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runeberg.bsky.social
no I don't think that's what a politician is actually
"A politician's greatest trick is to convince you that he is not one," Nuzzi writes in her book. "And what is a politician? Any man who wants to be loved more than other men and through his pursuit reveals why he cannot love himself."
November 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
runeberg.bsky.social
this is particularly brutal
After they finish filming, however, Frances announces that she intends to marry a "day laborer" back in her native North Carolina. This is a bit surprising, as Frances, who is an heiress, also sugar babies, but apparently she has decided to become trad, as is made amply clear in a lengthy wedding scene which includes no church service but a Springbreakers-esque montage of Confederate bikinis, AK-47s, and similes like "They tucked dip into their upper lips like a sacrament." Frances remains; Avery returns to her life in New York, which consists of two things: slightly masochistic sex with older men and attempts to write. From here comes her own Flat Earth: "The players in the downtown art scene weren't so different from the flat-earthers in flyover country—we each thought we had some unique insight into the way the world works, but in reality, we were all part of one big consensus machine, downstream from everything." Indeed, virtually every conversation in the book is borrowed from a familiar word bank of half-remembered Twitter theories (5G, receipt paper, vim retention) and shallow references to publishing (everyone wants to publish "a book" and "be a writer," Avery included). At other times, though, the narrator falls into more tired recitations that seem more curated for the market than in criticism of it: "It's true that I have a technically perfect body, but I'm hopeless at sex and secretly conservative", "I found an old photo of my body. I looked fertile, ready"; "I had a perfect hourglass figure." The chapters of the book are each separated by a few pages of a kind of non-narrative block of Twitter speak, much of it anti-feminist ("Gynocracy has failed, and everyone agrees that we are moving toward a masculine vision of America"; "We try to temper the feeling that we would rather be folding a man's laundry than reading a book"; "When surveyed, all of us say we prefer to stay home and wash dishes.") I lost track of how many times the word fertile appeared; likewise for the word feral. Around half a dozen times, Avery says she wants a baby; wants a ring. And yet at other times, Avery comes out with rather leaden declarations of feminism such as "Why was I always seeking permanence in places where women are disposable? Like galleries." Perhaps this is all a joke-but does
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
runeberg.bsky.social
visiting home for a few days. time to pay tribute to a cherished local institution
Orlando's B&B but definitely not a restaurant
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
runeberg.bsky.social
obviously that's sort of bound up with the noble lie point too. I am ""proud" that my Norwich Quaker great-great-whatevers were surely involved in abolition campaigning, but I'm also proud that today this pro-social version of history is important in my hometown, bc that says things abt the present
Slavery The early slave trade had been conducted mainly by the Dutch and Portuguese, but by the early 18th century Britain had become the largest slaving nation. Labour by enslaved people upheld the highly lucrative trades in sugar and tobacco in the American and Caribbean colonies. Prolonged campaigns gradually raised awareness of the need for abolition. In 1807 parliament prohibited the carrying of enslaved people in any British ship and their import into any British colony. By degrees the trade was abolished worldwide over the early-mid years of the 19th century. It was not a quick or easy process, and was resisted by some. Norwich supported the Abolition campaign, boycotting slave-produced sugar and publishing an edition of the autobiography of the famous African Olaudah Equiano, who visited the city in the 1790s. During the 1760s Norwich was home to another African, James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw. His important autobiography was the first by a freed slave published in English, though no image of him exists. He came to Norwich with his family. His English wife Betty, a weaver from Spitalfields, found work in the textile trade.
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
runeberg.bsky.social
@footballcliches.bsky.social is this the most Champions League Interview Speak line ever to be seen in international football? "I am very humble about the assignment, but also inspired." is pure Luka-Modrić-ahead-of-second-leg-against-Bayer-Leverkusen
Graham Potter quote
October 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
runeberg.bsky.social
Halloween in January
October 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
runeberg.bsky.social
Sébastien Lecornu returning to the French government:
the "what have we learned Palmer" bit from Burn After Reading
October 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
runeberg.bsky.social
the French livebloggers are getting existential
YOUR QUESTIONS Do you continue the liveblog until the eventual nomination of a PM? When do you pack it in? - Basto Yes, we stay here, with you. YOUR QUESTIONS No PM this evening? - DS It's not looking good for a PM this evening, right? - DZ Like you, we wait.
October 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
runeberg.bsky.social
this is the current table for a major rugby competition. it looks like a terrible terrible joke
October 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
runeberg.bsky.social
terrible news for france- their columnists are getting away with "the dictionary defines <<word>> as...,"
screenshot from Le Monde
October 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
runeberg.bsky.social
if only there were some middle ground between these two options
absolutely deranged tweet
October 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
runeberg.bsky.social
the fetishisation of it may partially be because it's a fetish, yes
FT piece here https://on.ft.com/42fSaIH The ‘tradwife’ fantasy FT piece here https://on.ft.com/42fSaIH The ‘tradwife’ fantasy
September 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
runeberg.bsky.social
also a sex thing tho isn't it
From this : https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n16/emily-witt/do-you-feel-like-a-failure
September 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
runeberg.bsky.social
somewhat poetic quality to "a reasonably turbulent place"
Andy Burnham quotes
September 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
runeberg.bsky.social
commemorative reposting
Hello. In 1751 the Bishop of Funchal published a tract on the theological implications of differential calculus. It was hardly read at the time and scarcely more so since. With me to discuss it are Sarah Aston, Professor of Comparative Studies at University College London; Tom Boffin, Senior Research Fellow in Researching Senior Fellows at St Clive's College Oxford; and Paul Cartledge, for some reason. Tom: what the fuck is going on here. answer me you fucking prick
September 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
runeberg.bsky.social
Mental Health, Regional Youth and Women would be a beautiful name for a baby state-of-the-nation novel
NSW government composition 2021
September 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
runeberg.bsky.social
like it's not just me, right, there is a difference between these things. shutting fingers in a car door is in fact not the same as absconding from social services and killing your child
same piece
August 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
runeberg.bsky.social
I don't think this is load-bearing for Wills' argument but I'd like to note that this strikes me as outrageously capricious and unthinking. You're capable of detecting domestic abuse based on hug analysis from across a courtroom, are you?
Another LRB screenshot
August 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM
runeberg.bsky.social
this paragraph seems to imply something of a tension between these two possibilities, as if "socially unacceptable" is a lesser category than "big ol crime". but of course ... that's what a crime is? something we've deemed socially unacceptable?
LRB screenshot (Clair Wills, The Price of Safety)
August 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
runeberg.bsky.social
thanks for that ft
"The two reactors are, apart from some differences, identical"
August 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
runeberg.bsky.social
MJ Lenderman ....... one hell of a show
mj lenderman at the roundhouse mj lenderman at the roundhouse
August 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
runeberg.bsky.social
Tintagel Castle before they bowed to woke and put in a bridge which isn't fucking terrifying:
if by “one” you a mean “a rickety suspension bridge hanging precariously above a raging rock-toothed torrent” then yeah i guess you could say i’m “on one”
August 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
runeberg.bsky.social
yeah meet you up st gregorys back alley
st gregorys back alley
August 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
runeberg.bsky.social
what happens to your brain when you become mayor of new york
Bill de Blasio NYT open relationship article Bill de Blasio article screenshot
August 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
runeberg.bsky.social
initially I wasn't quite sure about the prose elevating it beyond "great thriller", since it begins well but trying very hard, and then I got to this bit and was totally totally sold
John Le Carré excerpt
August 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM