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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 2h

The full video of it always brings a tear to my eye, although I couldn't name the emotion which prompts it.

Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 13h

He’s a light entertainment genius. He even made You’ve Been Framed funny.

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 13h

My uncle worked for the council then and I was given a celebratory Coventry Market T-shirt. Love this song. Love Harry Hill.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 15h

Just remembered this, and now I’m not getting it out of my head for the next week.

Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule | Coventry Market | ITV

YouTube video by ITV

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 14h

Go on Ebs

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Danyel Smith @danyelsmith.bsky.social · 18h

Heartbreaking: Neo-soul legends Angie Stone and D’Angelo both passed away in 2025, just 7 months apart. Stone died in March at 63. D’Angelo died today at 51. They shared a son together. An entire generation’s soundtrack, gone. Rest in power to both 🕊️💔

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The Onion @theonion.com · 15h

Israel Warns Gaza Still Harboring Hundreds Of Doctors https://theonion.com/israel-warns-gaza-still-harboring-hundreds-of-doctors-1850964439/

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valebodi.bsky.social @valebodi.bsky.social · 14h

‘What are you doing at the moment?’
‘I’m in pain.’

In the Land of Pain documents the isolation of pain, but also the value of being among the pained, of having pain in common. Daudet describes the beginning of the season at the thermal baths of Lamalou:

Daisy Lafarge @draughtjournal.bsky.social

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 16h

Labour’s immigration plan in full:

- raise the salience of small boats as much as possible
- make it harder and more expensive for people to come here legally and contribute
- ???
- solve the small boats issue to rapturous applause
- markets reward their ingenuity with return to growth

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16h

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Conservative criticism of Labour I absolutely did not give enough intellectual houseroom to pre-election was 'none of these guys have ever created a job'.

Bo Jacobs Strom @bojs.bsky.social · 19h

Headlines going to the English requirements but I'd completely missed this part of the plans, yet another act of idiotic self harm. Completely incompatible with the government's stated aims on housebuilding, growth, etc.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17h

"we fixed all the AI problems related to mental health!"

I'm going to enjoy watching this little shit's inevitable spiral, and all his little parrots in the press try to reposition themselves as skeptics

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 17h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 17h

The moon is print and smudged by a thumb.

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 17h

I see that Labour is responding to its increasingly unpopular right-wing policies by introducing ever-more right-wing policies. Genius move. Can't fail.

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 1d

One of our formats is 'adjacencies', in which two works — which might, at first glance, seem unrelated — are considered in relation to one another. In this one, the excellent Daisy Lafarge considers a Netflix reality TV show in relation to the work of late-c.19 French writer Alphonse Daudet.

Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 1d

'The coupling of boredom and intensity is constitutive of crip time, which is warped time'
The first Adjacencies, in which two works are considered in relation to one another: Daisy Lafarge on illness, Netflix show Outlast & Alphonse Daudet's In the Land of Pain
www.draughtjournal.com/article/flare

Flare!

‘Quitting is a disease,’ says Jordan, a 25-year-old ex-marine construction worker when his teammate Dawn has been vomiting for several hours after

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Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 1d

'The coupling of boredom and intensity is constitutive of crip time, which is warped time'
The first Adjacencies, in which two works are considered in relation to one another: Daisy Lafarge on illness, Netflix show Outlast & Alphonse Daudet's In the Land of Pain
www.draughtjournal.com/article/flare

Flare!

‘Quitting is a disease,’ says Jordan, a 25-year-old ex-marine construction worker when his teammate Dawn has been vomiting for several hours after

www.draughtjournal.com

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fsf2.bsky.social @fsf2.bsky.social · 1d

www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/07...

On the Slaughter by Peter Cole

July 31, 2014 – A political poem’s ironic new life. ON THE SLAUGHTER Heaven—have mercy.If you hold a God(to whom there’s a paththat I haven’t found), pray for me.My heart

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 1d

A number of you said this was excellent and you were right, the translator’s introduction also. Thanks to @booksellercrow.bsky.social for ordering it in.

A photograph of an orange book on a white woollen rug. It is by Hayim Nahman Bialik and is called ‘On the Slaughter’.

It is selected and translated by Peter Cole and published by NYRB / Poets.

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 1d

a bald man wearing glasses and a black suit holds his fist up

ALT: a bald man wearing glasses and a black suit holds his fist up

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

Reposting this thread on the brilliant Louise Glück on the anniversary of her death #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky 👇

Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · Apr 29

Some writers seek ‘relatability’ in ancient myth. Others look to recreate alien remoteness. But in her use of Homeric or bible tales, Louise Glück sets up dialogue between her own family relations & mythic ones. The latter aren’t lazily appropriated. Rather the immediate & the mythic mutually enrich

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 1d

Post you from a different era

Nursing home, 2049

A photograph of an agèd version of myself, wearing a light blue shirt and with longish white hair

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 1d

Lisa Robertson was at the top of my contributors wish-list and I'm thrilled that she is in our first issue

Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 1d

'like swallows beneath bridges, like starlings above clouds – points in time, and across landscapes.'
'Notes, Murmurations: The Notebook as Form of Rime' – Lisa Robertson on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's notebooks (& on notebooks, note-taking, a lifetime of reading)
draughtjournal.com/article/note...

Notes, Murmurations: The Notebook as Form of Rime

On 27 November 1799, while taking the night coach from Yorkshire to London, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, after fitful sleep, awoke at sunrise and watch

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Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 1d

'like swallows beneath bridges, like starlings above clouds – points in time, and across landscapes.'
'Notes, Murmurations: The Notebook as Form of Rime' – Lisa Robertson on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's notebooks (& on notebooks, note-taking, a lifetime of reading)
draughtjournal.com/article/note...

Notes, Murmurations: The Notebook as Form of Rime

On 27 November 1799, while taking the night coach from Yorkshire to London, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, after fitful sleep, awoke at sunrise and watch

draughtjournal.com

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 1d

Free Zoom event this Thursday at noon Eastern Time in the US / 5pm in the UK--

Join the @nysnetwork.bsky.social for a conversation about FRANK O'HARA's career as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art with Matthew Holman & John Yau.

Register via the Eventbrite link below.

Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 6d

The Network for New York School Studies @nysnetwork.bsky.social is back for a Zoom talk between Matthew Holman & John Yau about "Frank O'Hara & MoMA: New York Poet, Global Curator," out now from Bloomsbury

Thursday 10/16 @ 12pm ET / 5pm BST

Register via link!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/matthew-ho...

Matthew Holman's Frank O'Hara & MoMA: an NNYSS book launch! (with John Yau)

The Network for New York School Studies presents the online launch of Matthew Holman's 'Frank O'Hara and MoMA' with Matthew and John Yau.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 1d

Just got a letter from the local hospital with quite the diagnosis

Screenshot reading:

(ENT Head and Neck F/Up)

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 2d

Just fantastic

Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 2d

I saw them play The Dublin Castle in '92, etc.

Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 2d

Eclectic Laundry
Eclectic, AL

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