Rishi Dastidar
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Rishi Dastidar
@betarish.bsky.social
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Rishi Dastidar - A Hobby of Mine | Broken Sleep Books
In A Hobby of Mine, Rishi Dastidar’s unrelenting catalogue of cultural observations becomes an absurd and profound portrait of modern life. With a playful spirit and incisive wit, Dastidar examines id...
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A hobby of mine is reminding you that a 'A hobby of mine' is published on 30th April, and is available to pre-order from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social now: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
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Biden made fonts woke
December 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Biden made fonts woke
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Jamie Sexton’s ‘Sounds of Lost Futures: British Musical Hauntology’, which I edited for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social, is an excellent survey of a genre and its origins–musical, televisual and cinematic–and a fascinating consideration of memory, nostalgia and the uncanny. Pub July 2026.
December 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Jamie Sexton’s ‘Sounds of Lost Futures: British Musical Hauntology’, which I edited for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social, is an excellent survey of a genre and its origins–musical, televisual and cinematic–and a fascinating consideration of memory, nostalgia and the uncanny. Pub July 2026.
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Please support CB Editions.
It's a serious, pioneering Press run by one unconventional guy.
Offer a book, or a hint, to a friend, if possible.
List of their books here:
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You can read excerpts from each book too...
It's a serious, pioneering Press run by one unconventional guy.
Offer a book, or a hint, to a friend, if possible.
List of their books here:
cbeditions.com/books.html
You can read excerpts from each book too...
CB editions December newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/12/cbe-...
CBe newsletter December 2025
Christmas. Presents. Books are even easier to wrap than bottles. See the home page of the website and bear in mind the Season Tickets: 6 b...
sonofabook.blogspot.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Please support CB Editions.
It's a serious, pioneering Press run by one unconventional guy.
Offer a book, or a hint, to a friend, if possible.
List of their books here:
cbeditions.com/books.html
You can read excerpts from each book too...
It's a serious, pioneering Press run by one unconventional guy.
Offer a book, or a hint, to a friend, if possible.
List of their books here:
cbeditions.com/books.html
You can read excerpts from each book too...
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Martin Parr transformed photojournalism
Six images captured by one of Britain’s best photographers
economist.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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I had a joke about AI but it was stolen.
December 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I had a joke about AI but it was stolen.
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I had a joke about aposiopesis but
December 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I had a joke about aposiopesis but
*precisely* why the A-format needs to make much more of a comeback!
If you are still looking for a "stocking filler" please bear in mind that "The Anechoic Chamber" is a slimline A-format paperback, so it fits snugly in a standard men's sock or the pocket of a winter coat. This also means savings on wrapping paper, postage, etc. and it's only £9.99.
December 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
*precisely* why the A-format needs to make much more of a comeback!
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I had a joke about Atropos but I had to cut it short.
I had a joke about Theseus but I changed all the bits.
I had a joke about Prometheus but i couldn’t get it over the hill ✨
December 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I had a joke about Atropos but I had to cut it short.
I had a joke about Theseus but I changed all the bits.
I had a joke about Prometheus but i couldn’t get it over the hill ✨
I had a joke about Icarus but it fell flat.
December 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I had a joke about Theseus but I changed all the bits.
Cannily, Luke has repurposed an urban myth from U2's Zooropa tour, showing how in our new multi-modal future literary franchises can be created from apocryphyal gossamer.
December 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Cannily, Luke has repurposed an urban myth from U2's Zooropa tour, showing how in our new multi-modal future literary franchises can be created from apocryphyal gossamer.
A thought I haven't fully bottomed out yet is: the future of publishing will be split: one that looks like an 'entertainment industrial complex', where anything goes (in terms of production, sales, distribution, renumeration), and one where 'literary' culture is much more like poetry is now.
How is this not a red line for a book retailer? That Daunt isn't prepared to make a principled stand on this rather than weasel away about the market is ludicrous (tho' not entirely unsurprising). It's also a massive Public foot in the Relations mouth.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Waterstones would sell books written by AI, says chain's boss
James Daunt says booksellers instinctively have
www.bbc.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A thought I haven't fully bottomed out yet is: the future of publishing will be split: one that looks like an 'entertainment industrial complex', where anything goes (in terms of production, sales, distribution, renumeration), and one where 'literary' culture is much more like poetry is now.
My friends at Spread The Word are fundraising to run accessible reading and writing activities in Lewisham in London. And during Big Give's #ChristmasChallenge, all donations will be doubled, so if you give £5, they’ll receive £10. Which sounds v cool: bit.ly/boroughoflit...
Creating the UK's first Borough of Literature – Big Give
Spread the Word is creating Lewisham as the UK's first Borough of Literature. This groundbreaking campaign will celebrate diverse voices, …
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
My friends at Spread The Word are fundraising to run accessible reading and writing activities in Lewisham in London. And during Big Give's #ChristmasChallenge, all donations will be doubled, so if you give £5, they’ll receive £10. Which sounds v cool: bit.ly/boroughoflit...
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Check it out!! Hodder & Stoughton have an open submission window for all fiction genres.
Get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
HODDER & STOUGHTON OPEN SUBMISSIONS
Visit the post for more.
www.hodder.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Check it out!! Hodder & Stoughton have an open submission window for all fiction genres.
Get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Get in quick.
Details in link.
Please share :)
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important update!
someone’s dropped out so DRASS will now be on closer to 9:30
don’t be late!
someone’s dropped out so DRASS will now be on closer to 9:30
don’t be late!
a rare live outing for DRASS this weekend, I'll be playing the Splitting The Atom Noise All-Dayer at The Green Door Store in #brighton on Sunday at 10pm.
December 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
important update!
someone’s dropped out so DRASS will now be on closer to 9:30
don’t be late!
someone’s dropped out so DRASS will now be on closer to 9:30
don’t be late!
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Earlier this year we (Lewis, Matt, Mike from @firestations.bsky.social and Marlody) released this odd little folk gem on @fikarecordings.com. Nice to see it still being appreciated.
Plans for more MD recordings/shows when circumstances allow.
Cheers RDG!
Plans for more MD recordings/shows when circumstances allow.
Cheers RDG!
featuring members of the leaf library and fire stations, I described this as somewhere between sandy denny and stereolab, which is a great place to be imo https://fikarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/mirrored-daughters
Mirrored Daughters, by Mirrored Daughters
11 track album
fikarecordings.bandcamp.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Earlier this year we (Lewis, Matt, Mike from @firestations.bsky.social and Marlody) released this odd little folk gem on @fikarecordings.com. Nice to see it still being appreciated.
Plans for more MD recordings/shows when circumstances allow.
Cheers RDG!
Plans for more MD recordings/shows when circumstances allow.
Cheers RDG!
Lots of useful things in this. Worth a read.
Video is an attention hostage situation, chatbots still can’t book leave, and work might not deserve your soul anymore. New weeknote 👇
sharonodea.com/2025/12/07/w...
sharonodea.com/2025/12/07/w...
Weeknote 2025/49
London trying its best to look festive this week. Photo by me. I keep coming back to the same realisation this week: the future of comms isn’t just more digital. It’s more structurally complex. Not…
sharonodea.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Lots of useful things in this. Worth a read.
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Amazing to me, but @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social and I began @badlilies.bsky.social five years ago this coming spring. Five years! A lockdown project of optimism in a sad time. The world continues to disappoint. Bad Lilies keeps going. Explore our archive: www.badlilies.uk/issues
Issues — Bad Lilies
Issues of Bad Lilies, a digital poetry journal.
www.badlilies.uk
December 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Amazing to me, but @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social and I began @badlilies.bsky.social five years ago this coming spring. Five years! A lockdown project of optimism in a sad time. The world continues to disappoint. Bad Lilies keeps going. Explore our archive: www.badlilies.uk/issues
A hobby of mine is suggesting that the bookish person in your life will absolutely adore finding ‘A hobby of mine’ in their Christmas stockings this year.
A hobby of mine is reminding you that a 'A hobby of mine' is published on 30th April, and is available to pre-order from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social now: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
Rishi Dastidar - A Hobby of Mine | Broken Sleep Books
In A Hobby of Mine, Rishi Dastidar’s unrelenting catalogue of cultural observations becomes an absurd and profound portrait of modern life. With a playful spirit and incisive wit, Dastidar examines id...
www.brokensleepbooks.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A hobby of mine is suggesting that the bookish person in your life will absolutely adore finding ‘A hobby of mine’ in their Christmas stockings this year.
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If you see this please share (i.e. repost, not just like)! The Barbellion Prize is a unique award for writers with disabilities. We need to raise £20k to secure its future, so please make a donation, no matter how large, no matter how small, here: barbellionprize.org/donate/ Thank you!
donate | The Barbellion Prize
barbellionprize.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
If you see this please share (i.e. repost, not just like)! The Barbellion Prize is a unique award for writers with disabilities. We need to raise £20k to secure its future, so please make a donation, no matter how large, no matter how small, here: barbellionprize.org/donate/ Thank you!
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
Talking of Michelangelo.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
Talking of Michelangelo.
No, you've just spent the last hour formatting a verse memoir you found online to make it easier to read on Kindle.
December 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
No, you've just spent the last hour formatting a verse memoir you found online to make it easier to read on Kindle.
Bugs Bunny in a dress would also like a word.
Your Dear Leader wears makeup and a diaper, dyes his hair, and throws hissy-fits when he’s not dancing to YMCA or waxing poetic about Arnold Palmer’s junk.
December 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Bugs Bunny in a dress would also like a word.
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'A incredible story of a complex protagonist who is a nurse supposed to protect her patients. The layers are complicated and I love that it makes the plot feel different.'
An early NetGalley review for The Good Patient by Nilesha Chauvet, out 29 January in paperback 📖
An early NetGalley review for The Good Patient by Nilesha Chauvet, out 29 January in paperback 📖
December 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
'A incredible story of a complex protagonist who is a nurse supposed to protect her patients. The layers are complicated and I love that it makes the plot feel different.'
An early NetGalley review for The Good Patient by Nilesha Chauvet, out 29 January in paperback 📖
An early NetGalley review for The Good Patient by Nilesha Chauvet, out 29 January in paperback 📖