Steven Poole
@stevenpoole.bsky.social
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writer / composer | WSJ, Guardian, Telegraph, Amazon, Spotify, BBC
https://stevenpoole.net
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my new album, MUSIC FOR SLEEPING CATS, is out today
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Music for Sleeping Cats by Steven Poole
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.
https://album.link/musicforsleepingcats
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Tony Thorne
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In my glossary of
#weaponised
words I collect slurs, lies and avoidances used particularly by politicians and mainstream media, also key terms deployed in bad faith to whitewash or exculpate. Nigel Farage’s behaviour in latest interviews was described as ‘testy’.
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this is the happiest day of Chris Mason's life
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BBC Radio 3 Unwind Now Playing Bot (Unofficial)
14 days ago
BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: Restful waves on the sea of tranquility Now Playing Steven Poole Softer Snows
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i do think a "professional foul" to shut down a breakaway where you literally put your arm around the other guy's neck to stop him should be a straight red card
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here i am in the Graun on UTOPIA
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
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The Uses of Utopia by Joad Raymond Wren review – can the ideal society ever exist?
This fascinating intellectual history takes us from Thomas More to Ursula K Le Guin
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/16/the-uses-of-utopia-by-joad-raymond-wren-review-can-the-ideal-society-ever-exist
11 days ago
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anyone who thinks "AI" is "incredibly valuable" for their writing is ipso facto a terrible writer and a terrible reader
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about 1 month ago
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surely the book that almost no one is able to finish is Finnegans Wake not Ulysses
about 1 month ago
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Rob Palk
about 1 month ago
Most of the letters: "Even as an avid reader, I was dismayed to see your list featured Ulysses & Proust which only pointyheaded wankers & poofs pretend to read. Couldn't the Guardian have given the Best Novel prize to something everyone enjoys, like a nice pint or a packet of cheese & onion crisps"
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awesome nerdery here
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about 1 month ago
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David Benedict
about 1 month ago
There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.
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this might be true if the public had always religiously consumed the output of journalists-who-do-their-job-properly, which of course they haven't and don't and never will
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about 1 month ago
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here i am in the Graun on SHAKESPEARE
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
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If This Be Magic by Daniel Hahn review – how on earth do you translate Shakespeare?
Is Hamlet still Hamlet when every word has changed? A superbly diverting book about language and creativity
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/19/if-this-be-magic-by-daniel-hahn-review-how-on-earth-do-you-translate-shakespeare
about 1 month ago
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we've got Cesc Fabregas
about 1 month ago
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so 61% of members would like Starmer to stay on at least for a couple of years, but nearly the same number would vote for Burnham over him 🤷🏻♂️
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about 1 month ago
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Moldova, UK or Sweden ftw
about 1 month ago
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France: c'est un peu too much
about 1 month ago
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Rob Palk
about 1 month ago
Pick a Bond from the photos you already have in your phone.
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Barney Ronay
about 1 month ago
Why do people hate Arsenal?
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Do people actually hate Arsenal? Yes, they do. The real question is why? | Barney Ronay
Mikel Arteta’s side will be deeply unpopular champions, but this probably says more about us than it does about them
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/may/16/do-people-actually-hate-arsenal-yes-they-do-the-real-question-is-why
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oh no, how can the country possibly carry on without three ministerial aides
about 2 months ago
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Anne Robbins
about 2 months ago
A web page just told me everything it learned about me without asking. It knew my city, my device, my GPU, and how long I hesitated before scrolling.
sinceyouarrived.world/taken
Thank you,
@levparikian.bsky.social
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taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken
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i mean, ok some random freelance book reviewer, but why would an actual staffer for the NYT also be so fucking lazy and dumb
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about 2 months ago
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turns out VAR is awesome
about 2 months ago
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if the Labour Party were bursting with young talent on the intellectual level of Gordon Brown, then the appointment of the latter would seem strange; very obviously, however, the Labour Party is not bursting with young talent on the intellectual level of Gordon Brown
about 2 months ago
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here i am in the WSJ on RANSOMWARE
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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‘Dark Screens’ Review: Encryption Enrichment
Most early ransomware originated in Russia, where young computer programmers lacked the opportunities of their peers in Silicon Valley.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/dark-screens-review-encryption-enrichment-b37f34ed
about 2 months ago
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Dan Davies
about 2 months ago
Me (Everton sufferer) to the kids (arsenal fans) on the family WhatsApp group
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Colin Smith
about 2 months ago
Foyles book shop in the evening rain, Charing Cross Road, London, c. 1935, by the great Wolfgang Suschitzky.
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Will Wiles
about 2 months ago
(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello
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Chris Dillow
about 2 months ago
New substack: Westminster politics is something which no intelligent person can look upon with anything other than revulsion.
chrisdillow.substack.com/p/the-stupid...
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The stupidity of politics
No sane person would run a household or business with the lack of thinking that the government devotes to its affairs.
https://chrisdillow.substack.com/p/the-stupidity-of-politics
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a treat: the great
@ryangilbey.bsky.social
on Al Pacino
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...
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Say hello to my little compendium! Al Pacino films – ranked
As the actor turns 86, we rate his greatest screen performances and ask which Godfather was the best of the trilogy
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/apr/30/al-pacino-films-ranked
about 2 months ago
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They who stay quiet in the void
about 2 months ago
*Cyprus hill voice* In Seine from the bus lane
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James Ball
about 2 months ago
Hot take into the void: "ultra-processed food" is basically the antivaxx conspiracy theory for people who think they're far too well informed to get hooked into anything like antivaxx.
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Peter
2 months ago
has the new york times ever thought about doing a focus group with someone who has read a book
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Brian Davey
2 months ago
J. H. Prynne wrote a guide to reading works of literature for Cambridge students. This was the postscript:
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R.I.P. the great J.H. Prynne 🖤
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i read a novel and it was good (and particularly amusing for those who have been in or around the TLS over the years)
2 months ago
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Keith Stuart
2 months ago
Hi I wrote about the making of classic platformerChuckie Egg and talked to its creator Nigel Alderton. Please give it a read as I want to show there’s an audience for this gaming history stuff 🙏
www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...
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‘People still remember it 40 years later’: the making of Chuckie Egg
The iconic game that came to define 8-bit programming still conjures flutters of nostalgia 40 years on – all thanks to a 15-year-old tea boy who worked a Saturday shift in a computer shop in Greater M...
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/apr/21/in-my-mind-it-was-just-tall-birds-wandering-around-on-platforms-the-making-of-chuckie-egg?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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has anyone in our very serious press corps addressed the question of whether Mandelson was a good or bad ambassador
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here i am in the WSJ on PINBALL
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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‘Same Player Shoots Again’ Review: The Arc of the Silver Ball
Pinball was once considered immoral, a countercultural pursuit to be played in seedy spaces.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/same-player-shoots-again-review-the-arc-of-the-silver-ball-7f68dcb0?mod=RSSMSN
2 months ago
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here i am in the Graun on THE BLACK DEATH
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
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The Black Death by Thomas Asbridge review – a medieval horror story
A magisterial history of one of the worst ever pandemics focuses on the individuals caught up in the chaos
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/08/the-black-death-a-global-history-thomas-asbridge-review-pandemic-history-covid
3 months ago
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Edward S. Solomon
3 months ago
Forget euphemism, Trump is using unabashed viciousness in his language against Iran Steven Poole
@stevenpoole.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Forget euphemism, Trump is using unabashed viciousness in his language against Iran
The Trump administration takes pleasure in deploying dysphemism to describe the killing of Iranians
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/04/trump-using-dysphemism-language-against-iran
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James Kelleher
3 months ago
The Onion, 2003, evergreen
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Iron Spike
3 months ago
Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s
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i'm sorry but what is Microsoft Outlook doing on a spaceship
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3 months ago
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haha the last line of this report is brilliant
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3 months ago
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so, since the Iran war started, have any leftist westerners been spotted chanting "Death to the USAF"?
3 months ago
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
3 months ago
Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran. My best summary: this war is dumb as hell.
acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...
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Miscellanea: The War in Iran
This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec…
https://acoup.blog/2026/03/25/miscellanea-the-war-in-iran/
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