Caught up with the peripatetic Rosa Lyster ro discuss the tone and worldview of Hal Hartley’s 1994 deadpan thriller Amateur for TANK

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for FT Weekend Magazine I wrote about how no one knows what a hobby is now, especially not my own personal friends and loved ones (in addition to everyone on twitter)

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He’s right

You know how France has a list of approved names, and you can’t legally name your baby anything not on that list? If we had that for swear words, guys like this would wind up in court for these kind of tweets

Honestly this kind of Banterous Larks stuff is to me as bad if not worse than the bitchweasel register. Enough!

This would activate the queen. twitter.com/HackBlackburn/…

This is a really amazing bit of reporting from Ed Caesar - it made me think a lot about all the things that need to happen in order to build an ordinary life, and how lucky you are if it stays like that newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

“Europe Europe Europe Europe” - Americans

Feel like “danger because of big undulation” could be a fun joke to say maybe

Does anyone have a book to read that is EXACTLY like the corrections/a machine to erase the experience of reading the corrections on holiday from my mind so I can do it again

The zinger-filled book review continues to be the most abject genre going. I’d honestly rather watch a bunch of friars club roast videos on YouTube

Thinking about this post again

Just saw someone refer to someone writing a book based on *greek mythology* as “appropriating Greek culture”. You just never know where you’re gonna see people take the discourse next

One of the worst things about being caught up in UK Travel Chaos Leaves Sun Starved Brits Stranded style mayhem at for example Gatwick? You can’t even bitch about it without sounding like you write for the daily mail

It's supposed to be #NationalFreelancersDay , which sounds fake to me but okay; I'm going to break an unspoken rule and talk about money. I'm Dan Brooks. I've been a full-time freelance writer for 13 years.

Homesickness is an editors' choice/ staff pick in the NYT this week😩😁

We should make these people join the army