Tim Page

Freelance copy and developmental editor in history and current affairs. PhD politics and things Russian. Likes books, cats, Wales.

[John Foreman CBE @John_ForemanCBE]

‘Britain is a miserable sight. A society of failures, full of apathy, and aroused only by envy at the success of others. That is why we will continue to decline. Not because of our economic and industrial problems. They are soluble. But because the psychology of our people is in such an appalling – I fear irretrievable – state. Meanness has replaced generosity. Envy has replaced endeavour. Malice is the most common motivation … This is the social personality of a loser’.

Bernard Donoughue, 1975.

[Andy Ryan @ItsAndyRyan]

Publisher: So you've given us a book about a big friendly giant, one about an enormous crocodile, and another where a granny grows as big as a house. What's new?
Roald Dahl: There's this peach...
Publisher: Is it -
Roald Dahl: It's fucking huge

[Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555]

The Strait of Hormuz Blockade, but we add OUR blockade.

[Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 @librarythingtim]

Six years since the greatest Google-Translate Latin motto:

Plumbum, Credo, Inspire

best translated as "The metal lead, I believe, inspirjb."

[Justin Logan @JustinTLogan]

Having editors—and authors—who know the subject matter is vital.

[Bruno Leipold @BrunoLeipold]

A friend lent me this and its nice to be reminded of the kind of writing AI is incapable of generating by itself

[Pelagia @Ljiljana1972]

RIP David Lynch you would have loved this.

[Marko Jukic @mmjukic]

There is just no way to know whether this hardcore radical Islamic theocracy will fight and die for their hardcore radical Islamic theocracy three weeks after they massacred thousands of people to protect their radical Islamic theocracy. No way to know. It's a coin-flip.

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

A good exercise for interpreting news like this is to pretend that you heard it about a foreign country.

For example what would it mean if the Russian or Chinese Defense Minister asked for the resignation of their army Chief of Staff a few weeks into a war?

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

"Can the subaltern speak?"
We actually meant questions specifically about the job

[Infinite Books @infinitebooks]

This paragraph from Schopenhauer has probably never been more relevant

[Edmund @Kulambq]

'My life is as simple as I can make it. Work all day, cook, eat, wash up, telephone, hack writing, drink, television in the evenings. I almost never go out.'

Philip Larkin

[Neo @NeoWokio]

me trying to find the HDMI port on my TV

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

I understand that the AI positions I outline here are extreme. But what I'm calling for is a return to the 1990s and computer labs in colleges. What the AI boosters are advocating for, in accepting the decline of mass literacy, is a return to the 1700s.

https://t.co/9pypoFIBOJ

[Kusha Sefat @KushaSefat]

The nuclear deal with Iran, put together by the Obama administration, was less about actual nuclear weapons and more about creating a non-kinetic containment framework. Obama’s analysis was that in light of the decline of American power 1/

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

The objective of the war has become undoing the consequence of the war.

The stupidest war in history.

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

It’s okay for hard things to be hard. On the subject of AI and writing, I like the way George Saunders puts it:

[Mylee J. Miller | Dark Fantasy Author |🩸🗡️🦉 @myleejmiller]

Yes, Word. That is exactly what I meant.

[Dhruva Jaishankar · ध्रुव जयशंकर @d_jaishankar]

The Far Side from 1987

[John Dory @johndory1914]

This is the life.