Matthew Surridge
@bookofdays.bsky.social
Writer of short stories at the Book of Days project: https://www.patreon.com/BookOfDays
Writer of other things at other places, too, sometimes. He/him.
Writer of other things at other places, too, sometimes. He/him.
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GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.
February 6, 2026 at 11:43 PM
I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.
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The drugstore pbk market was HUGE. Years ago, after I wrote a Times story on liquor & cigarette ads running in paperbacks (!) in 60s & 70s, I heard from an old Madison Ave exec who did the ad buys. Biggest volume bookstore in the US, he said, was the Rexall Drugs at Grand Central Station.
🎁 link:
🎁 link:
So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:54 AM
The drugstore pbk market was HUGE. Years ago, after I wrote a Times story on liquor & cigarette ads running in paperbacks (!) in 60s & 70s, I heard from an old Madison Ave exec who did the ad buys. Biggest volume bookstore in the US, he said, was the Rexall Drugs at Grand Central Station.
🎁 link:
🎁 link:
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Shakespeare's Mum
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youtube.com/shorts/L4Ndw...
Shakespeare's mum
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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February 6, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Shakespeare's Mum
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youtube.com/shorts/L4Ndw...
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the Street finds its own uses for things
February 6, 2026 at 9:19 PM
the Street finds its own uses for things
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February 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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It's funny that a revolution bigger than rock'n'roll or punk or acid house happened and the world's culture media have kind of shrugged.
Is Tony Geitani's Lebanese prog-electronica-songwriter epic 'Wahj' the new normal?
One of the great problems with modern music criticism is that it hasn’t got past the models of the second half of the last century, and this leads to some very serious seeing-the-woods-for-the-trees o...
theartsdesk.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:40 PM
It's funny that a revolution bigger than rock'n'roll or punk or acid house happened and the world's culture media have kind of shrugged.
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1781
January 29, 2026 at 7:26 AM
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1781
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The CIA World Factbook, a reliable source of information about the countries of the world, has been publicly available since 1997. It is now going away.
Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data.
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data.
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
February 4, 2026 at 9:58 PM
The CIA World Factbook, a reliable source of information about the countries of the world, has been publicly available since 1997. It is now going away.
Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data.
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data.
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
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And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
"I don't feel proud that I started the comic books. If I had had an inkling of the harm they would do, I would never have gone through with the idea."
—Harry Wildenberg, sales manager of the Eastern Color Printing Company, 1949
—Harry Wildenberg, sales manager of the Eastern Color Printing Company, 1949
February 4, 2026 at 11:35 PM
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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A message from Jennifer Lynch on Reddit regarding the Unrecorded Night screenplays:
February 3, 2026 at 7:19 PM
A message from Jennifer Lynch on Reddit regarding the Unrecorded Night screenplays:
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This is a big step, folks! Been watching this one a while, broad spectrum SARS vaccine! Would be a big deal even w/o Covid but with its 🌟🌟🌟
#ShareGoodNewsToo
"A vaccine called GBP511 has begun clinical testing in Australia. Pioneered by UW Medicine researchers, it is intended to protect against COVID-19 and related coronaviruses — including some that haven’t yet jumped to humans. www.ipd.uw.edu/2026/02/gbp5...
"A vaccine called GBP511 has begun clinical testing in Australia. Pioneered by UW Medicine researchers, it is intended to protect against COVID-19 and related coronaviruses — including some that haven’t yet jumped to humans. www.ipd.uw.edu/2026/02/gbp5...
First vaccine targeting SARS virus family enters human trials – Institute for Protein Design
The computer-designed vaccine aims to protect against coronaviruses that haven't yet emerged, including pandemic threats
www.ipd.uw.edu
February 4, 2026 at 5:23 AM
This is a big step, folks! Been watching this one a while, broad spectrum SARS vaccine! Would be a big deal even w/o Covid but with its 🌟🌟🌟
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every paragraph break is shorthand for him pausing to sob uncontrollably
February 3, 2026 at 8:23 PM
every paragraph break is shorthand for him pausing to sob uncontrollably
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Groundhog Harassed By Dipshits In Stupid Hats
February 2, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Groundhog Harassed By Dipshits In Stupid Hats
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The Montreal Canadiens are playing the Minnesota Wild in Minneapolis tonight. The players have been recommended to stay in/eat at the hotel, take the team bus to the arena, and carry passports.
Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...
Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...
Le voyagement est aussi affecté → www.danslescoulisses.com/ice-le-canad...
ICE : le Canadien demande à ses joueurs de ne pas sortir de l’hôtel au Minnesota
Comme vous le savez sans doute, ça brasse malheureusement pas mal au Minnesota. Avec tout ce qui se passe en lien avec la police de l’immigration et les trop nombreux décès qui en découlent…
www.danslescoulisses.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM
The Montreal Canadiens are playing the Minnesota Wild in Minneapolis tonight. The players have been recommended to stay in/eat at the hotel, take the team bus to the arena, and carry passports.
Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...
Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...
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DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
February 2, 2026 at 3:58 AM
DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
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Tweet so good I had to post it here
February 2, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Tweet so good I had to post it here
Tonight more than ever.
reading your timeline like
February 2, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Tonight more than ever.
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"I'm sure you're all wondering why I've gathered you here today"
February 1, 2026 at 3:59 AM
"I'm sure you're all wondering why I've gathered you here today"
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1. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain.
January 31, 2026 at 8:33 PM
1. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain.
Thread. Not a long one, but a good one.
I have a very dear family friend who is an anthropologist from an upper-middle-class family and as close to a P.G. Wodehouse character who has ever lived. He once drove the entire length of Italy because he got lost trying to get to the city from Rome's airport.
It was rather startling as an adult to learn that P.G. Wodehouse had in fact only slightly exaggerated the characters he saw around him.
January 31, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Thread. Not a long one, but a good one.