Rahul Bery
@rrrahul.bsky.social
Literary translator (ES+PT - EN), RLF Fellow @ Cardiff University, reprobate.
... tradition would convert to whatever their vernacular, local form of Christianity was. But no, they always find an obscure, ultra-conservative, bigoted version to convert to. Even the Catholics always find a form of Catholicism that claims the stuff about charity and compassion is all bollocks.
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
... tradition would convert to whatever their vernacular, local form of Christianity was. But no, they always find an obscure, ultra-conservative, bigoted version to convert to. Even the Catholics always find a form of Catholicism that claims the stuff about charity and compassion is all bollocks.
Kind of reminds me of my current pet hate Paul Kingsnorth who is obsessed with preserving and defending his own (English) culture and traditions but lives in Ireland and converted to (checks notes) Romanian Orthodox Christianity. They always do that - surely a true conservative interested in...
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Kind of reminds me of my current pet hate Paul Kingsnorth who is obsessed with preserving and defending his own (English) culture and traditions but lives in Ireland and converted to (checks notes) Romanian Orthodox Christianity. They always do that - surely a true conservative interested in...
Had to look him up. Of course he's an American who lives in Hungary. *Shudder*
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Had to look him up. Of course he's an American who lives in Hungary. *Shudder*
Yeah, exactly. I've seen him doing weird shit a bunch of times but never seen him *just* playing the harp. Totally spellbinding.
November 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Yeah, exactly. I've seen him doing weird shit a bunch of times but never seen him *just* playing the harp. Totally spellbinding.
fucking hell, what a double bill (I saw him this year in Cardiff with another incredible harpist, Rhodri Davies)
November 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
fucking hell, what a double bill (I saw him this year in Cardiff with another incredible harpist, Rhodri Davies)
(obviously I don't wish to make light of suicide and I hope that she can, for all her mistakes, find a way back to happiness)
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
(obviously I don't wish to make light of suicide and I hope that she can, for all her mistakes, find a way back to happiness)
I don't mean to sound callous, but she undermines her own integrity and is so obviously still manipulating the narrative so much that when she claimed she still occasionally thinking about ending her life my first instinct was to doubt her sincerity and wonder if that was also bullshit.
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I don't mean to sound callous, but she undermines her own integrity and is so obviously still manipulating the narrative so much that when she claimed she still occasionally thinking about ending her life my first instinct was to doubt her sincerity and wonder if that was also bullshit.
I guess I was just so entertained at how badly they both handled a great opportunity to clear the air. Pullman's was veering into Isaac Chotiner vs Howard Jacobson territory (nowhere near as egregious in content, but certainly similar in tone and dynamics.
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I guess I was just so entertained at how badly they both handled a great opportunity to clear the air. Pullman's was veering into Isaac Chotiner vs Howard Jacobson territory (nowhere near as egregious in content, but certainly similar in tone and dynamics.
Yep, agreed. it's not emphasised enough that it was just a bloody goodreads review, not some hit piece in a prestigious magazine or a newspaper column, and that SHE saw it and massively amplified it TO HER OWN FOLLOWERS instead of doing a bit of fact-checking.
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Yep, agreed. it's not emphasised enough that it was just a bloody goodreads review, not some hit piece in a prestigious magazine or a newspaper column, and that SHE saw it and massively amplified it TO HER OWN FOLLOWERS instead of doing a bit of fact-checking.
There's a part where she's kind of boasting about how popular she was on twitter, that is revealing and should be a cautionary tale about social media. Such was her pride in her own popularity that she organised a pile-on over a goodreads comment and expected it would all go her way.
November 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
There's a part where she's kind of boasting about how popular she was on twitter, that is revealing and should be a cautionary tale about social media. Such was her pride in her own popularity that she organised a pile-on over a goodreads comment and expected it would all go her way.
I listened to it all yesterday and was suprised (well, maybe not surprised) to see that the bsky consensus is that it's a travesty? I mean, Clanchy comes off terribly, arrogant, deluded, self-pitying. Pullman also does not do much honour to his name, though mostly out of touch rather than malevolent
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I listened to it all yesterday and was suprised (well, maybe not surprised) to see that the bsky consensus is that it's a travesty? I mean, Clanchy comes off terribly, arrogant, deluded, self-pitying. Pullman also does not do much honour to his name, though mostly out of touch rather than malevolent
used to love walking from sutton to howth around this time of year
November 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
used to love walking from sutton to howth around this time of year
Wonder how long it is before Behr has another heart attack and blames it on Starmer? Or maybe somehow he'll find a way of saying it's still Jezza's fault?
November 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Wonder how long it is before Behr has another heart attack and blames it on Starmer? Or maybe somehow he'll find a way of saying it's still Jezza's fault?
So many of my friends have babies/toddlers and my two are almost 11 and 15 and I literally remember nothing. It was so long ago that any advice I give makes me sound like a boomer: You don't need an app! They'll just become dependent on that white noise machine (and it's driving me insane!) etc
November 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
So many of my friends have babies/toddlers and my two are almost 11 and 15 and I literally remember nothing. It was so long ago that any advice I give makes me sound like a boomer: You don't need an app! They'll just become dependent on that white noise machine (and it's driving me insane!) etc
think you've caused a major diplomatic incident with Ireland by calling peat 'dirt'
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
think you've caused a major diplomatic incident with Ireland by calling peat 'dirt'
in 00s grime, 'slew' was often used as a noun (a diss track or bar was a slew) an imperative (Slew Dem Crew, one of the great posses) and also incorrectly as the root of the past tense of slay (i.e. 'you got slewed' rather than slain)
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
in 00s grime, 'slew' was often used as a noun (a diss track or bar was a slew) an imperative (Slew Dem Crew, one of the great posses) and also incorrectly as the root of the past tense of slay (i.e. 'you got slewed' rather than slain)
I was performatively reading Ulysses in the smoking area at my sixth form in 2002 back when these hacks were still in nappies. But I also enjoyed it and ended up studying in Dublin partly because of it. Much teenage reading is definitely performative but that doesn't mean it isn't also meaningful...
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I was performatively reading Ulysses in the smoking area at my sixth form in 2002 back when these hacks were still in nappies. But I also enjoyed it and ended up studying in Dublin partly because of it. Much teenage reading is definitely performative but that doesn't mean it isn't also meaningful...
interesting. maybe they'll see the ultra-conservative tradcath wave as an opportunity to rebrand.
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
interesting. maybe they'll see the ultra-conservative tradcath wave as an opportunity to rebrand.
I am beginning to think that if not one of my over 200 followers can hard relate to listening to 'I want to get high' as a millenial teenager while fantasising about what smoking weed would be like, maybe this isn't the platform for me tbqh
November 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I am beginning to think that if not one of my over 200 followers can hard relate to listening to 'I want to get high' as a millenial teenager while fantasising about what smoking weed would be like, maybe this isn't the platform for me tbqh
Some of the creepiest people I met while studying in Dublin were those who had converted from Catholicism to Evangelism... obviously I had to defriend all of them during the abortion referendum...
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Some of the creepiest people I met while studying in Dublin were those who had converted from Catholicism to Evangelism... obviously I had to defriend all of them during the abortion referendum...
catholic towards creepy Catholic converts like Vance, Amy Coney Barrett etc.
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
catholic towards creepy Catholic converts like Vance, Amy Coney Barrett etc.