James Kinsley

Thought For The Day: This isn't the moment to make a boob.

Er, what?

Hop Fight: The Authoritative Guide to the Drunken Sport Even a Child Can Play by F.T. Marquardt This is exactly the sort of endeavour I can get behind. To pour a book's worth of effort into the history, rules, gameplay and every other aspect of an entirely made-up sport... there's no more worthwhile use of a man's time. If I had one criticism, it's the decision to announce the falsehood upfront. How much more delicious, one feels, to discover the fiction oneself as one reads?

BOOK REVIEW: Highly pleasurable nonsense; an exhaustive, detailed guide to a non-existent sport. Marvellous.

Over the nose ffs 🙄

Very much enjoying a sojourn through the works of Capt. W.E. Johns but one thing has jumped out at me and that's that Biggles is a really grumpy prick.

King Mother is a top frisbee brand.

King Mother was Stanley Tucci's first film credit.

King Mother is another term for a treble-top in darts.

King Mother is Godzilla's mortal enemy.

King Mother are my favourite 90s SoCal pop-punk band

Got it. Brilliant. 'King Mother' sounded so wild. Thank you!

Like if Elizabeth II had been a chap, would Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon have been the King Mother?

I've said "queen" too many times.

Did the 'Queen' bit of 'Queen Mother' come from the fact she was mother to the Queen, or her own Queenness?

Lucy reviews James Kinsley latest novella IT'S HARD TO TELL YOU THIS:

"Kinsley engenders emotive responses and expectations with ease"

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Took me a moment to realise they didn't actually mean 'Kardashians'

Stoked that Shrill is now on Netflix. FINALLY get to see s2 & 3

Dust, Grit, and Vengeance by Drew Baker Readers of Baker's debut novella The LET Project will already know that he's a great storyteller and Dust, Grit, and Vengeance goes a long way to cementing that reputation. Luke and Kootala are two young men and, in a refreshing flaunting of Western norms, a couple living in Bluff's Reach, Arizona in a time when the white man's expansion west is driven by the railroad and the pursuit of wealth.

BOOK REVIEW: Drew Baker follows strong debut novella with a compelling and engaging Western adventure.

Wow, this lady on the blue team on Bargain Hunt looks like hard work...

Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Within the pages of Noopiming we meet a diverse array of characters of the First Nations; people, animals, spirits, all trying to live their honest lives in a world that in some ways, thanks to the white man, is no longer theirs. These characters are presented in series of snippets, anything from just over a page long to a simple sentence.

BOOK REVIEW: A poetic and beautifully written window into our own world as seen through the eyes of the First Nations. Essential reading.

Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben First published in 1979, Dreaming of Dead People has been given a new lease of life by And Other Stories and we can but hope that this allows a new generation to discover this astonishing, extraordinary novel. It's not so easy to succinctly describe what the book is about. The opening chapter describes a woman's solo visit to Venice, where she by chance falls in with a family with young children, leading her to reflect on how her life has turned out how she imagined it would.

BOOK REVIEW: One of the most astonishing and extraordinary books I've read, Rosalind Belben's magnificent 1979 novel Dreaming of Dead People.

Met police officers were told to guard Jeffrey Epstein's home, emails show The Met says it has not identified any wrongdoing by its protection officers

Have we got enough to shoot this guy yet?

BBC News - Met officers working for Andrew told to guard Epstein's home, emails show
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The True Price of Every ChatGPT Prompt | Earth Day AI tools like ChatGPT rely on energy — and water-hungry data centers. As prompts soar, emissions rise, raising urgent questions about sustainable AI growth now.

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Let's try this again 👋

Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.

I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

I think Alysa Liu might be my new favourite human being.

I hear ya.

John Boorman's Hope and Glory, which having rewatched recently, seems almost unbelievable. The same RE teacher was obsessed with showing us episodes of Shelley.