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@spectator lit ed. “Clock-white, still friendly to the earth.”
https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
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My book is out in paperback TODAY. All about children’s books, which are the best and most important sort.
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The Haunted Wood | Oneworld
'A MARVEL' PHILIP PULLMAN Do you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? The stories we read as children extend far beyond our childhoods; they are a window into our deepest hopes, joys ...
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The Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial)
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Excellent and learned thread from George here
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Helen Macdonald
3 days ago
HERE IT IS!!!!!
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H Is For Hawk - Official Trailer
YouTube video by LionsgateFilmsUK
https://youtu.be/RJ29BBXfN64
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Neil Denny
4 days ago
On the latest Little Atoms podcast,
@joannapocock.bsky.social
on her wonderful new book Greyhound. Out now from
@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here:
shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...
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Little Atoms 975 - Joanna Pocock's Greyhound | Little Atoms
https://shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-7518-4208-861b-e1ec5ce88192/68f10661c7f907f368cf6cc5
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London Review of Books
5 days ago
Did you happen to leave your
@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday? Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat? If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
4 days ago
Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.
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Wrote about how the troll dynamic has come to trump ideology, with a hat tip to
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Welcome to the age of the troll
Father Mark Rowles, a Catholic priest in Cardiff, admitted to taking on the persona of 'skinheadlad1488' in neo-Nazi chatrooms
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/welcome-to-the-age-of-the-troll/
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The Carnegies
4 days ago
The 2026 Carnegies nominations are live! 🎉 Join us in celebrating the exceptional storytelling and illustration recognised this year. 🏆 Get ready for an inspiring awards season! Congrats to all nominees! 📖❤️
https://carnegies.co.uk/nominations-announced-2026
#Carnegies2026
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Ngl I preferred it when they were made with 100 per cent potatoes
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Dunland National Party 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴
7 days ago
Anyway, my actual serious thought through take is that "these beings are inherently evil" in fantasy is problematic first and foremost depending on how close they get to resembling actual sapient beings. Otherwise that's just a demon and I'm sorry but it was not racism that invented demons.
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Pruxel
7 days ago
Very good and relevant episode of the Spectator Book Club by the outstanding Sam Leith
@questingvole.bsky.social
. Why do civilized societies collapse?
podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/l...
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Luke Kemp: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
Podcastaflevering · The Book Club · 15-10-2025 · 49 min.
https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/luke-kemp-the-history-and-future-of-societal-collapse/id1158913265?i=1000731965285
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Nathan K. Hensley
7 days ago
I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
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Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/opinion/ai-students-thinking-school-reading.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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derek guy
8 days ago
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You!
9 days ago
The sheer effort of laying out everything wrong w/ this argument *&* the fact that it's meaningless to even do so unless & until the full force of the law is levied at these people who are themselves the literal enforcement arm of the law is further evidence that we are all dead & this is superhell.
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Jemima Kelly
9 days ago
Lol I just asked Grok whether Grokipedia is more neutral than Wikipedia and even it can't lie about this
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These idiots are even failing at nerd
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Sam Freedman
10 days ago
A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.
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Radley Balko
10 days ago
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
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Nicole Carpenter
11 days ago
I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.
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I reviewed The Rose Field The final volume of Philip Pullman’s Book of Dust trilogy — our verdict
www.thetimes.com/article/b2f5...
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The final volume of Philip Pullman’s Book of Dust trilogy — our verdict
In The Rose Field, Philip Pullman concludes the saga of Lyra Belacqua. It’s stuffed full of magic, adventure and big ideas
https://www.thetimes.com/article/b2f5dc46-98f2-4d11-81ca-9a2ee04c28ef?shareToken=f24c98e656e0db32efb101c98cd0c4b8
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I very much hope Bungie/Microsoft have the integrity to send a cease-and-desist
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Larry the Cat
12 days ago
Braverman deleted this tweet which made me wonder who that previous prisoner was. His name was Junead Ahmed. He was a conman mistakenly released in 2023. She was Home Secretary at the time. Oh.
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John Oxley
13 days ago
"Ronald Reagan was a mercantilist" is one of the most "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." I can think of.
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Naomi Alderman
12 days ago
tomorrow is now today!
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12 days ago
Read Nicola Barker's "TonyInterruptor". Loved "Darkmans" just as much as Steven Moore, hasn't read all the subsequent books but has both enjoyed and been impressed by those I have. This short quick compulsively readable novel contained numerous sentences/paragraphs that reminded me how what a 1/2
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Hallie Rubenhold
13 days ago
I’m thrilled to be able to share with you a project I’ve been working on this year. Intimate Histories, a series of 5 essays I’ve written and recorded about the antidote to ‘Great Man History’ is dropping on BBC Radio 4 (and i player) from the 3rd of Nov at 11:45 each morning.
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Jon Savage
13 days ago
Very pleased to receive this new book by Daniel Rachel - a catalogue of Rock’s flirtation with fascist symbolism that builds into a relentless polemic. Important and timely
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
13 days ago
The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.
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My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGBQwCsIhn0
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Hugh Pumphrey
13 days ago
This is a lovely article, showing that the spirit of enquiry and the thirst for new knowledge persist in a world where stupidity is so popular.
www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...
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First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself | Quanta Magazine
After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-found-that-cant-pass-through-itself-20251024/
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Helen Barrett
13 days ago
This is a delightful read:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Louvre Heist Is Terrific
Here was a dreamy little crime in which no one really got hurt.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/praise-louvre-heist/684677/
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John Self
14 days ago
Margaret Atwood writing The Handmaid’s Tale, West Berlin, 1984 (Photo by Isolde Ohlbaum)
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
14 days ago
jfc I cannot wait for this guy's trial at the Hague
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Paris Marx
14 days ago
The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI. But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.
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Generative AI is a societal disaster
Governments are deluding themselves into believing investment justifies allowing AI to upend society
https://disconnect.blog/generative-ai-is-a-societal-disaster/
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This starts vile and gets viler
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Joshua J. Friedman
14 days ago
STARTING SOON: Zohran Mamdani gives remarks about Islamophobia outside the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx
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LIVE | Zohran Mamdani gives remarks on Islamophobia outside a mosque in the Bronx, NYC
YouTube video by Eyewitness News ABC7NY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui3N3_MGw
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Mark Bradley
14 days ago
This is absolutely brilliant news! Whilst it’ll be great for the creators, it’s mostly just brilliant to see a heavy weight initiation recognising children & childhood as being of value.
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Kevin M. Kruse
15 days ago
Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
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Just had the privilege to chair this guy at the launch event for The Rose Field. Man alive sometimes I love my job.
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Louie Stowell
15 days ago
At last, it is mine
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This is astounding. Does sound a tiny bit too funny a story to be true though.
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Anand Menon
16 days ago
A curious approach from people who don't like the concept of immigration
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Jack Bailey
16 days ago
I just cannot take this shit seriously. If you're a senior Labour figure and think that the party's stance is cowardly but are too afraid to put your name on the record saying it YOU ARE A COWARD.
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