Lunchtime

world's most and least likeable goalkeepers on the pitch at the same time

I heard a psychic cat predicted a Cabo Verde win. Let's go Cabo Verde!

27% AfD bei Sonntagsfrage 😀🔫

Classic German experience: smiled at the neighbour while taking the bin out but he did’t notice because he was too focused on looking at my rubbish to see if I’d sorted it properly

Someone is currently selling their Honda Accord with a picture of Leonid Brezhnev

300 Menschen vor der SPD Zentrale für Demokratie und Enteignung

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Out today!

My poem experiment (plus essay) is up at Creative Critical, check it out!!

Delighted, excited, stoked, jazzed, chuffed and semi-levitating to reveal the cover for my forthcoming poetry collection The Revelation Tapes, out at the end of the month with @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social AND you can pre-order it now, from this very link - www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Out today!

These cowards are so scared of Blackrock investors leaving Berlin that they will BAN any possible federal implementation of a constitutional article for socialization of housing, even when passed by popular referendum. Welcome to the capitalist state. www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/wir-...

Currently slightly obsessed with David Hockney's portraits of his dachshunds.

They should call it the nominative determinism prize

every time I book an appointment with the Mieterschutzbund

If England win tonight they'll face Mexico next. The two countries in this world cup where I've had the best Mexican food.

a ballad singer is someone who loves pussy so much that they can just barely be alive

Fuck is wrong with you

just watched the highlights from last night, usually happy to see Germany embarrassed but I feel bad for Jonathan Tah because he has a very melancholy face – wish that guy with the stupid moustache had missed the clincher

don't think this is really the place but I figure it can't hurt to drop a reminder that my wife and I lost our flat in a fire last year and are still looking for a new one – if you have any leads, please get in touch!!

Paperbacks!

What does everyone make of Burnham’s proposal that all UK citizens be forced to read a novel set in Manchester and published within the past year? Seems a bit much to me but if it goes through, I suggest Gabriel Flynn’s Poor Ghost!

of marine mammals, the dolphin is most closely attuned to Kantian aesthetics, for it alone possesses porpoiseness without porpoise.

Paperbacks!

What does everyone make of Burnham’s proposal that all UK citizens be forced to read a novel set in Manchester and published within the past year? Seems a bit much to me but if it goes through, I suggest Gabriel Flynn’s Poor Ghost!

Manchesterism is when you buy a copy of Poor Ghost!

I am told that paperbacks have landed in UK bookshops today. My advice: put one in the freezer for a few hours before bed and reading it will keep you nice and cool as you nod off.

Hard to find a pair of loose linen trousers that don’t make you look like you’re about to lead a gong meditation

In many ways, I don't envy today's young people, but today I asked a class of 17 year olds whether they had heard of Tony Blair and all of them said no

Me in December: winter is for hibernation and rest. Summer, the season of life, is for writing. Me in June: it's too hot to think. I will write in the winter when my mind is cool and sharp.

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

Very proud to be publishing @ajbwells.bsky.social's ingenious piece on Banjo Paterson, 'the best-known and least-liked poet in Australia'. Please read and share widely!

incredible burn

next week / nächste woche!

I wrote a little essay – and then some experimental poems – about Banjo Paterson, the terrible Australian poet I somehow can't get out of my head

very excited to stop using the internet altogether

'No, there was something in the poetry itself, something that I was unable to simply dismiss as nostalgic white-nationalist kitsch-mongering, something bittersweet and strange that seemed to rumble away beneath the surface of the text.' New on our website: @ajbwells.bsky.social on Banjo Paterson

Very proud to be publishing @ajbwells.bsky.social's ingenious piece on Banjo Paterson, 'the best-known and least-liked poet in Australia'. Please read and share widely!

Cabo Verde are going to win the World Cup

Adorno, “Survivor from Warsaw” (ca. Nov. 1948)

Very excited about this!

It would be very funny if in addition to its base of academics, socialists, boomer MSNBC viewers, Brazilians, and anime nerds, this site were to welcome thousands of British 15 year olds

In Sweden = time to log off and write my novel. See you all in a couple of weeks x

This was a joke about AI scams but I think most of the likes are from sympathetic well wishers 😢

Looking for new perspectives on German history? This month's reviews: @ajbwells.bsky.social on rock in the GDR, me on Alice Miller's search for her family's story, and John Owen on interwar Weimar (the city, not the republic).