Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing teenagers that Lolita (a well written book about a creepy man) has anything interesting to tell them about their sexuality. It doesn't. I don't believe in telling people not to read things but I wish other books had that cultural niche. 040
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Everything I read in September. 16 books, 6 of them from the Dungeon Crawler Carl series that I'm not even sure I like. I was trying to read Booker long list books but got derailed from that. I will probably do a capsule summary of my thoughts later, but ask me if some feel urgent. #booksky 170
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Headlines that sound like a future history class topic. 010
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A few times recently a child or young person has been in our house and commented on how small our telly is. Which I guess is true, but you know what it isn't doing? Listening to us. #neoludite 140
Reposted by Made of words and moviesEmma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat. 1042174958
Reposted by Made of words and moviesTW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026this is fantastic and I learned something new 563152434
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Half way through this. The German border has just closed. Imagine trying to just live your life with health problems and work stress, and all around fascism is well and truly here. #booksky 080
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I am listening to an audio book about QAnon. It's called The Quiet Damage and is very good. Talks about a range of people with different backgrounds getting sucked in. The only problem is it refers to Anons and I am old enough that this invokes fandom wank rather than cult members. 121
Reposted by Made of words and moviesBe Gay Solve Crimes @begaysolvecrimes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026hard boiled egg (sam spade), softboy egg (philip marlowe), pickled egg (hank quinlan), century egg (Zhang), scrambled egg (Harry du Bois), tea stained egg (patrick jane), eggs benedict (guess), poached egg (Vidocq), scotch egg (rebus), omelette (maigret) 1426446
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Just started Dungeon Crawler Carl. I didn't realise it literally lists off stats. I will probably finish this book, unlikely to go back for more. Feel free to tell me if there's a huge change in book two. 110
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I am not opining on parents location tracking kids (any age) but my now 20 year old likes to look at her friends' locations after a night out for gossip purposes. Undoing all the good of living in a city in my opinion. 130
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I finished 19 books in August. Even for me, this is a lot. 8 library books, 7 ebooks, 2 physical books bought last year and 2 physical books borrowed from my family. 2 nonfiction, rest fiction. A mix of SFF prize reading, booker longlist reading and a fair amount of whim. #booksky 6403
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Is it rude to read my kindle in an indie bookshop cafe? I have bought a book (r.i.p. my no book buying year,) but kinda want to finish the kindle book first? #booksky 130
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 26/08/2026An election in India, which given when we lived there, was the one that ended the emergency in 1977. 200
Reposted by Made of words and movieseerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 15/08/2026Imagine an environment where Simon Baron-Cohen has the moral high ground 613637
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I am about 50 pages from the end. Should keep reading before sleep. 010
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 08/08/2026August in Edinburgh is so annoying. I am considering going upstairs to put on a jumper. 120
Reposted by Made of words and moviesStephen King’s KAYLEIGH @ronchronchronch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026happy Armand Didn’t Plan to Say “Love” Day to all who celebrate 03716
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I read 11 books in July, all fiction. 4 library, 1 reread of a book I own, 5 ebooks, 1 book borrowed from household member. #booksky 180
Reposted by Made of words and moviesLeft Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Host the anti-world cup in Avignon, you cowards. 15929196
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Royal Most boxes are beautiful and fascinating and are evidence of a design philosophy that thought really deeply about building to last. Finding an Edward 8th post box is legitimately cool. I am anti royalist but I would not like post boxes to have cyphers from President Cameron or whoever. 051
Reposted by Made of words and moviesThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026An underreported part of UK Transphobe Lawfare™ is that when they lose, they just... say they won. For all the regrettable sway they do have in courts/govt etc, their real power is in the press. So if they lose, they just pretend they didn't and their press friends print the lie. It's ubiquitous. 171458549
Reposted by Made of words and moviesThe Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 27/07/2026Just one more sleep to go 🤭 Let us know your final predictions in the comments ⤵️ 1316
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Hot take, I know, but the book that won the International Booker Prize this year is very good. Lots of amazing food descriptions and subtle engagement with thinking occupation is bad but still colonised folk do get railways and other bonuses. #booksky 270
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Once again. I am going to the hairdresser and know I will leave not looking like tilda swinton. But maybe once it will work. 130
Reposted by Made of words and moviesGavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 26/07/2026“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa 571526394
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Irish vocab learnt from watching the tour: road furniture. I look forward to needing to use it regularly in the future. (Joking aside, it has helped, I really need to find an Irish class in Edinburgh.) 100
Reposted by Made of words and moviesThe Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents. 382760937
Reposted by Made of words and moviesJackson O'Lantern-Brien @sprobeforebros.bsky.social · 31/05/2026GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands 4360712055
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Back in the land of cycling commentary in Irish. 000
Reposted by Made of words and moviesAC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven't quite finished VILLETTE ▫️Joe Queenan 2012 0134
Reposted by Made of words and moviesMax B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 16/07/2026Canvassers out in force in Clacton. 411189348
Reposted by Made of words and moviesEvil Jemma "Buy my books" Topaz @jemma.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Okay, something slightly new. I wrote a story in anger. It's heavy and it made me cry. It is about UK trans stuff. There isn't much plot; it's mostly conversation. There's a lot of talk of suicide. If this doesn't sound like much of an advert, it isn't. write.as/inclusions/a...write.asA Huge Problem for a Sane World\[A Short Story…\] Emma worried the whole ride down that she would get in trouble. She had never really skipped school; I mean, sometime... 19226103
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I know I have that book but can't find it right now. Should I empty all my shelves, rearrange in a more sensible faction and add shelf marks? A descent into madness or a sensible idea? 300
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Cycling commentator: isn't this terrain beautiful? Sean Kelly: I have cycled it, no I do not like it. 010
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 14/07/2026There is no story. Shame. (I then watched two documentaries about it. People's reluctance to admit the problem was with the underdeveloped script is fascinating.) (Also, the harvard prologue and boat epilogue added nothing not already covered by the photo.) #filmsky 110
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I watched the director's cut of Heaven's Gate last night. I am now watching the Soderburgh butcher's cut. Suspect this is sunk cost fallacy but I want to believe that someone can wrestle a story out of the beautiful shots. #filmsky 020
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I may have found a stirred cocktail that is too medicinal for me. Gin, green chartreuse and cocchi Americano. 000
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 09/07/2026They were my dad's! I didn't ask to be read for filth like this. 030
Reposted by Made of words and moviesJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 06/07/2026Want the long read on the Lib Dem organiser who ended up doing graphs for Fox Weather. 931843
Reposted by Made of words and moviesRichy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Brits are asleep. Post cultural treasures. 1339
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 05/07/2026This was me when out for lunch with my SO the other day. He tried very hard to be patient. 030
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I tried to listen to the tg4 coverage of the tour. My Irish really needs work. 020
Reposted by Made of words and moviesBen @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 01/07/2026what's ecclesiastical latin for "WHAT'S UP YOUTUBE today we're doing the PAPAL SCHISM CHALLENGE" 48627
Reposted by Made of words and moviesAlistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 27/06/2026Civil servants can't attend pride, nurses can't wear a Palestine badge, but Hillary Cass can speak at Jordan Peterson's conference 👍 8404134
Made of words and movies @hfnuala.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Gentlefolk of the jury, I present to you, the worst spoon yet. 080
Reposted by Made of words and moviesSridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Reflections on memorizing the Snellen chart: PROS • Optometrists are often impressed with and praise my eyes. CONS • I haven't owned a correctly prescribed pair of glasses since childhood. • Difficulties with tasks requiring use of sight. 532126