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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ Slava Ukraini.

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Donate to Ukraine’s defenders

The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

To paraphrase Zelensky, 'I don't need reposts, I need bullets'. Please join me in donating to Ukraine. Please give any amount that you can. There are multiple options for which specific cause to support at the link below. war.ukraine.ua/donate/

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Donate to Ukraine’s defenders

The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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Julian Simpson @juliansimpson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Watching Joffrey and Reek trying to bully Jon Snow was quite a thing.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Slava Ukraini.

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Jack Jewers @jackjewers.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

My wife just got Marie Curie and Marie Celeste confused, which let me tell you made for a baffling conversation about the charity collectors who just called round.

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Jack Jewers @jackjewers.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Happy pub day to @jamesbluecat.bsky.social for the magnificent PAGANS. Set in an alternative 2025 London where the Norman Conquest never happened, it combines grisly crime with fantasy in the greatest way possible. Imagine The Bridge meets Vikings. JUST SO GOOD. www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...

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Buy Pagans by James Alistair Henry from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 27/02/2025

Oh, man, not Gene Hackman. 2025 can just fuck right off. Okay. Let me tell you a little bit about Gene Hackman...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I mean obviously that's going to be part of your assessment, but it has been very thoroughly covered. It is not the main story here. And yet the old rule applies: No matter who wins, we act like the far-right are either triumphant today or inevitable tomorrow.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Merz v.firm on European independence from US. Dovish Scholz not going to be part of coalition talks, opening space for more hawkish Pistorius. Stable grand coalition possible. Europe is much stronger today. And yet most reporters are unable to see beyond their pre-written 'AfD triumphant' headline.

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Jon Dies At The End @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is glorious.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A French way of saying something is tip-top, especially a fine wine, is c’est le petit Jésus en culotte de velours. It means “it’s the baby Jesus in velvet underpants.”

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I have literally been having this conversation with my husband for the last two weeks Life turned into a Jerry Bruckheimer movie and that is making spy novels seem suddenly unbelievably tame. What to do, what to do… www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

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Opinion | What’s a spy novelist to do in the age of Trump?

John le Carré had it easy during the Cold War. But how do we write espionage thrillers now?

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The NY Times article on the Murdoch family succession battle is simply fascinating. It's long but worth it. Get yourself a cup of coffee and read the whole thing. And the Nevada commissioner in the case ends his decision with this very pleasing flourish. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/m...

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

With regards to that thread I RT'd (?) just now, I have to say the one thing I kept reading was how little the publishers would invest in yr debut novel, but @moonflowerbooks.bsky.social have been AMAZING getting word out there, interviews and everything, I am in grateful awe.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/02/2025

just saw someone in the FT comments section referring to Tesla as the swasticar

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

“the collapse of twitter, but make it the US government” was supposed to be a warning not a playbook

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

"If you miss #TheTraitors, don't worry, The Apprentice is back next week" yeah alright, if you miss Christmas don't worry, it's Ash Wednesday next week. Fuck are you on about.

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The Traitors a good example of how despite the many strengths of Netflix and co they can’t come close to creating the national discourse moments, the WhatsApp group chats, next day in the office discussions that live TV, and in particular the BBC, do so well.

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This is a tiny reminder that you are not required to read every news story all day long. Our parents were exposed to news twice a day – in the morning paper and at 6 o'clock on the TV. Our grandparents absorbed even less news. You can turn it off any time you want.

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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The generation which thought media studies was some snowflaky fad is persistently conned by the media it consumes, weird

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I've always loved the fact that the word 'sneeze' is the result of a historical accident. The original form, in the Middle Ages, was 'fnese', but someone mistook the 'f' for the long medieval 's' and wrote down 'sn-' instead. Fneezing sounds much more like a proper, nasal sneeze.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

This puts it well & it’s a point I keep making about why using AI to write is so flattening. Writing is the process of working out & refining what you think. If I write an article, I’m not just generating 1000 plausible words. I’m trying to articulate ideas with precision, & challenging myself.

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Ah damn. David Lynch's films were so unsettling and strange. When it first ran, I would never watch Twin Peaks alone. My friends and I would get together to watch it. We pretended we did it for fun, but it was really because we were afraid. The visionaries scare us.

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The Secret History Of Hollywood Podcast @attaboyclarence.com · 16/01/2025

The surrealist master departs David Lynch (1946-2025) #davidlynch

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Jack Jewers @jackjewers.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Wife and I both v tired and wanted to unwind in front of something fun but couldn’t face either comedy or big shouty TV. Anyway TLDR we’re watching Columbo and I am very happy.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 13/01/2025

'Modelling the Marlene Dietrich style trouser suit above Regent Street, 1933.' Fred Morley

woman in a suit stood on a roof overlooking a street, she is smoking

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Jack Jewers @jackjewers.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

So glad to have discovered this. It's a cartoon depicting my 8th great grandmother hosting a literary salon in Paris. Drawn in 1843 by Louis Lurine. (About a hundred years after she died so one assumes it's not from memory.)

A woman dressed in 18th century clothes welcomes a man into her home.

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Here I am on Sky News with Anthony Blunt and the Queen. Just another Tuesday morning! Thanks @news.sky.com for having me on to talk about double-agents, and how truth is stranger than fiction in the world of espionage.

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Jack Jewers @jackjewers.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

These are extraordinary. Thinking of friends in LA.

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I can’t stop thinking about this page of allegations from Blake Lively’s lawsuit. If this could happen to an A-list actress on a set for a movie that made $350 million, it could happen to anyone on any kind of set.

night, which he said was important to him because he and his partner climax simultaneously during
intercourse. Mr. Baldoni then intrusively asked Ms. Lively whether she and her husband climax
simultaneously during intercourse, which Ms. Lively found invasive and refused to discuss.
35. On the day of shooting the scene in which Ms. Lively's character gives birth, Mr.
Baldoni and Mr. Heath suddenly pressured Ms. Lively to simulate full nudity, despite no mention of nudity
for this scene in the script, her contract, or in previous creative discussions. Mr. Baldoni insisted to Ms.
Lively that women give birth naked, and that his wife had "ripped her clothes off during labor. He claimed it was "not normal" for women to remain in their hospital gowns while giving birth. Ms. Lively
disagreed, but felt forced into a compromise that she would be naked from below the chest down.®
36. When the birth scene was filmed, the set was chaotic, crowded and utterly lacking
in standard industry protections for filming nude scenes-such as choregraphing the scene with an
intimacy coordinator, having a signed nudity rider, or simply turning off the monitors so the scene was not broadcast to all crew on set (and on their personal phones and iPad). Mr. Heath and Mr. Baldoni also
failed to close the set, allowing non-essential crew to pass through while Ms. Lively was mostly nude with
her legs spread wide in stirrups and only a small piece of fabric covering her genitalia. Among the non-
essential persons present that day was Wayfarer co-Chairman Mr. Sarowitz, who flew in for one of his
few set visits. Ms. Lively was not provided with anything to cover herself with between takes until after
she had made multiple requests. Ms. Lively became even more alarmed when Mr. Baldoni introduced his
"best friend" to play the role of the OBGYN, when ordinarily, a small role of this nature would be filled
by a local actor. Ms. Lively felt that the selection of Mr. Baldoni's friend for this intimate role,…

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Jack Jewers @jackjewers.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Re-posting this particularly for anyone who's stressed about cooking Christmas dinner. This is hands down the greatest Christmas cooking tip I know. Gives turkey a delicious, Christmassy flavour and stops it drying out. SO easy and takes away so much pressure. This is why we love Nigella.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Oh ffs Why is everyone in thrall to this AI grift? It's shoddy and always will be, people don't like using it, and it won't make or save money in a way that compensates for all the bad stuff that it produces. It is a bad investment as well as trashing individuals' rights over their own data.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Helen Viola Jackson died today in 2020. She was 101 years old. In September 1936, aged 17, she had married James Bolin who was then 93. Bolin had served in the 14th Missouri cavalry during the Civil War. Ms Jackson was therefore the last widow of a Civil War soldier.

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Moonflower Books @moonflowerbooks.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Let's face it – Dads are hard to buy for. But panic no longer... here's the perfect gift. The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys has something for everyone – pirates, shenanigans at sea, murders in the navy yard, secret societies, AND MORE. Still time to order for Christmas! www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Diary-S...

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Jack Jewers @jackjewers.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

'Monopoly contactless' just doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

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Jack Jewers @jackjewers.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Looked up the French actor Michel Simon on Wikipedia and this paragraph is... Quite something.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The secret to enjoying Christmas is to create your own traditions, otherwise easy to become trapped in the husk of something you used to enjoy as a child, but it’s not always easy.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This is sort of fascinating because if you were to turn on pretty much any talk radio station or pick up any tabloid, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was the inverse.

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Jack Jewers @jackjewers.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

During research for my new book I was reminded of a few rather grim facts about the Great Fire of London. I think it's fairly well-known now that the traditional idea that only a small handful of people died is a total canard. Only a few were *recorded* but the truth is somewhat different.

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Jack Jewers @jackjewers.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I can only assume that these lunatics who voted for the Central Line have never taken it east of Liverpool Street in the summer. Fairly sure I saw actual Satan on there once looking sweaty as he fanned himself with a copy of the Metro.

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

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