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Sam Leith
@questingvole.bsky.social
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@spectator lit ed. “Clock-white, still friendly to the earth.” https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · Sep 4
My book is out in paperback TODAY. All about children’s books, which are the best and most important sort. bit.ly/4pdXMNt
The Haunted Wood | Oneworld
'A MARVEL' PHILIP PULLMAN Do you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? The stories we read as children extend far beyond our childhoods; they are a window into our deepest hopes, joys ...
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 6h
For the senders of spam those are what economists call externalities…
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 7h
As a recovering addict I'm very much cautious about things that are simultaneously the disease and the cure
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 7h
The near-zero cost of sending this shit makes this a very unequal arms race.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 8h
Cannot. Case for books, as the antidote to everything that makes Kemi Badenoch Kemi Badenoch, made here:
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 8h
“43 new emails”. 🫩 This since I last checked an hour ago. Of course not more than three are from humans. But they take time for a human to delete. Direction of travel: not good.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 21h
Pleasure. Huge admirer of your work.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 21h
I reckon
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 21h
As usual, Sunder speaks sense. That the Reform people are so weirdly horny for the UAE and similar is a massive tell. I wrote this on the subject a bit back www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d
both AI and web3 are Going Just Fine.
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · Sep 6
Oh this one is WILD pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/29/v...
Vibe-coded build system NX gets hacked, steals vibe-coders’ crypto
NX is build software. You write your code on your laptop, you press “build”, it runs NX, and you get a built version you can put onto your web server. If you could hack NX, you could hit a lot of p…
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d
This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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Picket Fire @picketfire.bsky.social · 12d
Picket Fire is a small literary press, but I have no idea how to use Blue Sky or how to find people on here. So if #writers #authors #readers and anyone related to the #writingcommunity or #books community could help by sharing this post, that would be excellent.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 3d
That was my second thought. He’d like that runeblade *way* too much
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 3d
Give him Stormbringer. Actually on second thoughts
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d
I knew they’d come for the archivists and librarians but honestly I assumed it would be for a reason better than “Our Special Boy wants to give his friend a sword! Give him a sword!”
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 4d
“They asked for a sword, and we said, ‘Well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts,’” said Todd Arrington, forced to resign as head of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.”
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Philippa Lang @philippalang1.bsky.social · 4d
Wonderful book. Too short. Thank you @questingvole.bsky.social
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 4d
So pleased you liked it. Thank you. You make my day.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 4d
For sure. Individual psychology here is underexplored but my hunch is a certain type of sociopathic dickhead thrives under a permissive framework that requires and encourages sociopathic dickheads.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4d
all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents
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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 4d
ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 4d
ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 4d
My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 4d
I love this
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 5d
There's a really great MinutePhysics video about the aesthetics- and physics-based reasons for the number of wind turbine blades: youtu.be/pgqkti7yePk
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 5d
Sarah Hall and Charlie Porter among writers on ‘genre-defying’ Goldsmiths prize shortlist

The £10,000 award, whose judges include Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan, recognises ‘mould-breaking’ fiction

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Sarah Hall and Charlie Porter among writers on ‘genre-defying’ Goldsmiths prize shortlist
The £10,000 award, whose judges include Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan, recognises ‘mould-breaking’ fiction
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 5d
This really is pretty astounding.
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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 5d
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 5d
Thoughts and prayers with Alexis Petridis, who will shortly be going into hiding. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl review – dull razzle-dazzle from a star who seems frazzled
Far from the Max Martin-assisted pop juggernaut fans expected, this soft-rock paean to domestic bliss is slight on tunes and still seethes with grievance. And the less said about her fiance’s ‘magic w...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5d
Hard to tell the real illegal militia from the fake illegal militia
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 6d
One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute. Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner. I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way. Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose. The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why. Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes. I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic). "To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus
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