Owen Booth

He certainly does!

Owen’s lukewarm takes no 652: the first half of the new Superman film is a bit clunky, the second half is absolutely wonderful

Yep

Terribly sorry that the chaps are lonely again, have they tried volunteering? Only, there’s an awful lot needs done.

‘Richard Osman made £10m, but I  got £250 last year’: How much money novelists really make The big hitters of the literary world draw headlines for their book deals. But the reality of writing fiction for a living is an altogether less lucrative existence

A good, transparent piece on author advances. Nice to see @akblakemore.bsky.social here

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Happy Yorkshire Day to all who celebrate! (Photo not taken in Yorkshire)

I'm coming to the conclusion that nothing good can happen, ever again, until algorithmic social media is destroyed.

Gentrification vs glaciation

A view of the Mer de Glace glacier in the French alps, taken from the Montenvers train station. The river of ice - half covered in dirt - winds toward the camera, with the Grande Jorass peaks rising majestically in the background. Alpine splendour!

Have some of that!

Cover art for Penda's Fen, directed by Alan Clarke, written by David Rudkin

britain used to be a proper country (would air hallucinatory queer antifascist folk horror on the BBC at primetime)

I am very unsurprised by this, sadly. I hope all the people protesting when a brown man is accused of a sexual crime are paying attention.

Coming up on 40 years since I started reading L&R, and I’m still, somehow, emotionally engaged with (& by) it. I can’t think of another body of work created in my lifetime that matches it.

Darkly funny: signs appearing across central London, protesting Starmer’s use of anti-terror laws against peaceful pro-Palestine protesters.

It’s Angel Eyes

Close but no cigarillo

Name that film

Very powerful, united, statement from global Quakers.

#Gaza

Level 188 Level 188 is the 189th level of the Backrooms. Level 188, also known as "The Courtyard Of Windows" or simply "The Windows" is an edifice infinite in size whose architecture is overwhelmed by windows. ...

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It’s part of the same extended universe

Weird hotel interior. Windows looking in on windows.

13-yr-old dragged us on a pilgrimage to the real life Backrooms Level 188: “The Windows”. If you know, you know.

On Gaza, Assia Wevill, and Finding “Permission to Narrate” in a Time of Genocide “And so now, as always, literary criticism must adapt to the current horror in Palestine or else it must be deferred. Because if literary criticism has nothing to contribute to Palestine’s liberati…

@emilyvanduyne.bsky.social on Gaza, genocide, and the responsibility of a narrator: “Call a word a bomb and you out yourself as a Western intellectual, more afraid of an idea than of an MK-84.”

‘Yes, he crashed into a family of four, but at least they all died doing what he was enslaved by: increasing shareholder value’

Can't believe BlueSky is making us verify our ages just because of a law introduced by the UK government. They should simply defy the law. Or analyse the contents of each of our accounts individually to work out our ages, which would definitely be both sustainable and legally compliant.

Quite honestly, these absolute shithouse cunts.

Phone hasn’t stopped ringing since I posted this. I won’t forget you all when I’m rich.

Headline: deputy pm says ministers must accept real concerns people have - regarding migrants - amid fears of another summer of riots

If you take nonviolent direct action, Labour will brand you a terrorist.

If you riot, and try to burn buildings down, Labour will listen to your legitimate concerns.

Take note, comrades

Meta! Like it!

(Option 2 would be a collab with @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social of course)

Guaranteed Booker Winner

ICYMI in the Warwick Uni rebrand hilarity: apparently this is the brain behind the branding. Trying to read this interview is like trying to sip from a firehose of bullshit. I assume these are written (generated?) answers, because surely no actual human being talks like this bsky.app/profile/mich...