Police are following a definite trail, but progress has been sluggish.

The best book yet - maybe - from a Nobel laureate; a novel where PG Wodehouse makes a guest appearance; a book where Islamic State fighters are in need of Viagra; and two Scandinavian septologies, neither of which is by Jon Fosse. Me on five of the best works of translated fiction this year:

Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop

The problem with people who are used to being the smartest person in the room is that they often lose the ability to recognize the times when they aren't.

Any non-Saffas watching #WALvRSA: the word you're looking for for Eben Etzebeth is 'doos'.

This kind of image plays differently if you’re familiar with the history of Ireland’s school system.

Leonardo da Vinci’s Largest Collection of Drawings and Writings is Now Completely Digitized. mymodernmet.com/leonardo-da-...

“YOU MUST ALWAYS BE DOING THINGS AND OBVIOUSLY SUCCEEDING. THE HARD PART IS TO KEEP PEOPLE ALWAYS AT THE WINDOW BECAUSE OF THE SPECTACLE YOU PUT ON FOR THEM. AND YOU MUST DO THIS FOR YEARS.” -BENITO MUSSOLINI

“FASCISM SHOULD MORE APPROPRIATELY BE CALLED CORPORATISM BECAUSE IT IS A MERGER OF STATE AND CORPORATE POWER.” -BENITO MUSSOLINI At Poster House

Aujourd’hui, journée internationale de lutte contre les violences faites aux femmes, @lauriane.bsky.social rappelle 1 chiffre insoutenable : 151 femmes tuées en 2025, dont beaucoup avaient porté plainte. La France doit protéger celles qui demandent de l’aide👇 derriere-le-vacarme.com/la-pensee-du...

Meanwhile if you’re just a world-historical fraud whose entire day is spent harming people, everyone with money lines up around the block to give you some

L’austérité budgétaire va rendre la vie impossible aux femmes. Or « les violences économiques décuplent les violences sexistes et sexuelles » @youlieyamamoto.bsky.social Le grand blabla c’est terminé, il faut donner les 3 milliards réclamés. www.humanite.fr/feminisme/fe...

Loving this too. Well worth a watch.

For anyone in Dublin city centre later today, I'm chairing a conversation between @sineadgibney.bsky.social TD and Dr Tom Cowin on the subject of "is right wing populism unstoppable?". We're the second session, so we'll be kicking off around 3:30pm - Academy Plaza Hotel, just off Cathal Brugha St.

Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph. One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics. What could go wrong? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

I know for sure that this will absolutely, definitely persuade me to eat meat.

A link to the Scrivener article, since the one going around is a screenshot, doesn't have the actual link, AND no alt-text, making it useless. Please share this. www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scriven...

Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics was just being invented – but there have been so many women who helped shaped the field since its inception

in a way don't we all need something we're drawn to attached to a long pole to free us from a skylight we're stuck in

There won't be a Mars bar fried in Glasgow tonight.

Never not at it.

Hullo from Vic.

Scottish Wildcats were, until now, creatures unknown to me. Turns out, they look exactly how you would expect a Scottish Wildcat to look like...

There is no reason why this should have made me laugh so hard a bit of gas escaped.

What did the French grunt say to the Puddingwife wrasses?? 😮🤔 #frenchgrunt #puddingwifewrasse #puddingwife #wrasse #grunt #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

Aujourd'hui sur @franceculture.fr, mon dernier doc sur les traces de Marie Denizard, militante féministe au destin tragique : de la lutte pour les droits politiques des femmes à l’internement forcé www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

You could literally do a horror anthology based on the different ways this can go wrong. AI dead mom escapes into your TV, and your digital fridge, and your pacemaker.

November. In Normandie. 😟

slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

To all the doubters, AI is so close to being perfect Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic

The Tokyo Electro Automobile Co. Tama Electric Car from 1947. It achieved the driving range of 96km and the maximum speed of 35km/h. And it looks GORGEOUS. I love it. If they were still being made, I'd get one. I wonder if a sheep fits in the back seat. www.nissan-global.com/EN/HERITAGE_...

Takeji Asano - Moonlight in Mii Temple #ShinHanga #Woodblock #Print #JapaneseArt #Ukiyo-e

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

Spoiler: it’s because he died. The writers of a franchise whose main character has been played by seven actors across sixty years think they have to come up with a plot explanation for the character coming back after dying in the previous movie. radaronline.com/p/james-bond...

FPTP is a curse.

The Rest of The World: football can't be played in the snow. Canada: Hold my beer and watch this...

Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

What you get when yoplait innocent 🙄

things I have discovered while researching the new series of Human Intelligence: the first ever textbook on forensic science was written in the year 1247 by a crime investigator in Song dynasty China. It is called Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collect...

Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply. Link below. Please share :)

It turns out that what I thought was just a dead car battery is actually some kind of gremlins in the electrical system so… I would really love it if anyone wanted to buy some Christmas cards so I can pay the garage to sort it out….

Remember, remember the 9th of November. #OnThisDay in German #history🗃️: 1918: Kaiser dethroned, #WeimarRepublic proclaimed. 1923: Hitler's #BeerHallPutsch coup d'état in Munich fails. 1938: #Kristallnacht. Anti-Jewish Pogroms, synagogues burning. 1989: #BerlinWall falls.

Wood ducks are cavity nesters and frequently use nest boxes. After the ducklings hatch, the next day, after the female ensures it is safe, the ducklings jump out of the box to start their adventurous life. Photos taken in my yard. #Birdoftheday theme #takeoff 🪶

Americans are 'somber', while Brits are 'sombre'. Americans have 'fiber', while Brits have 'fibre'. Americans go to the 'theater', while Brits attend the 'theatre'. The -er v. -re difference stems from a more 'conservative' approach to French borrow words. Let's take "somber"...

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

I've seen Tawny & Barn owls in the garden, usually doing a fly-by. Last night, I hit the jackpot with one of these just sitting in a tree. I saw it, it saw me. It looked at me, I looked back. Then it turned and flew off, movie-style. Grey, beautiful - like in this photo by J. Alfonso Diéguez Millán

Here is a short free article on the very intentional defunding and disempowering of civil society in European health

Nicolas de Staël. 1954

A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens