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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 2h

I think you can read the way the idea just doesn't compute for a lot of Americans into the reactions across the political spectrum to Canada's quite mild form of economic retaliation

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 3h

(I admit this is partially aimed at @dov.bsky.social)

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 3h

Not sure what to do with this; any Big Mushroom recipe recs?

Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 3h

Dad has come home with this absolutely massive mushroom

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 3h

Dad has come home with this absolutely massive mushroom

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 6h

I would describe myself as an atlanto-skeptic, viz. an atlanticist who has been mugged by reality

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 6h

The good thing is that our lad Paul here has managed to do both

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 6h

Even if Erdoğan is more of the Putinist-Trumpist disposition

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 6h

More broadly if we conceive of the struggle between liberal democrats (small l, small d) and reactionary authoritarians as the defining struggle of the coming half-century, then it is vital to the European and Middle-Eastern theatres of that struggle that Turkey stay on our side

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 6h

Tbh I think Polanski is wrong on means here but the ends make sense.

The "European alliance", if such a thing is to exist, should morally include Canada and probably Mexico, and strategically likely needs to include Turkey. Working within NATO structures accomplishes 2/3.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 7h

@mitildide.bsky.social

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 7h

I think it's an attempt to say "not wearing underwear" without sounding declassé

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 7h

Or, yknow. Maurice Glasman

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 7h

Also, uh. I would describe the Livin Marxism crew as ideologically rooted in a left-wing tradition, and look at them now

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 7h

Especially since those are not descriptions I think it is at all reasonable to use of either woman; here we have a man who eroticises women by imagining them to look more like children than they do

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 7h

"Half girl, half woman", and "pedomorphic" from the previous passage are, uh, painting a picture of a psyche

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unpleasant broad @wordbringer.eu · 8h

It rules that the guy who wrote the thing about the tradition of all dead generations weighing like a nightmare on the brains of the living is himself now that, assumedly fully against his intentions.

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 7h

Ive just looked up Elif Shafak and... the details of this description don't seem to match up at all?

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1d

Physical books taste better.

buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 1d

What's your totally ordinary opinion about books that you nonetheless find compelled to share when asked on a social media site such as this one for your most extreme/unhinged/hottest takes?

I'll go first: manga is popular among young people because manga often features young people.

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 14h

"You boy! Could you summon medical assistance?"

Scrooge leaning out of a window meme image

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 9d

Is there anything to be said for a Sixth Republic?

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 9h

I'd suggest hosting costs is more of an issue for aspiration but the tax cliff just seems like something that should be fixed for boring technocratic reasons

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Tamar @heartinamber.bsky.social · 11h

A lot of things click into place when you realise that, as much as people try to pretend otherwise, reducing immigration in the age of Ryanair is a significant spending commitment and therefore demands for lowering immigration or reducing migrants' rights are demands for a luxury good

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly I think it's most visible in marketing, where it's the genre or character tropes that are foregrounded rather than, like, a description of plot or setup

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 1d

Or Brits idolising both the Saxons and Normans

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I suspect it'd be similar to the Azores where someone gets blown off course or similar and sees land or hears gulls etc

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