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with all due respect to Katie, who is great, i fear that this is not a compliment

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is anyone else reading this. i feel like we're not discussing this enough as a culture. i'm 400 pages in so no spoilers

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who are your literature predictions. you always have a take on this

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do physics people do Nobel physics discourse the way literature people do. are they like "it's been YEARS since a materials scientist won." "ughhhhh the Academy only cares about bosons, it's so boring." who is the Bob Dylan of Nobel Physics? the Joye Carol Oates? the Philip Roth?

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

John Bellingham, originator of gun kata

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stephen have you not heard she's doing very well

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

tfw when you're trying to remember the Petrov defence but are worried you left the bathroom light on

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

huge new shitpost/meme image kindly provided by... The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Jacob Rees-Mogg

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IF YOU BREAK UP WITH MEEEEEEEEE

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it's still on like 60% of the signs where i live, i love it

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to be fair this remains the borough's coat of arms, which coupled with the "progress with humanity" slogan absolutely raises many questions already answered by my "we are not rendering the residents of Haringey into advanced biofuels at windowless processing centres" tshirt, etc 2/2

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

retvrn to when Haringey council had the logo of an Iron Warriors warband rather than this youth theatre summer school bullshit

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pondering the official logo of the 2010 39th Chess Olympiad, hosted by the city of Khanty-Mansiysk

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

never before has my interest been so quickly captured and then lost again in one single sentence

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not in a "what i would do" sense. but in a "what he was aiming for" sense

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i mean yeah that was pretty good, right

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"I pledge to you, conference, that I will bury my father's blade in Swinney's chest before the next local elections"

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"john swinney killed my fucking dad" is a WILD place to take this speech

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oh he's forgottten his lines

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"a new national commission on electoral reform. to be headed by idk, Tony Blair, Keir Starmer, David Miliband, several other people i need to keep busy and off my back while ensuring they don't do any harm"

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"we're putting a flat cap on AI and giving it a whippet"

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to be clear, i support this

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"fuck them pensioners" - Andy Burnham

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ok so we're not getting any details

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to be clear he said "and we will be pragmatic in relation to the North Sea and build a bridge" and then he said the clean energy bit. i didn't introduce the bridge bit myself. i'm not that odd

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he said "and we will be pragmatic in relation to the North Sea" and i got excited. but it was a bridge to a clean energy future. Andy Burnham too cowardly to do what Britain really needs: build a bridge to Norway

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"conference, the problem with pissing on Thatcher's legacy is that eventually you run out of piss"

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"immigration control weakened by Brexit" five-dimensional dogwhistle triangulation-ass line

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does feel like he's winding up to a speech that's like "unfortunately, to restore hope and growth, 10% of you will be run through meat processing plants"

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anyway this is all very sensible but i think it says something about how much more regard the Australian government has for its scientists than it does for its horror novelists and screenwriters. bit of a shame, really

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also, it's... quite hard to get there, and to get anyone *out* of there at short notice, so rather than having someone go berserk from the psychological trauma and/or the sheer *smell* of ten thousand decomposing elephant seals on their front doorstep, they're evacuating everyone next week.

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this is not a direct health risk for the two dozen researchers there, strictly speaking -the bird flu won't hurt them- but the Australians have decided that the *psychological* risk of having 20 or so researchers surrounded by thousands of rotting elephant seals for months on end is simply too great

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