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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 15h

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · 13h

I wanna start a PeepGPT where we charge subscribers the same amount to access actual human experts willing to write that email / make that image / generally tell you you are okay

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 13h

Have to say, I'm tempted...

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 14h

One of my favourite albums, and not just of theirs. It all went downhill a bit after New Gold Dream.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks for spreading the word!

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 23h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 19h

I did wonder why he’d gone. That would explain it.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 1d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 20h

Buying books and reading books are two very different pastimes.

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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 1d

once again i cannot emphasize enough that transphobia is almost entirely an elite panic. the overwhelming majority of people simply do not care—it is media and political elites who are obsessed with us and keep bending over backwards to justify and spread transphobia.

Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 1d

the idea that trans rights have swung elections to republicans is a fiction made up by media and political elites (both conservative and liberal) who are personally transphobic and want transphobia to be politically popular so they no longer have to hide how disgusting they think trans people are

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 21h

True!

James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 22h

House of Splinters is an excellently creepy read, just right for the season!

Laura Purcell @spookypurcell.bsky.social · 1d

Happy House of Splinters day from Buffy!

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 22h

Happy Pub Day!

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 1d

'Excellent' Me

Lesley McDowell @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social · 1d

My story of a shocking real-life Victorian woman accused of murder is on special offer on Kindle for the whole of October! 'Enthralling' The Scotsman 'Gripping...memorably disturbing' The Herald

Green and black book cover with title Love and Other Poisons

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 1d

That is a serious tail!

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 1d

If you see this, post a pet!

Black dog lies downside up on the multicoloured rug. His teeth are white and fierce.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 1d

How is it a protected area if bottom trawling is allowed? Make it make sense!

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 1d

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 1d

PR would be good, a massive reform of our media landscape too please!

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 1d

That drove all the 'reasonable' Tories away (I realise that's something of an oxymoron), and then Johnson purged the few that remained. My dad was chairman of the local Tories here in NE Fife, but even he would be appalled at their demise were he still with us.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 1d

The Tory Party died a decade ago, it's just taking this long for its festering corpse to rot away to nothing.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 3d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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