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I've long felt that the generosity of Cosey Fanni Tutti's work is overshadowed by the 'transgressive' reputation of TG, and that her art / porn actions and music have been rather siloed. It was a pleasure to try and put that straight in this profile for The Observer

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Cosey Fanni Tutti reveals all | The Observer

An exhibition in the pioneering artist's hometown sees the Throbbing Gristle co-founder celebrating 50 years of baring her soul

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 16h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
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It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 17h

Get thee behind me, Santa

Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 17h

I now know the difference between a mitre and a bevel, and have made it up the stairs without once visiting A & E. Not the anticipated outcome but I’m now giving up writing and becoming a carpenter.

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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 17h

Too late! Thanks, though!

Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 20h

I’m trying to make a dado rail, an ambition so far from realistic I might as well be proposing playing Rugby for England.

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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 20h

No way this doesn’t end badly for me

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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 20h

I think I thanked you for that very generous and sensitive review at the time, but if I didn’t let me thank you now. Great to have such a critic; and I envy you your smalls. Oh the places you’ll go!

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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 21h

New post: why children's books are the most important genre, plus another run out for my bit on @questingvole.bsky.social's The Haunted Wood (now out in paperback): jwikeley.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

The end of childhood reading

An old piece, and some new thoughts

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 1d

And there I was thinking Thomas Pynchon was an aburdist novelist. Turns out he was documentarian all along.

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 1d

Time to tune in to some analysis from Antifa expert…Chef Andrew…Gruel?…founder of…American Gravy Concepts?

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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 1d

Dare you to go on stage and say “Hello, Cleveland!”

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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing, Andy. Congrats. Backlisted into America!

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 1d

Welp, Backlisted has just been moved to the biggest stage at the 92nd St Y due to “unprecedented demand”. Join the waiting list, New York! Two weeks today, we’ll be celebrating William Maxwell, a century of the New Yorker and, oh yeah, a decade of @backlisted.bsky.social. Tickets via 92NY.org.

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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 1d

What a lovely thing to hear. Thank you!

Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 1d

Three different children simultaneously, from different rooms: “DAAAAD!” Only a nationwide Vodafone outage can get me such simultaneous attention from my kids.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 3d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 3d

Readers of my first book Tilting at Windmills may be interested to learn that the inner sleeve of @warringtonruncorn.com’s new LP depicts the ‘betong’ category of miniature golf course, as utilised in international minigolf tournaments to this day. Hats off to that dead town planner!

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted a private dinner earlier this year at which a select group of technology entrepreneurs were given access to a key minister, official documents have revealed. The former prime minister, who is a champion of the tech industry, held the dinner in an upmarket London hotel in his capacity as the head of the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) political consultancy. Continue reading...

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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 3d

the damn communists at the Cato Institute are at it again

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 4d

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"

The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 5d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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