I repeat bsky.app/profile/derb...

Can’t stand this guy

It's another one of those irregular verbs, isn't it? I value my heritage; you trade on past glories; he hears ancestral voices prophesying war.

Fellowship opportunity for early career academics who can't work in the US anymore, do share: jobs.zeit.de/jobs/early-c...

he’s a ten but he’s a dog person

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Thinking today about how it is not only possible but common to believe two contradictory things, and also to act according to some secret third thing.

how do they define micro-penis?

Bill Hader on his cinephilia: ‘I went to sleepovers & people thought we were watching porn but we were watching Taxi Driver & I was studying the shots. I said ‘See? This is a subjective camera move’ No one else was interested.’ This is verrry relatable.

See also: the colleague who told me that when she worked for Crystal Cruises she had to respond to every customer request with “That would be my Crystal pleasure.”

am not allowed to put away the yoga mat as Ninotchka isn’t done focusing her drishti

I have a good friend that I’ve known forever who always gives me the feeling that I can do anything. Last night he said why don’t you write a screenplay and we’ll get it made

[googling] how do you write a book how book get written what is a chapter how write facts good

something something Mr Pastry

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

I'm grateful, because *despite* the best efforts of GB News and so many of their ilk in media and in power, Britain is still a fantastic place to live: overwhelmingly decent, generous and kind, respectful of people's personal space in a way that might signal distance...

did they just say that meritocracy is to blame for British culture changing “too quickly”? #radio4 #radio4today

…and James Bond, who did not die!’

reposting this for all my promising writer friends

my absolutely drop-dead gorgeous single friend’s comment on dating today

having seen a trailer, I wasn’t going to bother seeing this. This piece of writing is making me reconsider

would love to know the answer, too👇

according to my sister in law’s self diagnosis, my entire family (and hers) are neurodivergent

DOUGIE’S TUESDAY TIP Take a scliff (for that is what it is called) of the Christmas Terry’s dark chocolate Orange each time you open the fridge door, then carefully rebuild the foil structure within the box to leave no trace of the theft. Replace Orange once a week until Christmas.

Imagine praising a book in 2025 for being "sparse"? Look I enjoy sparse prose as much as the next, but we've been in a decades long Sparse Race of prose that you can increasingly just inhale like a delicate mousse and at some stage we will have to start making adjectives cool again

I’m giving an online talk on Thursday evening at 8pm (UK time) about Birds & Flight. It’s free to RSPB members but anyone can join for a donation. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-by-le...

I know it's a long shot but anybody know if there's an online copy of François Truffaut's review of “Rear Window” from Cahiers du Cinéma (April 1955)?

DYING SHOULD BE AS EASY AS FALLING OFF A LOG

I adopted Ninotchka on this day two years ago. here’s the most recent and the first ever photo of the little idiot

It’s Claude Rains’ birthday Do yourself a favour and watch James Whale’s The Invisible Man. The sfx still hold up admirably but the greatest special effect is Rains’ truly demented & disturbing performance as Jack Griffin, relying almost totally on that wonderful voice… youtu.be/KXMOURHEMpY?...

Any journalists interesting in covering/following can DM here or contact me at pdkmitchell at gmail dot com. The most recent BBC and ITV coverage is here (CW: violence, femicide, suicide): www.bbc.com/news/article... www.itv.com/news/tyne-te...

It’s the novels published just after literature stops being cool again I feel sorry for

me when the AI bubble bursts

not to brag but I was the original performative reader

me, taking relationship advice from @douglascheape.bsky.social

please, Mr. Potato Head was my father...

Watching Murders In the Rue Morgue (Robert Florey, 1932) and marvelling at the cute little ape letterhead on the writing paper of Dr. Mirakle (Bela Lugosi), Dr. Mirakle who is abducting women and injecting them with ape blood in order to create a mate for his murderous sideshow ape. Pre Code, yes.

Mamdani is going to impose Shakira law, where it will be a criminal offence for hips to lie

Watching Red River.

Blimey 😦 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

He did the monster mash

Actually, Mr. Potato Head was the name of the inventor

just saw an ad for an app that “helps my personal development“ by putting together a plan to go through “book summaries” using Blinkist every week. The books: Atomic Habits etc. Looking forward to becoming a better person by flash-reading AI summaries of books that should have been a blog post

men, what is stopping you from living like this

I go to the cinema for two hours and my entire timeline is Zohran slogans, what is wrong with you

saw this again tonight after a fair few years. I have never before been so moved by it

a man after my own heart 💜

This epistolary novel could have been an email