Most underrated country in the world? I’ll start:

I can’t explain it but Lord of the Rings (specifically Fellowship) is a Christmas movie.

masterclass in why the oxford comma matters from @nytimes

@travis_5head2 @othingstodo_com That teenagers now resist getting their licenses is wild to me. We were GONE. School, jobs, friends’ houses, shopping, stopping somewhere on the way home …no one was keeping tabs/tracking us.

I'm a PhD student at @UniofOxford and I think I'm living in a fairytale :-) Foxes playing around in the snow at Magdalen College this morning — absolutely magical!

I'll tell you what goes on here. 🧵

WELL DONE, PENGUIN! 👏

"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it." Ursula K. Le Guin, born 95 years ago today, on the magic of real human

“One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience… Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are and what we want.” Ursula K. Le Guin, who would have been 95 today, on storytelling and the power of language to transform our experience

Burt Lancaster passed away OTD in 1994. Lancaster was the first star to have his name placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'Moonlight' Graham in Field of Dreams (1989) was his final role. Ray Liotta's, 'Hey, Rookie. You were good,' still sends tingles down the spine.

On his 89th birthday, celebrate the wholesome beauty of Jerry Orbach and Angela Lansbury recording Be Our Guest.

"Somewhere along the way, publishing has convinced itself that it doesn’t know how to market books for teens, particularly teen boys." Read more 👇

On the back of this thread, I got the opportunity to write about the desperate lack of books for teen boys in @thebookseller. Massive thanks to @mollyflatt for letting me write on an issue I'm hugely passionate about. Link: https://t.co/FIlfwzfMXd

133 years later, literary and pop-culture tourists unite at the @DickinsonMuseum. Ever since @Dickinson debuted on Apple TV+, fans have flocked to her home. @atlasobscura profiles the museum, its history and the poet's pop-culture moment.

“As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one’s life or one’s work,” Leonard Cohen said, in 2016.

Lots of purchases over the weekend. @questingvole book was a must. Very excited to dive in. I am SO SO excited and happy for @chrishaughton too - I am been chomping at the bit to read his History of Information. Congratulations both - a really excited and happy reader here

The reason your brain associates them this way is because of the artwork of Alan Lee and John Howe for Tolkien’s writing. It’s easy to see why they chose these styles. They also worked on designs for the Jackson LOTR trilogy. Hence why we all just seem to “know” which is which.

The light rain really emphasising the autumn colour in the Cader Idris Nature Reserve,Snowdonia, a couple of weeks back.

This is these guys in a nutshell. It's a shot-for-shot remake of the original trailer... except it's not even a good copy. It's not just that there is not a single original idea in there, they aren't even aware that they have taken out all the substance. (A li'l thread.)

I've said this before, but I really think the "AI creator" crowd shares one characteristic: they always want the prestige without the effort. They don't really care about the work or what it means or what it evokes. They just want to be accepted as cool creatives.