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New site theme: ‘Chaplin’
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Yeah, yeah. I KNOW!
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“whanging in the absence of wind”
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Mature-age students are really cool
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4 min read
But isn’t uni supposed to be for young people?
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Where did the time go?
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Well, actually, we had a baby.
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We need to talk about Chris de Burgh’s lyrics.
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D/DN: Nu på svenska!
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Nu kör vi, eller hur?
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Pimpin’ my portfolio
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It gives me a certain comfort to have all of my works in the one location.
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Clearing out the linkrot
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It stands to reason that a medium as subject to change as the Internet will, over time, exhibit signs of decay. In the case of a website that amalgamates posts from at least five other sites, and which has been online in one form or another since 2001, this decay manifests itself via linkrot, defined…
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Schiermonnikoog (Skiermûntseach), Fryslân
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Feeling deep in Fryslân now.
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Eelderwolde: somewhere in Drenthe
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Time to get back to basics.
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New site theme: Editor
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D/DN is currently down for maintenance. Here’s why.
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Preoccupations: ‘Disarray’ (Toronto, 2018)
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My thoughts on hearing but not seeing Preoccupations play live in Toronto in April 2018.
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Toxic Gulf
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years since the gap first appeared between the teeth of a little girl picking raspberries from her mother’s hand by the poisoned stream a toxic tale of porcelain has traced its tiny fingers round the lines on contour maps (& their bedroom walls they stick our portraits & sit up for haircuts while you look…
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Ann Leckie: Provenance
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I absolutely loved Ann Leckie’s Raadch trilogy, and Provenance is a worthy addition to her universe. I just wish the publishers had gone with a less shouty blurb/cover/testimonial approach. “POWER. THEFT. PRIVILEGE. BIRTHRIGHT.” is ridiculously over-the-top for what is essentially an introverted and subtle political-space drama!
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Simple
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As usual, all it took to restore my faith in humanity was a visit to the local library.