Ash
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18+ only please. 'No no. What you've been is not on boats.' She/her.
@vpj.bsky.social being authoritative and delightful on my screen!
December 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
@vpj.bsky.social being authoritative and delightful on my screen!
Terror CAMP and not least of the joys of this blessed event is Reg's voice purring soothingly from On High
December 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Terror CAMP and not least of the joys of this blessed event is Reg's voice purring soothingly from On High
Huh, didn't realise RF Kuang was in the news again for cluelessness. Anyway, here are my thoughts on the ChatGPT intellectualism of Katabasis.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Huh, didn't realise RF Kuang was in the news again for cluelessness. Anyway, here are my thoughts on the ChatGPT intellectualism of Katabasis.
leaveitunread.substack.com/p/academia-i...
leaveitunread.substack.com/p/academia-i...
November 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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[guy who’s only seen Zardoz watching a second Sean Connery movie]: “uh, gotta be honest, not really getting any Zardoz vibes from this at all”
November 3, 2025 at 1:41 AM
[guy who’s only seen Zardoz watching a second Sean Connery movie]: “uh, gotta be honest, not really getting any Zardoz vibes from this at all”
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Is the BBC perfect? No.
Is it a good thing when the leader of a foreign power can seriously threaten and interfere in the running of what is still the national public service broadcaster of an ally? Also no.
Both of these things can be true.
Is it a good thing when the leader of a foreign power can seriously threaten and interfere in the running of what is still the national public service broadcaster of an ally? Also no.
Both of these things can be true.
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Is the BBC perfect? No.
Is it a good thing when the leader of a foreign power can seriously threaten and interfere in the running of what is still the national public service broadcaster of an ally? Also no.
Both of these things can be true.
Is it a good thing when the leader of a foreign power can seriously threaten and interfere in the running of what is still the national public service broadcaster of an ally? Also no.
Both of these things can be true.
Likely cuttin' me own froat here, but I realised you probably don't need to read this whole thing when the below is pretty much the gist:
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Likely cuttin' me own froat here, but I realised you probably don't need to read this whole thing when the below is pretty much the gist:
NYC besties, you know me. You know my heart, and you know I love you and your great city. I am delighted about Mamdani's win. But fam. Fam.
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
NYC besties, you know me. You know my heart, and you know I love you and your great city. I am delighted about Mamdani's win. But fam. Fam.
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
As I sit in a UK whose only hope of fighting off a gurning frog-faced Fascist is male, pale and stale middle manager Keir Starmer, I am inhaling the news from the States like it's the heatlamp in a neighbouring house.
November 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
As I sit in a UK whose only hope of fighting off a gurning frog-faced Fascist is male, pale and stale middle manager Keir Starmer, I am inhaling the news from the States like it's the heatlamp in a neighbouring house.
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This is a stunning piece of speechwriting. Rhetoric and oratory are BACK
Read Mamdani’s victory speech here:
The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This is a stunning piece of speechwriting. Rhetoric and oratory are BACK
Bad(el) Education
The insufferable hectoring of RF Kuang's Babel
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Hokie, in about a week I will be Subbed Stacking about Babel, followed by Katabasis (they have it coming). Since both books are notionally dark (hurk) academia (hurl), I am thinking section headers with lyrics about Education. Recs? Recs for the lidy?
October 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Hokie, in about a week I will be Subbed Stacking about Babel, followed by Katabasis (they have it coming). Since both books are notionally dark (hurk) academia (hurl), I am thinking section headers with lyrics about Education. Recs? Recs for the lidy?
This is me with McLennon
There's something wonderful and funny about having a fandom in law. Like, I don't go here, but my friend does, so now I know random shit about F1 teams or wrestlers or kpop groups
Then you see something about their brainworm and you bring it to them like a crow, like "I saw this and thought of you"
Then you see something about their brainworm and you bring it to them like a crow, like "I saw this and thought of you"
October 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This is me with McLennon
My bestie likes Regency romantic comedies and can never find decent lesbian ones. So she has asked me to write one for her birthday (in... less than a month). And I started out fine and then got s t u c k. Georgette Heyer, how did you churn out a whole ass novel per year.
October 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
My bestie likes Regency romantic comedies and can never find decent lesbian ones. So she has asked me to write one for her birthday (in... less than a month). And I started out fine and then got s t u c k. Georgette Heyer, how did you churn out a whole ass novel per year.
Realised that some of my beloved online friends are unaccountably precious about being on The Nazi Platform, so popped up here to say that I am, with regret, become A Substack Blogueur:
open.substack.com/pub/leaveitu...
open.substack.com/pub/leaveitu...
Introducing Leave It (Un) Read
Or: excellent advice that you should take, because I can't
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Realised that some of my beloved online friends are unaccountably precious about being on The Nazi Platform, so popped up here to say that I am, with regret, become A Substack Blogueur:
open.substack.com/pub/leaveitu...
open.substack.com/pub/leaveitu...
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pitching my series "nothing bad happens to jared harris" where it's just 30 minutes a week of nothing traumatic happening to a character played by jared harris. the postman delivers a package. maybe he makes a cup of tea but leaves it steeping a bit too long
January 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
pitching my series "nothing bad happens to jared harris" where it's just 30 minutes a week of nothing traumatic happening to a character played by jared harris. the postman delivers a package. maybe he makes a cup of tea but leaves it steeping a bit too long
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Dan Simmons' THE TERROR is interesting but extremely flawed, and David Kagjanich turned it into a virtually perfect season of television.
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January 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Dan Simmons' THE TERROR is interesting but extremely flawed, and David Kagjanich turned it into a virtually perfect season of television.
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I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
www.vulture.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...