The Thing Is to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. —Ellen Bass

These lines from Anne Carson's Orestes (Euripides) for days:

Video games are terrible nowadays because developers don't include an entire page of recommended reading at the back of the manual to further elucidate their whimsical satire of post-war American suburban consumerism.

Please add my name to your list of supporters Campaign for the Arts devastated at these brutal cuts to the arts in Birmingham-and so many other places now being targeted. Short sighted but with long term consequences…

🧵Today is the last day of filming BBC Doctors A show that has run for 24 years, employed thousands of people, produced more than 4,500 episodes, will call ‘cut’ for the final time. As a writer on the show for the past 19 years I’m personally impacted along with hundreds 1/

We know that gardens are important for biodiversity– together they are larger than all of our National Nature Reserves combined ! But if you want a bit of help from a gardener , where do you look ? Introducing wildlifegardendirectory.org.uk from Wildlife Garden Project – search today !

free submissions to anthropocene / welcome all of june RTs makes us happy😀🩷😆 send 1-3 poems to extra special guest editor HLR / [email protected]

If you ask : what is the value of the humanities? I would say that it teaches you to read with acuity, to analyse wild claims, to argue responsibly to questions to which there are no right answers. Do we need the humanities? Let’s hear it for yes!!!

Completely understand why people might have had enough, but we have lost 200+ followers in just a week. So if you have followers you think might appreciate our quiet, bookish, pretty and sociable corner of twitter please do reweet and we will try and follow back as far as we can

don't leave twitter if you don't like an account, block it; don't like a comment, block them. i've blocked musky & about 1000 others my account is full of poets & writers & love & kindness if something breaks through they get blocked immediately my profile, my rules 💜💙💚💛🧡❤

V personal thread with a public punch line A few days ago my sister was at the curfew tower in Cushendall.  She met a man from Liverpool.  They got talking and he realised he knew our Mum.  More importantly that HIS mum knew our mum …..

We’ve lost 300+ followers now (and counting) which is so sad because Twitter as it was helped make our little indie bookshop and also saved it on many occasions. The truth is that about 80% of our sales came through this platform, but with #BookTwitter diminishing as people

The usual geniuses keep using this photo, to make their usual dumb/hateful anti-immigration arguments. Quite ironic, to say the least. A few facts about this photo, for anyone interested in who those women were - and what their stories might tell you about Ireland. /1

7 years ago, we bought a plot of land on the US-Mexico border to stop racist billionaire Donald Trump’s dumb wall. But this year, an even richer, more racist billionaire—@ElonMusk—fucked that land with tractors and garbage, so we’re suing for $15 million. ElonOwesYou100Dollars.com

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Labour is hiking taxes on billionaires. Don’t be distracted by the farmers protesting in Westminster. Inheritance tax on farmland means the super rich will pay their fair share. Here’s who’s most affected:

"I farm just under 5,000 acres myself," Says multi-multimillionaire Lord Lloyd Webber, whose descendants will now presumably have to pay inheritance tax on it. The "ordinary farmers" are really out in force huh.

Now reading the excellent Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror and the Spectre of Nostalgia by William Burns Headpress "Could nostalgia be a so-called 'third space' between external and internal realities, not entirely one experience or the other, but both/an interface?"