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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This is meltingly, heart-stoppingly, delicately beautiful. And completely new to me. Thank you.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Also, what a fucking name. '5 years of Hard Labour' is a Victorian prison sentence, not a winning party slogan.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

As we used to say in the good old days of Twitter Dot Com, this man is Very Bald. 'Happiness is when line go up', but unironically. 🙄

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

5 until I'm disappointed in humanity, at which point I switch to 2. (I've now been solidly at 2 for almost 46 years.)

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Dan Wooton's commitment to providing excellent follow-lists is the only thing about him worthier than the nitrogen he will one day release into the soil.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

'Professional' used to be synonymous with 'autonomous'. Lawyers, bank managers, doctors, teachers: the whole idea was that these were highly-educated professionals who could be trusted. Over 30+ years, nonsense about 'post-code lotteries' and other drivers of centralisation sucked the autonomy out.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

It is a sign people think you worth bothering with if you are involved with all that, if that's a silver lining. Which it probably isn't. Sorry. (When it is evident that no-one is ever going to promote you to any position at all, it gives you a little freedom to switch off the nonsense.)

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

My son just came out of the bathroom singing 'Another wee bites the dust', in case you were wondering what an idyllic Sunday sounds like.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I can never not love Pablo Neruda. 'I have no other star' is timeless.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The only thing Israel could ever do to attract negative consequences from the West is the only moral thing it could ever do: become a single, multi-ethnic, multi-religious, genuinely democratic social democracy, beginning with a truly open Truth and Reconciliation committee and the Right to Return.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

This is a subtweet of Almost All Media Britain.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It's the most visible thing. It's the thing tens of millions are watching across the world. Every single time, some lickspittle Dem crawls out of the wood to imply that all sorts of massively important things are happening, just out of shot. That's no fucking good. Max visibility, max opposition

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I can't stand orange wine, though.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Taylor's in Oxford Covered Market: cajun chicken with sweet chilli mayo and rocket, on home-made olive focaccia, might be the best shop-bought sandwich ever. Helps that their brownies and samosas are also ridiculously good.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

If calling for the US to stop arming a genocide in Palestine was naïve because 'it won't make any difference'... Explain how poor Zelenskyy has had to come crawling to the US after ONE DAY of Trump withdrawing funding? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Liberals, looking at the world, and deciding that the REAL villain is an elderly environmentalist. For True Blue Dems, even the worst fascist is a misguided friend, who can be brought back into the fold; meanwhile, the mildest socialist is anathema, scum, needing to be crushed utterly.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

We must learn to live on and on with our wounds, as Beckett wrote.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Poor 'tony' finally got around to blocking me, I see. I imagine he's still adding as much value as before.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I'm not remotely organized enough to do this, but these look gorgeous. Any chance you could box up some Wednesday leftovers?

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Another stellar contribution, 'tony'. Thought-provoking stuff.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

This is your entire history of thoughts on this platform, 'tony'. In one month. I'd be more concerned about your own mental vacuum sucking you into the void than diving in to judge an idle thought by someone else.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Derrida destroyed him utterly in Specters of Marx. But somehow people still quote the zombie discourse.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

She was still processing a lot of raw feelings about Aeneas.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

That nurse was hauled up again and again for her horrible verbal bullying. Which, of course, this yoghurt-brained harridan will never mention, because she's gone full Rowling.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I was literally just saying to a colleague this morning that this was exactly the kind of late-winter sunlight that would make Radcliffe Square look spectacular. Thank you confirming!

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Need to read this myself - I shall take that as a recommendation. What a fascinating man he was.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

THANK YOU! Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World is also written by a woman, also English, and more than a century earlier. And what about Lucian in the 2nd century?

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Once again, for the hard of thinking Vote Blue No Matter Who Dems: this is on you, too. The problem ISN'T Trump. Every society has had aged, reckless, violent, idiotic buffoons. The problem is a system that allows a creature like that anywhere near power. YOU are part of that system.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

A friend suggested going to one of these at the start of the year - well, without the tequila. I didn't think it would be my thing, but it was such a supportive atmosphere! Some great poetry, too.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Well, I have a ticket now, anyway...this is the last week, and I've been wanting to go for ages. I hope it's wonderful.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

That's quite the claim. I have not heard it said before that Ash Sarkar has learned nothing. What makes you write that?

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Have any of my mutuals been to the Silk Roads exhibition at the British Museum? Was thinking of going in on Wednesday.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Came here to post this: my absolute favourite Buckley song, and in my top 5 songs ever.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Oh, be careful...I tend to proselytise an awful lot about it. But do take the plunge - it's incredible.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Worth checking around where you are for vintage shops/dry cleaners who do alterations - if it fits everywhere except length, that's not a massive job, and it would be worth it if you really love it. If you are Cambridge-based, these people look decent. cambridgetailor.co.uk/services/

cambridgetailor.co.uk

Tailoring & Alteration Services | Cambridge Tailoring

Explore expert tailoring and alteration services in Cambridge, including bridal, men's, and women's alterations, bespoke tailoring, and custom dressmaking.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Seeing this stupid take all over Bluesky yesterday and today. No-one EXPECTS the Republicans to be anything other than cartoonishly evil. The Democrats trade on being seen as better than that. In a duopoly, if THEY can't be decent, the politics well is poisoned for all.

Infographic sarcastically demanding where the Gaza protestors are now Trump is supporting forced expulsions from Gaza. Being posted by lots of #Resist lib grifters.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This is excellent - a cross between Mervyn Peake and The Phantom Tollbooth.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Given the political system in early 13th century Venice, Dandolo would certainly have had a clearer democratic mandate for chaos than Musk, too.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

My son gave up trying to win the Indiana Jones game and is now just beating up every fascist he can find. Honestly, what an absolute MOOD.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

You want to WATCH them get MARRIED? The most intense, personal moment of their LIVES, and you want to WATCH? I mean...OK. Don't want to yuk your yum, but...wait. They fucking INVITED you? They asked you to watch them actually...exchange their vows? Both of them? I'm sorry but that's just sick.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I need to enter a Face/Off scenario with someone in this situation. I'm the opposite: I like talking to people, but my face says 'Step away now before I burn your homestead and salt your crops.' So no-one ever approaches me.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

That's an amazing detail about Bowles - I never knew that.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I mean, I'm trying to tread a fine line between being cancelled as a monster and getting a cheap laugh. My life in a nutshell.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

It's still called rape in the UK. I used to walk home from school through a massive rape field. Turns out it's terrible for my hayfever, so I've avoided rape ever since.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This is it! The difference between a Hell crammed with lost souls yearning for recognition, and a quiet valley in some tranquil landscape where all the houses are half a mile apart.

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

(Tentatively inserting this into The Discourse with tweezers, then sprinting away to throw myself into a ditch before it explodes along with everything else in the world, but...this looks like it *might* be Very Good News indeed.) www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

theguardian.com

UK scientist wins prize for invention that could help avert ‘phosphogeddon’

Phosphate, key to food production, is choking waterways, but a new sponge-like material returns it to the soil for crops

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Dominicus @themidwitcuckoo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

'...if you can keep it.' Benjamin Franklin, 17th September, 1787.

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