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The consultant confirmed that, as I suspected, the AI revolution has not yet reached the Nye Bevan-era splendours of Lewisham Hospital 👍🏻

"Look what they took from us!"

“Alas, poor Mandelson, I knew him not well”

I don’t know whether it’s terrible timing or perfect timing to have seen this two days before I have sinus surgery, and three hours before I see the consultant for a preop consultation. But at least I have another question to ask her, I guess 😬

I'm not going to block *everyone* who fails to understand this, but I will if the incomprehension is personalised & expressed aggressively or obnoxiously. In short, don't be cultish! x

Goodness, sounds like the Labour Party conference. Do they have composite motions? Block votes cast by ecclesiastical trades unions? I know both bodies sing at the end, and in each case it’s regarded as impolite to ask how many people believe the words

Meme in the style of Harvest Moon / Story of Seasons, it says: Sing this to the tune of "Old MacDonald"! I'm so stressed that sunlight hurts. I am gods mistake.

activity time! 🌽🐮👩‍🌾

🎶“On Ilkley Moor Baht’at! Where the ducks play football…”🎶

Not just thumping, of course, but hacking, stabbing, gouging, eviscerating, etc. etc. The Ancient Greek BBFC was definitely flagging this one for “injury detail”

I’d always thought the “The Iliad is better than The Odyssey” takes were some kind of edgelord oneupmanship, but no, the Iliad absolutely bangs. One of those “classics of world literature” that turns out to also be a thumping good read (with a *lot* of emphasis on the thumping)

Post by @considermycat · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Currently reading Priestland’s Progress by Gerald Priestland (from my Quaker meeting’s library – Priestland was a Quaker – hence the sticker)

Currently reading Priestland’s Progress by Gerald Priestland (from my Quaker meeting’s library – Priestland was a Quaker – hence the sticker)
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I dunno, it somehow lacks that barfed-up-by-ChatGPT _je ne sais quoi_. Perhaps try to work an em dash into it?

Though, since Achilles is still sitting by his ships and raging against the Greeks, in a sense it's also the world's first *in*action movie <badumm-TISH>

Post by @considermycat · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Started reading Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane

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As I said to E, it’s basically the world’s first action movie

Post by @considermycat · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Currently reading The Iliad by Homer, tr. Emily Wilson. A quarter of the way in after only a couple of days (just reached Book 7) and this may already be one of my favourite books…

Currently #reading The Iliad by Homer, tr. Emily Wilson. A quarter of the way in after only a couple of days (just reached Book 7) and this may already be one of my favourite books ever.
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Post by @considermycat · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Recently finished reading Private Rites by Julia Armfield

Recently finished reading Private Rites by Julia Armfield
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“Mr. Beast Salesforce ad” - they’re calling it the least appealing phrase ever assembled in any language. They finally did it

Post your favorite “Lord of the Rings” character. Wrong answers only.

Post your favorite “Lord of the Rings” character. Wrong answers only.

Musing on that bit in the Book of Jonah where the ship is sinking and the sailors are throwing everything overboard but the ship is still sinking, until they end up throwing Jonah himself overboard. Such a profound spiritual message with such a lot to tell us today.

“Deputy heads must roll!”

Guardian headline: Starmer’s position ‘untenable’ if chief of staff Morgan McSweeney is not fired over Mandelson scandal Photo of Keir Starmer with Morgan McSweeney in the background

I’ve been wondering for some days why Starmer has been allowing all the headlines to be about him personally. Looks like he may finally be having the sense to throw McSweeney to the wolves – not that it’ll achieve much at this point

“Webinar”. A nasty word for a nasty thing.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Genius Annotation, Cosigned By Ezra Furman Ezra is referencing the work of Jewish theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel here. “The search of reason ends at the shore of the known; on the immense expanse beyond it only the sense of the ineffable can glide” is the first line of “I Asked for Wonder,” an anthology of Heschel’s work. In a 2019 Reddit AMA, Ezra recommended the anthology as the work that introduced her to Heschel, “one of the most influential thinkers in [her] life to this day.”

The yellow highlighting in that screenshot is (I discover) how Genius shows annotations that have been endorsed by the artist herself:

I always heard about God with a wink and a nod I guess I took it all too seriously But I was five years old and I took what I was told To mean that the sublime was in my reach That the ocean of the known ends at the beach Just up the street These days people like that are considered aberrations And I'm being corrected as we speak This is my heart, it's a motor, it will search the world over I'm a search engine, see what I mean?

There are “relatable lyrics”, and then there are laser beams shone directly into the depths of your soul
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Ezra Furman in a short red dress playing guitar. Behind her, light beams shine out from the arches in a church pulpit

Seeing Ezra Furman again last night brought back memories of seeing her a couple of years ago at the Union Chapel – when she wore *the* Maraschino Red Dress ($8.99 from Goodwill), which she’d recently rediscovered

ezra furman @ kentish town forum, incredible as ever

Ezra Furman: amazing as always.