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the woke left have gone too far

the woke left have gone too far

"Eileen Myles quotes Joe Brainard on his deathbed: ‘Well, one good thing about dying, you don’t have to go to any more poetry readings.’” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

why is everyone afraid of COLOUR

It was a personal joy to interview M John Harrison for the @theguardian.com. I value his writing and him so highly, & it feels like his books - those strange maps of ourselves - are finally spreading beyond the hardcore & people are realising what we have in him. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Keir is BRAT

writers of personal essays who have to position themselves as obsessives when writing about a topic ("I was obsessed with the perfect cacio e pepe recipe", "I was obsessed with my uncle's disappearance")... what's that about

Toy Story casting session: -So who do kids love? -Outspoken socialist Wallace Shawn, obviously. And convicted cocaine trafficker, Tim Allen. -And for the soundtrack? -Okay are you familiar with the song 'Rednecks'?

Irish Gen Z speaking with an American accent... complete cultural victory for the great satan

"It seems to me that in reality what you do with a disaster is to get used to it...We no longer talk about changing things [or] avoiding the consequences. We talk about learning to live with it" Good interview w/ arguably one of England's greatest living writers minorliteratures.com/2026/06/18/t...

New interview with me concerning the influence of Thomas Bernhard on my work: larsiyer.co.uk/2026/06/18/l...

Today we remember a seminal work of art that takes place over the course of a single day. That's right, Kevin Smith's CLERKS

BREAKING: Local oaf picks the wrong sized lid for his coffee yet again

I once got the greatest YouTube ad which was someone showing off something object that I can only describe as a homemade contraption. It's function was unclear and there was no narration. I never got the ad again.

wonderful comment under a pasta bake recipe on the BBC website

"It’s difficult to be a punk in California, because the sun is there. Even if your head is shaved, you’ll end up with a perfect tan". Great interview with Jean-Pierre Gorin here: www.screenslate.com/articles/aga...

I think I'd be ok in the Backrooms as long as I could look at my phone

In this country, Civil Servants who actually do some work get brought before judges! smh #howirelandworks www.rte.ie/news/courts/...

Group chat with the lads: boss won't give me the day off for the Boards of Canada album drop. fuck my chungus life Group chat with the family: Here's a link to that NY Times Strait of Hormuz article Tesco Customer Care chat: i ate yourr expired salad cream & now i can move small objects w my mindd

reading a hyped up literary debut and it is not good

Pope.... please do an encyclical about people using their phones in the cinema. Thank you. Amen.

Two professions that seem to encourage longevity are jazz musician or French academic. Because every time I read an obituary about a famous saxophonist or a French philosopher, I swear they're always 90-something years old.

It's times like this I'm glad I have an AI-proof job (stealing catalytic converters)

Who voted for MANSFIELD PARK?? Sickos!

NO GRAVITY'S RAINBOW

List is grand, the individual choices much more interesting. Whole thing feels engineered to generate "Why isn't X author on this list?" type responses www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

jesus christ, you think you're a socialist?

why am I getting ads with Ben Lerner in them

Keir is BRAT

"It’s true that these have been bad times recently and I keep going because poetry is the truth of life and it is a duty for us to keep the window open".

My novel is coming out in paperback soon with this handsome new cover! If you've been thinking of picking up a copy, please do me a solid and consider putting in a preorder for £10.44, which I understand is roughly the price of a pint in London. Thank you! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/poor...

If nothing else, Ted Turner was part of the inspiration for "Daniel Clamp", the cable network owner in Gremlins 2

Highlights of The Odyssey trailer:

It's May the 4th! So you know what that means movie fans: Time to rewatch Salò

You're absolutely correct to say that the old world is dying! -Would you like me to suggest some ways that we can mitigate monsters?

Topics that should be banned from "braided essays": -Walser's final photo in the snow -Anything to do with Yves Klein Blue -ANYTHING to do with Wittgenstein

Which way western man?

This is what every Dimes Square novel sounds like to me

Hi to all my new followers ☺️ 👋 A few things about me: - I'm a full time cat dad 🐈 - I'm a landlord 🏠 - Now that enough time has passed since the court settlement, I can also reveal that I'm the reason why Silica Gel sachets say 'Do Not Eat' 😄

"I heard that Prynne was of the opinion that the only two countries with well-formed poetic traditions were England and China, though China’s was far better established, and that Prynne considered American poetry to be rudimentary and infantile in comparison". www.nplusonemag.com/issue-11/ess...

J. H. Prynne wrote a guide to reading works of literature for Cambridge students. This was the postscript:

If there's one poet English journalists love to quote, it's Philip Larkin

"Had she seen “Hamnet”? “I cannot imagine anything more ignominious than watching ‘Hamnet,’” Ms. Riley said". www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/s...

Bluesky quickly becoming the perfect social media platform: no notifications, no feed, no users

> Welcome to the Internet! > Would you like to read 1,000 think pieces about the band Geese? (y/n)

I'm very pleased to see that Rosalind Belben's novel Is Beauty Good (there is no question mark) from 1989 is being reissued in July by @andotherstories.bsky.social www.andotherstories.org/is-beauty-go...

yeah I'm monitoring the situation alright