Steven Poole
stevenpoole.bsky.social
Steven Poole
@stevenpoole.bsky.social
writer / composer | WSJ, Guardian, Telegraph, Amazon, Spotify, BBC

https://stevenpoole.net
to be fair, i did finish it and almost all of it is not by Greta Thunberg anyway
December 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
wrapped for artists 🎹🤘🏻
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
plus, Italian dictionary gives "monstrous person or animal" ( circus freak) as sense 4 of "fenomeno", so again i don't think this has gone too severely wrong
December 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"time of" is not a falsifying translation of "in questo interregno" though: i think you end up with a liberal translation that is still in the spirit! www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
life hack: get good writing printed out on nice paper and delivered to your letterbox on a regular basis
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
tbf it was Adam Curtis who coined "fuck-off button" some long while ago www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...
October 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
September 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
if you don't want to be accused of xenophobia, don't say something that is literally and precisely xenophobic. Why is the BBC bending over backwards to placate these people even when they're no longer in power? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
August 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
yes! before the lamentable developments of 3000BCE, humans simply "venerated" nature rather than killing the parts of it they could catch for food (the review goes on to be properly sceptical of what sounds like an extremely stupid book) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
August 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
oh dear yes, i'm afraid i have
April 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM