Nikki Coates
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Someone told me the type of brain I have means I have a poor sense of self so expecting me to write this is very ableist actually. SE London. Some kind of regulator and that still surprises me.
I know, why don’t we try to neutralise the argument that the services supplied by the state are degraded as a result of immigration by focussing on improvement of services? We could try that.
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I know, why don’t we try to neutralise the argument that the services supplied by the state are degraded as a result of immigration by focussing on improvement of services? We could try that.
omg cannot believe this exists and I didn't know. I can tackle insomnia anywhere on this benighted planet. I might get a spare.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Oh! I am so dumb! The whole ‘there’s nothing Labour about…’ verbal tic of this Govt people have noticed is just another symptom of the tribalism which also explains why they can’t be made to understand that becoming the far right to beat the far right is both wrong and futile. I already knew this!
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Oh! I am so dumb! The whole ‘there’s nothing Labour about…’ verbal tic of this Govt people have noticed is just another symptom of the tribalism which also explains why they can’t be made to understand that becoming the far right to beat the far right is both wrong and futile. I already knew this!
Last post: 1) Honestly, Batavia’s Graveyard is a much better shipwreck story than The Wager, give it a go
2) Google search is done if it can’t get me the result I need from ‘Texas bank fraud book monkeybrains’
2) Google search is done if it can’t get me the result I need from ‘Texas bank fraud book monkeybrains’
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Last post: 1) Honestly, Batavia’s Graveyard is a much better shipwreck story than The Wager, give it a go
2) Google search is done if it can’t get me the result I need from ‘Texas bank fraud book monkeybrains’
2) Google search is done if it can’t get me the result I need from ‘Texas bank fraud book monkeybrains’
I read thru all the many replies & QTs & at time of writing they do not contain:
ANATOMY OF A MOMENT-Javier Cercas
THE EMPEROR-Ryszard Kapuscinski
BATAVIA’S GRAVEYARD-Mike Dash
THE PICNIC-Matthew Long
all of which I commend to you as well as many of the fine books already mentioned
ANATOMY OF A MOMENT-Javier Cercas
THE EMPEROR-Ryszard Kapuscinski
BATAVIA’S GRAVEYARD-Mike Dash
THE PICNIC-Matthew Long
all of which I commend to you as well as many of the fine books already mentioned
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I read thru all the many replies & QTs & at time of writing they do not contain:
ANATOMY OF A MOMENT-Javier Cercas
THE EMPEROR-Ryszard Kapuscinski
BATAVIA’S GRAVEYARD-Mike Dash
THE PICNIC-Matthew Long
all of which I commend to you as well as many of the fine books already mentioned
ANATOMY OF A MOMENT-Javier Cercas
THE EMPEROR-Ryszard Kapuscinski
BATAVIA’S GRAVEYARD-Mike Dash
THE PICNIC-Matthew Long
all of which I commend to you as well as many of the fine books already mentioned
Olivia Nuzzi is very definitely none of my beeswax but oh my goodness! If I had written this in a secret diary when I was a self-obsessed 15yo and written LANCASTRIAN CANTO on the front page in fancy letters I would still be having full-body shudders of embarrassment about it to this day
The prose is incoherent & the only way to make it through a paragraph is to rely on the North Star or her self-pitying narcissism. The gist of this graf is “strangers obsess about me, must be because I work so hard,” but it is almost immediate lost in the morass of “typed on notes app while hiking”
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Olivia Nuzzi is very definitely none of my beeswax but oh my goodness! If I had written this in a secret diary when I was a self-obsessed 15yo and written LANCASTRIAN CANTO on the front page in fancy letters I would still be having full-body shudders of embarrassment about it to this day
I mean I don’t want a Reform government primarily because I think dehumanising policies are morally wrong not because I think turquoise is not as good a colour as red
November 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I mean I don’t want a Reform government primarily because I think dehumanising policies are morally wrong not because I think turquoise is not as good a colour as red
I have decided for the sake of my mental health to put some faith in the PLP who surely cannot stand to be associated with such a disgusting, grim and strategically stupid direction for much longer.
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I have decided for the sake of my mental health to put some faith in the PLP who surely cannot stand to be associated with such a disgusting, grim and strategically stupid direction for much longer.
On a brief holiday away from my doom-laden country & on yesterday’s bus trip through the middle of Malta the two women behind me were discussing how Keir Starmer hadn’t done enough to stop either the imposition of Sharia Law or trans women in women’s prisons and we should bring back Boris
November 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
On a brief holiday away from my doom-laden country & on yesterday’s bus trip through the middle of Malta the two women behind me were discussing how Keir Starmer hadn’t done enough to stop either the imposition of Sharia Law or trans women in women’s prisons and we should bring back Boris
Any day you go to an aquarium is a good day but I’ve come to realise that something is up with the marine biologists and we’ve got to get to the bottom of it. pics (not mine) display: a zebra shark, a stripey, a sexy shrimp
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Any day you go to an aquarium is a good day but I’ve come to realise that something is up with the marine biologists and we’ve got to get to the bottom of it. pics (not mine) display: a zebra shark, a stripey, a sexy shrimp
Actually a bit worried about some of you that seem to do a lot of your assessment of character based on syntax and punctuation: ‘what is surprising is how unimpressive he is’ - what?
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Actually a bit worried about some of you that seem to do a lot of your assessment of character based on syntax and punctuation: ‘what is surprising is how unimpressive he is’ - what?
Ace thread. Am proud & grateful that Dimi saw enough in us to join us.
Personal note: London has been home for a very, very long time, but as of today, I am also officially a Brit - that is to say, a British citizen. I feel relieved and I feel grateful - but not, perhaps, in the forelock-tugging way GB News/Starmer expect a new immigrant to be.
November 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Ace thread. Am proud & grateful that Dimi saw enough in us to join us.
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I was told it was quicker at street level, but instead found myself in a completely different station called "Monument". A strange and savage nation.
November 12, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I was told it was quicker at street level, but instead found myself in a completely different station called "Monument". A strange and savage nation.
How do we engineer the situation where Noah Smith has to change lines at Bank? Imagine the fun we could have
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
How do we engineer the situation where Noah Smith has to change lines at Bank? Imagine the fun we could have
When we got to the door of St Paul’s in Mdina we found a sign telling us to buy tickets at the cathedral museum. So we did, and the helpful man at the counter recommended we go to the museum first as it closed first
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
When we got to the door of St Paul’s in Mdina we found a sign telling us to buy tickets at the cathedral museum. So we did, and the helpful man at the counter recommended we go to the museum first as it closed first
I’m having a lovely time on holiday in Malta and I cannot tell you how happy I am that when I return to London this will still be none of my concern
I really don’t think this is true and it’s unclear to be why the BoE does
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I’m having a lovely time on holiday in Malta and I cannot tell you how happy I am that when I return to London this will still be none of my concern
Sitting on my typing thumbs so I don’t come off as a Bluesky Scold™️ but I have just seen the most astonishing hijack: a famous complaint made by a famous woman about structural unfairness applied to how nice men operate at a disadvantage
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Sitting on my typing thumbs so I don’t come off as a Bluesky Scold™️ but I have just seen the most astonishing hijack: a famous complaint made by a famous woman about structural unfairness applied to how nice men operate at a disadvantage
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Alan Carr........Best Actor Oscar. Nobel Prize. MacArthur Genius Grant. Ballon d’Or. Fields Medal. Legion of Honour. Victoria Cross. Presidential Medal of Freedom. Order of the British Empire. Key to the City. Grand Slam. Miss Universe.
October 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Alan Carr........Best Actor Oscar. Nobel Prize. MacArthur Genius Grant. Ballon d’Or. Fields Medal. Legion of Honour. Victoria Cross. Presidential Medal of Freedom. Order of the British Empire. Key to the City. Grand Slam. Miss Universe.
Vale Cat Burns and thank you for getting the whole ‘honestly talking to neurotypicals is exhausting and that’s why I keep sleeping’ thing out there
November 6, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Vale Cat Burns and thank you for getting the whole ‘honestly talking to neurotypicals is exhausting and that’s why I keep sleeping’ thing out there
Guys I can now buy guanciale, chinotto pop and fennel salami in a shop ~3 min walk from my house and I am prepared to hold weekly Truth Sessions with the rest of the Charlton residents to ensure that this precious business survives
November 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Guys I can now buy guanciale, chinotto pop and fennel salami in a shop ~3 min walk from my house and I am prepared to hold weekly Truth Sessions with the rest of the Charlton residents to ensure that this precious business survives
Today I have had to reset the ‘days since last security incident’ sign on the cat food cupboard to zero once again.
On the upside, at least Bam! isn’t letting Bonfire Night stress him out too much
On the upside, at least Bam! isn’t letting Bonfire Night stress him out too much
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Today I have had to reset the ‘days since last security incident’ sign on the cat food cupboard to zero once again.
On the upside, at least Bam! isn’t letting Bonfire Night stress him out too much
On the upside, at least Bam! isn’t letting Bonfire Night stress him out too much
The Labour Party feels to me like a 10 year old laptop that you’ve just realised has frozen because you haven’t properly closed an app in 3 months. Turn it off and turn it on again.
October 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The Labour Party feels to me like a 10 year old laptop that you’ve just realised has frozen because you haven’t properly closed an app in 3 months. Turn it off and turn it on again.
Dreadful, isn’t it, when you read the world’s most famous long short story/short novella of an evening for what may be the first time in a quarter-century OR maybe ever, and you want to talk about it but it’s late and who needs the tip for TWMFLSS/SN?
Anyway ‘The Metamorphosis’ is pretty good
Anyway ‘The Metamorphosis’ is pretty good
October 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Dreadful, isn’t it, when you read the world’s most famous long short story/short novella of an evening for what may be the first time in a quarter-century OR maybe ever, and you want to talk about it but it’s late and who needs the tip for TWMFLSS/SN?
Anyway ‘The Metamorphosis’ is pretty good
Anyway ‘The Metamorphosis’ is pretty good
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In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"
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October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Once again, @mcsweeneys.net does not miss.
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"In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.'
Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.'
In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"
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"In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.'
Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.'
In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"
Important not to over-interpret the signs and portents but it does worry me quite a bit that while I have never before listened to an audiobook on Spotify, it thought I might want to start with the Unabomber manifesto:
October 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Important not to over-interpret the signs and portents but it does worry me quite a bit that while I have never before listened to an audiobook on Spotify, it thought I might want to start with the Unabomber manifesto: