Whitby is a town that understands that Whales are everything and everything is Whales

Recording new episodes of THE WHALE POD with our studio assistant and consultant Melville scholar John Brown

my cat is a horrible little toilet freak. a nasty little piss boy. a rotten old perv

Cartoon featuring Roger Scruton from the June 2019 issue of Viz. Scruton died about 7 months after it was published, but not as a result of it, as far as I know.

Seems a good day to remember that, in his book An Intelligent Person's Guide To Modern Culture, Hungary's favourite right-wing thinker Roger Scruton implied that the Pet Shop Boys made a 'minimal contribution' to their own records. They successfully sued him for libel. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/enterta...

Omg so many labour mps are about to be told to fuck off this is awesome

happy birthday to Big Sam Beckett, 120 years old today just as he was when he was born. here he is complaining to a friend about his arse and inadequate sympathy in the face of death and hardly writing and never getting published

Sure hope the ADL is feeling good about going out of their way to defend this guy against charges of antisemitism.

How's that going?

cheers, Tim Montgomerie's crying. nice one

And not ONE of you even thought to mention there was Beckett on BBC4 tonight?! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

citation needed

went to Whitby, hung out in a graveyard

correct actually

This is really cool, properly curious reporting - about the neighbourhood I live in and the ward I've been campaigning in. Turns out Muslims care about more than Gaza and white people want more than managed decline with extra racism on top! Who knew? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

There's been a systemic failure by legacy media to accurately evaluate (or even, especially with the NYT and UK media, overt participation in the promulgation of) the imagined, reactionary phantasms and fantasies of paranoid individuals over a private matter. Nobody needs to know what's in my pants

fucking beautiful

Viz 355

Yanis Variufakis is, I think, the perfect example of a person for whom you feel a huge hatred a d disappointment, but at the same time passionately want to dissociate yourself from about 99% of the people who also hate him

When Proust has writers block

On Thursday, the new issue of Viz will be on sale at the small pile of radioactive rubble that used to be your corner shop. I'm not sure how much it will cost - maybe a dented tin of corned beef, or you might have to have sex with the newsagent or something.

Again - Brits who are horrified by the actions of ICE in the US should pay attention to the cruelty and violence that their own government inflicts on immigrants here.

Italy celebrated the resurrection of Christ by making sure that innocent people continue to drown in their dozens and then threatening the samaritans trying to save them 71 people are still missing

The caverns of cocoa is what i call my bumhole

this was me and i was a bit pissed, my apologies to everyone but especially to my podcast co-host @leighsus.bsky.social and also the large angry fish Moby-Dick for Pynchoning him up

enjoying still being on the other website, where I got retweeted by the very normal podcast historian "Tom Holland" yesterday and have ever since been making the acquaintance of Very Online American Catholics

ah lads you're miles away

heartened, in these days of anomie and cultural desolation, to see that the wonderful ancient English easter tradition of the most privately-educated people imaginable publishing thinkpieces about how they go to church now, actually, and that's very interesting! is still going strong

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

quoting @egnlafleur.bsky.social, whose chat with us features in next week's episode: "Moby-Dick is a book about looking at burly guys"

alright who wants to see me loom a bit / get my strut on on Pakistani cable news

Amazing stuff here about sperm whale births. Important lessons: - baby sperm whales are wriggly little guys with their flukes all bent up from being inside their mams - in the wild sperm whales are called stuff like Rounder and Allan and Fruit Salad www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

'Discrimination': Noun: "the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people". This Labour government should be ashamed.

Can we get an apology from professional loser Matt Goodwin and every single member of the UK commentariat that followed his briefing that pushed the unevidenced message that the Gorton and Denton by-election results were illegitimate?

we've all been there

I wrote a song inspired by a line from The Sphinx! Here's the link, although it'll be a better listen after you've read that chapter. jamesyoungman.bandcamp.com/album/truer-...

particularly unforgivable in a podcast comprised 50% of people who look like Phil and Grant Mitchell and are literally called Mitchell

You can just do Islamophobia on the cover of your magazine; it's so normalised now that you don't even have to worry

I'll keep running if you keep sponsoring. www.justgiving.com/page/richard...

CETACEAN NEEDED

We had some really cool feedback from people about our @thewhale1851.bsky.social episode on Ch 9: The Sermon, which explores the scriptural story of Jonah. It turns out this chapter means a lot to loads of people, as does Jonah - a book for prisoners, miners, exiles, people in the belly of the beast

If US troops operate from civilian areas, is it correct to say that they use civilians as human shields?

Fan mail! Sent to my writing course Silk Road Slippers email address and CCed to BBC Feedback, who I do hope send a thoughtful reply 🐉

you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils, because the boat is rocking like a cradle, and you are pitched one way and the other, without the slightest warning

we cannot always expect our parents to understand our choices

My grandfather worked at a Jewish restaurant in Golders Green for twenty years. When he was taken ill at work one day, this ambulance service rushed him to hospital. This is such a cowardly, immoral, hateful act.

Moby-Dick karass! The new Whale Pod episode is out, featuring a Melvillean digression about traditional Welsh poetry and a discussion of the famous CHOWDA chapter! Check it out here. 🐋https://bsky.app/profile/thewhale1851.bsky.social/post/3mhffgpsgac2v

A stove book.

Chuck Norris didn't "go nazi", nazi went him