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Thank you everyone for nominating in the 2025 Hugo, Lodestar and Astounding Awards! We have a long weekend of tallying ahead of us…

From Narnia to a Space Odyssey: Stories, Letters, and Commentary By and About C.S. Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke, ed. Ryder W. Miller fromtheheartofeurope.eu/from-narnia-to… The primary non-fiction material is welcome, but the rest a bit superfluous.

Bradley Bartell voted for Trump. Now ICE arrested his wife Camila Muñoz "I knew they were cracking down, but I didn't think they'd go after my wife," said Bartell Sigh... "I never thought the leopards would eat MY face," cried woman who voted for leopards eating faces party.

The best known books set in each country: Ukraine fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-best-known… Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer

Last month I did a little experiment. I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Blu*sky. The results were...interesting... [Thread]

“The thought of dentists gave him just the same sick horror as the thought of Socialism.” from Bealby, by H.G. Wells

Interesting books about Ireland that I have read in the last year fromtheheartofeurope.eu/interesting-bo… My favourites are two autobiographical books by Feargal Cochrane and Malachi O’Doherty.

Reviving this post from 2018 (which is now a little out of date): dublin2019.com/happy-birthday…

Men at Arms, by Terry Pratchett fromtheheartofeurope.eu/men-at-arms-by… The satire has aged less well than some of his other work.

I Wandered Lonely As A Clod “Now oft, when on the couch I lie, The doctor asks me what I see. They flash upon my inward eye And make me laugh in fiendish glee. I find my solace then in bottles, And I forget them axolotls.”

Wednesday reading fromtheheartofeurope.eu/wednesday-read… Last Books Finished Dramatic Works of Denis Johnston, v3 A Christmas Carol (Doctor Who) A Christmas Carol (Dickens) Bealby Track Changes

Tremendous on Western failure in Afghanistan. bostonreview.net/articles/portr…

I'm leaving this platform, for all the obvious reasons. Auto-tweeting blog posts disabled; buffered tweets deleted. I will check in occasionally but not daily. Be seeing you on B.l.u.e.s.k.y, LinkedIn, Facebook and fromtheheartofeurope.eu . It was fun! Until it wasn't.

Just looking in to say, Bluesky is great, most of the people I liked from early-to-mid Twitter is there, and none of the Nazis are, so I can actually talk with them. Come and join us.