Helen Macdonald

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Writer. One half of a dynamic duo. H is for Hawk, Vesper Flights. PROPHET with Sin Blache. Rep by the Clegg Agency. Non-binary. She/they

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I know smut may seem like a frivolous thing to be upset about, but crushing it is part of fascism. Controlling all forms of sexual expression is fascism. Only allowing certain kinds is fascism. Smut peddlers are always canaries in the coal mines.

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The Sansui RA-700 Reverberation Amplifier (1975)

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This is what they drive in the Money For Nothing video

They look even dumber in red

Look at these BEAUTIES! Paperback out 20th June in the UK

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portals in general are a bad idea

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breaking news: second beneficiary of the exonerative mood revealed by headline writers

THE ORCAS GET POLICE TENSE NOW

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Harvard and Google AI mapped one cubic millimeter of a human brain. It took up 1.4 petabytes of storage just in pictures of the specimen. So the entire brain would take ~ 1.6 zettabytes of storage, cost $50 billion, and require 140 acres. It would be the largest data center on the planet— one brain.

Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researcherswww.tomshardware.com Mind-boggling mind research.

Will never not find this delightful

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Now that snipers are trained on peaceful students and professors are being hog-tied by masked men with assault rifles, it'd be great to hear from all the people who made "free speech on US campuses" their life's mission every time they met a student with blue hair.

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we're all pretty desensitized to this shit by now but man, seeing a riot cop with three pmags on a plate carrier is something else. like bro what exactly do you hope youre going to be doing today

A hell of a photo by Lily Kepner of the Austin American-Statesman

iPhone, thank you

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4’33” is definitely about everything being very quiet and nothing more. No, no further questions please.

John McWhorter thinks campus protests are "a form of abuse" because they prevent his class from listening to John Cage's silent composition, 4'33", in peace. I kid you not. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/o...

Opinion | I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.www.nytimes.com I do not believe that the Columbia demonstrators are driven by antisemitism, but their actions have gone way too far.

Adored Monkey Man. Of course. The hijras as fount of safety made my heart huge. Also, for those who have read Prophet: of course Dev could play Rao: but he is a natural Adam.

Aaaa! Look at the Canadian paperback cover art for Prophet. Such a vibe! Love it so much. @PenguinCanada @sinblache.bsky.social

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Here’s how you remember: Guttenberg with two Ts, Police Academy ye sees. Gutenberg with just one, the printing press he done.

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Major news for Area X fans: ABSOLUTION, the fourth Southern Reach novel! Exclusive cover reveal and details at PEOPLE. Also, 10th anniversary editions of Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance, with new covers and introductions by Karen Joy Fowler, @nkjemisin.bsky.social, and @hjm.bsky.social !!

'Annihilation' Author Jeff VanderMeer Adding Fourth Book to 'Southern Reach Trilogy' (Exclusive)people.com Author Jeff VanderMeer is adding a fourth book to the 'Southern Reach Trilogy.' See the cover of the new installment, 'Absolution,' plus new 10th anniversary covers for the original three books.

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blockchain companies have exactly two types of post

I’m never not going to remember these elephants. Or ever sleep again, possibly.

The parrots have spent today loafing about in the kitchen, chill as can be. They have not been: nesting under the sofa, ready to rush out and attack my feet. Or shagging each other, or destroying things (to my knowledge). IS THE NESTING SEASON FINALLY OVER oh god I hope so. it's been THREE MONTHS

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I generally feel that whether you want to separate the art from the problematic artist is a personal decision. That said, if the artist is alive and profiting from their art and using those profits to actively fund and justify evil against marginalized folks, that decision ceases to be neutral.

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“White Noise, American Prayer Rug” (2018), by Nicholas Galanin

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So proud of my old town

THE NEWMARKET PUDDLE: All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go (with Photos)www.tripadvisor.co.uk

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an actually good Sydney Sweeney-themed think piece is “The Money Is in All the Wrong Places” by @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social defector.com/the-money-is...

The Money Is In All The Wrong Places | Defectordefector.com You can always tell who in Hollywood has family money by their Instagrams. People like Dakota Johnson, who have a Hollywood lineage deeper than the Mariana Trench, post only rarely. They post about so...

Looking forward so much to this! Hope to see some of you there x www.waterstones.com/events/book-...

Oh hello

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You can put googly eyes on anything. No one can stop you.

Me, earlier: "I MUST catch up with emails. It's been a busy couple of weeks, yes, but I've let my correspondence slide dreadfully." Me, after looking at emails. "Seven weeks of unanswered emails, not two? Oh god." *thousand yard ADHD expression*