h

he finds two!! one that catches on fire (I thought - oh maybe that's what Gabriel meant about having the only chute, that Ethan's was rigged, I might also have missed that with the headcold etc) and then... another one? from... ??????

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Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 1d

imagining the cleaning lady standing in shock as all seventeen fall one after the other through the door of a cupboard which could surely never have contained them in the first place

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 1d

Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 lovers exposed by cleaning lady

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 17h

for a moment I thought it was a gutsy move that he was just going to die.

(even better: if the entity had sent something to save him/catch him because it had worked out it was going to end up in his hands)

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 17h

I mean that does make Gabriel's whole thing about "I'm the only one with a parachute" feel a bit... unsatisfying?

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 17h

where did the second parachute come from after his first one burned spectacularly to bits?!

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 17h

I mean I am very up for "we just came up with something to justify this stunt which Tom Cruise wanted to do because he loves planes"

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 17h

seriously, has anyone seen this film? where did the second parachute come from? (I admit that I have a cold and may be more hard-of-thinking than normal.)

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 17h

I'm making it up in my head. These are the only planes the entity allows Gabriel to use because they cannot be infiltrated by computer viruses.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 17h

streaming Mission Impossible of an evening with a bit of a head cold, I lost concentration for a few seconds and now I have no idea what justification they possibly came up with for stunts in the air in WW2 biplanes.

I'm not mad about the stunts. Just cannot imagine how the writers justified it.

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