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literally in the next 48 hours! be aware!

Fun spin last night on the profusion of @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social drops over at @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social, this time via a delightfully INCORRECT "Who is Smiley?" How we hooted and/or hollered! The correct answer, of course, was Jack Ryan, for whom I have an *almost* Smiley-like affection...

Jeopardy! contestant Rian Roberston incorrectly guesses (George) Smiley.

Jeopardy! answer reading "'The Cardinal of the Kremlin'" features not a priest but an exposed CIA spy in the USSR with this Tom Clancy man trying to save him."

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CDM @imajica.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is a connection...between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth also the age of Shakespeare...(John F. Kennedy. Also Toby Zeigler.)

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 25/09/2026

Went to the Kill Jackie premier last night in London. UNBELIEVABLY FUN :) (Also kind of an earth-shaking, life milestone moment for me personally. 20 years ago I wrote The Gone-Away World having bounced off the film industry pretty hard, and here I am with a show...)

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2013: $380,000 Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2026: $14,600,000 He cashed in and sold out Michiganders.

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CDM @imajica.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cozying up amongst our entire Tinker Tailor collection, with the taped-up Parker Duofold rollerball pen that I stole from the Tradecraft exhibit in Oxford (please don't tell @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social), ready to listen to @barackobama.bsky.social talk about my favorite book of all time. Let's go.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 23/09/2026

My relentless assault on your good nature and your Autumn/Winter shopping list is beginning... Bookshop.org is offering a 20% discount on pre-orders of The Taper Man until 27th of this month (code below). Get 'em while they're hot!

Purple card with the Taper Man book jacket - a silhouetted man in a long coat and hat walking pensively with hands behind his back from left to right, set in a hazy beam of light against a monochrome silver nitrate US flag hung vertically with the stars top right. TEXT BOX: 20%
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23-27 Sept. Supporting Indie bookshops. T&Cs apply etc etc.

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CDM @imajica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Honestly cannot wait for @barackobama.bsky.social to talk with @rhodesben.bsky.social about TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY in 2 days. If either of you gentlemen find yourself in Des Moines for any reason, please stop by the Musée du Cirque for a tour and a chat about @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026

Finally saw that Converse ad. My dudes, I'm the whitest of white people and even I saw what the fuck that looked like (don't post the ad in my comments, thanks)

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CDM @imajica.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My mom passed away a year ago today. So I'm seeing a movie, by myself, as I tend to do when I'm sad. GHOST IN THE SHELL (the OG, not that live action crap), first time on the big screen. Should distract me for 90 minutes.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Streisand Effect. Congrats, Robert Kraft and pro genocide supporters. You've just made Macklemore and his speech mentioning "Free Palestine" into a global issue, galvanizing the majority.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Looks like a certain petulant brat got his saggy ass handed to him by a strong woman. You know how much he must have delighted in that. Thank you, President Connolly!

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Everywhere you look real knowledge is being fenced off, but slop is always available for free

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Released today! Special edition! I love it!

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CDM @imajica.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm usually firing these off at @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social when the @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social folks talk Smiley and spies, but I had a feeling in my bones as soon as LITERARY OPENERS popped that we'd see this @greatdismal.bsky.social banger. Sure enough. ❤️

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 03/09/2026

Re-upping this, because as we all know you can announce things half a dozen times and still have your friends say "wait, why didn't you tell me?" :) My show. V exciting. (I did nothing, by the way, except write the book. All honours go to everyone else!)

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CDM @imajica.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The most fun I have in curating my @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social collection is adding pieces with a fictional provenance, whimsically bound to the Circus but not strictly of it; artifacts that are credible, but not always authentic (a distinction le Carré himself often made in his writing). /thread

Image of an 1836 edition of the German novel SIMPLICISSIMUS, by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen.

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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 10/11/2025

For £1,200 a year, readers receive handpicked books from Heywood Hill, Mayfair’s most storied bookshop, and the personal touch algorithms can’t match ⬇️

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‘An intellectual personal trainer’ — one bookshop’s elite subscription

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CDM @imajica.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Normal Sunday morning nonsense. Hoping to grab the groundhog, got this guy instead. Gentle relocation into a lovely bit of woods complete.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry was not the 80-year-old Home Alone 2 cast member we were asking for.

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Molly Farrell (she/her) @mollyfarrell.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

New World Calculation: The Making of Numbers in Colonial America comes out Aug. 25th! I'm excited to share this with you. I wrote about the lessons about sex, race, class, and power Americans have always learned when they learned to work with numbers. Pre-order here: tinyurl.com/newworldcalculation

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New World Calculation: The Making of Numbers in Colonial America

The Making of Numbers in Colonial America

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CDM @imajica.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

THRILLED to learn that @mollyfarrell.bsky.social has written a book about Colonial American arithmetic primers, as I've had this one in my family since Jefferson was president and have always wanted to know more about these things. Mine is full of wonders and delights ...

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CDM @imajica.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One of the Musée du Cirque's most treasured items: This 1964 copy of THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD by @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social, inscribed by le Carré's conman father Ronnie ("From the father of the author of this book").

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CDM @imajica.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It's been many years since I dashed this list off just to make my hospitalized father laugh. Still astounded that the incomparable @mcsweeneys.net chose to publish it, and delighted that it's still out there. Common Illnesses at the Vatican - McSweeney’s share.google/FdYJX2PlGRMa...

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Common Illnesses at the Vatican

Stigmataberculosis A bad case of the Antichrists Vaticancer St. Francis of Alopecia Exorcysts Blasphemeasles Immaculate consumption Hymnorrhoids Ave Malaria

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CDM @imajica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I hope the @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social folks are as excited about the #TinkerTailor episode of @barackobama.bsky.social 's new pod as I am, and are prepared for The Obama Bounce here in North America. AMERICAN SPY is a fantastic litmus test for the impact President Obama should have on TTSS:

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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

An innovative floating offshore solar project that generates electricity and converts seawater into drinking water. The farm near Gran Canaria produces 85 MW of renewable electricity while using that same power to operate reverse osmosis systems that desalinate seawater #ActOnClimate #renewables

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CDM @imajica.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

As you descend into the Musée du Cirque towards ground level (Smiley Art Gallery; the David John Moore Cornwell Memorial Library; le Carréphemera; the gift shop), please enjoy a Cover Story worthy of a grand spymaster: Every cover @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social ever appeared on. We think. Pretty sure.

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John le Carré @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Amazon’s Audible and Higher Ground, Barack and Michelle Obama’s media company, announced “A Great Book with Barack Obama,” a new original podcast hosted by the 44th U.S. president about the books that have “profoundly shaped his worldview and our society.” Read more: variety.com/.../barack-o...

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ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

this is why we cant have nice things pay your artists, pay your craftsmen

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Dan DeFreest @dandefreest.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Blanche was confirmed as AG. Just a reminder: The last time a president appointed an attorney he had personal ties to, was when Nixon appointed his law partner and campaign manager John Mitchell. Mitchell ended up disbarred and spent 2 yrs in prison for his role as AG protecting Nixon.

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CDM @imajica.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Musée du Cirque has recently acquired this wonderful original print of @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social, and honestly I've been poring over it like Smiley did with his single negative from the Blue Diamond honey trap. Taken by the legendary Italian photographer and film producer Marina Cicogna ...

British novelist John le Carré is pictured in repose, listening to a figure seen only in shadow. He has his hands loosely clasped and is wearing large circular cufflinks. The photo was taken around 1975.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 26/07/2026

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 21/07/2026

In non-Westminster news :) (The *offer* is this month - the *book* comes out in November!)

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CDM @imajica.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"The rancid sadism of dull men" is God Tier summarizationing.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This awful creature has had a stranglehold on America for 10 years because people support and enable him, whether due to racism, stupidity, or access to power and financial enrichment. We've been violated and robbed of time. I hope I live long enough to his demise, for history to tell the truth

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CDM @imajica.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

!!! Scrolling through the inventory of "Books From the Library of Jane & David Cornwell at Tregiffian," because of course I am, and spotted this gem that I'd kick an old lady down some concrete stairs to get my hands on. And I'd pay more than £450! Call me, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk cc @nickharkaway.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Hundreds of Ukrainian drones now swarming on Moscow. Possible #explodey

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 16/06/2026

i will say it again: “grieving” a child (in this case a 30-year-old fully grown adult) for being gay/trans because you expected and wanted something different for them is a sign of a bad parent and should be widely regarded as unacceptable

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