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May 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Thank you and go well, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.
#AfricanLiterature
May 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Leonard Cohen on Moonlight - Blank on Blank
A lost interview with the iconic musician and poet from 1974. Hear Cohen read a mysterious poem and wander through the experiences that shaped his work.
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February 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Either you do something properly, or don't so it at all. This is how people get killed and at the end of the day, those who make the ultimate decision to deploy do not take responsibility, just platitudes.
January 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Literary Magazines on Bluesky.

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January 22, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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From “Crow’s Account of Battle” by Ted Hughes.
1972.
October 8, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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A recent New Scientist cartoon:
A science lecture. A scientist stands on a stage holding a pointer and gesturing to a slide depicting the earth on fire. In the audience one member turns to another amd says “I prefer her earlier, funnier theories”.
September 23, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,345,537!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,345,537, Sean ‪@seanro.bsky.social‬, joined on Dec 4, 2023"
September 22, 2024 at 6:24 AM
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June 2, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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June 2, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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‘Some exciting new literary genres’
My latest Guardian Books cartoon.
Title: Some exciting new literary genres 1. Romantasy. A warrior says to a goblin prince “I love you but I must slay the dragon who ate my father!” 2. Gothicookery. A vampire in a kitchen says “Step one: slice an onion by the light of a full moon” 3. Dystopiano music. A figure in a hazmat units sits at a piano in a blasted wasteland playing Beethoven’s pastoral symphony. 4. Whodunnitalian phrasebook. A detective stands by a corpse and says “Assassinato! In una stanza chiusa a chiave!” 5. Sci-Finance. A robot says to a bounty hunter “Our shares in the evil galactic empire are up ten percent!”
April 13, 2024 at 9:57 AM
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March 7, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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“I’m disillusioned, empty-breasted.
For what I think, I’d be arrested.
I am not sick, I am not well.
My quondam dreams are shot to hell.
My soul is crushed, my spirit sore;
I do not like me any more.”
- From Dorothy Parker’s Symptom Recital
January 27, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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A recent cartoon for New Scientist.
#art #science
The image: Two scientists look on as a robot messily paints a canvas. The robot says “My practice both radically questions and steadfastly reaffirms the viewer's inherent non-spatial hierarchies by expansively recontextualising liminal narratives.” The caption: “ArtBot 2.0 still can't make good art, but its facility for bewildering explanations has improved exponentially.”
January 22, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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Nick Cave Sings "A Rainy Night in Soho" at Shane MacGowan's Funeral

"I sang you all my sorrows
You told me all your joys"

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Nick Cave performing A Rainy Night in Soho at the funeral of Shane MacGowan
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December 8, 2023 at 8:52 PM