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For those nerds like me who love your almost-niche (mammal evolution during the Mesozoic) natural history written with, wit, verve and actual style, Beasts Before Us by @elsa-panciroli.bsky.social is a veritable cracker. Do yourselves a favour.

The cover of Elsa Panciroli's terrific book Beasts Before Us.

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not to mention her son being the subject of an AVO...

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Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And women teachers are not pushing an “anti-boy ideology” in the classrooms either

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

'Would you like a synopsis of the Oxford English Dictionary?'

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I mean, that is a beautiful summation of the neoliberal project.

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's almost as though they have neither the capacity, inclination or interest to follow through on their own policies. I'm shocked.

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'd be doing the national literature (sic) a disservice by not mentioning Shirley Hazzard's Transit of Venus, Dal Stivens's incredible but sadly oop A Horse of Air, or Randolph Stow's Girl Green as Elderflower.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026

This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Same, along with The Unguarded Century

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Drunk? He comes across like a meth head.

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Repost if your account is a safe place for the trans community 💙🩷🤍

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My first encounter with Kobie briefmy laboured under the misapprehension that she was satire.

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The forgetfulness helps with that.

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Like the years piling up behind us like an awful car crash of back pain and forgetfulness.

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Master race can't even get their shirt dry.

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

He truly does a great service to all, directly and indirectly.

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

His memoir Wish I Was Here is amazing. It's a genre unto itself.

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I suppose sweat could come into the equation. Which would still exclude golf.

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Maybe in darts you could inadvertently maim an opponent if you were shockingly bad?

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Nar, ya took her outta context, ay.

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

He's incredible. I better nudge it a bit closer to the top of the pile...

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I am kind of taking the piss a little. But you'll note that by my definition, golf, for example, is not a sport.

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

And of course, in fiction, there's M John Harrison's Climbers, which apparently did not go over universally well with the climbering community... And which I've not read but is on my to read in the next 15-20 years before I cark it.

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In all fairness, is mountaineering a *sport*, as in in the sense of a physical pursuit the aim of which is to maim or otherwise humiliate an opponent or team thereof? I think of moutaineering as a kind of self-actualising suicidal ideation (existential fear of heights speaking).

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I had the slightest glimmer of hope you were making it up! Words do not do justice. Thank you so much for sharing.

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I am not familiar with such a fruity delight but am sure it is even more truly horrifying than it sounds.

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Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

At a buffet at which you help yourself? :)

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