Jenn
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Theory: cats can have ADHD too
October 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Theory: cats can have ADHD too
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We need more hosts like these two. Fucking hot 🔥. They didn’t let the senator blame game, they kept it 100.
"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"
Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social
Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc
Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social
Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc
October 15, 2025 at 4:21 AM
We need more hosts like these two. Fucking hot 🔥. They didn’t let the senator blame game, they kept it 100.
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I’m imagining the #NoKingsProtest, nationally, organizing this song as one gigantic flashmob. This, but everywhere:
youtu.be/rfUEstWJUkA?...
youtu.be/rfUEstWJUkA?...
The most INSANE Bohemian Rhapsody Flashmob you will ever see!!
YouTube video by Julien Cohen
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October 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I’m imagining the #NoKingsProtest, nationally, organizing this song as one gigantic flashmob. This, but everywhere:
youtu.be/rfUEstWJUkA?...
youtu.be/rfUEstWJUkA?...
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You know that thing people say about how computers can’t be held accountable so they shouldn’t make these kinds of decisions?
Yeah, I think that the person who provides this kind of thing should be held accountable.
Yeah, I think that the person who provides this kind of thing should be held accountable.
there are no words for how evil, craven & abhorrent this is
August 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
You know that thing people say about how computers can’t be held accountable so they shouldn’t make these kinds of decisions?
Yeah, I think that the person who provides this kind of thing should be held accountable.
Yeah, I think that the person who provides this kind of thing should be held accountable.
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'We can’t stop men from performing. At least let them audition.' Great piece by our @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social colleague @stoffelalex.bsky.social, interrogating the idea that 'most men are just fraudsters, cynically posing as well-intentioned to deceive women'.
Let ‘performative males’ be – gender has always been a performance and our need for authenticity is bad for us
The ‘good guy’ is a performance, and that’s OK.
theconversation.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:04 AM
'We can’t stop men from performing. At least let them audition.' Great piece by our @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social colleague @stoffelalex.bsky.social, interrogating the idea that 'most men are just fraudsters, cynically posing as well-intentioned to deceive women'.
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May I suggest this excellent Scott Sandage piece from Commonplace about his X-ray method and book-life balance. https://commonplace.online/article/how-to-read-a-book/
How to Read a Book: The X-Ray Method for Achieving a Sustainable “Book-Life Balance” - Commonplace
This is why you need a plan: to read attentively but efficiently, and sustainably, without surrendering your book-life balance.
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July 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
May I suggest this excellent Scott Sandage piece from Commonplace about his X-ray method and book-life balance. https://commonplace.online/article/how-to-read-a-book/
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They get too bogged down in the volume so over time I’ve assigned essays similar to this one by Paul Edwards, How to Read a Book: pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtorea... and we practice with one book.
pne.people.si.umich.edu
July 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
They get too bogged down in the volume so over time I’ve assigned essays similar to this one by Paul Edwards, How to Read a Book: pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtorea... and we practice with one book.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...
www.openculture.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
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If you don't already, watch Colbert. He is a man with no more f*cks left to give. And it's glorious.
Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
July 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
If you don't already, watch Colbert. He is a man with no more f*cks left to give. And it's glorious.
Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
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"Every language is a historical record, in a sense, of how people have behaved in the past and what concepts have been important to them."
fivebooks.com/best-books/l...
fivebooks.com/best-books/l...
Language and Post-Truth
The word 'post-truth' may only have entered the Oxford English Dictionary in the last decade, but the phenomenon it describes is much older and deeper, connected not so much to the latest internet…
fivebooks.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
"Every language is a historical record, in a sense, of how people have behaved in the past and what concepts have been important to them."
fivebooks.com/best-books/l...
fivebooks.com/best-books/l...
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Fascinating article about papal shenanigans from previous conclaves, via @theguardian.com #Conclave2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Fist fights, ghostly pranks and schism: a brief history of conclaves past
Selecting a new pope has always been an arduous process, but some conclaves seemed to suffer more than others
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Fascinating article about papal shenanigans from previous conclaves, via @theguardian.com #Conclave2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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At least one of us was talking about it 10 years ago: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an... But this is just another example of how mainstream discourse ignores so many important issues.
The degradation of middle-class work
Back in 1987 my first boss in investment banking used to say that if he got into the office before nine o'clock he had to switch the lights on. This 1964 BBC programme about stockbrokers shows he had ...
stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
At least one of us was talking about it 10 years ago: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an... But this is just another example of how mainstream discourse ignores so many important issues.
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I realise no-one asked me but I personally found Orlando Figes' The Story Of Russia incredibly illuminating when I read it last year, put a lot of Putin's actions into perspective
New post just out
Ten books to help understand the world we're now in.
Five recommendations on the US/Trump/Musk and five on Europe and the rest of the world.
(This one is free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
Ten books to help understand the world we're now in.
Five recommendations on the US/Trump/Musk and five on Europe and the rest of the world.
(This one is free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
Ten books to understand the world we're now in
Trump’s second term is on track to be more damaging than his first.
open.substack.com
March 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I realise no-one asked me but I personally found Orlando Figes' The Story Of Russia incredibly illuminating when I read it last year, put a lot of Putin's actions into perspective
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Which book sold 27,000 copies in 30 mins? Which was "a pure pig to write"? Who started planning how to spend the money - then didn't win? Who deemed his own books "pompously moralistic"? What judge called the prize "crooked nonsense"?
My look back at @thebookerprizes.bsky.social in the 1990s:
My look back at @thebookerprizes.bsky.social in the 1990s:
The Booker Prize in the 1990s: 10 novels that are well worth revisiting | The Booker Prizes
The last decade of the 20th century saw A.S. Byatt, Roddy Doyle and J.M. Coetzee win the Booker, but there are many other shortlisted titles that modern readers should seek out
thebookerprizes.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Which book sold 27,000 copies in 30 mins? Which was "a pure pig to write"? Who started planning how to spend the money - then didn't win? Who deemed his own books "pompously moralistic"? What judge called the prize "crooked nonsense"?
My look back at @thebookerprizes.bsky.social in the 1990s:
My look back at @thebookerprizes.bsky.social in the 1990s:
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I have three reviews to go for the Obs but today, after 180 of them, is my last column for OFM. So I thought I’d summarise my searing advice from the last 15 years: the wisdom, the provocations and the occasional stupidities. Enjoy. Or grind your teeth. Your call
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...
This is my final OFM column. Here’s what I’ve learned about buffets, ‘clean eating’ and what not to serve food on | Jay Rayner
Much has changed in the food world but there are a few truths that still hold
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I have three reviews to go for the Obs but today, after 180 of them, is my last column for OFM. So I thought I’d summarise my searing advice from the last 15 years: the wisdom, the provocations and the occasional stupidities. Enjoy. Or grind your teeth. Your call
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...
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Some heroes wear 🏈helmets. Former MN Viking Chris Kluwe shows🇺🇸 what resisting anti-democratic forces looks like w/this simple, but powerful act of CD.
"MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy &…explicitly a Nazi mvmt…U may have replaced swastikas w/red hats, but that's what it is.”
"MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy &…explicitly a Nazi mvmt…U may have replaced swastikas w/red hats, but that's what it is.”
February 20, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Some heroes wear 🏈helmets. Former MN Viking Chris Kluwe shows🇺🇸 what resisting anti-democratic forces looks like w/this simple, but powerful act of CD.
"MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy &…explicitly a Nazi mvmt…U may have replaced swastikas w/red hats, but that's what it is.”
"MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy &…explicitly a Nazi mvmt…U may have replaced swastikas w/red hats, but that's what it is.”
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Lots of good stuff in the @newyorker.com 100th anniversary issue. But this Lawrence Wright story is on another level. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance.
www.newyorker.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Lots of good stuff in the @newyorker.com 100th anniversary issue. But this Lawrence Wright story is on another level. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Right, social media site.
Today is the day that the lovely people at @picadorbooks.bsky.social reveal the cover for my first crime thriller, The Cut Throat Trial.
So here it is. And I think it’s rather splendid.
If anybody wishes to preorder, links are below.
bio.to/7zNmPU
Eek.
Today is the day that the lovely people at @picadorbooks.bsky.social reveal the cover for my first crime thriller, The Cut Throat Trial.
So here it is. And I think it’s rather splendid.
If anybody wishes to preorder, links are below.
bio.to/7zNmPU
Eek.
February 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Right, social media site.
Today is the day that the lovely people at @picadorbooks.bsky.social reveal the cover for my first crime thriller, The Cut Throat Trial.
So here it is. And I think it’s rather splendid.
If anybody wishes to preorder, links are below.
bio.to/7zNmPU
Eek.
Today is the day that the lovely people at @picadorbooks.bsky.social reveal the cover for my first crime thriller, The Cut Throat Trial.
So here it is. And I think it’s rather splendid.
If anybody wishes to preorder, links are below.
bio.to/7zNmPU
Eek.
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James Bond won’t die on my watch, says Austrian who wants ownership of 007
James Bond won’t die on my watch, says Austrian who wants ownership of 007
Exclusive: Property developer making trademark challenge claims the spy franchise is in mortal danger
“James Bond will not die on our watch,” the businessman challenging the ownership of the rights to 007’s name has said, claiming he is motivated by…
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
James Bond won’t die on my watch, says Austrian who wants ownership of 007
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A single word can be a lie. For example, journalists are still calling what Musk and his child army have been doing an operation in pursuit of government efficiency.... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/to-use-their...
To Use Their Language Is to Endorse Their Lies
Every crisis is in part a storytelling crisis, and the current one here in the US is also a language crisis. How we use the language and how we listen for lies that are in single words and phrases as ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
February 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A single word can be a lie. For example, journalists are still calling what Musk and his child army have been doing an operation in pursuit of government efficiency.... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/to-use-their...
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Dia duit 👋 The #IrishBookAwards are now here on Bluesky, bringing you Ireland's biggest celebration of Irish books and authors. Follow along 🎉
February 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Dia duit 👋 The #IrishBookAwards are now here on Bluesky, bringing you Ireland's biggest celebration of Irish books and authors. Follow along 🎉
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On attempting to dissuade our son from blasphemy, even though he's more religious than both his parents.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
When it comes to our son’s blaspheming, only divine intervention will help | Séamas O’Reilly
We can’t tell him not to shout ‘Jesus Christ!’ just because it’s rude, writes Séamas O’Reilly
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
On attempting to dissuade our son from blasphemy, even though he's more religious than both his parents.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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For the full binge watch, the NYT gutted the sealed court docs from the secret Nevada trust fight www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/m...
Inside the Murdochs’ Succession Drama (Gift Article)
More than 3,000 pages of documents reveal how years of betrayals led to a messy court battle that threatens the future of Rupert’s empire.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
For the full binge watch, the NYT gutted the sealed court docs from the secret Nevada trust fight www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/m...