Lucy Moffatt

Glad to see you're still holding your A Little Life grudge, Scott. Me too.

Andrew is a sort of non-prince now, a… well, I’m sure there’s some sort of portmanteau word that would describe him well.

What a thrill to see @annesvth.bsky.social‘s debut novel making waves before it’s even been published in Norway: already pre-empted by Doubleday and multiple bidding rounds ongoing in Frankfurt. Well-deserved success for this fantastic writer and all-round superstar. #Booksky

Happy birthday!

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

I'm just like a large language model in that I've read everything on the internet and it's made me effectively useless

"Ringing the bell for the butler can feel like the only option when your nutritional needs are not being met"

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

Amazing – congratulations!

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

The names of 18,457 children in Gaza brutally murdered by Israel.

This is genocide. The International Association of Genocide Scholars resolution was backed by 86% of members. They say this is genocide.

Israel want to wipe out every child in Gaza so they don't grow up and seek revenge.

GENOCIDE

Dutch merchant in 1647: “Yes I've sold my land for a handful of bulbs, but there is nothing especially alarming about price of tulips.”

Yep. Lucky it didn't fall on the house 😬

Large pine tree blown down in my front garden by Storm Amy, Miraculously the kayaks it landed on seem unharmed

Came back from a weekend away to find Storm Amy had done a spot of gardening

“Places of Death”: UN Says Israel’s Notion of a Safe Zone in Southern Gaza ‘Farcical’ - Quds News Network The United Nations has reiterated there are no safe areas for Palestinians forcibly ordered by Israel to leave Gaza City, and Israel-designated so-called “humanitarian zones” in the south of the encla...

The United Nations has reiterated there are no safe areas for Palestinians forcibly ordered by Israel to leave Gaza City, and Israel-designated so-called “humanitarian zones” in the south of the enclave are “places of death”.

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just parent your fucking kids oh my god!!!! no one made you have them!! be a responsible adult!

Our horror at the genocide in Gaza, at the mass murder of civilians on Oct 7 2023, and at today's atrocity in Manchester, comes in each case from the same, inherent part of our shared humanity. We need to assert that shared humanity as loudly as possible, and in as many practical ways as we can.

STOP KILLING PEOPLE YOU FUCKING TWATS

Goodnight.

Opinion | The moment I knew the world would try to move on from Jamal Khashoggi I could see it coming at Time’s 2018 Person of the Year celebration.

The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

This is heartening. The Israeli Navy is actually quite small, at one point outnumbered by the number of Sumud ships (tho ofc Israeli has seemingly endless US-supplied air power). Carry on, Mikeno!

All the faves

It is a beautiful formulation

Is this for fucking real?!!

There are plenty of us who don't too.

Accost in translation | John Self | The Critic Magazine Each new rendering in English of a classic written in another language must make the case for its superiority to previous versions. Cue barbs and accusations.

"Pevear and Volokhonsky must have some kompromat on commissioning editors to keep getting hired, given how awkward the English is in the translations they produce."

When Translators Attack: me on the battle for supremacy in translated classics.

Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men.

There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years

HOORAY!!!

NEW SERIES?!!!

Happy Rapture Day to all who celebrate 💋