finally managed to record the mystery bird call, and: it’s a tawny owl! or so says the merlin app. given that’s what i suspected it’s at least made me a bit more confident

The Tomb of Böcklin Ferdinand Keller (1901)

Whale 16th–17th century, Chumash. California. (Met Museum)

Apply & share! @englishpen.bsky.social writing residencies for "writers currently based in England who identify as experiencing displacement – including (but not only) refugee writers, writers seeking asylum, and writers in exile." www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...

At LARB, they weren’t even allowed to discuss Gaza in editorial meetings. nobaddaysinla.substack.com/p/how-the-la...

Emerald Fennell think she Sofia Coppola, Sofia Coppola think she Francis Ford Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola think he the Hamburglar

Maksym Chernyak was Ukrainian and when he and his partner fled Kyiv they helped get other civilians across the border to safety, including a bunch of kids. he had a string of seizures in ICE detention and it took them 45 minutes to call 911. they just let him die

Oh, hell yeah! The new issue of ASAP journal has the first four chapters of an unpublished novel by Kathleen Collins! It's titled Blue Obstacles and is open access here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Glacier Bay Books is proud to announce we will publish in English Naoto Yamakawa's BASEMENT ATTIC short story collection. Fans may remember Yamakawa sensei's work "For Sleepless Nights" was collected in the first GLAEOLIA anthology, but this is the first complete English release of their work.

I am tired of this world-these people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.

Plastic Ski Lodge concept design by Kenji Ekuan (1962)

oh fuck

It could in fact be even higher since the study cannot account for the deaths of entire families, since it relies upon the collection of data from surviving familial members and nearly 12% of the Gaza Ministry of Health's numbers are from total familial destruction.

This new Lancet study would indicate that the death toll in Gaza is actually around 120,000 at minimum, if the undercount rate is similar since January 2025.

it just always feels like they must be so COMFY when they curl up like this. i am jealous

The pre-launch page for our Kickstarter for Orlando by @julesscheele.bsky.social is now up! This stunning adaptation of Virginia Woolf's classic novel will be funding in April, but you can sign up now so you don't miss it when it goes live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ave...

are they going to arrest mandelson too? actually surprised it started with andrew

CACKLING LIKE A WITCH

fucking hell, somehow wasn’t expecting that he’d ever actually be arrested

Illustration of peacock fountain, from a 14th-c edition of Al-Jazari’s Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices

yongyu chen’s debut poetry collection is out with nightboat in april and i cannot wait!!! thebaffler.com/poems/mouse-...

sometimes, emotionally, i just need to read a due south fanfiction where the boys make a little shelter out of snow and sleep there for the night

Stratford station for some reason have a Mildmay line going from one of the national rail platforms today. I presume because they hate me

there’s an event for the new chloe aridjis novel at the lrb bookshop in april — VERY excited www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chloe-arid...

Crucial - and generally totally overlooked part of this story - is *what* the journalists that Labour Together smeared were reporting on How Labour Together used £730k in illegal political donations to boot strap Keir Starmer’s political rise That’s why they were targeted

D1741.4 Magic powers fail because of lack of faith in them.

A *lot* of you follow the person this is about, despite her doing wild, Protocols-level antisemitism on main on Twitter.

My hot take is that successive governments refusing to fund councils properly and putting more and more responsibility on them at the same time is part of what drives voters to reform (obviously fascism and racism and xenophobia and sexism and homophobia and transphobia also all a big part of it)

in absolute awe of this terrible Peter Carey book cover

One of my favourite videos on the internet: youtu.be/GYLBjScgb7o?... (Still not watching Eurovision though)

Henry Shelford, chief executive of charity ADHD UK: it is "hateful and cruel how badly the overall NHS treats people with ADHD”.

Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way.

to sleep, but here’s sydney smith’s rhyming recipe for a vinaigrette “To make this condiment your poet begs The pounded yellow of two hard boiled eggs” www.theguardian.com/books/booksb...

ahhhh god i love to see it. truly love it. twenty years on!

the cat is sitting on my chest with her tail in my face

Sorry, but this is important. Anyone following what's transpiring in Germany (and most of us are), esp the official position of the German state & institutions, is definitely aware of severe reprimand for speaking up for Gaza. Why accept an invite to Berlinale in the first place? Walkout PR stint?

my new headphones are particularly quiet, so i have to turn them way up. which means my phone keeps yelling at me. leave me alone!!!! i am listening to a folk song about swans on the train!!!!

Absolutely right. Like Chris, I resent the framing that European governments are learning this from the US. It’s totally routine for hundreds of black African people to drown in the Mediterranean when trying to reach Europe. The EU, and its homegrown structural racism, enabled that all by itself.

You can find out more about the campaign here. It is supported by @amnestyuk.bsky.social @libertyhq.bsky.social @waronwant.bsky.social @pscupdates.bsky.social and others demanding an end to the Met's total resistance to accountability netpol.org/end-zero-acc...

@malachiwhitaker.bsky.social ooh hello! i believe malachi whitaker knew my great-grandfather, alec bristow

one of those nights when i need to sleep but my body is vibrating at the wrong frequency and sleep feels a million years away. why!!!!

I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

my copy of Ragged Band of Travellers: writing from the threshold of dungeons & dragons is here! I have a poem in this one about that mysterious figure, a fantasy of long, long life twice over — an elfin vampire.

had my first dream in a long time last night that i was back in the soul-crushing call centre job i worked at for about a year in 2016-2017. woke up and had to remind myself it was over

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

lovely Agnes has had her chin acne wiped today — the indignity! but here she is looking v pretty and regal

Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, the camera matrix-style swings 180 degrees making clear what kind of move I was trying to do]