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if I ever go properly "screaming about nothing in particular in the street" mad it will be due to having spent too much time having read about the opinions of men who have absolutely never cared about women's rights for one moment in their lives but decided to pretend just for the sake of racism

I think everything in the UK started to go wrong when Bake Off got rid of their fun history section.

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Taylor Swift buys back the rights to the master recordings of her first six albums After her former label sold her catalogue in 2019, Swift embarked on her lucrative album rerecording project – but now owns the originals for the first time Taylor Swift has bought back the master recordings to her first six albums, giving her control over her entire catalogue for the first time. She originally lost the rights in 2019 when her first record label, Big Machine, sold them to music executive Scooter Braun. Swift described the sale to Braun as her “worst case scenario”, and said she had not been given the opportunity to buy her work outright, but to “earn” one album back for each new album she recorded for the label. Her subsequent albums, from 2019’s Lover onwards, were released on Republic, with Swift retaining the rights to the master recordings. Continue reading...

Taylor Swift buys back the rights to the master recordings of her first six albums

I wish I could read the TOG series for the first time again! You’re in for such a good ride!!

It's just so obvious: if you try to counter a political opponent by co-opt their policies, you communicate to the electorate that those are the salient issues and if those are the salient issues, then of course the electorate will vote for the party claiming it has all the answers.

Cleese moaning again.

Lesley Knope, Phil Dunphy, Frasier, most of the Brooklyn Nine-Nine characters?

Ooh, that’s been on my TBR forever. Taking this as my sign to bump it up the list!

The tattoo sounds amazing 😍

Fave read of the year so far has been Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor! Once and Future Witches was my top read last year 🫶

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week.

They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.

Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

yall better not watch that damn show. do not go to the park or the play, do not buy the books, do not give that hateful old creep another dollar.

All this money & energy spent to make life more miserable for trans people could've been used to fight against domestic violence, wage disparity, sexual harassment, harassment of people accessing abortion services, proper childcare provision; you know, to make the world a better place instead.

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The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin".

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

‘OpenAI’s metafictional short story about grief is beautiful and moving’ | Jeanette Winterson I think of AI as alternative intelligence – and its capacity to be ‘other’ is just what the human race needs

I imagine it's easier to come to this rather generous conclusion if you have already built a glittering and secure literary career www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

colorfully striped crochet snake with a white head, tongue sticking out, and white tail end laying on a white underground.

here's my finished 2024 surprise song snake. crocheting the last shows and actually closing her up was intense 🥲

paris paloma’s pen is kinda insane

Goodreads is owned by Amazon & there is an AMAZING alternative‼️

The StoryGraph is a black women-owned competitor to GoodReads with better UI in my opinion.
When you sign up you can even transfer your data from Goodreads to StoryGraph!

Oh amazing, ty!!

all i wanna do is read books

this app feels like trading friendship bracelets at eras tour

TVD is pretty much responsible for getting me through the pandemic 🫣

If you’re a reader, I definitely recommend Strand Books and Housing Works Bookstore (which is apparently where some of the ATW music video was filmed!)

📚💙 Repost with your five favourite reads from this year.

In no particular order!

🏰 We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
🧙 The Once and Future Witches - Alix E. Harrow
📖 Practice - Rosalind Brown
🌆 Evenings and Weekends - Oisin McKenna
🧚 Emily Wilde - Heather Fawcett

what it feels like to wake up and open this app

If you see this, drop your On Repeat 🎧

last woman on earth and TSMWEL just about summing up my mood rn

🫶🏻 this feeling 🫶🏻

Count me in!! 🌌

Taylor’s hand cramp during Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve lol

I love this one I took at Wembley N2 🥹