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late entry but i think this might be the absolute worst critical take of 2025, from a professed advocate for "close reading" no less

this, by @qntm.org, is probably the best new science-fiction novel i have read since The Three-Body Problem. Had to stay up to read it in one sitting 🤘🏻qntm.org

here i am in the Graun on VAMPIRES www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: Wrap up, settle down Now Playing Steven Poole Hymn

BBC Radio 3 Unwind Soundwaves: Find escape in Winter harmonies Now Playing Steven Poole Shadowlight

For balance, I am duty-bound to include this actual certified banger of a joke from Mark Drayford from that same conference.

kids these days would simply not believe that, once upon a time, you could see John Carey, Tom Paulin, and Germaine Greer seriously discussing books on BBC television. RIP 🖤🤘🏻

i love the smell of a class-action lawsuit in the morning

i feel like people are not mocking Mark Zuckerberg sufficiently for the fact that he renamed his entire company "Meta" to concentrate on building the "metaverse", and then only a couple of years later realized no one wanted to live in his bad videogame without legs and just abandoned the whole idea

BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: Drift off with this sleep-inducing soundtrack Now Playing Steven Poole Cloudhunting

that is a great title. "Ah shit, not this again"

Excited to announce that my second manuscript, “Fossilised Melanosomes Reveal Colour Patterning in A Sauropod Dinosaur” has been published in @royalsociety.org !! Diplodocus scales are complex and diverse, and it turns out their color patterning was even more so. A 🧵🦕 1/26

BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: Nod off with this relaxing soundtrack Now Playing Steven Poole Everything In Time

why isn't the government spending public money to prop up a failing business model used by 0.5% of the population 😡 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

to be fair, i did finish it and almost all of it is not by Greta Thunberg anyway

Petit Ecolier Chocolat Noir Lu Petit Beurre Choco Leibniz Dark Rich Tea Finger Cream Ginger Nut

The Liz Truss Show review – hapless ravings from a cupboard

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wrapped for artists 🎹🤘🏻

here i am in @wsj.com on the amazing world of undersea cables www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

but in what sense is American Canto really or actually a canto? in this essay i will, nah fuck it

time to renew my plea to fellow book reviewers: do not call a book "unforgettable" unless you have spent at least 10 years trying to forget it

still nothing huh

I'm old enough to remember when Chris Mason used to be wheeled on as comic relief on PM under Eddie Mair, and here we are

COMING SOON: AI + Guy™

it's Your Party and I'll cry if I want to

life hack: get good writing printed out on nice paper and delivered to your letterbox on a regular basis

BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: Hunker down and drift away Now Playing Steven Poole You Will Walk Where Others Fear To

life hack: get good writing printed out on nice paper and delivered to your letterbox on a regular basis

Fantastic news!

no one?

i don't think that keeping the freeze on fuel duty while introducing a new tax aimed only at EVs is a good idea; change my mind

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

the real scandal is that this doofus was invited to give the Reith lectures in the first place www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

no one?

look, if we're determined to piss all over England's ancient liberties in the name of efficiency, then this is weak sauce. obviously we should henceforth have all criminal trials decided by AI chatbots www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

actually if you were into grunge you understood that "Come Together" was seminal

whatever happened about all those drones in American skies last year that Trump promised to tell everyone the truth about

Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer

here i am in the Graun on a life of Terry Jones www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

"to street" meaning (presumably) to be released (hit the streets) is a new verbing on me: love it

BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: Escape to an oasis of calm Now Playing Steven Poole Imperial Bedrooms

Gonna write some anti-etudes. Music that absolutely nobody learns anything from

I do appreciate the fact that the main character is a writer who hates her writing and herself, which is the most accurate possible depiction of being a writer.

BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: Drift off with this sleep-inducing soundtrack Now Playing Steven Poole Cloudhunting

i feel bad for the BBC, who now have to wonder whether they can ever do better as DG than a two-time failed Tory parliamentary candidate whose only expertise was in marketing

i see that people are now claiming that the theory of cognitive dissonance is false. But if that were true it would make me a fool for believing it all these years, and I don't think I'm a fool, so I'm going to go ahead and assume the attempted debunking is wrong