Paul Shackleton
@pollyannacowboy.bsky.social
Leeds based, metadata wrangler, librarian, art history, music, plays cello badly, books, the LRB is my guide to life.
With that look in your eyes, telling me lies, so many promises broken
October 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
With that look in your eyes, telling me lies, so many promises broken
He engaged in excess with considerable prudence.
September 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
He engaged in excess with considerable prudence.
There is a town in North Ontario
September 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
There is a town in North Ontario
It's all looking pretty bad isn't it? I realised Reform are going to win the next election when I called my mum when on holiday in Shropshire and mentioned it was wonderfully rural and she replied that Starmer will be building on it soon.
September 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
It's all looking pretty bad isn't it? I realised Reform are going to win the next election when I called my mum when on holiday in Shropshire and mentioned it was wonderfully rural and she replied that Starmer will be building on it soon.
I made soup today, heatwave or no if the vegetables need using then I have to make soup.
July 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I made soup today, heatwave or no if the vegetables need using then I have to make soup.
#liveaid I spent the day at an athletics meeting in Cinderford, I took my radio with me and listened through a single earpiece until I got home, had to catch every moment, about 2.15 in the 800 wasn't too bad, I was 14
July 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
#liveaid I spent the day at an athletics meeting in Cinderford, I took my radio with me and listened through a single earpiece until I got home, had to catch every moment, about 2.15 in the 800 wasn't too bad, I was 14
I saw a Chough for the first time today, very noisy, but still very choughed
May 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I saw a Chough for the first time today, very noisy, but still very choughed
I have been lulled into a false sense of security on here and forgot to get my replies settings right to quiet the conversation police. Sorted now I hope, don't make assumptions about who I am and where I am from.
April 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I have been lulled into a false sense of security on here and forgot to get my replies settings right to quiet the conversation police. Sorted now I hope, don't make assumptions about who I am and where I am from.
Obsessed with this Brazilian Kaiser Chiefs cover that Lauren Laverne played on 6Music the other day, it’s AMAZING
open.spotify.com/track/0OOsMk...
open.spotify.com/track/0OOsMk...
I Predict a Riot
Carolina Lins, Os Planatos · I Predict a Riot · Song · 2018
open.spotify.com
April 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Reposted by Paul Shackleton
Obsessed with this Brazilian Kaiser Chiefs cover that Lauren Laverne played on 6Music the other day, it’s AMAZING
open.spotify.com/track/0OOsMk...
open.spotify.com/track/0OOsMk...
I Predict a Riot
Carolina Lins, Os Planatos · I Predict a Riot · Song · 2018
open.spotify.com
April 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Obsessed with this Brazilian Kaiser Chiefs cover that Lauren Laverne played on 6Music the other day, it’s AMAZING
open.spotify.com/track/0OOsMk...
open.spotify.com/track/0OOsMk...
Fancy running out of blast, what a world we live in today
April 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Fancy running out of blast, what a world we live in today
Reposted by Paul Shackleton
We will never know how close the Windrush Line came to being the Lovers Rock Line.
Great FOI sleuthing from @londoncentric.media
Great FOI sleuthing from @londoncentric.media
April 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We will never know how close the Windrush Line came to being the Lovers Rock Line.
Great FOI sleuthing from @londoncentric.media
Great FOI sleuthing from @londoncentric.media
Me in the national security group chat
March 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Me in the national security group chat
I've just derailed another possible relationship, I should come with a health warning, learning to be happy alone.
March 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I've just derailed another possible relationship, I should come with a health warning, learning to be happy alone.
Books fuck you up, I've spent a lifetime expecting deep conversation and intellectual in pubs and cafes and let's face it it's the same damn fools you meet everywhere, where are the salons of Leeds, where?
March 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Books fuck you up, I've spent a lifetime expecting deep conversation and intellectual in pubs and cafes and let's face it it's the same damn fools you meet everywhere, where are the salons of Leeds, where?
Reposted by Paul Shackleton
The other fucking reason I don't trust "AI" for anything
February 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The other fucking reason I don't trust "AI" for anything
Things that modern life have not surpassed, and never will - chess, paintings, gardening, good food, textiles, pottery, poetry, stories, fashion, music, plays, love.
February 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Things that modern life have not surpassed, and never will - chess, paintings, gardening, good food, textiles, pottery, poetry, stories, fashion, music, plays, love.
What is still more strange is that people should come to trust machines more than they trust themselves. David Bromwich in the LRB in Kubrick
February 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
What is still more strange is that people should come to trust machines more than they trust themselves. David Bromwich in the LRB in Kubrick
It feels like we are revisiting the 17th century, it's going to take some time before our Locke and Shaftesbury appear, I always think of Viv Stanshall's response when asked by US cops how the Bonzo's protected themselves - good manners!
February 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It feels like we are revisiting the 17th century, it's going to take some time before our Locke and Shaftesbury appear, I always think of Viv Stanshall's response when asked by US cops how the Bonzo's protected themselves - good manners!
Rudakubana - blame game, but no one is talking about mental health. Why are we failing to protect people from their own mental illness? Mostly money I guess.
January 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Rudakubana - blame game, but no one is talking about mental health. Why are we failing to protect people from their own mental illness? Mostly money I guess.
@tricialockwood.bsky.social I read your latest LRB article today and suddenly realised how weird I am, thanks 😏
January 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
@tricialockwood.bsky.social I read your latest LRB article today and suddenly realised how weird I am, thanks 😏
I got to the end of my diary and found my resolutions for 2024, and yes most of my resolutions for 2025 will be exactly the same, keep on trying
December 31, 2024 at 7:58 PM
I got to the end of my diary and found my resolutions for 2024, and yes most of my resolutions for 2025 will be exactly the same, keep on trying