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Tuesday 27th May. Lined up new episode of Backlisted for my commute. It was bloody brilliant! I thought Secret Diary of A. Mole 13¾ was just funny but intellectuals like @ninastibbe.bsky.social have convinced me it is actually searing critique of Mrs Thatcher etc. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/240...

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They're just going to have to find efficiencies.

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make it stop www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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I’m reading The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For… Alison Bechdel. This is from 1987…

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Oh, yes…

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Oh, yes…

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I’m reading The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For… Alison Bechdel. This is from 1987…

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By all means spend your life searching for your other half, the one who completes you, the one Zeus tore you away from at the dawn of time. But first, let’s kill Zeus.

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By all means spend your life searching for your other half, the one who completes you, the one Zeus tore you away from at the dawn of time. But first, let’s kill Zeus.

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ALIYA AND THE SHOP OF SECOND CHANCES, by Egyptian author Laila Rifaat, is out today (with a stunning cover by Gaia Alessi). It's the One Thousand and One Fantastical Ideas! Magic carpet rides, time travel, genies, sphinxes and much, much more... Well done, @lailarifaat.bsky.social! #booksky

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This is so gut wrenching www.theguardian.com/environment/.... Thank you for your ongoing reporting, @readfearn.bsky.social.

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Hungary shows us the endgame of autocratic populism: poverty and corruption www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 64 days ago • 66 comments

Had to check.

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And yes, they've pirated my first children's novel The Sky Over Rebecca. And Meta have used it to train AI...

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Took the quiz, got the recommendation and... I've already read it.

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Took the quiz, got the recommendation and... I've already read it.

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Answer four questions, get a book recommendation...

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”Its leading intellectuals are Ivy League graduates who persist in being obsessed with the campus squabbles of the Ivy League. Their elaborate theories are constructed from feelings of elite entitlement and petty resentment: “They seem to be dreaming about revenge on the people down the hall.”

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Sign of these crappy times: this week Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, now 40 years old, is back on the Canadian bestsellers list.

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It’s time for the studios to come off the sidelines. After this industry has spent decades fighting piracy, it cannot stand idly by while tech companies steal full libraries of content for their own financial gain.

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NEW - Senior Labour figures are warning of a serious fight if Keir Starmer tries to give the go-ahead to a giant new oilfield. MPs and ministers have told the Guardian they are prepared to oppose the UK prime minister should he try and give final consent to Rosebank

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The AI business model is built on hype. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear DeepSeek | Kenan Malik

submitted 121 days ago • 18 comments

'Plant-based foods are the future.' ...and in the background, the world's first emissions tax on meat and dairy.

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'Plant-based foods are the future.' ...and in the background, the world's first emissions tax on meat and dairy.

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Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this? | George Monbiot

submitted 124 days ago • 20 comments

incredible things are happening on the federal employee subreddit

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AI-generated books are flooding marketplaces and increasingly look and read like human-authored books. Human Authored is a first-of-its-kind official certification system. Note: Certification is only available for members but will expand in the future. Learn more: authorsguild.org/news/ag-laun...

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A few days ago I finished Adam Higginbotham’s outstanding new book, CHALLENGER, about the causes of this disaster and the talented people America lost that morning.

submitted 126 days ago • 2 comments

Man, you have no idea how books work.

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

Wow. He denounced his girlfriend. It's Nineteen Eighty-four... 'Do it to Julia!'

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Man, you have no idea how books work.

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Oligarch writing a NYT op ed indistinguishable from the thoughts of a Philip K Dick character based on the stupidest guy he worked with at a TV repair shop in Berkeley in the early 50s

submitted 129 days ago • 26 comments

Oh shit.

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Oh hey, I've found an alternative Backlisted theme for their 10-year anniversary!

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment