I'm up to Chapter 21 in A RHYME IN TIME...but a bit behind with these preview clips. Here's Chapter 19! If you like the sound of it, I hope you'll check it out, on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. #scifi #poetry 🚀 📝

Hilarious. Ayn Rand reviewing children’s movies. "Old Yeller: A farm animal ceases to be useful and is disposed of humanely. A valuable lesson for children. —Four stars." 🤣 www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-...

Woah. Elon Musk and the U.S.'s Department of Government Efficiency may be responsible for the deaths of 700,000 people. wnyc.org/browse/shows... #USAID #DOGE

That was quick. Wasn't this a Black Mirror episode, like, five minutes ago? www.newyorker.com/news/as-told... #AI

I did not think ‘A Rhyme In Time” by @rpweston.bsky.social could get any better than just having Dullbert be a main character now, but then we get this. This is always what I have believed. All worlds, all people from them, equally real. Equally alive. Equally deserving of respect and love.

Before the world cup, I was fascinated by the complexity of Japan's formations, and their game against Tunisia revealed its potential. At its best, it results in a calm and beautiful style of play. #WorldCup #Japan www.youtube.com/watch?v=scF9...

A RHYME IN TIME, Chapter 17 is up. Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. #scifi #poetry

On bread and circuses: Adam Gopnik writes eloquently on violence and spectacle in sport, for the @NewYorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

You have to love Curaçao – an country of barely 160,000 people going head-to-head with the best in the world. Their goalkeeper will be a national hero forever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=haeG... #WorldCup

In memory of #DavidHockey, some sketches he made for the @ParisReview, way back in 1969: tinyurl.com/bdee2bk9.

Katrina meets a sort-of-famous cowgirl in Chapter 16 of A RHYME IN TIME. Links to listen are here: robertpaulweston.com/a-rhyme-in-t...

Who decided the targeting symbol for drone warfare would be a little heart emoji? www.channel4.com/news/ukraine...

In case anyone's interested (since, y'know, it affects us all profoundly), the International Monetary Fund's Port Watch features a daily tally of how many ships pass through the Strait of Hormuz. It's here: novem.io/u/trt/p/horm... #Iran

The @NewYorker put out an excerpt from Jonathan Franzen's new novel, a sequel to Crossroads. It's here: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Moriarty is...wait for it...turning detective. What? No worries, you had me at "his own show". Sounds great! crimereads.com/finally-mori... #crime #SherlockHolmes

Hey all, for those following along, yep—I missed a week of A RHYME IN TIME. Very busy, head spinning! But Chapter 14 is available on Spotify and ApplePodcasts. Links, as ever, are here: robertpaulweston.com/a-rhyme-in-t...

Beautiful imagery and language turns in Danez Smith's poem, 'summer, somewhere'. It's here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... #poetry

No, this is not ironic. Just spreading the word about THE OFFLINE CUB – where it counts, i.e. online. If it sounds interesting, consider starting a chapter in your area. www.theoffline-club.com #offlineclub

My dear friend, the director Matthew Tibbenham, set up a Kickstarter to raise the last remaining funds for his indie horror film, FOLLOW THE DARK. Check it out: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hap... #film #indiefilm #horror

It's started. The war in Iran is literally draining the colour out of the world. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #warinIran #Iran #oil

I'm now in the early stage of marking season, also known as the "tsunami-like fear-of-drowning stage." It is a stage with a lot of hyphens.

A RHYME IN TIME: Chapter 13 is available now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Links to listen are here: robertpaulweston.com/a-rhyme-in-t...

"I’ve spent my whole adult life / in a country where only my parents can pronounce my name." A line from 'Everything That Moves is Alive And a Threat–A Reminder' by Kaveh Akbar. Feels a good time to remember contemporary Iranian poetry. nataliejabbar.wordpress.com/tag/everythi... #poetry

“If you ask tobacco companies to help write your school’s policy on cigarettes, you’re going to end up with guidance on how to smoke responsibly in school.” www.newyorker.com/culture/prog... #AI in #education

My #music mood: "Starburster" by Fontaines D.C. The video is the old time-travel indie, Primer – as directed by Roger Corman. Sweet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHoc...

Here's A RHYME IN TIME Chapter 11, in which something is wrong with King Blootis's smile. More info, as ever, here: robertpaulweston.com/a-rhyme-in-t... #childrensliterature #poetry #zorgamazoo

As I've said many times, I love a self-referential poem about poetry. 'Several Things' by Martha Collins is a lovely one: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... #poetry #writing

Channel 4's documentary on the rise in shoplifting by Japan's elderly offers fascinating insights (warnings?) for countries with aging populations—so, like, all of them. www.channel4.com/programmes/u... #Japan #aging

You can now listen for free to Chapter 10 of A RHYME IN TIME – on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. (And we've finally got to the time travle bit!) Links here: robertpaulweston.com/a-rhyme-in-t... #poetry #scifi #childrenslit

Some quite writerly swag from Condé Nast: "Such Believable Dialogue" by Will McPhail condenaststore.com/featured/suc... #writing #comics

From a former OpenAI exec, speaking to the @NewYorker: “The truth of this is, we’re building portals from which we’re genuinely summoning aliens. The portals currently exist in the United States and China, and Sam has added one in the Middle East." Huh? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... #aliens #AI

In both U.S. and international law, a threat to bomb all of a country's bridges or power plants is itself a war crime. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDax... #Iran #LawOfWar #Law

In both U.S. and international law, a threat to bomb all of a country's bridges or power plants is itself a war crime. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDax... #Iran #LawOfWar #Law

You can now listen to Chapter 8 of A RHYME IN TIME!

I love this story, 'Clay' by Caleb Crain, a superb example of how strange, sudden violence behaves in a piece of fiction. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... #shortfiction #stories #shortstories

Hooray! Super proud of Machiko, getting a nod in @variety.com as Associate Set Designer on The Game of Thrones play, ‘The Mad King’, at @the-rsc.bsky.social this summer. variety.com/2026/theater... #theatre #gameofthrones

In my recent foray into the cognitive poetics of sound, rhythm, rhyme, poems that are themselves about listening or the ear are of renewed interest. Here's 'The Art of Listening' by Veronica Aaronson – beautiful! www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-art... #poetry #writing #sound

Chapter Seven of A RHYME IN TIME is now up on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Links to listen are here: robertpaulweston.com/a-rhyme-in-t... #scifi #childrenslit #poetry

For lovers of sci-fi flash fiction, may I present: 'The Invasion from Outer Space' by Steven Millhauser: www.newyorker.com/magazine/200... #scifi #flashfiction

Gorgeous evocations of Ellesmere Island by Brandon Kilbourne www.thecommononline.org/dispatches-f... #poetry #arctic #ice

"How strange, then, / to learn that being was a palindrome I’d read / to its hairpin middle." —a lovely few lines from Jane Zwart, in her poem, 'Midlife Crisis', here: berlinlit.com/midlife-cris... #poetry #aging

Chapter Six of A RHYME IN TIME is now up on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Links to listen are here: robertpaulweston.com/a-rhyme-in-t... #scifi #childrenslit #poetry

Stephen Graham Jones's new story in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social features a most wonderful use of the verb, to bogart: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when... #shortstories #scifi

Sad to read of the death of Jürgen Habermas, who pointed "the way to a new politics of the human." If you don't know who he is, seek out his famous 2004 debate (read: reasoned discussion) with then future Pope Benedict XVI. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #philosophy #humanism

'Train' Dreams by Denis Johnson – sublime in @parisreview.bsky.social, here: www.theparisreview.org/fiction/396/...

"I ate his sturdy, unloved back." A gorgeous line from Mark Wunderlich's poem 'Eating the Horse' from @yalereview.bsky.social. yalereview.org/article/mark... #poetry

Chapter 4 of A RHYME IN TIME is up, here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... #poetry #childrensliterature #podcasts

A beautiful personal essay on the myth and the reality, the sacred and the mundane of motherhood: "Pregnant Madonna Scrubbing Floor" by Kim Dana Kupperman, in the Alaska Quarterly Review www.aqreview.org/aqr-vol-23-n... #essay #personalessay #motherhood

Back from this year's AWP Conference in Baltimore, and craved a poem on travel. I recalled this one, which is wodnerful: 'The Journey' By Rüştü Onur www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... #poetry #travel

I have a soft spot for #poetry that endeavours to draw new readers to it, which is why I love this piece by Airea D. Matthews. radio.wpsu.org/2024-04-15/p...