Swithun
@swithuncooper.bsky.social
Stay-at-home mother of none
This is how I find out that my mother has bought a tractor??
November 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This is how I find out that my mother has bought a tractor??
Suddenly change of plans, sorry Tuesday
November 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Suddenly change of plans, sorry Tuesday
So this is where we are now, is it, a minister out in public being this casual about our ruthless inhumanity
Govt minister Alex Norris is asked if the govt will take jewellery from people [fleeing war and persecution]. Norris says the govt won't be taking peoples wedding rings but they will seize assets.
November 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
So this is where we are now, is it, a minister out in public being this casual about our ruthless inhumanity
The synopsis, the dead skin on the underside of the novel's heel
November 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The synopsis, the dead skin on the underside of the novel's heel
I'm not teaching until 2pm today 😇
November 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I'm not teaching until 2pm today 😇
I did it. I achieved the impossible. I submitted an extract of a novel-in-progress to my writing group. The first person ever to have done so
Writing. Some days it's like pulling teeth. Some weeks it's like pulling teeth. For a month now it's been like pulling teeth, though somehow I've pulled about 6,000 new teeth (words) to work on.
Stopping with the tooth thing now. But at least it makes the writing seem as gross as it's felt.
Stopping with the tooth thing now. But at least it makes the writing seem as gross as it's felt.
November 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I did it. I achieved the impossible. I submitted an extract of a novel-in-progress to my writing group. The first person ever to have done so
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🔴 EXC from @lucascumiskey.bsky.social: babies and toddlers have been referred to the government’s controversial counter-terrorism scheme Prevent hundreds of times since 2016, new data reveals.
November 12, 2025 at 11:12 AM
🔴 EXC from @lucascumiskey.bsky.social: babies and toddlers have been referred to the government’s controversial counter-terrorism scheme Prevent hundreds of times since 2016, new data reveals.
The bus driver closed the doors onto me so I got squished like a bug. I wasn't even trying to leap on, just the second of two people aboard, standing politely while the woman in front tapped her Oyster. Am I invisible
November 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The bus driver closed the doors onto me so I got squished like a bug. I wasn't even trying to leap on, just the second of two people aboard, standing politely while the woman in front tapped her Oyster. Am I invisible
Writing. Some days it's like pulling teeth. Some weeks it's like pulling teeth. For a month now it's been like pulling teeth, though somehow I've pulled about 6,000 new teeth (words) to work on.
Stopping with the tooth thing now. But at least it makes the writing seem as gross as it's felt.
Stopping with the tooth thing now. But at least it makes the writing seem as gross as it's felt.
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Writing. Some days it's like pulling teeth. Some weeks it's like pulling teeth. For a month now it's been like pulling teeth, though somehow I've pulled about 6,000 new teeth (words) to work on.
Stopping with the tooth thing now. But at least it makes the writing seem as gross as it's felt.
Stopping with the tooth thing now. But at least it makes the writing seem as gross as it's felt.
Arrived at campus to realise I'd forgotten my lecture notes and the annotated copy of the essay I'm teaching. Somehow couldn't get them from my laptop to the campus printers - so guess who's making a 2.5hr round trip to collect them instead of having the morning free to write in the library!!
November 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Arrived at campus to realise I'd forgotten my lecture notes and the annotated copy of the essay I'm teaching. Somehow couldn't get them from my laptop to the campus printers - so guess who's making a 2.5hr round trip to collect them instead of having the morning free to write in the library!!
Fifth contemporary novel in a row that seems to believe the idea sentence has no words in. How many more must I read with paragraphs all as dry & cold as an ancient bone? Please! Stop! The people beg for juice
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Fifth contemporary novel in a row that seems to believe the idea sentence has no words in. How many more must I read with paragraphs all as dry & cold as an ancient bone? Please! Stop! The people beg for juice
My boyfriend just stopped me from putting the recycling out because for Halloween he "might want to go as Sexy Recycling"
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
My boyfriend just stopped me from putting the recycling out because for Halloween he "might want to go as Sexy Recycling"
Thinking about which "big brand names" came before DNA so we could be programmed to be comforted by them. Is the Croc shop older than humanity
Nigel Newton, CEO of Bloomsbury, telling us why AI is good for publishing with this fun caveat: “We are programmed deep in our DNA to be comforted by the authority and the reliability of big brand names, & that applies more than ever to the names of big writers."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Thinking about which "big brand names" came before DNA so we could be programmed to be comforted by them. Is the Croc shop older than humanity
An autumn afternoon and time to watch:
October 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
An autumn afternoon and time to watch:
As a fan of Murdoch - and of Angela Carter, who got similar treatment a few years ago, and Harper Lee who's just had her archives re-scraped for profit: STOP. You don't have to publish every tiny thing they produced, especially if the writer herself chose not to!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Iris Murdoch’s poems on bisexuality to be published – read one exclusively here
Drawn mostly from notebooks discovered in the attic of the late novelist and philosopher’s Oxford home, a new collection spans 60 years and touches on deeply personal themes
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:34 AM
As a fan of Murdoch - and of Angela Carter, who got similar treatment a few years ago, and Harper Lee who's just had her archives re-scraped for profit: STOP. You don't have to publish every tiny thing they produced, especially if the writer herself chose not to!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Reading Mythago Wood for the first time since I was 10, and, at the appearance of the pagan child sex queen who is also the narrator's unconscious iteration of a Jungian archetype, I am wondering (a) what my dad was DOING giving it to an 10-year-old, and/or (b) if he'd ever actually read it.
October 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Reading Mythago Wood for the first time since I was 10, and, at the appearance of the pagan child sex queen who is also the narrator's unconscious iteration of a Jungian archetype, I am wondering (a) what my dad was DOING giving it to an 10-year-old, and/or (b) if he'd ever actually read it.
This is a very long walk to "actually my real dream was to invent a robot girlfriend wank machine like that one episode of Buffy"
i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get
October 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This is a very long walk to "actually my real dream was to invent a robot girlfriend wank machine like that one episode of Buffy"
Gerald Murnane, Margaret Atwood, Can Xue and Haruki Murakami all sending László Krasznahorkai very nice congratulations messages before they sombrely kick him out of the group chat
October 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Gerald Murnane, Margaret Atwood, Can Xue and Haruki Murakami all sending László Krasznahorkai very nice congratulations messages before they sombrely kick him out of the group chat
I was going to cook dinner and re-read Jon Fosse, but I accidentally sat down and suddenly I'm two episodes into season 4 of Hacks, eating a Co Op vanilla slice I'm going to have to replace before my partner gets home
October 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I was going to cook dinner and re-read Jon Fosse, but I accidentally sat down and suddenly I'm two episodes into season 4 of Hacks, eating a Co Op vanilla slice I'm going to have to replace before my partner gets home
Happy birthday to THIS brazen little beast, and best wishes to all former members of Elastica now making art, growing vegetables, exploring spirituality and generally being wholesome
October 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Happy birthday to THIS brazen little beast, and best wishes to all former members of Elastica now making art, growing vegetables, exploring spirituality and generally being wholesome
Really excited for a generation to be shut out from the arts, sociology, anthropology, etc; and then to quietly realise exactly why the right wing doesn't want you to analyse our socio-cultural structures or make art destabilising it. Doesn't always end well, Kemi babe xx
October 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Really excited for a generation to be shut out from the arts, sociology, anthropology, etc; and then to quietly realise exactly why the right wing doesn't want you to analyse our socio-cultural structures or make art destabilising it. Doesn't always end well, Kemi babe xx
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Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'
Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Swithun
Just amazing that when we do get our balls-out fascist government in the not too distant future, they won’t even really need to do anything to get rolling, because ‘The Centre-Left Party™️’ have willingly, deliberately built all the apparatus for them.
NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.
October 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Just amazing that when we do get our balls-out fascist government in the not too distant future, they won’t even really need to do anything to get rolling, because ‘The Centre-Left Party™️’ have willingly, deliberately built all the apparatus for them.
Ate *two* home-cooked meals from this yesterday. At one point Barbara claims that chocolate "relieves high blood pressure", "has a toning effect on the kidneys" and should be eaten with ambergris by women who are "cold by nature".
October 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Ate *two* home-cooked meals from this yesterday. At one point Barbara claims that chocolate "relieves high blood pressure", "has a toning effect on the kidneys" and should be eaten with ambergris by women who are "cold by nature".
Been drifting around Southwark and Lambeth again, and am intrigued by its different architectures. Where do I go to research this, e.g. when different housing developments began, their styles, what certain neighbourhoods looked like & when/why they changed? Archives? Old footage/photographs?
September 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Been drifting around Southwark and Lambeth again, and am intrigued by its different architectures. Where do I go to research this, e.g. when different housing developments began, their styles, what certain neighbourhoods looked like & when/why they changed? Archives? Old footage/photographs?