Rob White

"Check your bin, before you wreck Haydn"

Every time I see this cursed bear, I no longer think: 'that is a well-dressed bear at ease with himself'.

I think: 'You've just had sex, haven't you George. That's a post-coital smirk, isn't it, George.' This is entirely the fault of @robpalk.bsky.social.

I once read Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions in a bar in San Francisco, ostentatiously turning it a half revolution every 36 pages. This was how the book was structured, but nowadays I would probably be in performative reading jail.

YouTube video by Rai Adriano Celentano canta "Prisencolinensinainciusol" da "Formula due" del 1973

Hearing a lot of adverts unironically and earnestly using Adriano Celentano's 'Prisencolinensinainciusol' which, don't get me wrong, is a stone cold banger, but also, objectively gibberish. Makes me happy though.

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Having a refreshing coke in Bologna with the possible side effect of triggering a meltdown among the worst people on the internet.

Patiently explaining 'Amalficore' to an Italian.

Them: "Certo, Amalficuore? Heart of Amalfi?"

Me, holding up 'This is Hardcore' by Pulp: "No 'core', like hardcore, cottagecore, normcore..." (blank stare ... I present an apple core in desperation)

Haven't been this excited for a political result in an elsewhere I love/have spent time since Boric won the Chilean presidency...

'Put' open to interpretation I guess. Doesn't specify at which angle or with what level of force...

Worked a summer at a Wimbledon tennis car park and waved Ainsley Harriot toward a parking space.

Looks like someone has hacked at that sword deposit slot with a massive sword.

Can't recommend joining @alcs.co.uk enough. Secondary use payments are a pleasant treat to the admittedly big bucks(!) of academic royalty payments. They make sure you are being compensated for your work!

David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.

Know their names: The Palestinian journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, at least 217 journalists and media workers have been killed.

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An Atonal Cinema This is a book about Palestinians elsewhere and Palestinian elsewheres. Articulating an ambiguous right to remain out-of-place as a spatialized response to the…

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An Atonal Cinema, a book about the dissonant cinema of Palestinians elsewhere and Palestinian elsewheres, is out in paperback on 23 January with @bloomsburymedia.bsky.social. #palestine #transnationalcinema

Uh oh... "We left your parcel in bocca al lupo! Crepi!"
"We tried to deliver but your parcel got spat out over the New Jersey turnpike, like in the film Being John Malkovich."

"Hey man, wanna smoke a bowl? Nah? It's all good. Wanna bury this rifle in the woods for me, brother?"

Came across a piece of content so riddled with non-defining relative clauses minus commas today that it made my eyeball itch.

The only time as a user I've been grateful for an accordion function, to preserve my eyes from such corrupting indecency. #contentdesign

A caption from an interview placed above a dog which makes it look like the dog is being quoted.

21 is a ripe old biological age for a dog, but 59? Surely unprecedented. Eager to discover its secrets, but not eager enough to scale a paywall.

Luis Suárez 🇺🇾 has officially announced his retirement from international football during a press conference.

#Football #LuisSuarez

Brat summer officially over, declares Charli XCX The cultural phenomenon has inspired millions of posts, plenty of dance moves and reached American politics.

Marketing campaign officially over after album hits sales targets, declares Charli XCX

BBC News - Brat summer officially over, declares Charli XCX - BBC News
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Was it an 8 hour video of her sleeping?

Maradona stopped at Napoli: Pasolini, Palestine and the pan-South Old town, Matera, Italy by U.S. Department of State is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 'I want to become the idol of the poor children of Naples, because they are like I was when I lived in Buenos Aires' Ma...

Something I wrote a while back on football, politics and how Palestine, South Italy and South America might connect to articulate a pan-South...

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I'm here seeking refuge from the other place, a dying sun in its red giant stage consuming all that was once good. I'm a newly retrained content designer, seeking refuge from another dying sun, UK academia.

I once wrote books and articles, now write a blog and user stories. Hello!