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In the bureau, typewriters quiet Confetti falls from every window Throwing hats up in the air A city perfect in every detail He/him

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This is the 12yo who was born, I think, about 18 months ago?

08.11.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I AM NOT GOING TO LOOK UP HOW OLD THAT MOVIE WAS, LEST I CRUMBLE TO DUST

08.11.2025 06:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

good evening Erin

that sounds like…an evening?

08.11.2025 06:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait till you hear about β€œItaly”

07.11.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But….not today?

04.11.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My office is in an area with a high density of lawyers, and I’m amazed that none of the nearby bars offers a fizzy ginger cocktail with a snail in it. (In an opaque glass of course.)

04.11.2025 08:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m about 65% of the way through, and it is definitely a series of words arranged in an order.

03.11.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wonders and Visions [This is the text of a message Adam Roberts and I are sending to all the people who subscribed to theΒ Wonders and VisionsΒ projectβ€”a visual history of science fiction, traced through cover-art and i…

An update on Wonders and Visions, my collaborative project with @adamroberts.bsky.social grahamsleight.com/2025/11/03/w...

03.11.2025 12:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Wonders and Visions’: a Report A message from Graham Sleight and myself concerning this project

A message from Graham Sleight and myself concerning the "Wonders and Visions" project: profadamroberts.substack.com/p/wonders-an...

03.11.2025 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

If, say, you’re the sort of cold-monster who wears shorts from February to November.

20.10.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I would be very interested in whatever book- or book-adjacent things you might happen to write.

19.10.2025 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Louvre museum in Paris closed after robbery, French minister says - live updates France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati said the incident happened as the museum opened this morning.

I blame the Jagaroth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...

19.10.2025 09:23 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Stuck at home and on painkillers, for reasons, and found myself watching a documentary about Bay Area land scarcity and gentrification, called _A View to a Kill_ (1985).

11.10.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(To answer the serious scientific question: I don’t know, but I suspect the same Fourth Corner Conundrum may apply for opera too.)

26.08.2025 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Too generous to Moulin Rouge tbh.

26.08.2025 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

His books are very.

22.08.2025 05:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Longtime Companion - Wikipedia

Counterpoint (great film): en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longtim...

22.08.2025 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(Sorry, typo in my earlier post: lecture was a decade ago not a year ago)

16.08.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

On (2): if nothing else, 2025 politics is really not the same as 2015 politics, on either side of the Atlantic.

Also, I now want pancakes.

16.08.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Recalling a lecture (on UK charity and government) about a year ago in which the lecturer argued that evidence-based policy was *inherently* doomed to fail bc it didn’t take account of the political context. Felt uneasy with that then, still do, but I think you’re asking similar qs?

16.08.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Matt Berry and Peter Capaldi read a FIERY letter exchange
YouTube video by Letters Live Matt Berry and Peter Capaldi read a FIERY letter exchange

I only recently discovered this, which is very. m.youtube.com/watch?v=oW8O...

23.07.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot of the New York Times’s Spelling Bee, showing the word β€œMarillion” as not recognised.

A screenshot of the New York Times’s Spelling Bee, showing the word β€œMarillion” as not recognised.

OUTRAGEOUS.

[sort-of spoiler for today’s NYT Spelling Bee; in the absence of a spoiler label here, have labelled as graphic content, which it kind of is]

21.07.2025 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Strange times in Hyrule, maybe he needs to check in with the Deku Tree?

17.07.2025 04:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Now there’s a meme I haven’t heard in a looong time

17.07.2025 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Um…..have you had coffee?

15.07.2025 04:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A green warning sign with four arrows, one in each corner, each pointing towards a group of four human figures arranged like the lads in the Bohemian Rhapsody video.

A green warning sign with four arrows, one in each corner, each pointing towards a group of four human figures arranged like the lads in the Bohemian Rhapsody video.

Rare to see one of these: a warning sign that alerts you to the presence of the rock band Queen.

12.07.2025 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 334    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3

As well as the future of the television programme Doctor Who

11.07.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
β€œWe should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities. The aim would be to allow a place to be found for any information or reference which one felt was important, and a way of finding it afterwards."
- Tim Berners-Lee, "Information Management: A Proposal"

β€œThe most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
- H P Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

β€œWe should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities. The aim would be to allow a place to be found for any information or reference which one felt was important, and a way of finding it afterwards." - Tim Berners-Lee, "Information Management: A Proposal" β€œThe most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." - H P Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

Epigraphs for a book I’ll write at some point

11.07.2025 13:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

….and so the two get smudged together. Bah etc.

19.06.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Would be nice to believe there’s a distinction between the two that could be maintained. β€œForgot” implies no choice in the loss, β€œMemoryholed” implies a wilful:/intentional decision.

19.06.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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