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Thanks, Jerome K Jerome
November 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
For "a few weeks" read "thirteen months", but since this post is getting a response I thought I should dig the article out:

www.theguardian.com/books/2024/o...
November 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
There was an article in The Guardian a few weeks back about how Gen Z find bookshops preferable to online shopping, and a key factor was that an algorithm will offer you 6000 books identical to the one you just finished whereas a bookseller will offer you three that are different but meet the vibe.
November 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Of course, the problem with this essay isn't that it's bullshit, though it is bullshit. Bullshit is perfectly acceptable basis for a humanities essay - provided it is articulate, well-argued, rigorously-cited bullshit, which this is not.
November 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
And you tell the young people of today that, and they won't listen because they'll be too busy watching Bluey on the bus.
November 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Which is why the Romans had no word for "citizen".

She's such a clown
November 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Her face must have been wreathed in smiles
November 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Yeah, she cortege-inormous break there
November 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I don't do a lot of music gigs. Maybe Pet Shop Boys
November 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Amazing! What a band
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The Animals!? Well jel
November 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
@robinince.bsky.social Maybe one for you too? Don't forget the bread and jam
November 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Foreword to the 2020 edition reads simply "Oh bollocks"
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Yeah Putin's lot have done him
November 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I've got chop, whit and and some bastard called New Carl, with whom I will not be sharing my chop.
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"Spirit of Olaf and, if you will,"

Easy to miss because if you know the Wirral, you know it's Viking country so it could just be a generic Olaf.
November 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Anyone else reminded of that time a guy's corpse was found inside a zipped-up gym bag and MI5 tried to convince us he'd done it to himself?
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I dunno, I reckon Norman probably has some contacts. Sandy less useful unless he can distract the kidnappers by teaching them to mine their inner conflict and maybe kiss a little.
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Is this about Wicked, or 28 Years Later, or Alien: Earth or either of the last two Doctor Who series closers or the new cold war or
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM