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YOU - What am I doing?

SHIVERS - Looking up at the sky, cold water dripping from your hair.

YOU - What do I see?

SHIVERS - Grey sky like great battleships, clouds colliding with one another. Rain falls down on the world.

I really enjoyed interviewing Chris Washington on the brilliant Nonbinary Jane Austen for a podcast on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/nonbinary-ja...

I really enjoyed interviewing Chris Washington on the brilliant Nonbinary Jane Austen for a podcast on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/nonbinary-ja...

Supersized stick insect discovered in high-altitude trees in Australia The 40cm-long insect, named Acrophylla alta, weighs slightly less than a golf ball and may be the heaviest insect in Australia

Insulindian Phasmid www.theguardian.com/environment/...

27. I loved everything about this joyous outrageous tendentious playful partial virtuoistically close read liberation of (non)originary nonbinary energies in Austen

YouTube video by Jeffrey Lewis - Topic The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song

At least some do it with a little self-effacing humour… youtu.be/yQhlQ8ykbb8?...

It’s a better novel than…the other one? 😂

I just properly snorted with laughter

Still love that should say - though it’s an interesting Freudian slip…

I still his music but his oracular, holier-than-thou pronouncements on everything from Palestine to sex all delivered with the same smug complacency of the teacher who is no longer interested in questioning his own knowledge make me want to be sick in my mouth

77. The Piano Teacher (2001), dir. Michael Haneke

Unbelievable

‘Don’t ever assume there’s anything to eat!’ 29 tips for perfect vegan holidays, from where to go to how to order Nowhere should be out of bounds just because you have a plant-based diet. Seasoned travellers explain how to stay happy and hunger-free, whether you’re trekking in Thailand or on a mini-break in Berli...

As a vegan for most of my adult life and a chaotic traveler, I genuinely love this list of tips for being vegan on holiday www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ju...

76. Lemmings Part 2: Injuries (1979), dir. Michael Haneke

26. We dipped into this alongside Deleuze’s essay on Lucretius in our reading group, so I read the rest. It made me wonder what the Western world would look like if it had been founded on Hellenistic philosophy rather than Platonic Christianity…a lot better probably…

I'm grimly fascinated by the human capacity - as cogs within systems of power - to participate in great evils such as genocide. And in this case, I'm fascinated by David Lammy's capacity to maintain his characteristic demeanor of pomposity and self regard, even as he follows Israel into the abyss.

75. Time of the Wolf (2003), dir. Michael Haneke

This got me thinking: what are your favourite pieces of writing on visual art?

25. I bought this in the Munch Museum in Oslo. I’ve never read Knausgaard’s novels and actually know very little about him but the title caught my eye, and…it’s a truly amazing book - one of the most perceptive, sensitive, insightful pieces of writing on visual art I’ve encountered in a long time!

SHIVERS - In a little alley next to Boogie street, a man in stained overalls steps out of a workshop for a cigarette. His hands are bruised and soaked with motor oil and dirt. He breathes smoke out of his nostrils and closes his eyes. The next five minutes are his and his alone.

Sone documentation of our Heroes of Work/Arwyr o’r Geaith/Helden der Arbeit Happeninh which we facilitated yesterday in Bangor

74. To Die In The Country (1974), dir. Shūji Terayama

74. To Die In The Country (1974), dir. Shūji Terayama

Why does no one ever advocate for legislation to tackle Oxbridge’s enormous endowments?
Under the Endowed Schools Act 1869 schools’ endowments could be appropriated for the benefit of the whole community. If even the Victorians discerned ways to redistribute institutional wealth, why can’t we?

24. As you can see, I have got a bit obsessed with Hamsun. This was very Dostoevskian and so good - lots of my favourite things: long rambling conversations, explosive hallucinatory horror, thoroughgoing brutal critiques of a complacent modern bourgeoisie. Which Hamsun shall I read next?

KLAASJE (MISS ORANJE DISCO DANCER) - “I love Revachol, though.” She looks around, the wind in her hair. “I hope she loves me too.”

we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already

23. Beautiful but perhaps a little more polite and conventional than his others…its best moments are those of very intense emotion or strange irrational behaviour. What was going on in Norway in the 1890s to produce so many artists who understood this? - Combined and uneven development?

Truly awful here