oh damn (it's almost like we need the arts? to survive?)

I have a dilemma. I'm reading a recently-published book which is really interesting (on the academic side) but is absolutely littered with errors - typos, grammatical mistakes and wrongly-labelled images. Do I tell the publisher or would that be a dick move? #booksky #readingproblems #amirite

2073:

It will be such a shame if these services are cancelled. Please sign this petition. agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa... #trains #nighttrains

Hugely enjoying reading Fascist Yoga by @stewarthome.bsky.social - especially fun reading it on the tube! It is informative, entertaining and occasionally mind-boggling and I will definitely be recommending it to all my yoga-practising friends. (Published by @plutopress.bsky.social ).

I'm so lazy I don't even watch movies, I read about them on Wikipedia. Follow me for more life hacks

A bloke wearing a large, unseasonal afghan coat has just destroyed our window display. #booksky #saturdaysinaugust

it's time for the most fiendish literary quiz of the year. "Who said it - John Wycliffe or Wyclef Jean"

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

Today’s good news is that Peter Greenaway’s delightful documentary Act of God, about lightning strike survivors, made for Thames TV’s Take Six strand in 1980 is on YouTube youtu.be/Ruuxxdq4v4Y?...

Uxbridge English Dictionary I challenged ChatGPT to a game: Me: Bob Vylan ChatGPT: A pirate who only attacks pleasure boats #ISIHAC

Ancient silver stater (coin) with an octopus on the reverse side 🐙 🤩 Minted in Eretria, Euboea, Greece, 500-480 BC. Photo: British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology

Facts.

John Kelly is running the entire Appalachian Trail in one go at the moment. Day 10 and he's just over a quarter of the way there. www.instagram.com/reel/DKcZiHN... #appalachiantrail #hardcorerunning #forestvibes

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Today I will mostly be celebrating the International Day of the Potato. www.un.org/en/observanc... #internationalpotatoday #roundthings #eatmorefries

Still sad it got cancelled #serenity #firefly

“It feels like an intentional kick in the face to local bookstores [...] Independent bookstores generally have to charge full price because those margins are what help them survive. Amazon engages in predatory pricing.”

More of this, please. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Haul llwynog’ in Welsh for sunshine that can’t be trusted

When life gives you colons

Exclusive new extracts from The Secret Diary of Elon Musk just dropped. Click through for more! "March 19th None of the federal workers in the Department of Education have noticed that I am an intellectual. I think the Department of Education should close..." open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage

Fucking hell #fuckinghell

First tiny narcissus at the new house. #spring #newhouse #beginnergardener

Went to see #Klangphonics last night in Shoreditch. It was a fab gig - highlights included the audience being sprayed with a pressure washer and a sewing machine being played onstage. youtu.be/U1SX6BSuiJE?... #householdobjects #diytechno #villageunderground

Trying to figure out where Hank Hill would sit on the whole MAGA thing. On the one hand I’m fairly sure he would vote Trump. But I also think he would find Elon Musk asinine.

👀 Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement. 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️

This is an absolute must read if you’re trying to understand what’s happening with Trump and Musk right now.

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/... #trains #brussels #venice

More boxes unpacked. A fourth copy of The Great Gatsby has been discovered. #BookSky #theGreatGatsby #TooManyBooks

Today is Candlemas- which must be the best name in the calendar. Candlemas - a celebration of the return of light Artist: Gerald Witcomb

‘The great children’s writers trusted children with irony and with sophisticated ideas: they trusted them to see in language a set, not of rules, but of possibilities.’ Katherine Rundell on children’s literature: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Bonne nuit! 🌙 #Paris

#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

Thankful to mushrooms for eating all the dead trees

Unpacked some boxes and realised that I have three copies of The Great Gatsby.

I'm getting a free piano today! This is quite exciting because I haven't had a piano for many years (shared housing not piano-friendly). I look forward to making some terrible noises. #music #plinkyplonky #howtoannoyyourcat

The Great Western Railway GWR contract has a break clause in June this year as detailed in this article from @privateeyenews.bsky.social If you think GWR should be renationalised now rather than wait, please repost this message. Thanks 🙏 @heidialexander.bsky.social what are you going to do?

„billionaire Mark Zuckerberg went on Joe Rogan to whine about how corporations have been “culturally neutered” and need more “masculine energy.” The idea that insufficient coddling of male aggression is the genesis of society’s woes is so ludicrious it boggles the mind.

A trilogy of posts about predicting the future.

Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

#Jeff, in his favourite position. #catsky #catinabox #caturday

This is incredible. Bravo Paris!

I'm at the stage in the bookselling year when I just want to skip the rest of the festive period (including actual Christmas day) and sit and read the lovely books I've bought for myself for about three weeks.

A weekend slowly approaches. Do you: A. Go into town and spend money you don't have on presents no one needs in celebration of a prophet you don't worship B. Take magic mushrooms and go looking for owls in the woods and then come home and listen to the new Cure album again

It is once again that time of year when every Books Dad gets absolutely bodied by Molesworth.