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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 2h

laura kuenssberg too important and busy to stop and smile for you cambridge literary festival nerds

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 8260: Whatever genre you write, read folklore. Folklore exists because at some point, people cared so much about a certain thing that they put it into a story, and passed it down the centuries in order to keep it alive. That deserves attention.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mf gonna turn me catholic

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They're such self important clowns. It's increasingly clear their weird stop-me-before-I-kill-again message is some kind of weird hype strategy.

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Americans could use guillotines to cut the tips of their penises off at birth AND cull each other in more humane ways. They could build adjoining birth clinics and death rows, joined in the middle by a guillotine, which, I suppose, could be used from either direction depending on bookings

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hard agree about not tracking your kids. i do have a friend though who turns up consistently late for things and i’d have no qualms putting a tracker on that fucker

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the nation asking all the important questions today

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Nick Ferrari on @lbc.co.uk this morning gleefully reads a text message from some idiot claiming that young people are scroungers; is then immediately infuriated by text from young person claiming that boomers do nothing but take. Then hangs up on caller to yank on Leia's chain

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

never has a chyron so well defined a nation

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Good Chuck Palahniuk story on reddit

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Broadsheet music journos take a lot of pride in the number of concerts they've seen and famous people they've interviewed. Yet not one of them capable of writing about concert arenas with this degree of thoughtfulness and insight... Breath of fresh air this. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Anne Carson · On Rosalía

We require heroism of our entertainers. We want them sacrificing themselves to a certain ultimate degree of input. No...

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My 3.5 year-old would like to stress that, when she helped herself to that ice lolly in the freezer without my permission, it was done with the understanding that everything. was. above. board, and she would also like to question my own motives for asking such a question in the first place

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

To the One Who is Reading Me - Jorge Luis Borges

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

NEW: I can't get this story out of my head. And I know I'm not alone. The attempt to cover up the complicity of the UK media's role in Jason Arday's death may be its sickest move yet. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-jason-...

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The Jason Arday Reckoning

The attempts to cover up the complicity of the UK media’s role in his death may be its sickest move yet

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

basically described arts world in England. Some big roles with everyone else left fighting for scraps.

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

i had such a good time teaching critical dance writing to this lovely bunch of writers in Kolkata, for Dance Bridges Festival. You’ll be able to read their reviews soon on the Dance Bridges blog

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

this is what happens when you put illiterates in charge of the world: “Amazon employees who work at this location say all they do is receive massive shipments of printed books which they then cut the bindings off in order to scan the books more quickly. The printed book is destroyed in the process”

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Your hand reaches under / my black skirt / and up one leg Virginia Hamilton Adair

NOW YOU NEED ME

When the rains come
you remember
our old closeness
humping along in the wet.
You grope the dark where I hang morosely
by my crooked neck.
You pull off my cover shake me till my ribs jiggle
and a moth flies out.
Your hand reaches under
my black skirt and up one leg
thin as a cane until I open wide
with a rusty squawk hovering above you
like a dark and loving raven, said the old umbrella, her night
full of holes.

-VIRGINIA HAMILTON ADAIR

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

the incredible, sexual thrill of a tedious Teams meeting getting unexpectedly cancelled

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

George Bernard Shaw was a terrible man but this is a great way to open a speech

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

middle-aged white male political journos composing their social media odes as we speak

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

fun night doing improv with these idiots (Two Chairs Improv) at @pleasance.co.uk last night

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

the sense of a fatal build-up of emotional reserve - David Stubbs

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

imagine fleeing war and famine and your first contact with the British people is human barnacle chris philp incredible pond life exclusive from @lbc.co.uk

LBC news card. Chris Philp in a pink striped polo shirt holds a microphone in selfie-style close-up on the left of the frame; behind him, a group of people wearing orange life jackets and carrying bags walk across a sandy beach under a clear blue sky. Below the photo, on a blue panel, a label reads 'EXCLUSIVE' and the headline reads: 'Where are the police?' Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp follows migrants to a dinghy live on LBC – as he questions value of £662m deal with France.

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Trump couldn't get anyone to come to his great rah rah america fair basically because he isn't an artist (Hitler managed 400 thousand people!)

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The Odyssey is another great film in the genre of “let’s try to get Matt Damon Home”

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

lovely reflection from the late Sam Neill about the (sometimes) living hell of being an artist between jobs

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

i don’t watch ufc (or any sports for that matter) but they’d be greatly elevated by having people with the literary and rhetorical sensibilities of a Mohammed Ali

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The New Statesman - truly the voice of the proletariat, jfc

Photo of a magazine column titled ‘It’s a love story’. New Statesman columnist Alan Rusbridger writes that his daughter Bella and son-in-law Greg attended ‘the wedding of the century’ – a celebrity-packed event where guests surrendered their phones. When he asked Bella if he could mention her conversation with an A-lister in his column, she refused, even for the New Statesman. The column ends: ‘Reader, I have been gagged.’

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I have donated to Count Binface. I think this is the first time I have donated to a political candidate. Ko-fi.com/home/coffees...

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Ian Dunt just supported Count Binface on Ko-fi! ❤️

Ko-fi lets you support creators you love with tips, memberships and shop sales!

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

we must reclaim em dashes for all of humanity

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Whether it’s reading Knausgaard or Thich Nhat Hanh, it’s hard to overstate how damn good Edoardo Ballerini is at recording audiobooks. Often find myself looking as much forward to hearing his voice as the author’s

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

ICYMI: Alex Jones popped like a balloon. Get the real story at www.theonion.info.

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Christ i really have to finish reading this fucking book, he said, after a month of still not having finished reading said fucking book

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

don't think this is really the place but I figure it can't hurt to drop a reminder that my wife and I lost our flat in a fire last year and are still looking for a new one – if you have any leads, please get in touch!!

a poster it says we want a flat in Berlin basically!

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/06/2026

I‘m sorry, but this reads like somebody with an addiction that genuinely needs help. If a friend told me they were talking and acting like this I’d be really worried!

Matt Van Horn, a serial entrepreneur and father of four, never turns his laptop off anymore. He has more than a half-dozen artificial intelligence agents running at all times in Anthropic's Claude Code.
Every 10 minutes or so, they ask him what to do next.
He keeps his laptop running at his kids' soccer practice, while dropping them off at school and in the hotel during vacations.
When he goes to sleep, one agent steps in to babysit the others.
Van Horn is one of many founders whose work has been transformed by AI. As he builds his latest company, he's used AI agents to help contribute to hundreds of projects on GitHub. But he and many other AI evangelists are also working longer hours than ever before as they grapple with anxieties about how Al might advance without them if they log off.
After 15 minutes of conversation with a Bloomberg reporter, he notes that most of his agents are probably waiting for his next prompt. "I don't have a therapist, but if I did, they'd be like, It's OK, Matt," he says with a laugh. "They said that agents were supposed to do our work for us, but I've never worked harder in my life. I just have 100 times the output that I had before."

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

in Montpellier for the dance festival and everytime i go to one of these things i think holy moly isn’t arts funding amazing

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

grownup journos fan-girling about pop media has to be one of the most annoying legacies of social media

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

what is it about political journos and their violently beige cultural tastes? working theory is that they are so tuned into thinking about political leaders and movements and polling that they can experience art only in the most general terms

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Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

banging article about the mess of outsourced public services in the uk and the way it affects how we manage illegal migration www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...

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How Britain lost control

Everything is broken. Nothing changes. Voters are mad as hell

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