Grant Shimmin
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Grant Shimmin
@grantshim.bsky.social
Lover of humanity, nature, poetry, stories, faith, learning and more. Journalist, writer, poet. Words in various places. Read submissions at the brilliant Does it Have Pockets.
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January 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Yeah, and Musk is supposedly a free speech absolutist, but it’s clear he’s not that keen on stuff he doesn’t agree with
January 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Pretty much. I’m just listening on Audible now to Prophet Song, the 2023 Booker Prize-winning novel by Irish author Paul Lynch. It’s frightening how much its portrayal of state coercion and the descent into authoritarianism lines up with the logic in that quoted excerpt 🤔
January 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I know, when I saw the poem I thought it was remarkable. I can’t remember if they found others or it was just the one, so I don’t know for sure if the one preserved in the tank was THE one, but it was still quite an extraordinary thing to be able to see
January 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Lovely, Beth. Weird story. In the late 1980s, I was at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, two hours from East London, where the 1938 discovery was made. My room in the hall of residence looked onto the adjacent ichthyology department, specifically a tank with a/the coelacanth in it.
January 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
She’s very people-orientated. Really cute
December 14, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Visiting one. A friend is house sitting for its family
December 14, 2024 at 6:45 PM