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Writer. Mountain Style (Isola 2024), A Cold Spell (Bloomsbury 2023). Previous inc. Higher Calling, Bunker Research, Lanterne Rouge etc. I also run Isola Press. https://linktr.ee/m_xl
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This is a brilliant interview with Percival Everett and makes me want to read all his books. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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Werner Herzog should do a film based on the bitcoin skip man. Just two hours of him ploughing through rubbish; bare hands; screaming and gibbering. No speech. Like ‘Elephant’ by Alan Clarke. ‘A gruelling experience’ etc.

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Kraftwerk here looking like extras on the set of The Professionals

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In other news, I’m super excited to be going to see Hayden Thorpe perform his Ness album on Friday, ft. @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social’s words. I went with him to Orford Ness and share his feeling of wonder and awe about the place open.spotify.com/album/5tVYhH...

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Wonderful that @nedboulting.bsky.social’s 1923 film has had 24,000 views! youtu.be/avp72imh6D4?...

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www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Almost funny that Sam Altman, whose ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted works without permission, is now complaining that the Chinese have copied ChatGPT.

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Haven't you heard? The cycling media landscape has changed again 📺 @irishpeloton looks at the latest price increases and what they could mean for the future of the sport dnlbenson.substack.com/p/havent-you... 📸 @swpixtweets

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"Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption. Following ejection and deposition, the ash is lithified into a solid rock. Rock that contains greater than 75% ash is considered tuff, while rock containing 25% to 75% ash is described as TUFFACEOUS." 💪

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THE meme of 2025 for me.

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The dreaded words: “Comedy now on Radio 4…”

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This is very good. www.nts.live/shows/the-nt...

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‘The novels weren’t the point. The point of Nan Shepherd was herself. My mother described what a thrill it was to be carried along by her flow, to circle in the eddies of her experience.’ @frasermacdonald.bsky.social on growing up in Nan Shepherd’s village: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Good day hanging out with some legends.

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Just heard the phrase "evidence-based reality" on the radio :-/

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New Antarctic ice core a window to climate a million years ago… apnews.com/article/anta...

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Not often you have a Rwandan wooden bike in the boot of your car.

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Server in the coffee shop asked me if I’d like a little ice in my mint tea, ‘So it isn’t so hot.’ Bizarre but makes sense. Murica.

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Sunrise run in San Francisco. Waymos are about the only things on the roads. What are they doing? Driverless cars taking no one nowhere. Genuinely creepy. Wouldn’t run in front of one.

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Extending my run of terrible luck travelling - ✈️ + 🚂- into 2025, my Virgin/Delta flight to JFK was just cancelled.

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Ah thanks. It was a labour of love!

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🙏🏼

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This (very long) essay has everything.

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Hmmmm….prob just a coincidence

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Happy Birthday to Jacques Marinelli, 99 today and maybe more famous for his second career. Brief but decent time as a pro, including 3rd overall in 1949 Tour with a spell in yellow jersey. He then opened a bike shop, also selling other items like household goods, one thing led to another...

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Lessons in outdoor creativity from Jimmy Chin open.spotify.com/episode/3ANH...

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Bluesky! This is your first annual reminder that all my books make great Christmas presents and signed copies are available to buy at Isolapress.com/shop :)

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Hi folks 👋 We're the Mount Everest Foundation (MEF) and since 1955 we've been supporting exploratory mountaineering and scientific expeditions to the mountain regions of the world. You can learn more about us on our website ➡️ www.mef.org.uk 📷 Chris Wright

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FYI: Mosfilm's YouTube page features a playlist containing free, restored versions of *all* of Andrey Tarkovsky's films: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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oh French, what happened to you

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I had kind of semi parted ways with drum n bass circa 2001, but I always had time for a set as relentlessly rowdy as this

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Really amazing exhibition about industrial pollution at the Courtauld.

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Thank you @blackwells.bsky.social Oxford for putting A Cold Spell in the Christmas window display! (and thanks to @jonwestaway.bsky.social for the pic)

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Something in the darkness to believe in by Alex Roddie thepinnacle.substack.com/p/something-...

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I don't want to cast doubt on the impeccable dependability of google AI, but I don't remember this particular plot twist in du Maurier's REBECCA

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Every evening with this book is super.

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I’m thinking about importing books into the US right now 🤦🏼‍♂️

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I think @tomisitt.bsky.social and @maxleonard.com will appreciate this one:

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New pictures taken by NASA reveal more of secret US nuclear base under the ice in Greenland. www.space.com/the-universe...

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The German for rail-replacement bus is ‘Ersatzbus’.

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