Alessio Ricciuti

“A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before.” On Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time I wish I could remember when I first read Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time—I must have been around twenty—but I certainly remember how much I loved it, which has only grown with every reread. I…

I'm one of the writers who wrote an homage to The Daughter of Time, this is a terrific read, but of course it's terrific, it was written by @sarahweinman.com

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For profit insurance is immoral. Full stop. An insurers' job isn't to "protect from unnecessary care"; it is to pay for customers care. Every dollar of profit earned is a dollar that didn't provide care to the sick/injured. It is an evil industry captained by the soulless for the sake of the greedy.

Stop worrying that the pages aren't good enough.

If they aren't good enough, you'll make them good enough when you edit. Sometimes, you have to see a thing on the page before you know exactly what it is supposed to be.

The rights words often only come after the wrong ones.

One thing I will never understand about “we need the profit motive for Big Pharma to make new and exciting drugs” is that by and large the people who are making new and exciting drugs just get paid normal salaries.

It's that time for recommending Books of the Year. I seemed to spend a heck of a lot of my time reviewing this year, so I have quite a few to choose from. In no particular order...

I yield to no one in my contempt for the current construct of for-profit health care. But if you are rushing into my feed today to champion or rationalize the assassination of a man as a means of making this society's problems better, not worse? Blocked.

@rosecityvillain.bsky.social‬, adieu.

I genuinely believe everyone should attempt to read Moby Dick at least once. Yes it's long. But I'm telling you it is such a fascinating source of period whaling practices mixed with a genuinely interesting narrative about the brutality of working on a 19th century whaling ship

This Country Was Just Named the Most Desirable for Relocation Canada was just named the most-searched country for job relocation. Here's where else made the list.

NEWS: Canada is the #1 country most people want to move to in the world.

🇨🇦 Thanks, Trudeau! 🇨🇦

www.travelandleisure.com/canada-named...

“There’s something wrong about Suburban Star Wars, the way there’s something wrong about the garbled, inaccuracy-laden “writing” and mutant-handed “art” patched together from stolen work by AI.”

I usually agree with you but not on this. Only, I hope you’re right and I’m wrong. I hope that standards still matter and that the GOP and Trump will be held to them. Unfortunately, I think we’ve crossed a rubicon with this election and that things are gonna get so dark and ugly that it won’t matter

Happy 24-Hour-versary of me joining Bluesky, to those who observe and so forth.

If you're a writer, you're going to want to follow me (if you aren't already) because we've got a 12 Days of Christmas giveaway starting 1st Dec, which includes free books, free critiques, free query edits, and much more! #writing #writers
ONLY ON BLUESKY \o/

Just remembered how my dad used to tell cold callers to his tiny catering company that he was putting them through to ‘marketing’. Then it was just him again, with the same Italian accent, telling them to get lost.

The Shakespeare & Company Bookstore in Paris (France) allows you to sleep in the store for free, in exchange for 2 hours of work in the bookstore and a one-page biography of your life.
www.shakespeareandcompany.com

On Philosophy Lecture Series - Spring 2021 List of free online webinars hosted by The Philosopher.

The Philosopher had another great Monday talk! Today, Josh Cohen on anger: "Once one person feels licensed to talk in extreme register, it spreads easily...social media is a symptom of collapse of shared narratives and forms of solidarity." www.thephilosopher1923.org/events

Album cover of “Beethoven Blues” by Jon Batiste

This is a stunning crossover album by Jon Batiste. Absolutely stunning. #jazz #classical

Echo chamber? I don't know what they're talking about.

I'm experiencing books and music and shows created by people with life experiences vastly different from mine.

Voices not like mine are beautiful.

It's the echoes of the hateful voices I have no desire to hear.

I read a paper edition of the Financial Times today, cover to cover. Encountered all kinds of topics that algorithms would never show me.

The real secret to the "Mediterranean diet" is eating equal qualities of pasta and antipasto so that they annihilate one another

Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (19th century): one who pays great attention to trivial matters as a way of avoiding the important ones.

Tired of dumb smart people.

Almost a full week without Twitter and I do not miss it one bit

Hi Everyone, I’ve come over from that other place that seems to have wasted away
Finding my feet here.
I’m not here for numbers, if someone follows I will follow fellow book lovers back

My reviews are on insta

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Leaf blowers are my enemy. Loud, ecologically disastrous, wasteful, sanitizing monsters. We already have a leaf blower, and it’s the wind. And she is beautiful. You want to mimic the wind? You want to tell her how to do her job?? You prick.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social Right now Russia is meddling in our politics and elections with impunity. Don't you think there ought to be a price to be paid for them doing so?

When real Twitter was still alive, I appreciated being verified. None of that matters any more. Now I appreciate simply starting over with decent humans. Thank you, friends, for proving that there is still some good left in this world.

36,000 followers ain't gonna cut it, people. That's smaller than the Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement denomination of the Sabbatarian movement formed from a schism in the European Seventh Day Adventist Church based on conflicting views over Sabbath observance, and they suck ass.