Stop literally everything.
Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.
fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...
Franco-Irish Literary Festival later this month.
www.francoirishliteraryfestival.com
Andrew Tate @Cobratate X.com I fly to Saudi tonight. Will cross the desert to get into Dubai with War Room soldiers. While the rest of the world runs away like cowards we show respect to the greatest city on earth. Dubai. We're coming. Tate X THE WAR
Andrew Tate @Cobratate STAFF POST !! This video was filmed a few hours before the attempted border crossing. Andrew is currently offline and being questioned.
Andrew Tate • @Cobratate • 25m UPDATE. My mission to Dubai has been haulted. I'm currently unable to leave this detention centre.
Oh, look, more Schadenfreude.
Andrew Tate wanted to go “Full Metal Jacket: WAR GOD” but instead is detained.
It's World Book Day and it's coming up for 6 months since the brilliant gender-fluid adventure Ravenglass was released!
We are celebrating by launching a giveaway of 6 copies of this beautifully written historical fiction novel!
Like and share by 13th March to enter!
'First lines of books always feel like life and death for a translation. I must have stared and stared at this line for, cumulatively, hours.'
Fascinating to read @jencalleja.bsky.social reflect on translating four lines of 'Favorita' by Michelle Steinbeck, for @faberbooks.bsky.social.
We’ve been plotting and dreaming about where we’d like In Other Words to go this year and we’re looking for someone to join us on the journey. It’ll be a mix of event planning, social media chatting, fundraising, and admin, alongside many excited conversations about all things translation.
Looking for examples of English-language dramatizations of non-English prose texts.
One example I can think of is The Years (Annie Ernaux)
almeida.co.uk/whats-on/the...
Bonus: If the text is by a diaspora writer and/or is a multilingual text
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Spain, acting alone, has made itself the champion of opposition to US action in the Gulf, reviving the slogan “no a la guerra”, “no to war”, that the Socialist Party used in its opposition to the Iraq War in 2003.
tcnv.link/B6ZZOlU
Corporate broadcast coverage of climate change fell 35% in the last year, even as Trump systemically dismantled climate policy and billion-dollar disasters rose
The gradual deprioritization led NBC climate reporter Chase Cain to hit a breaking point, and he quit last week
Here's our interview:
Renad Mansour, Chatham House: "History tells us that there's more likely to be more chaos and more violence before anything is settled, and that, I think, is a scary thought for many Iraqis"
Great piece, by @cathrinschaer.bsky.social and Omar Albam.
p.dw.com/p/59jlH
All great suggestions. Thanks!
Could be perfect! I'm doing something on a German book, specifically a chapter about Berlin.
Will take a look, thanks!
Thanks for those, they look great.
Oh, Berlin is perfect, will look into those. Thanks.
Today's random question.
Looking for examples of reportage/literary non-fiction that involves walking a city and then delving into its history (or some other theme).
First one that comes to mind is Lauren Elkin's Flaneuse.
The cover of JITTERBUG by Gareth L Powell features a stylised rocket silhouette at the centre of an orrery, with a space suited figure dangling in its wake
THANK YOU for helping me launch Jitterbug with all your good wishes and reposts today! Hugely appreciated!
Hello, a friend is doing some research and is looking for people who know about:
immersive tech driving sports fan engagement and ultimately brand activation in 5 cities/regions - Calalunya, Paris, Ruhrgebiet, Osaka and Austin Texas.
Anyone??
Good lord. What an abject failure the Blue Labour strategy has been.
Irish government policy is to make us more reliant on foreign energy like LNG, while paying out tens of billions of euros in fines for failure to meet climate targets.
Moving to renewables is the only way for Ireland to develop its own sustainable, sovereign energy source. #speirgorm
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.
'The attack on Iran is a clear violation of the UN charter, in any absence of any credible, imminent Iranian threat to the US.' Julian Borger.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
No one should be using ChatGPT or partnering with OpenAI for anything.
-Zero Congressional consultation or approval.
-Zero preparation of public for need/consequences of war.
-Zero evidence of thought about "OK, what might the other side do?" Next month. Next year.
-Zero mention of anti-nuke agreement Trump voided, or Trump claim last year that nukes "obliterated."
Brother to my great great great grandfather.
Art and politics. The family obsessions...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/william-paul...
I try not to get too conspiratorial in my thinking, but it is getting a bit coincidental how every time the Epstein scandal closes in on Trump, the US launches a major military operation in another country
Oh excellent!!
