Michael Braithwaite

They’re an Ashkenazi food, originally not made with potato but probably cheese and are referenced in the bible. When potatoes became common latkes were mostly made from potato by the Jewish diaspora in the pale of settlement. So definitely Jewish, but Jews invented them in that part of the world.

It’s worse than that. We’re now closer to 2050 than we are to 2000…

Our heroes finding a film explaining how a bunch of scientists mutated DNA a decade or so before the structure of DNA was discovered was the moment it lost me.

No denying Ronald Dahl’s talent. No denying his antisemitism either. There are plenty of other examples.
I’ve got to a point, however, where as talented as someone is I’m just fine not paying them and their work attention if they’re working hard to be among the dregs of humanity.

So many people talking about how they’re downloading their kindle books before Amazon buggers them all up.
And this is precisely the reason I don’t do ebooks, only physical copies.

Alastair Campbell (@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social) Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump

I just accidentally played TRIP on a slow speed and @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social sounded disturbingly similar to Idris Elba. Who’d have thought it?

Absolutely, I won’t go near ebooks

Another NaNoWriMo approaches its end without me having got anywhere near the 50k words. Oh well, always next year I suppose…