Houman Barekat @houmanbarekat

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If you want a vision of the future, it’s a machine giving you feedback on your piss while you give feedback on the machine, forever

31.07.2025 08:35 — 👍 79 🔁 30 💬 6 📌 9

Excellent liquid-to-biscuit ratio

18.07.2025 10:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Fantastic stuff. Side note: I saw Phil Wingfield play many times. He was really good!

16.07.2025 17:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes!! A bit of a cheapskate move imo

04.07.2025 08:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s giving Partick Thistle

04.07.2025 08:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Link pls

24.06.2025 14:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Photo of bird guidebook, two birds labelled 'immature' and 'juvenile'

wasn't expecting this bird book to be so harsh on the birds

24.05.2025 19:34 — 👍 170 🔁 27 💬 4 📌 1

What does this say

22.05.2025 10:48 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Another Pope we can work to death because of his idiosyncratic refusal to unionise.

08.05.2025 20:24 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I had this same thought! The wording is odd

03.05.2025 12:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Would be most unfortunate if we ended up banning potted summaries by mistake

07.04.2025 13:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

With this name + face combo, absobloodylutely

17.03.2025 20:25 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I had the very same thought!!

15.02.2025 12:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes!!

07.01.2025 16:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sold!

11.12.2024 14:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is wonderful

04.12.2024 19:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Critical race theory is it

22.11.2024 18:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Home truths more like

19.11.2024 11:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Surprisingly often

11.11.2023 13:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I can’t eat those I’m afraid

01.10.2023 15:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh don’t get me started on this

14.08.2023 07:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

@houmanbarekat is following 18 prominent accounts

Mychal Denzel Smith
@mychaldenzelsmith

Books: Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching/Stakes is High/one in progress about Virginia. Smoking cigars, drinking coffee, playing chess. I dunno man, what even matters now?

Mark Graham
@geoplace

Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social Publications: www.markgraham.space Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities

Dorian Lynskey
@dorianlynskey

Journalist (Guardian/Observer, MOJO, BBC Culture, the i), podcaster (Origin Story, Oh God What Now?) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com

Alexander Larman
@alexlarman

Author, journalist, refugee from elsewhere

Jeremy Gilbert
@jemgilbert

Cultural theory, political analysis, dance party politics. Latest book: Hegemony Now (Verso, 2022) www.jeremygilbert.org

Sarah Brouillette
@sarahbrouillette

literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/

Fergal Kinney
@fergalkinney

Culture Editor of Tribune / also writes at New Statesman, The Guardian, The Quietus, The Face

Fred Studemann
@frederick65.ft.com

FT lit ed (“workaholic” - Private Eye)

Seraphina Madsen
@polyommatus-icarus

Author | DODGE + BURN | AURORA | published by Dodo Ink | Agent : Jessica Craig

Alexander Cohen
@cohengrin

Theatre critic. Words in The Stage, The Fence, Broadway World, The Scotsman, The Critic. Grade 6 Trumpet.

Theo
@theogb

Trans women are women. Free Palestine. BLM. PerilousWood on Twitter.

Sadia
@sadianowshin

junior editor @ unbound’s boundless magazine / freelance features writer in the guardian, cosmo, stylist, city am mag etc / john schofield trust fellow '25 https://linktr.ee/sadianowshin

Steven Poole
@stevenpoole

writer / composer | WSJ, Guardian, Times, Telegraph, Amazon, Spotify https://stevenpoole.net

John O’Donovan
@johneodonovan

Writer, West Clare

Edith Hall
@edithmayhall

Durham University Classics Prof keen on Aristotle, visual art, Greek theatre/pots, labour/anti-racist history, prison education, Parthenon reunification. All views my own. Also on Twitter @edithmayhall

James Butler
@piercepenniless

Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk

Colin Dickey
@colindickey.com

Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.

Paul Laity
@paullaity

editing @lrb (again), after years as Guardian non-fic editor. Writing book for Penguin/Norton on sandals, sunbaths, muesli, 'bearded fruit-juice drinkers' etc. Campaigner for Martha's Rule in NHS.