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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 6h

A large amount - possibly a majority - of 'Irish folk songs' are in this category.

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 8h

Not often you find election results this emphatic.

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 9h

Paul Theroux is a great travel writer (although I could never get his fiction). But yes, he suffered from that generation affliction's of writing embarassingly horny prose to kill the mid-century concerned church mother in his head (this is also the context of e.g. John Banville).

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 9h

Au contraire, I think that hand is going to be very visible.

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 9h

This Theroux is a fiction writer but is better known as a) Louis' dad and b) a writer of travel literature.

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 10h

Possible but I doubt it.

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 10h

The room is open for an eccentric millionaire or celebrity (but don't give JKR ideas!)

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Philo @opfuchs.gay · 11h

Two somewhat reliable heuristics are on the one hand to never overestimate the capacity of the American state, but on the other hand to never underestimate the stupidity of the electorate.

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, that is also my take.

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 11h

There's been a lot of doomerism about Trump possibly cancelling the midterms or at least thumbing the scale massively. Maybe, but I'm sceptical. On the other hand, looking at Argentina this discourse is underrating the prospect they will resort to simply bribing the electorate in a very stupid way.

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 13h

This game was an important part of me growing up. It is a total obscurity now.

Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 18h

The Realms of Arkania games have a special place in my heart, especially the first one, Blade of Destiny. The Amiga version was my first experience of an open-world, free-roaming CRPG and became one of my core experiences in the genre.

Enough that I cobbled together my own TTRPG version of it.

A gameplay snap of the 3D texture mapped medieval fantasy polygon town of Riva that takes up a 2/3rds of the screen.

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 13h

No.

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

www.gq.com

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 13h

I think we can now declare it Ramen season.

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 14h

People have memory holed this now but there were whole bunch people in 2022 who looked at the recovery from covid and declared macroeconomics to be solved.

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 14h

I think the best way to understand guff like this is a mixture of sanewashing and wish fulfillment.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 23h

Righty-o.

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 1d

Real Housewives of the Cambrian Explosion

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 16h

It's a big part of the story behind O'Dálaigh's resignation, which is an episode in Irish history that has been brushed over far too easily.

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 16h

Don't forget when Americans seem to think that "leave it to the states" is an ethical statement.

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 16h

Also the anti-Shakespeare bores but that's inevitable I guess.

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 16h

Wasn't going to respond to this until I saw the anti-Kerouac bores being boring again.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 19h

I guess it's progress of a sort that the candidate tedious cultural reactionaries fixate on is not the border Presbyterian woman with Orangist connections.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 20h

A thing I think doesn't get internalized enough in the discourse of the European subjugation of the Americas is that there was no way for contact between Europe and those continents to not end in abject disaster for indigenous Americans because of disease burden.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 19h

Otoh given demographics far from zero probability that some of Humphries' family are or were masons.

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 19h

(Iirc some lodges these days do accept women but I don't know if any in Ireland do. The Freemasons of Galway would be a very tiny group regardless).

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 19h

Are you saying these people don't know what a woman is? bsky.app/profile/news...

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 21h

All a bit messy for a bit there.

Connolly canvassers being asked “what’s a woman?”

Between three and five in the group. Canvass has moved on.

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