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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

For completeness and just in case anyone thinks this isn’t about the EU 🙃

Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

* BREXIT EMERGENCY DRINKS * Delighted to announce that as we embark on this next phase of our great national adventure in international relations @t0nyyates.bsky.social and I will be hosting drinks from 7 pm on Nov 5 at a not very mysterious central London location. DM one of us if you can come.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Picture of my current work in progress — the construction site. The white / grey rectangles are all different drafts.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

As a general point, I exhort everyone to consider the idea of potentiality and specifically I can vs I cannot. The extract below is from Agamben’s essay On Potentiality. The original version is in Anna Akhmatova’s Requiem.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Baloo B Bear (aka Boo aka where is that dog aka oh he’s right here) is a puppy. He is not a myth and he’s most definitely not silent. Here he is and here he is, ironically, being blessed (a form of canonisation). /the end

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Carson’s book Norma Jeane Baker of Troy features the eponymous Helen. Helen, weaving her tapestry, is described as the ‘death-sprinkler’, who embroiders the deaths of the Trojan warriors ‘in and out of living skulls’.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

*PUPDATE* Baloo watched Isle of Dogs for the first time and was entranced.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

*PUPDATE* Baloo has been officially blessed (!) (along with many other dogs, cats etc) as part of the saint’s day celebrations for St Francis of Assissi. This was v v touching. Very many thanks to @kitten.eurosky.social for inviting us along.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

*PUPDATE* MY BEAUTIFUL BOY had a very special day today…updates to follow… @kitten.eurosky.social @donnad.eurosky.social

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have unaccountably failed to mention that I have some work in the current edition of David Caddy’s poetry anthology, Tears in the Fence. I have also designed its back cover. Here’s a sample of the written work.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sorry to post from the other place but !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s not exactly Proust is it

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lovely reference in today’s FT to the gallant band of Conservative defectors to Reform.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

* PUPDATE * Baloo (now generally known as Boo) having an amazing time at dog camp.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

*PUPDATE* Out for lunch with Baloo who is on sparkling form

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A very instructive story in an essay about Potentiality by the philosopher Giorgio Agamben who explains that to say ‘I can’ (potentiality is derived from the Latin word potere / can) is the most difficult and onerous statement you can make. I like this very much.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

And also relatedly this is 13/10 and rather bracing intellectually

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Don’t know if this will be legible but this is from Martin Buber’s I and Thou. ht @p-orbital.bsky.social

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

*PUPDATE* He’s back from dog summer camp where he was a very good boy! Pictured here at Gare de Montparnasse just before he did a full on sit down protest and had to be carried like an enormous baby…

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Who is that dog? Baloo Bear and his infeasibly ginormous tongue in Britanny a couple of weeks ago.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Insanely good value for the quality

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Chakaiseki Akiyoshi, one of the best (and priciest) Japanese restaurants in Paris has decided to do their own extremely well priced sort of bistro éphémère during the summer…unsurprisingly it’s rammed…

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