Reading a bad book is like watching a poor fight. Instead of being caught up in it, you try to figure out what is the matter. —A. J. Liebling, “A Talkative Jerk”

Shakira vindo pro Brasil achando que vai fazer show, mas na verdade estão trazendo ela pra assumir o governo do estado do Rio de Janeiro.

Took younger daughter (who wants to be a paleontologist) to a lake near Peterborough last night. We found these Jurassic microfossils-teeny ammonites & crinoid ‘ossicles’-these little rock stars were part of the stems of crinoids/sea lilies-animals with 5 axes of symmetry related to sea urchins 🐚

#nowplaying Father Dionysios Tabakis - Paradise Metal devotional music from a long serving Greek Orthodox Priest on fretless electric guitar and DIY electronics. Dusty soundtrack vibes, distortion, Byzantine chant and drones. bizarre and brilliant. heatcrimes.bandcamp.com/album/paradi...

Ron Padgett and Joe Brainard working on the high school newspaper layout. All four wearing glasses back in the day when getting called "four-eyes" was a gratuitous part of being 💘

The very last person you would expect to be doing this.

This is terrific. share.google/OyQ2WXbLC3u4...

en écoutant Public Enemy

This now exists. Available soon, from all good bookshops. Available now on pre-order, from all good bookshops. @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

Just had a French conversation where I think I used "dont" correctly. Incredible scenes

I believe there is a similar (East Asian??) technique which means you can count to MUCH more than 10 on the fingers of two hands

OTHER WAY UP

Wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall during that plane ride home. Wouldn't mind being a fly, on a wall. Wouldn't mind being a fly tbh

bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus

Published May 12th.

This lovely poetic melody seems immediate. It is simple, surely. It must be. Ah, no. It is anything but. Like any poem worth its salt, it doesn’t give up its secrets easily. It demands rereading & meditation. It stays with us. It haunts us. For as long as we have breath, its meanings will multiply

Westron wynde when wyll thow blow the smalle rayne downe can Rayne Cryst yf my love were in my Armys And I yn my bed Agayne. I adore this medieval lyric. Is the voice a woman longing for an absent man, at war, at sea? If so, why is she not in her bed? Or is she but it feels incomplete? Is it a man👇

A song with lyrics by Rendel Harris! From his play, The Return of the Mayflower.

I find myself actively looking down on the inherent stupidity of people who believe in it too, which I suppose makes me an inverted snob. But I'm fairly comfortable with it.

Practically everyone who reads this post will be descended from a monarch and/or someone who fought in the crusades. The self-appointed upper classes think they're an elite. The truth is that they simply don't understand the nature of family trees and numbers.

Chant of the Soil Awful sound Keith on fire Jan on fire Palle phat Jon magnificently too loud Win

when you beefed years ago but still fave each other's posts

Josh O'Connor, on the incredible performance note he got from Steven Spielberg while shooting Disclosure Day apnews.com/article/disc...

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If you're waiting for me to blink, well ....

Dublin scholars find 1,200-year-old manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn composed by Northumbrian cattle herder www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Pick your fighter or something

Get a load of this guy

Full agreement

I really think you should google the origin of a phrase before you put it on your kitchen wall in neon cursive.

Currently listening to The Normative Family. Really upset me when they split up

This teacher argued that the difference was shown insofar as "God loves us, for he is good" is better than "God loves us, because he is good". Your God May Vary

Aprendizagem de desaprender A phrase I wrote down when I heard it at college in 1987. A great way to see things. If you click on this, an English translation (of sorts) is available. I recommend learning Portuguese instead. multipessoa.net/labirinto/al...

a hundred other shadowy things

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This is EXTREMELY sound advice...

wherever we may be - however far from the sea - the walls will take us to the water ..

Thomas Beecham listening to the playback of his talk on Delius - BOTD

I knew that the singular form "cherry" was backformed from the Old Northern French "cherise", but I had no idea that "cherise" came from a Latin plural that was reinterpreted as a singular!

"Nobody says Servalan's name in Blake's 7 Series A - it's always letters not numbers for Blake's 7 - the first person to say it is the Clonemaster in Weapon. And she says it wrong. Also there's no apostrophe in the logo so we should really call it Blakes 7. Can you hear the difference. No, listen."

J.G. Ballard, lost in the supermarket

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest the answer to this is "No."

All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life

Just turned in a flawless shift. The Stakhanov of bookselling

Maybe the justification for having a king is that we can fuck about like this

“Viking, North Utsire, South Utsire, Forties, Cromarty, Forth, Tyne, Dogger, Fisher, German Bight, Humber, Thames, Dover, Wight, Portland, Plymouth, Biscay, Trafalgar, FitzRoy, Sole, Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea, Shannon, Rockall, Malin, Hebrides, Bailey, Fair Isle, Faeroes, and Southeast Iceland.”