@claudinacloud.bsky.social
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Why didn't Ann Harding become as big as Garbo or Joan Crawford or Bette Davis? She seems to me to have the most natural acting style of anyone in the pre-Code era. From The Double Harness (1933)
December 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Why didn't Ann Harding become as big as Garbo or Joan Crawford or Bette Davis? She seems to me to have the most natural acting style of anyone in the pre-Code era. From The Double Harness (1933)
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No, I don't want to "quickly hop on a call with you". I want to bump into you at random on a rain-lashed heath, nod at you in silent mutual admiration as we watch a buzzard gliding smoothly over a dramatic chicane in the river, then get the fuck on with my day
December 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
No, I don't want to "quickly hop on a call with you". I want to bump into you at random on a rain-lashed heath, nod at you in silent mutual admiration as we watch a buzzard gliding smoothly over a dramatic chicane in the river, then get the fuck on with my day
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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MY 4-YEAR OLD: *calmly, while coloring a picture of the Grinch* If baby grinches die, we can eat them. If they’re clean. That’s ok
December 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
MY 4-YEAR OLD: *calmly, while coloring a picture of the Grinch* If baby grinches die, we can eat them. If they’re clean. That’s ok
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if you have a billion dollars you should be legally designated a dragon and any human can adventure against you
September 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
if you have a billion dollars you should be legally designated a dragon and any human can adventure against you
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Now in my early 60s I have only just started reading Middlemarch (blame the education system…), so I am immensely grateful to @adamroberts.bsky.social for this wonderfully perceptive exploration of the epigrams at the head of each chapter. open.substack.com/pub/profadam...
Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors
George Eliot and Pascal
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Now in my early 60s I have only just started reading Middlemarch (blame the education system…), so I am immensely grateful to @adamroberts.bsky.social for this wonderfully perceptive exploration of the epigrams at the head of each chapter. open.substack.com/pub/profadam...
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Subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz350bs
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz350bs
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I've mounted a landline phone next to my bathroom mirror because every now and then I like to pretend I'm visiting my twin in jail.
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I've mounted a landline phone next to my bathroom mirror because every now and then I like to pretend I'm visiting my twin in jail.
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I would like to skip the ringside seat at this debauched circus and go straight to the empty field where the tent once stood.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I would like to skip the ringside seat at this debauched circus and go straight to the empty field where the tent once stood.
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She was always THE woman. Looking right at you from 1590: Infanta Catalina Micaela (almost surely), painted by Sofonisba Anguissola (probably). Surely one of the greatest renaissance portraits.
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
She was always THE woman. Looking right at you from 1590: Infanta Catalina Micaela (almost surely), painted by Sofonisba Anguissola (probably). Surely one of the greatest renaissance portraits.
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Wonderful detail from Italian painter Parmigianino’s ‘Lucretia’, highlighting her hair, both loose and braided, adorned with pearls and gold threads (1540)
November 15, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Wonderful detail from Italian painter Parmigianino’s ‘Lucretia’, highlighting her hair, both loose and braided, adorned with pearls and gold threads (1540)
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Could we stop being quite so silly about this? Compensatory damages depend on evidence of actual harm and Florida caps punitive damages at $500,000.
Buckle up - because this now amounts to a direct and deliberate attack on our country and its cultural sovereignty. Which side our politicians take - Trump's or the BBC's - over the coming days and weeks will speak volumes about their patriotism.
Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit
The US president confirmed he intends to sue the broadcaster for at least $1bn over the Panorama edit of a 2021 speech.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Could we stop being quite so silly about this? Compensatory damages depend on evidence of actual harm and Florida caps punitive damages at $500,000.
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Good news from Germany. A court has ruled in favor of the music industry in its legal battle against OpenAI, saying that the company has violated copyright laws.
En Allemagne, l’industrie musicale remporte une première victoire judiciaire contre OpenAI
En Allemagne, l’industrie musicale remporte une première victoire judiciaire contre OpenAI
Un tribunal de Munich a estimé, mardi, que le géant américain de l’intelligence artificielle avait porté atteinte « aux droits d’exploitation protégés par le droit d’auteur ». L’entreprise s’est dite « en désaccord » avec cette décision et dit étudier « les prochaines démarches possibles ».
www.lemonde.fr
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Good news from Germany. A court has ruled in favor of the music industry in its legal battle against OpenAI, saying that the company has violated copyright laws.
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Can't the nation just take a breath and get this sorted by Christmas, as a present to ourselves?
#ANGELARAYNERFORBBCDGYOUCOWARDS
#ANGELARAYNERFORBBCDGYOUCOWARDS
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Can't the nation just take a breath and get this sorted by Christmas, as a present to ourselves?
#ANGELARAYNERFORBBCDGYOUCOWARDS
#ANGELARAYNERFORBBCDGYOUCOWARDS
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When I was young, there was a 6 month period where my dad was away in the Falkland's. My sisters wrote him a letter explaining how we were going to a bonfire for 'Gay Fox Night'.
This is what happens when your mother has a strong Northern Irish accent and is the main influence on your accent.
This is what happens when your mother has a strong Northern Irish accent and is the main influence on your accent.
November 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
When I was young, there was a 6 month period where my dad was away in the Falkland's. My sisters wrote him a letter explaining how we were going to a bonfire for 'Gay Fox Night'.
This is what happens when your mother has a strong Northern Irish accent and is the main influence on your accent.
This is what happens when your mother has a strong Northern Irish accent and is the main influence on your accent.
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MISS PYM’s DAY OUT, on the iPlayer for the next 26 days, is delightful!
A drama doc about Barbara Pym’s trip to London for the Booker Prize ceremony - featuring Patricia Routledge as Pym, various Excellent Women and cameos from Jilly Cooper & Penelope Lively! #BookSky
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
A drama doc about Barbara Pym’s trip to London for the Booker Prize ceremony - featuring Patricia Routledge as Pym, various Excellent Women and cameos from Jilly Cooper & Penelope Lively! #BookSky
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Miss Pym's Day Out: Bookmark
Dramatised documentary about the writer Barbara Pym, depicting one day in her life - 23 November 1977 - when she travelled to London to attend the Booker Prize ceremony.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
MISS PYM’s DAY OUT, on the iPlayer for the next 26 days, is delightful!
A drama doc about Barbara Pym’s trip to London for the Booker Prize ceremony - featuring Patricia Routledge as Pym, various Excellent Women and cameos from Jilly Cooper & Penelope Lively! #BookSky
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
A drama doc about Barbara Pym’s trip to London for the Booker Prize ceremony - featuring Patricia Routledge as Pym, various Excellent Women and cameos from Jilly Cooper & Penelope Lively! #BookSky
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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"There is nothing more intimidating than a clergyman on the loose."
This is, as Jacqui says, utterly delightful.
This is, as Jacqui says, utterly delightful.
MISS PYM’s DAY OUT, on the iPlayer for the next 26 days, is delightful!
A drama doc about Barbara Pym’s trip to London for the Booker Prize ceremony - featuring Patricia Routledge as Pym, various Excellent Women and cameos from Jilly Cooper & Penelope Lively! #BookSky
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
A drama doc about Barbara Pym’s trip to London for the Booker Prize ceremony - featuring Patricia Routledge as Pym, various Excellent Women and cameos from Jilly Cooper & Penelope Lively! #BookSky
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Miss Pym's Day Out: Bookmark
Dramatised documentary about the writer Barbara Pym, depicting one day in her life - 23 November 1977 - when she travelled to London to attend the Booker Prize ceremony.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"There is nothing more intimidating than a clergyman on the loose."
This is, as Jacqui says, utterly delightful.
This is, as Jacqui says, utterly delightful.
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There’s no screening for ovarian cancer and it’s really difficult to spot: you can’t squidge your ovaries in the shower to check for lumps. Also it’s very good at masquerading at other things, like IBS and diverticulitis.
Please take a look at this list of symptoms - and share if you can.
Please take a look at this list of symptoms - and share if you can.
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
There’s no screening for ovarian cancer and it’s really difficult to spot: you can’t squidge your ovaries in the shower to check for lumps. Also it’s very good at masquerading at other things, like IBS and diverticulitis.
Please take a look at this list of symptoms - and share if you can.
Please take a look at this list of symptoms - and share if you can.
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I got to do a lightning round about my devotion to Clarissa with @sinsleyh.bsky.social, and she has honored me beyond measure by pairing it with one by Frances Ferguson. Swoon!
open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...
open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...
Toward an Oral History of Clarissa
contributed by Stephanie Hershinow
open.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I got to do a lightning round about my devotion to Clarissa with @sinsleyh.bsky.social, and she has honored me beyond measure by pairing it with one by Frances Ferguson. Swoon!
open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...
open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...
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"Neutral" is the ne plus ultra of anagrams.
October 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"Neutral" is the ne plus ultra of anagrams.
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The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online
The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online
If you know nothing else about medieval European illuminated manuscripts, you surely know the Book of Kells. “One of Ireland’s greatest cultural treasures” comments Medievalists.net, “it is set apart ...
www.openculture.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online
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It does annoy me, it shouldn't be "Venus In Furs", it should be "Venus Implies".
August 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It does annoy me, it shouldn't be "Venus In Furs", it should be "Venus Implies".
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Happy birthday, Philthy Larkin'
August 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Happy birthday, Philthy Larkin'
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[through chopstick walrus tusks] divorth?
April 28, 2023 at 11:25 PM
[through chopstick walrus tusks] divorth?