And the most remarkable thing is that I have now verified the hearsay: ayo.com.au/finding-beau...
Overheard in Oxford...
"What are you getting her for Mother's Day?"
"A book about Margaret Beaufort, the mother of King Henry VII."
Overheard in Oxford, outside the French bakery: "They wrote a piece based on my work, so there's now a concerto for saxophone with string orchestra about elliptic curves. That's why they're flying me out to Australia."
There's a wonderful book about Sheppey by Patrick Wright, by way of a psycho-geographical study of a post-war German literary novelist. It also made me want to visit. repeaterbooks.com/product/the-...
It would be nice if people remembered this piece of wisdom from the greatest economics tweet in history (and the one I am most insanely jealous of not having written, especially because it was a reply to me).
...this is an AI image isnt it.
Many factors at work here, but one of them is that they don't see Eastern Orthodox Christians/Eastern rite Catholics as real Christians, wherever they live.
I read "The Descent of Alette" while going through the Channel Tunnel. Would recommend. granta.com/going-underg...
I vibe with that very hard as well - because I'm a reader and writer of both literary and genre fiction. Any disdain or exclusionary tactics from either side always rebounds on me. Being willing to exist across genre boundaries means that you're always "them."
Suddenly, its turns out that it is not smart to arrogantly shit on an ally that has learned how to down 200 Shaheds every single night and then wipe out and oil refinery or a military airfield with a handful of cheap drones.
Overheard on an Oxford bus: "so I know fractionally more than the students, probably, I think."
"...Today, the role is largely taken by corporations and their algorithms. Decisions about what to learn and unlearn may no longer be collective acts of negotiation between human beings, but between models, tech companies, capital flow, and governments." link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"With machine unlearning, the gatekeepers of cultural memory could shift dramatically. Historically, while cultural memory was mediated by elites or institutional actors, elders, historians, and storytellers, who embedded within the community were often also active participants..."
Operation Shylock too. But Roth definitely feels as if he's fallen out of fashion.
LOLOL
My personal theory is that all excellent books inspire some people to violently hate them. Only mediocre books don't anger anyone.
All of this is so confusing. Similarly, I know there are Labour local councillors who are doing great work on active travel in London, but in Oxford the mood is different from both local and national figures. Is it just that the UK political party system is breaking down?
Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.
Yeah, we have 5 Park & Rides, I think? And new bus routes introduced, so I think they haven't done too badly. (Disclaimer: I use the buses, but not the Park & Rides.)
Not only that, but the income from the congestion charge is being used to make the P&R buses free (if you park).
In shock news, motorists have switched to public transport to avoid paying the Oxford Congestion Charge.
A spokesperson* said: "This is exactly what was meant to happen, and it did."
a) This sounds brilliant
b) What about Elephantine Island? Is no one thinking of Elephantine Island?
If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
FFS.
that moment when you have to take a breath before you break the novel apart in revisions. purify gold in fire and all that.
And here, we see the hand of the mysterious Jewish-Tolkienist worldwide cabal at work. harpercollins.co.uk/products/heb...
I know maps are less popular than clickbait, but pls entertain me
🧵 We are watching two escalating conflicts at the same time:
• Pakistan–Afghanistan cross-border fighting
• Israel–Iran strikes, with spillover across the Gulf
These events may converge into a regional displacement crisis.
And yet I still think we were lucky because we experienced the prior world
Apparently this was news to Nigel Farage. bsky.app/profile/sund...
