Jacky HL Chan

DPhil in the medical humanities @engfac. Thinking about pandemics & modernist and contemp negotiations of reading and writing as curative 🩺

[Woke Beria 🇬🇪 @realLPBeria]

Frankly, there are enough *good* arguments against Christian metaphysical and moral claims that this kind of guilt-tripping "it's colonialist to say non-Western religions are wrong" line is a pretty embarrassing one to resort to.

[Lynn Boylan 🍷📖🐾 @LNBDublin]

One day, everyone will always have been against this.

[Stephen Spencer @sspencer_63]

Any update on what the toilets were like on the plane, Lyle?

[V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams]

@cementeriocc

[Namwali @namwalien]

I thought it might helpful for some of you to read what Morrison said about difficulty and her own aims as a writer. First, some context: her master's thesis at Cornell in the fifties was on the (not yet canonical) high modernists Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner. Thread/1

[Namwali @namwalien]

And here is her remarkable analysis of the purpose of the oblique opening to Beloved. I have a difficult, ahem, time believing that y'all opened that book and read "124 was spiteful" and immediately understood what it meant. To find it easy to read would defeat her intentions: /6

[AltAzn @Alt_Azn]

The Sabrina Carpenter incident reminded me of this Atlantic article originally titled “Why do White People Love Quiet?”.

The author was shocked that when she went to an Ivy League school her classmates expected her not to blast music at 2 in the morning.

Instead of internalizing this is how normal people act she made it racial.

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

Struggling with a sentence since yesterday because I'm still working out what I want to say, and the struggling is part of the thinking which isn't predetermined. Can AI do that? Thinking through writing?

[v.g @insufficentfund]

yeah but then nobody beat the modernists. that's as good as literature got to be

[Aboo Hafsah @AbuHafsah1]

London has fallen.

Sadiq Khan arranges yet another Middle Eastern event in the heart of London.

[audrey hepburn enthusiast @darylandfilms]

see i get the sentiment but this argument kinda falls apart when you add on maggie smith who had nearly 50 years of acting experience, 2 oscars and a damehood before she ever starred in a harry potter movie. her legacy is doing just fine lmao

[Immortan Joe Mazzulla @normal_jake_]

she cooked lmao

[n x d @nxd1979]

no millennial trope has broken more brains than "you don't owe anybody anything". an ignoble, selfish narcissism dressed up in therapy-speak about boundaries and self-care in order to give yourself a pass from treating other people with a basic level of care and respect

[The Protagonist @protagonist_xi]

THEY. TORTURED. A. ONE. YEAR. OLD. BABY.

THEY. TORTURED. A. ONE. YEAR. OLD. BABY.

THEY. TORTURED. A. ONE. YEAR. OLD. BABY.

THEY. TORTURED. A. ONE. YEAR. OLD. BABY.

[Thuso van Zyl 🇿🇦 @Thuso1Africa]

“One race. The human race.”

[Randa 🧉 @rannnda]

People who claim Palestine is their land because their ancestors supposedly lived there 4000 years ago have a problem with the daughter of Syrian immigrants identifying as Syrian. Can’t make this shit up

[Karim @Idlibie]

Nice AI slop.

Now here’s a real picture of the 165 graves of Iranian girls who will never reach womanhood because you murdered them all only days ago.

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

The child survivors of the Minab girls’ school massacre must condemn anti-Semitism

[ɴ.♡ @luvblessingz]

This sin is mentioned in the bible a lot more than homosexuality btw.

[mary beard @wmarybeard]

Great article here by my mate Charlotte Higgins on why ENJOYMENT is not the only reason for reading. It is also challenging, disturbing, eye-opening, uncomfortable. And why we should include non-fiction as well as fiction in “reading”. https://t.co/Ogts4lqeFe