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henry

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November 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM

henry

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I hate this football team so so so much

November 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM

henry

@runeberg.bsky.social

He would've absolutely loathed magical realism and any postcolonial literature. in general I think that a lot of VVN's vitriol as a critic was based on hypersensitivity over links to his own work. let's be real he owes a lot to Conrad, Dostoevsky, Mann ("silly"), Henry James ("a complete fake")

November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM

henry

@runeberg.bsky.social

pharmaceutical names are so impossible to remember that I'm currently reduced to checking it on Shinzo Abe's Wikipedia page

November 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM

henry

@runeberg.bsky.social

this is a psyop and I need to stop falling for it

Cameron Green
Age 26 Caps 32 Right-hand bat/right-arm fast
Australia's bionic lab project, Green seeks to answer the question of what would happen if a 2m tall fast bowler who can hit 90mph could also twinkle down the pitch with sharp footwork and lace a cover drive against pace or a loft against the spinners. An absurd talent with the bat, Green has yet to fully put that together with his bowling but, as the only squad member in his 2os, he still has time.

November 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM

henry

@runeberg.bsky.social

A SLEEPY CORNER OF EASTERN ENGLAND?! THAT'S yeah fair enough actually

It's a tiny village in rural Norfolk, a sleepy corner of eastern England, and home to about 500 people. It's essentially a collection of houses either side of a mile-long stretch of country road. There's a pub, a petrol station and a village shop.

November 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM

henry

@runeberg.bsky.social

thank you Henry Winter for the Henry Winteriest opinion possible

$Henry Winter of The Telegraph wrote that FIFA had "gained some credibility" by deciding to investigate Henry after the EGM, whose presence at the World Cup would otherwise overshadow the Fair Play campaign, and that the Henry controversy made the case for having a panel of experts examine every major game after the event for infractions missed by the referee. 131] Winter contrasted any possible$

November 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM

henry

@runeberg.bsky.social

the Thierry Henry handball produced some, uh, curious reactions

[1181 Henri Astier wrote for BBC News that the reaction in France, a "nation not particularly known for its moral qualms". had ranged from "embarrassment to outrage". [114! Dominic Lawson wrote in The Sunday Times that "[Ireland] has taken on the role of unjustly oppressed victim - something the Irish do well, having had several centuries of practice". (111]

November 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM

henry

@runeberg.bsky.social

it is quite extraordinary to me that Taylor Swift hasn't got more hate for this, which I think at a minimum deserves some sort of criminal trial

Forgive me, it sounds cocky
He (Ah!) matized me
And opened my eyes
Redwood tree
It ain't hard to see
His love was the key
That opened my thighs
Girls, I don't need to catch the bouquet
To know a hard rock is on the way

November 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM

henry

@runeberg.bsky.social

no I don't think that's what a politician is actually

"A politician's greatest trick is to convince you that he is not one," Nuzzi writes in her book.
"And what is a politician? Any man who wants to be loved more than other men and through his pursuit reveals why he cannot love himself."

November 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM

henry

@runeberg.bsky.social

this is particularly brutal

After they finish filming, however, Frances announces that she intends to marry a "day laborer" back in her native North Carolina.
This is a bit surprising, as Frances, who is an heiress, also sugar babies, but apparently she has decided to become trad, as is made amply clear in a lengthy wedding scene which includes no church service but a
Springbreakers-esque montage of Confederate bikinis, AK-47s, and similes like "They tucked dip into their upper lips like a sacrament." Frances remains; Avery returns to her life in New York, which consists of two things: slightly masochistic sex with older men and attempts to write. From here comes her own Flat Earth: "The players in the downtown art scene weren't so different from the flat-earthers in flyover country—we each thought we had some unique insight into the way the world works, but in reality, we were all part of one big consensus machine, downstream from everything." Indeed, virtually every conversation in the book is borrowed from a familiar word bank of half-remembered Twitter theories (5G, receipt paper, vim retention) and shallow references to publishing (everyone wants to publish "a book" and "be a writer," Avery included).

At other times, though, the narrator falls into more tired recitations that seem more curated for the market than in criticism of it: "It's true that I have a technically perfect body, but I'm hopeless at sex and secretly conservative", "I found an old photo of my body. I looked fertile, ready"; "I had a perfect hourglass figure." The chapters of the book are each separated by a few pages of a kind of non-narrative block of Twitter speak, much of it anti-feminist ("Gynocracy has failed, and everyone agrees that we are moving toward a masculine vision of America"; "We try to temper the feeling that we would rather be folding a man's laundry than reading a book";
"When surveyed, all of us say we prefer to stay home and wash dishes.") I lost track of how many times the word fertile appeared; likewise for the word feral. Around half a dozen times, Avery says she wants a baby; wants a ring. And yet at other times, Avery comes out with rather leaden declarations of feminism such as "Why was I always seeking permanence in places where women are disposable? Like galleries." Perhaps this is all a joke-but does

November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM

henry

@runeberg.bsky.social

visiting home for a few days. time to pay tribute to a cherished local institution

Orlando's B&B but definitely not a restaurant

November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM

henry

@runeberg.bsky.social

obviously that's sort of bound up with the noble lie point too. I am ""proud" that my Norwich Quaker great-great-whatevers were surely involved in abolition campaigning, but I'm also proud that today this pro-social version of history is important in my hometown, bc that says things abt the present

Slavery
The early slave trade had been conducted mainly by the Dutch and Portuguese, but by the early 18th century Britain had become the largest slaving nation. Labour by enslaved people upheld the highly lucrative trades in sugar and tobacco in the American and Caribbean colonies.
Prolonged campaigns gradually raised awareness of the need for abolition. In 1807 parliament prohibited the carrying of enslaved people in any British ship and their import into any British colony. By degrees the trade was abolished worldwide over the early-mid years of the 19th century. It was not a quick or easy process, and was resisted by some.
Norwich supported the Abolition campaign, boycotting slave-produced sugar and publishing an edition of the autobiography of the famous African Olaudah Equiano, who visited the city in the 1790s.
During the 1760s Norwich was home to another African, James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw. His important autobiography was the first by a freed slave published in English, though no image of him exists. He came to Norwich with his family. His English wife Betty, a weaver from Spitalfields, found work in the textile trade.

November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM

henry

@runeberg.bsky.social

@footballcliches.bsky.social is this the most Champions League Interview Speak line ever to be seen in international football? "I am very humble about the assignment, but also inspired." is pure Luka-Modrić-ahead-of-second-leg-against-Bayer-Leverkusen