donaldé
@donalde.bsky.social
sommelier. nascent vigneron. don’t try and pinch my phone.
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
This is brilliant. Iris Murdoch and her beer mat collection :)
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is brilliant. Iris Murdoch and her beer mat collection :)
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Putting the Red into wine
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Putting the Red into wine
Quite amazed at how many of the contributors to the Compleat imbiber were strongly socialist.
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Quite amazed at how many of the contributors to the Compleat imbiber were strongly socialist.
@oldenoughtosay.com yesterday I came across an old Iris Murdoch essay on drinking in Oxford as a female Don in the early 50s. Thought it might pique your interest. Was in Cryil Ray's Compleat Imbiber no.2.
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
@oldenoughtosay.com yesterday I came across an old Iris Murdoch essay on drinking in Oxford as a female Don in the early 50s. Thought it might pique your interest. Was in Cryil Ray's Compleat Imbiber no.2.
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There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were:
Black Baptist Churches
A Mosque
A small Appalachian church
Black Baptist Churches
A Mosque
A small Appalachian church
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were:
Black Baptist Churches
A Mosque
A small Appalachian church
Black Baptist Churches
A Mosque
A small Appalachian church
HERO - also, early adopter of induction hobs :)
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
HERO - also, early adopter of induction hobs :)
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Soft times make weak men. Weak men make hard times. Hard times make hard men. I am a hard man. I am manly, and hard, and powerful. Also, a man threw a sandwich at me and I smelled an onion and I want the full force of the law to be brought upon this person because of the sandwich he hit me with
November 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Soft times make weak men. Weak men make hard times. Hard times make hard men. I am a hard man. I am manly, and hard, and powerful. Also, a man threw a sandwich at me and I smelled an onion and I want the full force of the law to be brought upon this person because of the sandwich he hit me with
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say it with me, everyone
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
say it with me, everyone
@kwananntan.bsky.social @kwananntan.bsky.social omfg the waiter, am 3 endings in and I love it so much. Am not sure who's ig I saw it on but I bought a copy as it seemed fun. Will be foisting this on many people. Thank you.
November 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
@kwananntan.bsky.social @kwananntan.bsky.social omfg the waiter, am 3 endings in and I love it so much. Am not sure who's ig I saw it on but I bought a copy as it seemed fun. Will be foisting this on many people. Thank you.
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"A delightful history of a mongrel language" – so says The Economist about my book, with a lovely graphic too.
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
Why Anglophones use the alphabet so oddly
A delightful history of a mongrel language
www.economist.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"A delightful history of a mongrel language" – so says The Economist about my book, with a lovely graphic too.
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
Wait, what about the Saxe-Coburg Gothas, are they English? Also, post 1066 does that mean that none of our aristocracy are English?
Reform councillor and Doncaster mayoral candidate Alexander Jones needs to urgently provide a family tree showing us where all of his several hundred thousand unique ancestors in the 10th century were living.
Or I for one won't believe he's a real English man.
Or I for one won't believe he's a real English man.
November 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Wait, what about the Saxe-Coburg Gothas, are they English? Also, post 1066 does that mean that none of our aristocracy are English?
Ridic excited to have seen the Heraki and Yaban Kollektiv wines landed and on the Nora site. Super proud of the wine list I’ve written for them.
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Ridic excited to have seen the Heraki and Yaban Kollektiv wines landed and on the Nora site. Super proud of the wine list I’ve written for them.
@dannybate.bsky.social Umberto Eco riffing on early writing 😅
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
@dannybate.bsky.social Umberto Eco riffing on early writing 😅
Post natural wine as a conceptual moniker. This I like very much. Wine that isn’t per se natural (as commonly understood) but could only exist in the landscape created by the movement. 👇👇👇
November 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Post natural wine as a conceptual moniker. This I like very much. Wine that isn’t per se natural (as commonly understood) but could only exist in the landscape created by the movement. 👇👇👇
Superb thread by Monbiot.
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Superb thread by Monbiot.
Really enjoyed A line you draw from @roisinmcd.bsky.social, I particularly enjoyed way she plays with time travel paradox conventions in a sort of found matrilineal way.
November 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Really enjoyed A line you draw from @roisinmcd.bsky.social, I particularly enjoyed way she plays with time travel paradox conventions in a sort of found matrilineal way.
This is Harry Potter. He plays rugby (very well, too well maybe) for the Wallabies. He was born in Wimbledon which is about 20 mins from Surrey where the Weasley's canonically lived. He was born in 1997. OOI what was published in 1997?!?
November 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This is Harry Potter. He plays rugby (very well, too well maybe) for the Wallabies. He was born in Wimbledon which is about 20 mins from Surrey where the Weasley's canonically lived. He was born in 1997. OOI what was published in 1997?!?
MCHA
Make Charles Headless Again
Make Charles Headless Again
I kind of wonder if whoever makes this AI stuff is trying some kind of subconscious reaction to the No Kings protests. "Look, kings are good, actually! They'll take a stand against this hippie environmentalist multicultural DEI nonsense! (Please don't look at Charles' politics too closely)"
November 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
MCHA
Make Charles Headless Again
Make Charles Headless Again
Quote your favourite film and album from the year you were born.
November 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Quote your favourite film and album from the year you were born.
Theoretical question, will the MET take the same view of my advocating for the violent ending of the Royal family as they do regarding Lineham's hateful transphobia?
Isn't he technically "electively illiterate"
November 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Theoretical question, will the MET take the same view of my advocating for the violent ending of the Royal family as they do regarding Lineham's hateful transphobia?
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Isn't he technically "electively illiterate"
November 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Isn't he technically "electively illiterate"