Eva Lomski

wild that you would be gifted a name like Theophrastus Bombastus and choose not to use it

So why didn’t he say this a month ago, instead of just a few days before he’s due to fly into South Korea?

Is he talking Arc de Tri-ump??

JD Vance once worried Trump was ‘America’s Hitler’. Now his own authoritarian leanings come into view Vice-presidential pick has said he would have blocked certification of 2020 results in key states won by Biden

Vance is an opportunist who’s riding the cult.

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

also in Australia

Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.

Sorry aren’t universities meant to be a place of intellectual inquiry & academic rigor?

. Autumn evening~
there's joy also
in loneliness.

Yosa Buson (1716-1783)
Translation by Robert Hass, The Essential #Haiku, 1994
#micropoetry

how pleasurable
sleeping late in autumn
as if master of the house

#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1692-1694
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry

The Real “Rules” of Haiku — The Poetry Place This article is for: Beginner and Intermediate poets

The Real “Rules” of Haiku
For beginners and intermediate #haiku writers. #Micropoetry

www.writebetterpoems.com/articles/how...

Flashlight to Katabasis: 18 of the best books of the year so far From an "epic" coming-of-age story to "delicious" dark academia – this is the very best fiction of the year, as chosen by BBC journalists.

Wait, this article quotes sources other than the BBC?!? To me that suggests the authors of this “article” didn’t read the books themselves. How’s that a genuine critique? “18 of the best books of the year so far” … according to publicity releases & AI???
#bookreview #AI

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

Wait what happened to trump’s $10b defamation lawsuit against Murdoch’s Wall St Journal? How do you do business with people you’re suing?

Queen Elizabeth 'Didn’t Like' Donald Trump, Friend Monty Roberts Claims in New Documentary In a new documentary, 'The Cowboy and the Queen,' Queen Elizabeth's friend and 'horse whisperer' Monty Roberts claims that the late Queen 'didn't like' President Donald Trump.

people.com/queen-elizab...

Did you know Adrienne Rich wrote a poem about Artificial Intelligence in **1961** and it's absolutely prophetic?

Fewer People Are Reading for Fun, Study Finds From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend.

There has been a steady decline in reading for fun. From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40%, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend, according to a study published on Wednesday.

Don’t Believe What AI Told You I Said The chatbots are lying about me.

I wrote about how AI chatbots are pumping out fake quotes, attributed to real people, at scale, and polluting our public disourse with potemkin pontification and made-up appeals to authority. And the AIs are not just misquoting famous people—it happened to me and it could happen to you. Gift link:

Stolen photos of European influencers used to push Trump propaganda on X | CNN A phony campaign on X backing Trump ahead of the US election is using stolen or manipulated photos of real women in Europe to push its agenda.

And sometimes Kentucky Girl doesn’t exist amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/08/...

Is anyone there watching for insider trading amongst the Trump admin???

What I don’t understand is the turnaround. Elon may be many things, but he is smarter than many in Trump admin. Plus he’s in the billionaire’s boys’ club. So everything he’s saying now, surely had some knowledge of or suspected before supporting Trump in 24? What changed? Is it just abt contracts?

Why now? Why didn’t this happen a few years ago?

By that logic Tony Schwartz should be president.

House Republicans block Democratic maneuver to force release of Epstein files One Republican on the House Rules Committee crossed over to vote with Democrats.

My bad didn’t see that. But as per Axios the resolution the other day demanded “that the administration release the Epstein files and that the FBI release a report on ‘any delays, suppression or destruction of evidence’ related to the files.” So destruction possible? 🤷‍♀️ www.axios.com/2025/07/15/t...

If there were incriminating Epstein files surely he destroyed them during his first presidency? Only to campaign on them for his second because it was a promise he knew he’d never have to keep.

Anthony Albanese: Trade trumps geopolitics as Australia PM visits China The visit comes as countries around the world navigate the US president's "America First" policies.

America, your allies continue to be dumbfounded about yr electoral choices:
“Washington is heading in a direction so plainly contrary to Australia's interests that any [leader] seen as kowtowing to the White House would face pushback at home.”

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sincere condolences on the loss of your Grandpa.

I hope your dog gets better.

Authors hit by bad reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated Authors are being hit by negative reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated, with the review site allegedly failing to remove reviews.

It's not just Good Reads.

Having written three books I've discovered that there's a bitter little clique of angry people who try to sabotage book review ratings ...

www.thebookseller.com/news/authors...

The Netflix doco “The Social Dilemma” should be required viewing re algorithms & behavioural & psychological manipulation. This site at least very much enables curation of lists & feeds away from the algorithmic model, bit like the old days.