The Financial Times' Bryce Elder (@bryce.lol) wrote up a piece about my newsletter. www.ft.com/content/fce7...

Ok I am reading "Sleeping Murder", one of the Marple books right now and I am about 75% done. I just figured out the murderer I think... #booksky, we shall find out if I am right...

"The victim who is able to articulate the situation of a victim has ceased to become a victim: he or she becomes a threat." —James Baldwin

I want to screen this movie with a shadow cast

Word. I work to pay my own bills. How is it fair that Andrew gets to live in a mansion while a monarch takes care of him after what he's been accused of? This isn't a punishment, it looks like a PR move.

I dont want to ever hear the Hot Take that Rocky Horror is problematic because Frank arguably coerces Brad and Janet into sex. The man is a human eating murderer, and THATS why he's problematic??

Ive just played Magenta tonight in the Berlin shadow cast. Glad to hear @pzmyers.bsky.social is a fellow fan 🦇🦇🦇👾👾💃💃👯‍♀️

GET EM!! GO GET EM!!!

Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

@currentaffairs.bsky.social As a vegan I don't even suffer the moral conflict of participating in industrialized animal murder and I could barely get through this piece. Hard-hitting stuff www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-hor...

@vatsan16.bsky.social finally did it and had this come out today: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Kudos to him 🦭🦭🦭 and may there be more!!

Got 8 books from a friend who's moving and trying to get rid of his stash. I then went ahead and bought the book by @unlearnecon.bsky.social anyway. I am unstoppable.

@tiger-daniels.bsky.social your painting is done ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

@iwriteok.bsky.social I hope you do Ayn Rand on your podcast one day, I'd hear the hell out of that one.

Did Duerer draw himself more buff than he was? If he didn't I'd judge him.

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!

Looking chic Buddy @o77buddy.bsky.social!

Ghost Baby Clifford is here to announce that it is officially spooky season. Let the festivities commence.

Kermit always was my favourite Muppet. Taught me subtraction 💚

Finished "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams about working at Facebook. I've never felt more contempt and annoyance with a memoir author, though ofc nobody can be more disgusting than Zuck himself. OMG Facebook did something bad?! Says employee sent to Zika virus hotspot during pregnancy

WHATS HER NAME YOU STUPID HEADLINE?? WHAT?!

Chocolate cake is good with coffee, and I only drink coffee in the morning, therefore I had no choice but to have cake for breakfast?

Please tell me they're named Rod and Cone

I've listened to this new video by @shaunvids.bsky.social about twice through and keep playing it in the background. I needed someone to read that garbage-fire book and eviscerate it for me - thanks Shaun! I would also add:

video www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5...

VACCINES! CAUSE! ADULTS!!!! Science is real!!!!

Last year I made a friend called Pax who is very dear to me. This year I landed two more solid friendships with people called Max and Jax. Is this just like.. my thing now?

Authors will save the world.

@tiger-daniels.bsky.social Calvin and Hobbes painting coming along in exchange for your Holmes box...

The goodest and the bestest <3

Alternatives to recycling.

I've always been sceptical of 'sunlight is the best disinfectant', but I looked it up and apparently it is healthier to hang laundry outside. So maybe that is what we should do with fascists.

FINALLY!!!

Jail

I realise this is a shitpost but I gotta say, the monster who was yellow, handsome and had no bolts, is genuinely one of my favourite literary heroes of all time. Intensely tragic and sympathetic figure, its a study in scientific ethics, a dark Pygmalion inversion.

The goodest, most adorable dog 🥰 @o77buddy.bsky.social

They had no real clue that what they were making was going to embed so deeply into people's imaginations, hearts and lives. Good stories have the power to do this - and these films captured the power of Tolkien's world.

breakfastburritoe discovers empathy!

There was a random girl waiting for the same train I was taking and her hoodie spelled out in red cursive "My favourite colour is morally grey" and I honestly want to elope with her

Word. Why is it always dudebros anyway?

OMG OMG OMG

A visceral encounter with planned obsolescence today. My Dell laptop at work had slowed over the past 2 weeks to become unusable. I thought it was just "old", being about 3 years old. Nevertheless i had our IT guy check. 1/3

Finished.

I may be late to the party, but I've just discovered now that reading and social media use are cognitive enemies. You scroll more, you lose your ability to read. You read more, scrolling bores you quickly. #booksky, anybody else notice this?

I've just finished The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn because I want to read James. I now feel guilty, because I found the second half of Huck Finn SO. TEDIOUS. Have I failed as a literary human for not liking this classic? I'm supposed to like Mark Twain right?! #booksky

I read somewhere, if marriage benefited women, it would have been taken away from us by now.

🐶🤟Come on dad!🌞 I want to be first in the park. 🌳 Happy Thursday all. 💕☘️💚