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
album.link/musicforslee...
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Music for Sleeping Cats by Steven Poole
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https://album.link/musicforsleepingcats
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4 days ago
BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: Hunker down and drift away Now Playing Steven Poole You Will Walk Where Others Fear To
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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
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4 days ago
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this, by
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, 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
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here i am in the Graun on VAMPIRES
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
8 days ago
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13 days ago
BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: Wrap up, settle down Now Playing Steven Poole Hymn
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18 days ago
BBC Radio 3 Unwind Soundwaves: Find escape in Winter harmonies Now Playing Steven Poole Shadowlight
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly
15 days ago
For balance, I am duty-bound to include this actual certified banger of a joke from Mark Drayford from that same conference.
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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 🖤🤘🏻
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i love the smell of a class-action lawsuit in the morning
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20 days ago
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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
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21 days ago
BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: Drift off with this sleep-inducing soundtrack Now Playing Steven Poole Cloudhunting
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that is a great title. "Ah shit, not this again"
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21 days ago
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Tess Gallagher
22 days ago
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
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29 days ago
BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: Nod off with this relaxing soundtrack Now Playing Steven Poole Everything In Time
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why isn't the government spending public money to prop up a failing business model used by 0.5% of the population 😡
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25 days ago
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to be fair, i did finish it and almost all of it is not by Greta Thunberg anyway
26 days ago
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Petit Ecolier Chocolat Noir Lu Petit Beurre Choco Leibniz Dark Rich Tea Finger Cream Ginger Nut
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26 days ago
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The Guardian
27 days ago
The Liz Truss Show review – hapless ravings from a cupboard
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The Liz Truss Show review – hapless ravings from a cupboard
Britain’s briefest PM kept her fans waiting before launching her latest plea for Maga attention in the form of a ham-fisted YouTube talk show
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/05/the-liz-truss-show-review-hapless-ravings-from-a-closet?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1764980104
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about 1 month ago
BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: Fall soundly asleep with dreamy classical music Now Playing Steven Poole Au Bistrot
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wrapped for artists 🎹🤘🏻
29 days ago
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here i am in
@wsj.com
on the amazing world of undersea cables
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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‘The Web Beneath the Waves’ Review: A Crisis of Cables
The routes of competing undersea cables are convoluted and geopolitically tangled. They are also easy for would-be saboteurs to find.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-web-beneath-the-waves-review-a-crisis-of-cables-d1b1b1b1
29 days ago
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but in what sense is American Canto really or actually a canto? in this essay i will, nah fuck it
30 days ago
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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
30 days ago
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still nothing huh
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about 1 month ago
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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
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about 1 month ago
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Smooth Dunk
about 1 month ago
COMING SOON: AI + Guy™
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it's Your Party and I'll cry if I want to
about 1 month ago
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life hack: get good writing printed out on nice paper and delivered to your letterbox on a regular basis
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: Hunker down and drift away Now Playing Steven Poole You Will Walk Where Others Fear To
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life hack: get good writing printed out on nice paper and delivered to your letterbox on a regular basis
about 1 month ago
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Chris Bertram
about 1 month ago
Fantastic news!
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no one?
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about 1 month ago
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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
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Dave Levitan
about 1 month ago
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
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Rebecca Colesworthy
about 1 month ago
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.
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the real scandal is that this doofus was invited to give the Reith lectures in the first place
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Reith lecturer accuses BBC of cowardice for censoring his remarks on Trump
Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/25/rutger-bregman-accuses-bbc-of-censoring-his-reith-lecture-on-trump
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no one?
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about 1 month ago
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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
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Justice secretary wants most jury trials scrapped
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7vdvrnnvzo
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The Onion
about 1 month ago
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/
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actually if you were into grunge you understood that "Come Together" was seminal
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about 1 month ago
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whatever happened about all those drones in American skies last year that Trump promised to tell everyone the truth about
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Chris Bertram
about 1 month ago
Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer
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Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’
Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/november/core-protection
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here i am in the Graun on a life of Terry Jones
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones by Robert Ross review – portrait of a Python
An affectionate biography of the polymath includes details of never-produced gems such as Monty Python’s Third World War
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/18/seriously-silly-the-life-of-terry-jones-by-robert-ross-review-portrait-of-a-python
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"to street" meaning (presumably) to be released (hit the streets) is a new verbing on me: love it
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about 1 month ago
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about 2 months ago
BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: Escape to an oasis of calm Now Playing Steven Poole Imperial Bedrooms
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👁️saac 👁️o
about 2 months ago
Gonna write some anti-etudes. Music that absolutely nobody learns anything from
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Ian Bogost
about 2 months ago
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.
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3 months ago
BBC Radio 3 Unwind The Sleeping Forecast: Drift off with this sleep-inducing soundtrack Now Playing Steven Poole Cloudhunting
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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
about 2 months ago
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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
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