One $16k NEH grant at a research library can change the life of a scholar forever while adding to our shared knowledge of history and culture. These depositions will drive me mad
Literary translator pals: a new competition, in honour of the late, great David Bellos. For unpublished samples. More details here: janklowandnesbit.co.uk/prize
#xl8 #literarytranslation 🌐
“What I think is actually important for everybody to understand is that the US has been very clear that they want to divide Europe. They don’t like the European Union” @kajakallas.bsky.social told @financialtimes.com. “This is a very complicated relationship we are having"
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The White House’s failure to think a step or two ahead—such as what Iran could do with the Strait of Hormuz—is another “reminder of what it means to purge government and decision-making of all the experts.”
@profsaunders.bsky.social dropping some political science with @gregsargent.bsky.social.
Who fractured it Simon?
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He is indeed! And he lived in Dublin for a while back when almost everyone my age was a Curehead and gathered on Grafton Street of a Saturday afternoon www.hotpress.com/music/happy-...
Also, does Robert Smith count, going by how everyone loves The Cure?
Marianne Faithful because she lived here for ages?
The Trump administration currently has no viable way of reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Military escorts for tankers and other civilian ships are too dangerous to try, U.S. officials and military analysts told us: www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Can we do this for cafes and public transport please?
Oh look. Proof that investing in renewable energy reduces dependency on fossil fuels and reduces people's energy bills
To some degree the administration is now along for the ride in this war it started on Iran.
Israel seems to have a clearer desired end state—Iranian state collapse—than the US.
The question is when POTUS has had enough and decides he wants off the ride.
www.axios.com/2026/03/10/i...
Congratulations to Anjet Daanje and David McKay for winning the Republic of Consciousness Prize! If you're interested in learning about the translation process for THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, click here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models.
Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵
My daughter was shocked I knew who Eminem was, while a pal's son wanted to know why we were going to see My Bloody Valentine ... How had we heard about them?
Scary times when it comes to Germany's cultural landscape, this follows the abrupt cancellation of the Goethe Institut im Exil programme.
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Why does Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brag and gloat in his statements about the Iran war? In the MAGA media world, war is a game and a test of masculine fortitude, according to a communications scholar who has studied MAGA for a decade.
Strategic lunacy: Why Europeans must stand up to Trump’s illegal war in Iran: ecfr.eu/article/stra...
I've done a lot of lobbying and a lot of activism. It seems stupid, it seems pointless, it seems ineffectual, but phone calls are one of the few things that legislative offices really pay attention to as a barometer for public opinion.
Call early and call often.
“You know the people on the Titanic with the violins? That’s how we feel."
Layoffs and the threat of AI: Why Irish tech workers are finally turning to unions
www.thejournal.ie/ireland-tech...
Another great set of books this month: Matthew McDonald's debut poetry collection @ajbwells.bsky.social; Julia Franck's autobiographical novel @return2sanders.bsky.social; and Agri Ismaïl's account of dislocation and late capitalism @brynstole.bsky.social. Plus some EXPLOSIVE new gossip...
The view of Tehran’s skyline overnight on Sunday was apocalyptic: Billowing smoke and towering oil fires turned the horizon orange as Israeli strikes ignited fuel depots outside the Iranian capital. By morning, dark, oily smoke hung over the city. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...
🔴🇱🇧 Over half a million people (517,000) have been displaced in #Lebanon over the past week in the latest conflict b/w Israel and Hezbollah, the government said
The number is likely higher as the government data comes from the amount of people who registered on their platform
Our live blog on this shit show is up and running again. Just a mounting nightmare - as.ft.com/r/bbc5b47c-1...
Oh, good. "this is now starting to look like a potential combination of the 1973 post-Yom Kippur War oil shock, the 2022 Russia-Ukraine War commodity shock, and the 2020-21 Covid supply chain shock."
“The Trump administration is now slowly discovering that War is not an end in itself.
Fighting, killing and dying is not actually the purpose of a military.”
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
It’s already happening. Iran attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain.
This war has to end immediately. If it turns into a water war we will be dealing with a whole different level of a humanitarian catastrophe across the region.
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