Clinton Huxley
@clintonhuxley.bsky.social
Blunderer. Have resting “aghast” face.
At this point every US Cabinet meeting might as well be this
October 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
At this point every US Cabinet meeting might as well be this
Upon occasion I daydream about writing a novel but then recall my lack of ability, initiative, dedication and time.
If you are in the market for handy hints and tips, or if you just want to be a better reader, I found this a useful guide.
Monkeys with Typewriters by Scarlett Thomas
#booksky
If you are in the market for handy hints and tips, or if you just want to be a better reader, I found this a useful guide.
Monkeys with Typewriters by Scarlett Thomas
#booksky
September 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Upon occasion I daydream about writing a novel but then recall my lack of ability, initiative, dedication and time.
If you are in the market for handy hints and tips, or if you just want to be a better reader, I found this a useful guide.
Monkeys with Typewriters by Scarlett Thomas
#booksky
If you are in the market for handy hints and tips, or if you just want to be a better reader, I found this a useful guide.
Monkeys with Typewriters by Scarlett Thomas
#booksky
Be kind to everyone you meet, for they are fighting a hard battle. Except this dog. This dog is not fighting a hard battle. This dog is relaxing its ass off.
#blueskydogs
#blueskydogs
September 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Be kind to everyone you meet, for they are fighting a hard battle. Except this dog. This dog is not fighting a hard battle. This dog is relaxing its ass off.
#blueskydogs
#blueskydogs
This was an enjoyable and sometimes eye-opening read. Paradise of Cities by John Julius Norwich, written with learning and wit, depicting the lives of artists who, in the 19th Century, made Venice their home.
The chapter on “Baron Corvo” is an eye-opener.
#booksky
The chapter on “Baron Corvo” is an eye-opener.
#booksky
September 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
This was an enjoyable and sometimes eye-opening read. Paradise of Cities by John Julius Norwich, written with learning and wit, depicting the lives of artists who, in the 19th Century, made Venice their home.
The chapter on “Baron Corvo” is an eye-opener.
#booksky
The chapter on “Baron Corvo” is an eye-opener.
#booksky
September 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed Restless by William Boyd, an espionage thriller about the activities of the British Security Co-ordination office in New York in the 1940s, which deployed means fair and devious to coax the USA to join WWII.
A real page-turner. Robert Harris meets le Carré.
#booksky
A real page-turner. Robert Harris meets le Carré.
#booksky
September 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed Restless by William Boyd, an espionage thriller about the activities of the British Security Co-ordination office in New York in the 1940s, which deployed means fair and devious to coax the USA to join WWII.
A real page-turner. Robert Harris meets le Carré.
#booksky
A real page-turner. Robert Harris meets le Carré.
#booksky
You should watch this in preparation
August 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
You should watch this in preparation
I’d give it ten minutes if I were you.
August 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I’d give it ten minutes if I were you.
Very much enjoyed this, a romp through the history of mathematics and how it underpins the modern world. Quite a few equations but don’t let that put you off.
Michael Brooks: The Art Of More.
Michael Brooks: The Art Of More.
August 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Very much enjoyed this, a romp through the history of mathematics and how it underpins the modern world. Quite a few equations but don’t let that put you off.
Michael Brooks: The Art Of More.
Michael Brooks: The Art Of More.
Enjoyed The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wasteland by Sarah Brooks. The tale of an armoured train traversing an increasingly bewildering landscape. Agatha Christie meets Jeff VanderMeer, with a whiff of Lovecraft.
#booksky
#booksky
August 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Enjoyed The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wasteland by Sarah Brooks. The tale of an armoured train traversing an increasingly bewildering landscape. Agatha Christie meets Jeff VanderMeer, with a whiff of Lovecraft.
#booksky
#booksky
I mostly enjoyed A City On Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. Perhaps the nerd humour started to drag a little but the arguments were sound. A bracing antidote to the shallow, boosterish techno-optimism of the fascist-adjacent billionaire-bro space groupies.
May 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I mostly enjoyed A City On Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. Perhaps the nerd humour started to drag a little but the arguments were sound. A bracing antidote to the shallow, boosterish techno-optimism of the fascist-adjacent billionaire-bro space groupies.
This was a terrific read, about a particularly rambunctious period of English history, when we could have gone in any direction, politically-speaking, from absolute monarchy to proto-communism and anything in between.
💙📚 #booksky
💙📚 #booksky
May 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This was a terrific read, about a particularly rambunctious period of English history, when we could have gone in any direction, politically-speaking, from absolute monarchy to proto-communism and anything in between.
💙📚 #booksky
💙📚 #booksky
💙📚 An enjoyable read about one of humanity’s favourite things: borders. The world would probably be a better place if the British had been forbidden rulers. #booksky
May 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
💙📚 An enjoyable read about one of humanity’s favourite things: borders. The world would probably be a better place if the British had been forbidden rulers. #booksky
April 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
1066 has a lot to answer for. Infuriating, informative and inspiring, Guy Shrubsole’s book about land ownership in the UK skewers the pretensions of the self-declared stewards of the countryside and charts a path for us plebs to take back control. #booksky
March 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
1066 has a lot to answer for. Infuriating, informative and inspiring, Guy Shrubsole’s book about land ownership in the UK skewers the pretensions of the self-declared stewards of the countryside and charts a path for us plebs to take back control. #booksky
Class. Well played, Starmer.
March 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Class. Well played, Starmer.
February 28, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The “CR” stands for Christopher Robin. Not many people know that.
February 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The “CR” stands for Christopher Robin. Not many people know that.
The End of The World? LOL, that couldn’t happen!
This was good. Everything Must Go by the excellent Dorian Lynskey. A tour of some of the different ways that different times have imagined the end of the world. Pertinent.
#booksky.
This was good. Everything Must Go by the excellent Dorian Lynskey. A tour of some of the different ways that different times have imagined the end of the world. Pertinent.
#booksky.
February 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The End of The World? LOL, that couldn’t happen!
This was good. Everything Must Go by the excellent Dorian Lynskey. A tour of some of the different ways that different times have imagined the end of the world. Pertinent.
#booksky.
This was good. Everything Must Go by the excellent Dorian Lynskey. A tour of some of the different ways that different times have imagined the end of the world. Pertinent.
#booksky.
A thought-provoking read. Steven Mithen synthesises the evidence, palaelogical, anthropological, zoological, anatomical, neurological, linguistic and genetic, to show how, why and when our species lost the ability to ever shut the hell up.
February 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
A thought-provoking read. Steven Mithen synthesises the evidence, palaelogical, anthropological, zoological, anatomical, neurological, linguistic and genetic, to show how, why and when our species lost the ability to ever shut the hell up.
There is a crumb of comfort to be had from the fact that the scumbags in charge are also, by and large, utter berks.
February 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
There is a crumb of comfort to be had from the fact that the scumbags in charge are also, by and large, utter berks.
Stop this madness!
February 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Stop this madness!