Helen Macdonald
@hjm.bsky.social
Writer. One half of a dynamic duo. H is for Hawk, Vesper Flights. PROPHET with Sin Blache. Rep by the Clegg Agency. Non-binary. They/she
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No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
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Stephen King: submitted for the approval of the
Elon Musk: [rising from bushes] eyyyyy Stephano king
King: oh criminy
King: this again
King: is there no one who will rid me of this vexing trillionaire
Joyce Carol Oates:
Elon Musk: [rising from bushes] eyyyyy Stephano king
King: oh criminy
King: this again
King: is there no one who will rid me of this vexing trillionaire
Joyce Carol Oates:
November 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Stephen King: submitted for the approval of the
Elon Musk: [rising from bushes] eyyyyy Stephano king
King: oh criminy
King: this again
King: is there no one who will rid me of this vexing trillionaire
Joyce Carol Oates:
Elon Musk: [rising from bushes] eyyyyy Stephano king
King: oh criminy
King: this again
King: is there no one who will rid me of this vexing trillionaire
Joyce Carol Oates:
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“What is civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms, yet. But I think I can recognise it when I see it. And I’m looking at it now.” -Kenneth Clark
24/7 cake vending machine in the middle of nowhere. Maximum Poland.
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
“What is civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms, yet. But I think I can recognise it when I see it. And I’m looking at it now.” -Kenneth Clark
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Maplins Wicker Man
Hi-de-Hi! - Carnival Time (7th November 1982). Hugo Buxton (John Le Mesurier) attempts to persuade Jeff to resume his academic life at Cambridge.
November 8, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Maplins Wicker Man
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let us now have a good long look
November 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
let us now have a good long look
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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
HERE IT IS!!!!!
H Is For Hawk - Official Trailer
YouTube video by LionsgateFilmsUK
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
HERE IT IS!!!!!
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A friend showed me this screenshot and I started cackling, I was staining my tongue three different colors with OtterPops in 1998 are you fucking kidding me
November 4, 2025 at 4:47 AM
A friend showed me this screenshot and I started cackling, I was staining my tongue three different colors with OtterPops in 1998 are you fucking kidding me
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Your daily dose of climate hope. From the team at RMI: rmi.org/wp-content/u...
November 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Your daily dose of climate hope. From the team at RMI: rmi.org/wp-content/u...
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Teen Vogue and their incredible reporters have been the bar for a bunch of years... Their reporting was the frontline of holding back fascism and protecting all of us.
Today is a dark day. (And personally, Lex and the other Teen Vogue reporters are just awesome people.)
Today is a dark day. (And personally, Lex and the other Teen Vogue reporters are just awesome people.)
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Teen Vogue and their incredible reporters have been the bar for a bunch of years... Their reporting was the frontline of holding back fascism and protecting all of us.
Today is a dark day. (And personally, Lex and the other Teen Vogue reporters are just awesome people.)
Today is a dark day. (And personally, Lex and the other Teen Vogue reporters are just awesome people.)
Local parish magazine never disappoints
November 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Local parish magazine never disappoints
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City Lights, a San Francisco Institution founded by the late great Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, has banners posted for this time in history
October 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
City Lights, a San Francisco Institution founded by the late great Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, has banners posted for this time in history
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
Oh god @sinblache.bsky.social is it “nostalgia for nuclear tests” time already?
October 30, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Oh god @sinblache.bsky.social is it “nostalgia for nuclear tests” time already?
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This is a piece of the Mamdani campaign that I think is really underdiscussed—that in a moment of terror and despair, his premise is that standing up against fascism can be joyous.
My wife is Chilean and there are lots of parallels to the referendum on Pinochet where he was defeated. The pro-Pinochet ads were doom and gloom. The anti were upbeat and sunny. There was a movie about it: youtu.be/lt8VayTqQhQ?...
NO | Official Trailer HD (2013)
YouTube video by Sony Pictures Classics
youtu.be
October 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This is a piece of the Mamdani campaign that I think is really underdiscussed—that in a moment of terror and despair, his premise is that standing up against fascism can be joyous.
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They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
so many of my deeply beloved here aaaaaaaa
My thanks to @helenmcclory.bsky.social for sharing A Personal Anthology. Happy to find @mjohnharrison.bsky.social has contributed introductions to, comments on a selection of short stories he's enjoyed.
M John Harrison (as editor) – A Personal Anthology
M. John Harrison was born in 1945. He published his first story in 1966 and his first novel, The Committed Men, in 1968. Climbers won the Boardman Tasker prize for Mountain Literature in 1989. His …
apersonalanthology.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
so many of my deeply beloved here aaaaaaaa
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I was opening a bunch of PDFs in acrobat yesterday and my computer's fans were going wild. I have a lot of RAM so this was surprising to me. Turns out Acrobat now generates AI summaries by default when you open a file, instead of just asking if you want one (which I never do).
October 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I was opening a bunch of PDFs in acrobat yesterday and my computer's fans were going wild. I have a lot of RAM so this was surprising to me. Turns out Acrobat now generates AI summaries by default when you open a file, instead of just asking if you want one (which I never do).
Bought a thing on eBay that wasn't as described. I mentioned this in feedback. Seller just sent me a snippy message that the item description was supplied to him by eBay AI and if I'd just looked at the photo of the item it would have been obvious to me that the description was wrong.
what
what
October 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Bought a thing on eBay that wasn't as described. I mentioned this in feedback. Seller just sent me a snippy message that the item description was supplied to him by eBay AI and if I'd just looked at the photo of the item it would have been obvious to me that the description was wrong.
what
what
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I'm so HYPED. I will be accepting this as a birthday offering next year.
Hard times spreading just like the flu / Watch out homeboy don’t let it catch you
October 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I'm so HYPED. I will be accepting this as a birthday offering next year.
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What percentage of politicians in your country are still relying on this site as a primary means of public communication?
It feels slightly maddening that this isn't being treated as an extremely urgent problem.
It feels slightly maddening that this isn't being treated as an extremely urgent problem.
This is a "recommended" tweet pushed to a (very much not-Nazi) contact's iPhone lockscreen last week.
Who knows how many millions it was pushed to by Musk's platform, including in this case, in the UK?
It's now been deleted, but only after getting thousands of RTs.
Who knows how many millions it was pushed to by Musk's platform, including in this case, in the UK?
It's now been deleted, but only after getting thousands of RTs.
October 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
What percentage of politicians in your country are still relying on this site as a primary means of public communication?
It feels slightly maddening that this isn't being treated as an extremely urgent problem.
It feels slightly maddening that this isn't being treated as an extremely urgent problem.
A great filmmaker.
But ...
This should be a series of events on people's unrealised projects. I could talk for HOURS about mine. HOURS.
But ...
This should be a series of events on people's unrealised projects. I could talk for HOURS about mine. HOURS.
October 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A great filmmaker.
But ...
This should be a series of events on people's unrealised projects. I could talk for HOURS about mine. HOURS.
But ...
This should be a series of events on people's unrealised projects. I could talk for HOURS about mine. HOURS.
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Incredible things are happening on X the everything app
October 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Incredible things are happening on X the everything app
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Homage to Xavier Bou: little swifts at the Olifants River high-water bridge, Kruger National Park. Unstacked from video taken with an Iphone 14. #birds #photography #SouthAfrica #iPhone
October 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Homage to Xavier Bou: little swifts at the Olifants River high-water bridge, Kruger National Park. Unstacked from video taken with an Iphone 14. #birds #photography #SouthAfrica #iPhone