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Spotify unwrapped w/ Liz Pelly Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 12/03/2025 · 1h 36m

📢💥NEW EPISODE 📢💥 @lizpelly.bsky.social joins PTO to talk all things Spotify. We spoke about the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform impacts musicians, and its insidious consequences for music listening.

you know the banh mi is gonna be good when it’s served with a disposable glove

I’ve been lucky enough to read SOFT POWER in draft and it’s such a good novel - so clever and fun and absorbing. Can‘t wait for it to be out in world and getting the love it deserves.

I’ve been lucky enough to read SOFT POWER in draft and it’s such a good novel - so clever and fun and absorbing. Can‘t wait for it to be out in world and getting the love it deserves.

A nice thing about teaching (as opposed to writing): you know when you’ve done it well

Thank you!

In a clip posted to Keir Starmer’s Instagram account, the prime minister can be seen reading with a young girl who points out she is on “page six-seven”, prompting him to start the dance move – a juggling like motion – that accompanies the infuriating craze.

[Werner Herzog voice]: you must never see this

Would give the aliens a more honest representation of life on earth than Bach or whatever they put in there

The first story in Don DeLillo’s collection, ‘The Angel Esmerelda‘

2nd book of Ferante’s Neapolitan Trilogy!

Congratulations!

2026 subscription We are pleased to announce our 2026 subscription: a selection of five books publishing next year, each delivered at least one month ahead of publication, all for a special price of £55 (saving £12 on ...

Exciting news ~ TL/TH in book
form, from Peninsula Press in 2026✨

Too Little/Too Hard (edited by Lucy Mercer and Livia Franchini), a collection of essays from some of the most exciting contemporary writers about literature, work, time, and value (shipping May)

peninsulapress.co.uk/products/202...

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Flags of Ukraine and Israel + a third combined Ukraine flag with Star of David

I had the same thought yesterday when I saw this… arrangement on an apartment balcony in Berlin

good to have friends who you can rely on for an honest opinion

good to have friends who you can rely on for an honest opinion

Those aren’t the lyrics!??

Loved this on an American friend visiting Manchester who ’Within a few hours of his arrival [] had been offered several narcotics, downed a pint or four in Dry Bar, and stumbled out of a city centre nightclub to collide with Mani from the Stone Roses - who leant him a cigarette…’

Lovely piece by @alexniven.bsky.social

Facebook recommendation of Poor Ghost! by Francesco at Welwyn Garden City Central Library

I am very grateful to all the library assistants of the world and especially to Francesco at Welwyn Garden City Central Library

Sociology and Allegory The question of the relationship between internal and external analysis of literature remains open across disciplinary inquiries. Although Pierre Bourdieu claims to offer a definitive answer to the qu...

For the haters who say Big Fiction over-relies on allegory, my most explicit, spirited defense of allegorical interpretation. "Sociology and Allegory," published as part of a series on the sociology of literature in IASL. Lemme know if you want a PDF
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

YouTube video by The Stone Roses - Topic I Wanna Be Adored (Remastered 2009)

RIP Mani. Genuinely one of the greats.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa10...

that's Esra Özyürek's book, 'Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany'

tomorrow!

Social Democrats in Denmark suffer sweeping election losses PM Mette Frederiksen’s centre-left party loses control of Copenhagen for first time in more than 100 years

amazing timing for Labour to announce their plans to copy policy from the Danish Social Democrats...

would read!

🚨new publication🚨

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in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.

Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...

Take care James x

congratulations, Wendy!