Charles Ferrow

MA in English Lit and teach English but mostly interested in geopolitics now

[Alexander @alexanderrX_]

just a reminder that there are cities like dubai and abu dhabi, literally built in a desert, that keep their grass green all year round.

we’re an island surrounded by water where it rains most of the year.

we haven’t built a new reservoir since 1992 and added ten million people. this is a choice. we loathe building infrastructure

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

A barrister hired a digger and physically restored a dead river, brought back fish, herons and dragonflies, and the Environment Agency response is to threaten him with two years in prison for not having a permit.

[Charles Ferrow @charlesferrow]

Also this is Tenet erasure

[Charles Ferrow @charlesferrow]

This list has been engineered by sophisticated AI software with the specific goal of irritating me

[John Fadule @fadule_]

Christoper Nolan movies ranked:

Tier 3 - you don’t need to watch these ever again
9. Dunkirk
8. Memento
7. Batman Begins
6. Oppenheimer

Tier 2 - these are fantastic on TV especially December 26th-30th
5. Dark Knight Rises
4. The Prestige

Tier 1 - you should watch these once a year the rest of your life
3. Inception
2. The Dark Knight
1. Interstellar

[Charles Ferrow @charlesferrow]

@DavidDPaxton I didn't take you for a Cookson head

[Charles Ferrow @charlesferrow]

Strange how I disagreed hugely with the opera point but agreed with the literature one. Maybe personal prejudice and aesthetic judgement is all there is.

[David Paxton @DavidDPaxton]

Ghastly mush. Cowardly mush at that.

[Charles Ferrow @charlesferrow]

Unfair headline - Geese played the game and they won

[WIRED @WIRED]

The Brooklyn band Geese was labeled an “industry plant” by those who questioned its sudden ubiquity. Maybe it was. https://t.co/H6QYLmBQUg

[Charles Ferrow @charlesferrow]

@exhaustdata Strangely, the book that really got me into DFW.

[The Independent @Independent]

Radio 2 ‘lining up wildcard’ Scott Mills replacement after BBC firing https://t.co/98ZLQjx0t8

[Charles Ferrow @charlesferrow]

Epic posting from Azealia here

[Charles Ferrow @charlesferrow]

What a mental tweet hahah

[1017 🚁ひ @bluegeaux]

The average couple. Just both mediocre looking, nothing about their entire existences being noteworthy.

They work a boring 9-5, drive run of the mill sedans and spend their weekends watching TV. They’ll have 2 kids, a boy & a girl - who will carry on this unremarkable cycle.

[Charles Ferrow @charlesferrow]

I will be holding onto 00s mini-4x4s til they are nothing but rust

[Charles Ferrow @charlesferrow]

Never understood financing a car - once you start, you either get roped in for life (endless 'upgrades' to continue the contract) or have to make a huge payment to get out of it.

[- @EMAY4K]

Some of the monthly figures I see people paying for financed cars actually mind boggling to me, £400/500 a month on some base spec, mercs/bmws etc before insurance, maintenance and fuel. my head would be on Mars man

[Mohammad Ali Shabani @mashabani]

A scene like this in any European or North American capital would be reported with one word as the headline.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Sorry, what? Being a civilian at a civilian site is normal. What’s banned under the Geneva Convention is deliberately bombing civilian sites, especially those indispensable to everyday life.

[Charles Ferrow @charlesferrow]

Great!

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: UK warship HMS Dragon has been forced to withdraw in order to be repaired at port after experiencing issues with its fresh water supplies

[Charles Ferrow @charlesferrow]

A good way around this is panning and filtering the audio a bit so the listener knows its a footnote

[Rick Paulas @rick_paulas]

Actually fascinated by this decision RE: the Infinite Jest audiobook.

[gato fumante @KweenInYellow]

Israel has now seized a larger percentage of Lebanon's total landmass than Russia has taken from Ukraine since its 2022 invasion. The latter was immediately met with international uproar and unprecedented multi-sectoral sanctions while the former is barely even mentioned.