Sometimes I think about the way he says “salad cream”

Song is deeply haunted

Oh captain my captain! [I put one foot on the table and fall on my ass, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

You can just listen to sad viola da gamba music all day, no one can stop you www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmtC...

Reader’s Digest Reloaded

This still does the trick even through noise cancelling headphones in an open plan office www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlpD...

Hey! Is the dream of the 90s (sustained ambitious attention to the fin de siècle American novel) alive? Yes! In this AzQ special issue @rafaelwalker.bsky.social and I co-edited with intro by us & afterword by Jennifer Fleissner 😎 Open access! @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/56582

A few years ago I made a soundtrack for my book - interwar and wartime music about, or broadcast from, grand hotels open.spotify.com/playlist/0Ru...

Join your union, murder the robots, stay hydrated

Still reeling from the slug I just received, at the bowser

Few minutes of magic from an Iranian-Australian santur player youtu.be/AVeRilDpjjg?...

I'm too weak to sit through The Voice of Hind Rajab - I can barely see a picture of her face without breaking. The horror and depravity of this story - shattering.

Just realised that the 1930s slang "great pair of gams" is obviously related etymologically to the viola da gamba - a viol you play between your gams

The long 2000s giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Starting a hardcore band called Brent Crude

Cusp 4.1 is now live on Project Muse. This issue includes a fantastic cluster, drawing from papers at the 2025 NVSA, on the Victorian Twentieth Century as well as a newly recovered prose piece by George Egerton. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56579

Emotional support valkyries

A guy woke up one morning as a giant bug.. but you won't hear about that in the mainstream media

In early career you have lists in your head of scholars you admire who are just a few years ahead — I remember clearly when these scholars started to disappear. These scholars aren't replaced. The knowledge disappears. The gaps widen.

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We're talking about Tagore's dankly atmospheric ghost story "The Living and the Dead" (1892) in class this week - about a widow who wakes up in funerary grounds to find herself not actually dead. I've done an am-dram reading if you're interested www.youtube.com/watch?v=jagK...

The Space Between Journal is on Bluesky! Follow us to see all the wonderful scholarship and other cool stuff we've got on 😊 bsky.app/profile/spac...

Keep hearing about the golden age of Eeling comedies, surely there can't be THAT many jokes about catching eels

Jessie Buckley was excellent in the 2018 adaptation of The Woman in White, fwiw

(•_•) <) )╯MALE / \ (•_•) \( (> PATTERN / \ (•_•) <) )╯BALDNESS

We laugh at survivalists but they’re going to last a good couple of weeks longer than we do

GREAT NEWS! I think I've found a previously unknown supernatural story by May Sinclair! BAD NEWS! I can't find a copy of the magazine that it's in!

This 2020 book from Laleh Khalili is super relevant and interesting on the Arabian Peninsula as an encampment for capital, logistics, and the war machine

This 2020 book from Laleh Khalili is super relevant and interesting on the Arabian Peninsula as an encampment for capital, logistics, and the war machine

when they respond after 6 months as promised

Now as ever, to understand Israeli operations, Jasbir Puar's The Right to Maim is absolutely crucial, and has been so grimly prescient.

This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2

Dr Seward, Jonathan Harker, Van Helsing

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

Pedro Almodóvar's Lady Audley's Secret

Leo Ornstein was born in 1895 and lived long enough to see Snow Dogs starring Cuba Gooding Jr. gross US$115 million worldwide (Also this piece - we love this piece) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsAW...

Reading The Guermantes Way and no one gets back on their bullshit quite like Marcel

Torment Nexus U

For context, this is roughly the cost of one (1) Brimstone missile #NationalYearofReading

when you fold cool speed flaps and throw it really hard

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“I do not recommend drinking wine in the bath and listening to Mitski and crying and calling that a writing practice,” Araluen says. But what if ... you end up writing a glorious devastating Mitskified insomniac cha-cha of a poetry collection

Good to hear #Tailleferre Concertino for harp on Radio 3 - the work was premiered in Boston in March 1927 by Marcel Grandjany conducted by Koussevitzky @bostonsymphony.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCo4...

The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind While Painting the Front Fence.