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From #CalebFemi 's collection #Poor, a stirring, passionate and strong debut release from 2020.

Femi is sitting on this year's Booker Prize panel and recently dropped a new collect #TheWickedist.

"What thoughts keep him company, alone at his desk? How is he sufficient to himself?"

"How is anyone to do anything if the gap between an idea and its realisation, a thought and its expression, should be a chasm?"

Serving anxious, awkward queer kid realness 3.5/5

#MichaelAmherst #TheBoyhoodofCain

"What are you into?" ...
Go on. Answer him. Don't you know who you are?

Tolcher takes de Balzac's claim that every ejaculation is death to creative energy very seriously and gives us this horny journey of self inquiry while abstaining from orgasm.

5/5 high impact, fun and reflective read.

Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands near Antarctica Australian prime minister surprised after external territories – including tiny Norfolk Island and remote islands home to penguins – targeted by US president A group of barren, uninhabited volcanic islands near Antarctica, covered in glaciers and home to penguins, have been swept up in Donald Trump’s trade war, as the US president hit them with a 10% tariff on goods. Heard Island and McDonald Islands, which form an external territory of Australia, are among the remotest places on earth, accessible only via a two-week boat voyage from Perth on Australia’s west coast. They are completely uninhabited, with the last visit from people believed to be nearly 10 years ago. Continue reading...

Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands near Antarctica

gordon cole from twin peaks says the following: and when you became denise, I told all your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die

today and always

James Kelman, author of the 1994 Booker Prize winning novel How Late It Was, How Late.

#booksky #BookerPrize #reading

Wow

Charlotte’s friends with Down syndrome are paid $3 an hour. It’s legal in Australia - and she’s taking a stand Down Syndrome Australia launches campaign to encourage politicians to abolish subminimum wage

Also had the chance today to talk to advocates about how in 🇦🇺 it’s legal to pay people with Down Syndrome as little as $3 per hour.

This needs to change & was recognised by the Disability Royal Commission.

You can see Charlotte tonight on The Project.

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im sorry. Im the reason the eggs are expensive. i have been buying them all and conducting science experiments on how to make the eggs Gay

“departmen” elon musk was a child that was left behind

Glacier meltdown risks food and water supply of 2bn people, says UN Unesco report highlights ‘unprecedented’ glacier loss driven by climate crisis, threatening ecosystems, agriculture and water sources Retreating glaciers threaten the food and water supply of 2 billion people around the world, the UN has warned, as current “unprecedented” rates of melting will have unpredictable consequences. Two-thirds of all irrigated agriculture in the world is likely to be affected in some way by receding glaciers and dwindling snowfall in mountain regions, driven by the climate crisis, according to a Unesco report. Continue reading...

Unesco report highlights ‘unprecedented’ glacier loss driven by climate crisis, threatening ecosystems, agriculture and water sources

Retreating glaciers threaten the food and water supply of 2 billion people around the world, the UN has warned, as current “unprecedented” rates of melting will…

Reading Ellen van Neerven's Throat, a powerful and proud collection of brilliant poetry.

#booksky #reading

Brilliant, tragic rendering of just this problem from Nadia Abu El-Haj

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"And my present bubbled and frothed in my past, and was borne naturally away."
#DavidFosterWallace somehow making taking a piss in a shitty toilet on campus at your alma mater sound very beautiful.

#booksky #BroomOfTheSystem

She's beauty and she's grace she's @overlandjournal.bsky.social mail.

It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over. A novel by Anne de Marcken. A New Directions Paperbook Original, 2024.

Stunned into silence after reading this profoundly original and haunting prose poem of a novel.

Funding cuts impact access to tuberculosis (TB) services for millions.

Early reports to WHO from the 30 highest #tuberculosis (TB)-burden countries confirm that funding cuts from foreign aid, particularly from USAID, are already dismantling essential TB services.

Without urgent action, these setbacks will reverse decades of progress to #EndTB 🔗 bit.ly/4kvsu2i

I was so relieved when my kids grew out of the glitter craft toddler phase. Totally forgot about the queer teen glitter makeup years. Happy Mardi Gras to my bathroom I guess.

#mardisgras #queer #lgbtqi

Bong Joon-ho on ‘MICKEY 17’:

“They’re printing Mickey out so that he can die, and in that concept is all the comedy and tragedy of the film. In real life, you see a lot of jobs that end in fatal accidents. When that happens, the worker leaves, another worker comes. The job remains the same — it’s

I hope that the abridged version of Infinite Jest is called Finite Jest.

#NYRBWomen25

Borghesia - Natalia Ginzburg

"She would sometimes think how the years accumulate on a cat too, so that every time you saw it walk by silently at your feet, the burdensome memory of everything that had happened to you went by with it."

Just, wow.

Stack or short books.

Thinking of novellas for our next podcast episode and would love to share some of your thoughts! What are some of your favorite novellas, and why? Do you seek out novellas? Please share with @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I!

The Invention of Morel!

Kieran Culkin has won the Golden Globe, Critics Choice, BAFTA and SAG Award for Best Supporting Actor.

He is nominated at the #Oscars next week.

Nell, or: This Is Practically The Way It All Happened (give or bloody take) A Love Letters Feature by Peter S. Beagle - February 2025

I am so moved to get to share this with you all: the fourth installment in the Love Letters essay series.

Nell, or: This Is Practically The Way It All Happened (give or bloody take), Peter S. Beagle's reflections on a thirty-five year romance with the woman he still calls "my one love".

WTV!!

I love the internet.

#Rupaul #DragRace #ChappellRoan #Severance

#medschool rip

Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks. Starting next Wednesday, February 26th, Amazon isn’t going to let users download the ebooks they’ve purchased, forcing users to keep everything within the corporation’s proprietary ecosystem.…

Amazon is removing a feature that allows users to download purchased ebooks.