Reposted by Patrick ChristiePaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires 4233484656
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Can't believe I'm saying this but Flea's Jazz album is actually... quite... good? 020
Reposted by Patrick ChristieMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/09/2026thinking about this tweet again, and the fact that it's got such a hold on me that I genuinely think about it whenever I write a feature because I don't want to do "the hot dog thing" 602548269
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I once dined in a Wolverhampton Travel Lodge with this man 120
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Enjoyed the launch of @markabowles.bsky.social excellent new book 'How Do People Say the Same' last night 151
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026There are more Nazis in [London] now than there were in 1938 010
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Hate to say it but I am intrigued by Nigel Farage's suggestion of 'Black velvet' (Guinness with a champagne top) as an accompaniment to oysters. 010
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel 150
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Having just finished 'The Quantity Theory of Morality', I don't think it's very effective satire but, by casting himself as a character, Will Self shows he has much more self-awareness than I would have expected. 021
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Colleague, emailing: 'Hope you're well Patrick! Could you review this document for me?' Me, replying: 'I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp.' 120
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Has anyone ever looked cooler than Miles on the cover of Milestones? 050
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Compliments to @markabowles.bsky.social for a superb follow up to his debut. It's a stubborn book (in keeping with its narrator, Patrick) and refuses to reveal itself easily to the reader. Part of me is tempted to read it again backwards 261
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026For those that revere Italian cuisine, I present to you, the sandwich cake 031
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I was at a beach club recently playing an AI-produced soul playlist and I had to ask them to change it eventually www.theguardian.com/music/ng-int...theguardian.com‘I feel like I’m at war’: are we losing the battle against machine-made music?Despite outcry from musicians, AI slop is creeping into the charts as record labels scramble to adapt to a new normal where hits can be made at the click of a button 120
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026A tribute to Bernhard *and* a send up of academic malaise in contemporary HE? The Sick List from @ansgarallen.bsky.social is great fun 063
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Buying tickets to see Bob Dylan on his Rough and Rowdy Ways tour for the third time I think 020
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026A Booker longlist with multiple books I actually want to read?! 030
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Brits really don't understand how deeply fucking strange they are www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukFeeling gutted? Five ways to cope with England's World Cup defeatAfter England’s loss, fans and experts share their tips for managing the disappointment. 110
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026@causticcovercritic.bsky.social — are you acquainted with Neil the Seal? 110
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026A nice young man came to my door the other day selling copies of 'Internationalism: Journal of Marxist Analysis'. I told him I'd see their posters up around the tube station. 'Those aren't us. They belong to another Marxist group,' he replied. 140
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Rather than an old adage, this is a foundational principal of talking therapy 020
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Very much enjoying Shadow Lines and discovering that I can summon @nicholasroyle.bsky.social to my door by ordering some chapbooks from the wonderful Nightjar Press. 1134
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Is anyone else planning to swelter in a disused car park on Thursday for the Fitzcaraldo Summer party? 110
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 18/06/2026In bed with a fever, rewatching I Am Legend and I had forgotten that Emma Thompson effectively causes the end of the world 010
Reposted by Patrick ChristieEmily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 07/06/2026I think we should cancel the world cup 6392
Reposted by Patrick ChristieShakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 03/06/2026One hundred years ago today, a baby was born with a HOWL! Happy birthday, Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997). Poet, prophet, and one of the great friends of our bookshop. (Photo by Jack Hazzard from the Shakespeare and Company archives) @citylightsbooks.bsky.social 47510
Reposted by Patrick ChristieBarrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 31/05/2026On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy 434482872
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 27/05/2026I'll ask you, my Bluesky friends, since this is a non-judgemental space: how do you pronounce Percy Bysshe Shelley's middle name? 490
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 17/05/2026My contribution to the Middlemarch discussions is that I think 'Raffles' would make an excellent name for a cat 020
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 16/05/20265 Virginia Wolfs in the top 100 but not a single Don DeLillo 120
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 15/05/2026What a cute little girl young unbreeched H.P. Lovecraft was... is not a sentence I expected to write. 100
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Re-reading On the Road and just learnt that the elder statesman of the group William Burroughs (aka Old Bull Lee) is... 35 during the narrative 020
Reposted by Patrick ChristieJessica Alice @jessicaalice.bsky.social · 15/05/2026'The danger isn’t that AI will replace writers or render the workshop obsolete. It’s that students are becoming accustomed to bypassing the friction that once revealed their process.' www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...theguardian.comI knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah NathanThe problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words 052
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 14/05/2026The sad feeling when you get out the wool coat you thought you'd put away for the year 000
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 13/05/2026The top 10 votes of each of the individual judges is much more interesting that the 'definitive list' www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...theguardian.comThe 100 best novels of all timeA countdown of the greatest literature ever published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read? 110
Reposted by Patrick ChristieGabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026My novel is coming out in paperback soon with this handsome new cover! If you've been thinking of picking up a copy, please do me a solid and consider putting in a preorder for £10.44, which I understand is roughly the price of a pint in London. Thank you! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/poor... 34414
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 07/05/2026When you go to the ballot box today, there's only one correct choice you can make 010
Reposted by Patrick ChristieRob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026This might be a niche post, but I'm listening to Roxy Music & it hadn't occurred to me before that they're essentially the Bonzo Dog Band but for perverts 9284