just finished Birding by @regretteruane.bsky.social. What a beautiful ode to the rickety uncertainties of self + the weird liminal shitholes of the UK. So funny too.

P.S. Carwash is the funniest cat name i’ve ever heard

And the reason is simple: Solutions for the cost of living crisis require fundamentally altering both the architecture of capitalism internal to Britain *and* relations to external, global capital flows, while immigration is nebulous and can be performatively addressed through spectacular violence.

I just realised John Boyne is the same moron who inserted the Legend of Zelda lore into his novel by accident because of lazy googling lol

Post from the great Padraig Kenny over on IG

Anohni is such a gift #glastonbury

I actually love being a weirdo.
Fucking weirdo he is.

No way i was just reading about this in @flantz.bsky.social fantastic book The Beauty of Games 👀 🐍

Stuff like this would have been immensely useful as an English undergrad. Honest, reflective writing on an otherwise amorphous, ill-defined but essential component of literary study. Especially the role of aesthetics - the most remarkable close readings are such because of their artistry

✧ Baths - Gut

✧ out now
✧ linktr.ee/bathsmusic

Every subsequent screenshot I chance upon from Caves of Qud makes it harder to resist picking up. What other game combines such laconic prose (“forelegs stiff in vigil”) and bizarre comedy (guard dogs burning effigies) in the same box of flavour text?

Ahhh this has made my week! Finally, more Baths 🙌 ✨

Visited the crypt of the Habsburg dynasty today in Vienna and, as you can see, their tombs are metal af.

Quite nice being here, starting from the ground up, and it gives me a chance to curate my followers a bit more intentionally I suppose.