henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 21hall the reviews are damning, seems getting a vogue editor to curate an art show was not optimal 110
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 21h90s exhibition at Tate Britain seems to be a trainwreck. entertaining 230
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Jerry Hall somehow so weird I don't think she's American anymore but I don't think I could spend too much time in close proximity to her 030
Reposted by henrylastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I have a huge preference for (2) let me recreate Circles and go full depression posting again please I beg you 5625
Reposted by henryKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 08/10/2026“I am presently in Iceland, listening to the wind” is my new email auto-response. 39814
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Anne Carson! A reasonable-to-good pick, for my money. Nox and If Not Winter are really good books. It's also cool to award it to a translator 010
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026think the Nobel in Literature has really nailed intrigue because the list of laureates like 6-7/10 as Best Writers Since 1901. Any more and it's too obvious, any less and it's too shit 220
Reposted by henryuniversally boo-loved @ziva.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the rainbow honor walk in sf lol 20537159
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If you say "used to" again I will egg your house Hull boy 020
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026yeah the Concordat of 1801 (which also governs the salaries) between Napoleon and the Church is still in force in Alsace-Lorraine 050
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026it's also possibly the only place in the world where Catholic bishops aren't chosen by the pope 340
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026this really isn't a compliment but I have Anne Carson, Addlia Prado, Louise Erdrich in the lead I think 020
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I have actually checked this in the past and the answer is that they do but it's all in cryptic, elliptical jargon in various listservs 170
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026this guy is way too hot to be winning the Nobel Prize now. I neither like nor trust it 140
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026just finished The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick. one of the all-time great titles imho 020
Reposted by henryNormal Guy @guy-normal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026(stuck at two bars on the Glastonbury site) Stoicism has always been one of the great philosophies of our time (at three bars) To the winner, the spoils 😏 1133
Reposted by henryhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026(confused) I believe LLMs are conscious, but only Deepseek LLMs, because of the Chinese Room theory 361869275
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Christ, had missed this. Heartbreaking. Hope he recovers www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...theguardian.com‘Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. So I’m sharing mine’: Michael Kiwanuka on life after his devastating strokeThe Mercury prize winner hasn’t been able to go home since falling ill last summer. In his only interview, he opens up about the ‘poignancy’ of finally releasing the new album his stroke shelved 031
Reposted by henryIn Quires and Places where they meme @quiresandplaces.com · 01/10/2026Ugh, don't you hate spem mail? 1285
Reposted by henryAl Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The BBC does genuinely seem to be trying to save money where it can; they scrapped an undercover investigation where Amol Rajan went out clubbing with a view to exposing the easy access to poppers because they didn't want to pay for the Amol night rate 1225856
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026it also has solidified me in my opinion that although Austerlitz is his most complete, most important and probably "greatest" work, Rings of Saturn is his best and most readable book. I find its subtlety absolutely astonishing 010
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I feared the unpicking might ruin the stories for me. the books are at home in Norfolk (appropriately) so I can't check first-hand but I think they're safe so far. which is good 110
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026(is anyone working on a Marías biography? if not I'll go learn Spanish and move to Madrid I guess) 010
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026suppose the other option for the next book is one which leaves the detective work of school reports and whatnot to Angier and focuses on him as a literary figure in his own context. eg Javier Marías, who I think is his key contemporary really, only appears once in the whole book & in passing 210
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026think it would be game-changing if his widow cooperated and/or his correspondence was in an archive somewhere. possibility for a wildly different account, I assume more flattering 110
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026have now finished the Angier bte. I genuinely gasped with delight at the discovery that one of Sebald's sources was the great naturalist Ted Ellis. a name I've known for as long as I can remember because he was responsible for the lovely, haunting dioramas in Norwich Castle 110
Reposted by henryMayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'm not saying the Manchester City board weren't on top of things but they submitted one page of their last accounts *sideways*. 052
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026it's like they're living in the world from juso siromage's famous novel , 'deafness" 110
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026it's also a thesis which relies on a level of historical ignorance which would be embarrassing in a GCSE student but we can put our differences to one side for a common cause here 020
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026would *anything* be lost analytically if we all agreed to stop calling things "post-material"? signs point to no! 160
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026which is also the driver behind a lot of anti-communism as a movement capable of inspiring improvised, extreme violence - the massacres of priests in 30s Spain and Russia is at the heart of the postwar European imagination in so so many places. I'll shut up now 020
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026also that clericalism/anti-clericalism remains a superlatively motivating dividing line in most European polities up until, like, the 70s? 80s? and as much as being a front in the Cold War as we imagine it, Europe is really fighting the battles of the French Revolution 140
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026this is sort of my great obsession. but to save time I'll limit myself to noting that "anti-communism" is a quite unhelpful word in a way because it implies a passive, inchoate sentiment when it was actually an intense ideological commitment for many groups, including para-state orgs and terrorists 140
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026have just finished the Trentmann, and am 150ish pages into the Angier 221
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yes, definitely! Even if it's consent in the abstract, the ability to credibly enforce and to all-but-solve the collective action problem which dooms many issues with strong support remains a staggering exercise of power 010
Reposted by henryAlex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Also this obviously youtu.be/Ue1U9Se6jQI?...youtu.beMike Skinner Backstage Peter Mandelson Went Mad | Turn The Page Live | The StreetsYouTube video by stan tonkin 162
henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026imagine being a bear minding your own business doing standard bearish activities and suddenly Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers is saying he loves you. I'd file a report with the police 110
Reposted by henryLRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 23/09/2026this is daft. driving passengers away is the whole point of a bus 5780100
