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I don't know who needs to hear this, but the idea that "I bought this book, therefore I get to do whatever I want with the contents" is why the copyright notice exists

Oh, thank you, I must get that!

Exactly - it is the context that matters. And particularly, as you pointed out right at the start of this, the bloke was wearing it to a GP event. If they had any political sense at all, they wouldn’t have let him in, or at least would have sent him straight home to change. Instead… 🤦🏻‍♀️

Do You Hear The People Sing is a banger, though

Oh yes, there are certainly similarities, and sometimes striking ones in the tone, I think.

Yes, though in the past it was the mainstay of many political pamphlets, rallies and so forth. It’s just a bit more globalised and quicker now.

I’m a historian who has written about quite a lot of revolutions and revolutionaries, and I’m afraid they’ve always been like this, back through centuries. It’s all just fancying themselves until it actually happens. Then a bunch of them die horribly, and the survivors fancy themselves even more

No, no, dig up!

mildly funny that X is having blazing rows about Nolan’s Odyssey because he cast black people in it and Bluesky is having blazing rows about whether a noted Homeric translator’s LRB review of it misses the point or not

that is in fact literally in the bible. it's Matthew 6:5.

These are also wilfully dogmatic people who choose to ignore context. Shooting a Nazi in the thick of WW2 may have been a heroic act. This does not mean you have free rein to threaten violence against anyone you decide to call a Nazi today. Obviously. It’s so embarrassing that this needs explaining

Yeah I’ve had a go! I’m not sure they’ve enjoyed the heatwaves. Seem a bit sluggish. Ordering more soon. Apparently it takes a few goes, so more like 24,000 wasps in all. They are very tiny and my flat has not noticeably been full of wasps. I hope they’re getting started, at least.

Someone came at me from exactly that point of view on this thread. As son as I figured out what he was talking about, it was a pretty quick block.

I’m looking for a freelancer based in Spain or France to cover the wildfires and heat wave. If that’s you, my DMs are open and I’d love to talk through story ideas!

A genuinely interesting list – keen to get reading!

another interesting question for the future is whether this particular wave of anti-AI novels will be stranger and more unsettling than ones to come — before formulas and tropes are more settled and defined

Good old social media!

I blocked this person, who is either a sociopath or trying to sound like one.

You sound like a sociopath, which is presumably your intention. Grow up.

No, they’re not, and I don’t believe “we” have agreed any such thing.