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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 2h

There's scarcely been a day's writing when I've not had cause to recall my favourite ever quote from an author about their own work, from a Paris Review interview with John Banville in 2009.

John Banville, speaking to Belina McKeon for The Paris Review in 2009:

INTERVIEWER

Do you really hate your own novels?

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Yes! I hate them. I mean that. Nobody believes me, but it’s true. They’re an embarrassment and a deep source of shame. They’re better than everybody else’s, of course, but not good enough for me. There is a great deal more pain than pleasure in writing fiction. It’s only now and then, maybe once every three or four days, that I manage to write a sentence in which I hear that wonderful harmonic chime that you get when, say, you flick the edge of a wine glass with a fingernail. That’s what keeps me going. When I read the proofs of a new novel—which is the last time I will read or even glance at it—I approach it with one eye closed, so to speak, thinking, God, what am I going to find here? And I find horrors, horrors that can’t be fixed. Everything in the text now seems hopelessly flat and deadened. Where I imagined a dancing rhythm, I find clumping and stumbling.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 6h

Self-Portrait — Nelson Shanks, 1987

Oil painting of a blonde bearded man in a faded denim jacket holding brushes in his hands. He has turned to look back over his shoulder at us, or at himself, with a searching expression — "searching expression" is such a cliché — I hate trying to put words to facial expressions. He might be startled, turning in surprise to find himself behind himself. He might be judgemental, weighing us in his gaze or weighing himself. I guess one thing I'd say is that he looks like he is not as uncertain about whatever he sees as I am.
I hunted a bit, but I couldn't find a higher quality file for this image. :(

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 8h

All the more annoying because I adore the film, but The Nice Guys is set in the summer of 1977 and has posters of the artwork for Never Mind The Bollocks (not released until August) and Pennie Smith's famous shot of Paul Simenon of The Clash (taken in September 1979).

Still from The Nice Guys (2016). Russell Crowe stands next to a bed on which Margaret Qualley is lying, in a teenager's bedroom. There are music posters on the walls.

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Steve Little @stevelittle.bsky.social · 8h

Fridges, like light switches, washing machines or doorbells, really don’t need to be online

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The Wee Owl Studio, Art 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @theweeowl.bsky.social · 12h

A little postcard size hare drawing. This original can be sent direct as a gift with a message and will easily fit in a standard letterbox. Will be appreciated by any nature lover... folksy.com/find/item/86... #Hare #AnimalArt #Drawing #ColourPencil #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ShopIndy #NatureArt #bsnm

A postcard size drawing of a hare with windblown grasses in yellow and brown autumnal tones. The drawing has a blue background.
An original art work, please note that the frame is not included.
Colour pencil on white acid free artist watercolour paper (postcard size).
Approximately 4 by 6 inches (10.16 x 15.24 cm) will fit into a standard 4 by 6 inch photo frame.

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 16h

Ohhh... so, is this why pre-decimal European money worked the way it did? Decimals don't make sense in a ratio world? (Basically the only book I've read on the history of measurement is Hasok Chang's amazing Inventing Temperature; frantically googling)

$A short excerpt from Jim Tolpin and George Walker's By Hand and Eye: "The language of the artisans was all about finding, generating and laying out whole-number ratios with a compass and straightedge. They were not using rulers to work to arithmetic derivations of a numbered measurement. So while using a scale based on one to 10 works fine to resolve numerical formulas, you do often end up with decimal fractions of a whole number. That would require an artisan to lay out to a numbered ruler – not to mention having to deal with decimal places. Another downside in using base-10 is that 10 doesn’t readily break down in whole-number fractions: You are limited to 1/5 and 1/2. A one-to-12 scale, on the other hand, gives you 1/6, 1/4, 1/3 and 1/2 – the ratios of which can be easily counted out on one hand (thank you ancient Babylonians) as shown in the drawing below. Note that you use your thumb as the counting cursor."$

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We all need a timeline cleanse, so here is the most adorable #chess piece ever! A knight, made of antler. Dating 11/12th century. Found at the Burgstein, Lichtenstein-Holzelfingen. 📷️ me

A carved chess piece representing a knight, depicted in an abstract, stylized form with a triangular head, amd wide circular eyes,. The figure has a hunched, cylindrical body and is displayed on a dark surface with an other game pieces and a die nearby.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Finally got around to selling this and I’m sad to see it go but as needs must. Will be selling a lot of kit over the next few weeks including the cameras I used for Outsiders.

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

YORKSHIRE FAMILIES! My Harrogate family comedy show is at 1pm tomorrow and there are still some tickets available. 🔗 www.harrogatetheatre.co.uk/events/olaf-...

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Steve Little @stevelittle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Count me in, always wanted to be in a shadowy secret society!

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Steve Little @stevelittle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Think it’s real. Good offer, worth thinking about

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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

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Steve Little @stevelittle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Really looking forward to seeing this Tony, nice one!

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Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

'Passing through' Glen Coe from Beinn a' Chrùlaiste 2016 #Scotland #GlenCoe #Lochaber www.damianshields.com

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Top-tier weird little guy on an incantation bowl from Nippur, Iraq, c 500 BCE, in the Penn Museum.

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Steve Little @stevelittle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Not sure what else they need to do to be a fascist state

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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

BOSS: it has come to my attention that one of you is a cannibal BILL: oh no AMY: oh no JOE: ME: *sipping a cup of joe* oh no

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Steve Little @stevelittle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Can’t really find fault with this course of action …..

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm having a 24 hr flash sale on my upcoming zoom w’shops: *20% OFF*bird illustration & mental health w’shop this Sat AND botanical illustration w’shop 7Nov: Learn to draw plants/birds &how creative activity is like taking 3 different meds for mental health: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/collections?...

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Some 3,400 years ago, an Egyptian artisan captured a sense of speed and elegance in this beautifully carved handle in the shape of a horse! 🐴 ❤️ New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, c. 1390–1352 BC. The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Myles McNutt @memles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My Facebook feed is increasingly algorithmic as my generation stops posting on Facebook, and it’s officially been trained to know there is no genre I love more right now than “Small Business AI FAFO.”

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Steve Little @stevelittle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Ga’an check on the auld gadgie, think his nettie’s knackered” AI……”sorry what?”

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Steve Little @stevelittle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Had to be, all the gold crayons were eaten

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Way back when, I canvassed Twitter for similar tales. My favourite, and one I still think about eight years later, was this.

Tweet from @michaelkellyk: My brother @feenish told an american visitor that the 4 provinces of Ireland were Ulster, Munster, Funster, and Gunster.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Absolute trash, by trash people who are not scientists

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is AWFUL — it’s exhausting being an author in the age of mass AI copyright fraud. If you can, support Alex (a real historian) against the fake copy 👇

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Steve Little @stevelittle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Scrolled past this a few times and keep thinking it’s a trebuchet

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Steve Little @stevelittle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wait til she hears about chicken!!

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You what, Sandra?

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Rebecca @rebeccafpainter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hooray. My messy self portrait is going to be in the fabulous Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall gallery next month. I'll post up details for the exhibition nearer the time!!

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Steve Little @stevelittle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And women like Gisele Pelicot, who reverse the shame back onto the men, dragging them out of the shadows. But Jesus, how women aren’t burning everything to the ground I don’t know

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is

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Steve Little @stevelittle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Multiple reports a day of men raping women, in all countries, from all backgrounds. Drugged wives, students, being knocked out. Just fucking awful. Is it worse than it’s been? Is there an element of being emboldened by folk like Trump getting re-elected. Act without consequence. Even get rewards.

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smtm_LFC1975 @smtmlfc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mate just sent me this. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Jack Mendel @mendeljack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The outpouring of antisemitic conspiratorial bile on the streets of London really shames this City. This is what has been enabled by a political environment that says it's OK to harass and discriminate against Jews - because Jews are a rich and powerful class so you must rail against them

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 07/10/2026

Mars’s oddest cloud may be even odder than we thought 🤔 Every spring and summer in Mars’s southern hemisphere a spectacular cloud emerges: the Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud, the most visually striking cloud on the Red Planet. 🔭 🧪

Tan-coloured horizontal rectangle showing part of the surface of Mars imaged by an orbiting satellite. On the right is a ring of concentric circles that indicate a volcano. Stretching to the left of the volcano is a long wisp of white cloud, which seems to emanate from the volcano. We also see the shadow of the cloud just above the cloud itself. CREDIT: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin

Tan-coloured horizontal rectangle showing part of the surface of Mars imaged by an orbiting satellite. Above the curved horizon is space. To the lower right of the image is a volcano. Stretching to the left of the volcano is a long wisp of white cloud, which seems to emanate from the volcano. We also see the shadow of the cloud just below the cloud itself. CREDIT: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin

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The Wee Owl Studio, Art 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @theweeowl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Something for Halloween or a gift idea for an animal lover. This wolf drawing is an original, just the size of a postcard. Available on Folksy... folksy.com/find/item/87... #Wolf #AnimalArt #OriginalArt #Drawing #ColourPencil #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #GiftIdeas #ShopIndy #NatureArt #bsnm

A postcard size drawing of a wolf howling at the moon.
Wolves were once numerous in Britain, but sadly now extinct. The species was progressively exterminated from Britain through a combination of deforestation and hunting.
An original art work, please note that the frame is not included.
Colour pencil on white acid free artist watercolour paper (postcard size).
Approximately 4 by 6 inches (10.16 x 15.24 cm) will fit into a standard 4 by 6 inch photo frame.

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

me, arriving for the party after spending all day reading old books in the library

Puss in boots with his paws in the air from Doré’s illustrations for Perrault

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.

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