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Poet, writer, tutor, Shakespeare studies in Oxford, creative writing Medea in Corinth - revised second edition January 2025 from Poetry Salzburg www.poetrysalzburg.com/medea.htm
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Exactly the take you'd expect from someone this in love with polls. The results are in nate! Whatever elon's potential, we have the actual life he has led to make judgements about!

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I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."

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My new upstairs neighbour has bought himself an electric guitar. Good for him! Might break in and turf one of them out of the window if this goes on, in a neighbourly way of course. Good relations are so important in a house.

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There once was a gay troubadour Called Maurice quentin de la Tour. His great great niece was Frances - What are the chances? Quite high, if your name's de la tour.

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I slept 3 hours and look like a sleepy dachshund - such is my commitment to the bit that I still bothered. Which, given the film, I slightly wish I hadn't. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7cc...

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I slept 3 hours and look like a sleepy dachshund - such is my commitment to the bit that I still bothered. Which, given the film, I slightly wish I hadn't. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7cc...

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‘For the time being, Ukraine and the rest of Europe will be consulted in the way the residents of a village are consulted before it gets demolished to make way for a new airport.’ @jamesmeek.bsky.social on Trump’s Ukraine negotiations: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...

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Ambulance and man with a strange wound (2021)

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Agreed. With this proviso - just as many people are terrified of women's autonomous sexual desires and behaviour, the real source of the protagonist's anxiety.

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I am a lucky, happy, to-be-cherished and quite rare phase of my life atm, so I couldn't understand why I spent this morning feeling awful, then I realised I had simply read the news.

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This is not an intellectual point, bur I wanted to state that I am frightened by the situation in the US and I am becoming even more anxious by the extent to which most people I know IRL (ie: not politics addicts) are entirely unmoved

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MAGA is a creche

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'If' the tory party fails? Which metrics are left?

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Scully meanwhile has moved into a housing justice encampment in an empty warehouse in detroit where she and a queer workers collective are plotting an armed takeover of the US govt

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Why is spotify relentlessly trying to get me to listen to some version of "two dudes who don't know shit discuss the state of the world" ?

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every time I read about this case, it's a glimpse into hell www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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It is redundant and creates as many ambiguities as it solves, but has somehow attracted an empire of propagandists

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Is the new yorker OK?

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My favourite estate agent malapropism: 'enviously located.'

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"You're not my surreal Dad!"

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Chris Wilder is the most artistically talented person I know

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PBS now openly insane

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The only plausible part of the franchise, more so with every passing year.

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Medea's love poem, for Valentine's.

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William Bronk

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After a while waiting for admission, one of us thought to knock. Finally we were all knocking, shouting, a cacophony. But the great wall, domed like the sky, was silent.

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Babygirl - oddly dated and oddly brilliant. youtu.be/5AdHC2FFylI?...

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