David Veevers

It writes itself!

😂

You sonofabitch I’m in.

Although I do find that I need unbroken periods to write - I have to ‘settle in’ and get in the flow or I find it quite difficult. So I’m very envious of you working in snippets like that.

In 1587 Philip II ordered the council at Saint Domingo to dispatch a fleet to recover the treasure from the Kalinago, but the defeat of the Spanish Armada the following year ended further plans for doing so as all available maritime resources were diverted.

In 1565 a Spanish treasure ship carrying 3 million in pearls, gold and silver was shipwrecked off Dominica. The Indigenous Kalinago killed the survivors and hid the treasure in a cave, the piles of precious metals and pearls reaching to 'the height of a man on horseback'.

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Grabbing some precious hours of writing here and there whenever I can this summer as childcare has proved more elusive than ever. It's amazing how much writing you can get done when someone takes the kids off your hands and you know you've got about 3 hours max to get shit done.

Considerably more than what an EIC writer would have received (£5 - £20) although they could supplement their wages with private trade.

Oh that’s perfect.

Engineer - did an apprenticeship right out of school and worked on ship engines, and then into risk assessment and eventually HR. Very successful, and all without a University degree. And therefore that should happen to everyone else. Or something.

Disappointed at first, now horrified. Horrified almost every day.

You fucking ghouls.

100%

Oh god, just received my first work meeting invite for September. *shudders*

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Had to help my father in law move some stuff yesterday. So of course it meant for the half-hour car journey he spent the entire time telling me - a University lecturer - that degrees were worthless and young people should enter the job market straight away.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

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My favourite genre of liberal is the kind who policed our use of the word genocide 18 months ago but are now reposting news articles about the famine in Gaza and sincerely talking about a two-state solution.

Fuck you, you motherfuckers.

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

Alex on twitter writes: "Someone on Twitter writes: "You’re a menswear writer. You don’t know anything about manufacturing in America, or steel mills, or metallurgy, or CNC machining, or how anything is produced from raw material into a finished product in this country or anywhere. Stick to writing about “men’s fashion."" I reply: "i actually had a career in knifemaking before this. the reason why you can't avoid tariffs in knifemaking is because everyone relies on Gobelin machinery. are you aware of this?" Alex replies: "Gobelin machinery? What exactly are you referring to?" I reply: "you Gobelin DEEZ NUTS!"

"stick to menswear"

This was superb - I knew nothing about the source material and loved the silly banter and characters.

also we already have a perfectly good definition of academic freedom, it was established by UNESCO in 1997. university governance hates it because it gives academics "freedom to express freely their opinion about the institution or system in which they work".

Yep, Houghton's recent 'rainbow' series. I'm also collecting the pulpy mass market PBs from the 70s / 80s, but the Houghton ones are the ones I read.

Don't you dare lie to me.

It’s serving South Sea Bubble.

My weird thing at the moment is when I get drunk I go on eBay and buy hideously expensive 1st edition Stephen King books. As vices go it’s probably not the worst, but it’s pretty weird. And expensive.

This was essentially my entire University experience.

I love that the Indigenous Kalinago of the Caribbean call the lips 'the borders of the mouth', the pulse 'the soul of the hand', and fingers 'the children of the hand'.

May I just say to The Times journalist reading this, I am available for direct quotes, too.