Ira Lightman
@iralightman.bsky.social
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December 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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The price of five gold rings has gone galactic
December 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The price of five gold rings has gone galactic
Tis the season to
read all the update's sentence
and not be tribal
read all the update's sentence
and not be tribal
December 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Tis the season to
read all the update's sentence
and not be tribal
read all the update's sentence
and not be tribal
Leave voters tied our hands for decades, and threw away all our rebates. The Tories and Reform steal from the poor. Labour are anti-corruption and are moving the Overton window. The "Get Starmer out" people may win one more of their governments by tantrum but not the argument. They haven't got one.
December 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Leave voters tied our hands for decades, and threw away all our rebates. The Tories and Reform steal from the poor. Labour are anti-corruption and are moving the Overton window. The "Get Starmer out" people may win one more of their governments by tantrum but not the argument. They haven't got one.
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All words containing 'z' in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, in order of occurrence. All mentions of 'Ebenezer' picked out in black.
December 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
All words containing 'z' in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, in order of occurrence. All mentions of 'Ebenezer' picked out in black.
Dieses vor allem: fragen Sie sich in der stillsten Stunde Ihrer Nacht: habe ich gestern zu viel Kaffee getrunken?
December 22, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Dieses vor allem: fragen Sie sich in der stillsten Stunde Ihrer Nacht: habe ich gestern zu viel Kaffee getrunken?
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Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
December 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
Why send your poems out and why self-publish?
December 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Why send your poems out and why self-publish?
What a massively touchy thing to do when you've wronged the art of Julia Margaret Cameron.
December 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
What a massively touchy thing to do when you've wronged the art of Julia Margaret Cameron.
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John Carey RIP. Everyone should read his books on Dickens and Donne and the Faber Book of Reportage. Vary rarely a dull review...
John Carey obituary: literary critic
Witty, eclectic and sometimes scathing scholar and reviewer who held sacred cows in little respect dies aged 91
www.thetimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
John Carey RIP. Everyone should read his books on Dickens and Donne and the Faber Book of Reportage. Vary rarely a dull review...
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
