TheDimPause @TheDimPause@mastodon.sdf.org
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Finished reading: Adults In The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9781847924452
Using http://Micro.blog as my social media focus now, so mainly posting there and not too active directly on Twitter – find my blog at http://thedimpau.se or follow me at http://micro.blog/TheDimPause
Only because the Rhoswenallt was full 😡 (@ Yr Ieuan Ap Iago (Wetherspoon) in Aberdare, Mid Glamorgan) https://www.swarmapp.com/c/gYBNlikL41P
Chris Woakes gets a well deserved century against India at Lord’s. Woakes now gets his name on the batting and bowling Honours Boards – quite a select few achieve that. Jonny Bairstow unlucky not to get his hundred. A good day’s cricket for England after a faltering start. 🏏
Simple Minds, Pretenders & K. T. Tunstall 🎵 (@ Cyfarthfa Castle in Park, Merthyr Tydfil) https://www.swarmapp.com/c/9k2wFlzBrfb
RT @Keats_Shelley@twitter.com: Professor Richard Holmes attempts to separate fact from myth surrounding the death of PB Shelley, on 8th July 1822 off the Italian coast. https://bit.ly/2u3UrGz via @GuardianBooks@twitter.com (The image is his gravestone in Rome, which @Keats_Shelley@twitter.com looks after)
RT @BBCInOurTime@twitter.com: Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born #OnThisDay in 1792 http://bbc.in/2vlGndA
Glamorgan vs Gloucestershire at Sophia Gardens tonight – Glamorgan just win, by 2 runs 🏏
RT @GlamCricket@twitter.com: SUMMARY// Glamorgan win another nail-biting match @SophiaGardens@twitter.com as TVDG holds his nerve to dismiss Tye from the final ball of the game as the Welsh county win by 2 runs
Fantastic team effort with standout performances from Meschede, Smith & Hogan #GoGlam #VitalityBlast
RT @mrmarksteel@twitter.com: My little column about Corbyn and anti-Semitism. Luckily I can't see anyone taking any of this out of context and getting irrationally cross. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/antisemitism-labour-party-jeremy-corbyn-jewish-holocaust-survivor-abuse-a8474846.html
RT @mrmarksteel@twitter.com: Here's a policy that Corbyn could adopt to swing the polls his way; coffee should come in a cup or a mug, but NOT in a glass. £2,000 on the spot fines for any transgression.
RT @mrmarksteel@twitter.com: In all my days I have never said anything this controversial, but if you can't stand up for what is right, are you truly alive at all? Here we go....... Abba aren't 'fantastic', they're a sodding nuisance.
RT @EatPodcast@twitter.com: Kicking off my contribution to Dogs Days of Podcasting 2018. Stay tuned.
My library hold came in! The new translation of The Odyssey by Emily Wilson. Here's a NYT piece on it: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/the-first-woman-to-translate-the-odyssey-into-english.html
This is the first English translation by a woman. In our language's 500-year history this is the first time society and academia and economics have aligned just right so that for once a member of the other half (more or less) of the human race got to take a crack at it.
UK voters, please sign!
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights – in charts
https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2018/jul/30/emily-brontes-wuthering-heights-in-charts
Communism: A short guide for confused journalists
https://freedomnews.org.uk/communism-a-short-guide-for-confused-journalists/
Inter-band reading :)
