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Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 17h

Came here to say exactly that. Makes Tolkien look well edited. Give it to Joseph Conrad and make it Heart of Darkness but with whales.

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Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 17h

Moby Dick might have been the first great American novel but ye gods could it have done with the first great American editor.

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Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 18h

He's such a well drawn character.

Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 18h

Have you read the follow up trilogy, absolutely brilliant. Not often you get magic and industrialization at the same time.

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Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 18h

Origin Story by Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey fascinating history well researched centre left view and a brilliantly funny swearing.

Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 1d

PAPYRUS!!!

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Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 3d

A deeply moving beautiful place, would that its creator's idea of a similar display in towns and cities across the UK happened. RIP to all those on that wall.

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Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 3d

I know this isn't the point but the Dutch Tulip crisis is largely a myth created by Charles McKay, modern scholarship can find little evidence of a bubble of that size. South Sea bubble is a much better and true one.

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Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 4d

So well educated thought Brexit and racism are bad. That's not the win you were looking for Telegraph.

Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 5d

And you'd have my vote for sure. Hmm culture wars.

Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 6d

Sighs with sadness and offers solidarity.

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Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 6d

Surely they should have suggested Ayn Rand in that case?

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Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 7d

I've got a woman in my contacts called Jo go Cunt, I have absolutely no idea who she is or how she got that suffix. As much as I'm curious about her it is a mystery I'll never solve.

Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 7d

No, the popular front of Antifa is over there.

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Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 8d

If only such action was remotely predictable.

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Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 9d

That's such a beautiful story, well done for saving him. ♥️

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 9d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 9d

Libraries gave us power...

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Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 9d

There are other words to describe groups of people in the past that we don't use now that we would have done then, rightly we've changed that and yeah I'm a bit concerned that it was still being used in a clinical situation that recently.

Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 9d

Sounds like it yes but there's a really dark Nazi past to Dr Asperger that means it's not typically used for modern discussions around autism.

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Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 10d

As true for the Manhattan Project as it was for Rivers of Babylon.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 10d

Hope you get the job, Steve!

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Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 10d

Was hungover and did very little today.

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Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 11d

So why did you only mention Israel in that list just then? Why were the Israelis singled out in your statement?

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Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 11d

Criticising Israeli policy is not anti-Semitic. Demanding that you link a discussion of the attempted extermination of every European Jew with a critique of current Israeli policy quite possibly is.

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