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Matthew Perry, the best Friend I never knew
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The Bluestocking: On Writing
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The Bluestocking 361: Five Years On
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The Bluestocking 351: Woodchippers, male flight and Fred-Fred
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The Bluestocking: Keir Starmer is Ruthless
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The Bluestocking 365: Elon's concubines and smartphone lobotomies
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A high IQ makes you an outsider, not a genius
The first extract from The Genius Myth is here!
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The Bluestocking 371: A walking ovation
Things got easier when I remembered the Lib Dems
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The Bluestocking 370: Biden enablers and cat-sitters
I call seltzer “sparkling water” and settle for bagels that taste like caulk
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Lucy Worsley and Helen Lewis on history and her book THE GENIUS MYTH
A recording from Helen Lewis and Lucy Worsley's live video
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The Bluestocking 369: Weirdness and Leveson
"Now I battle boredom, and that’s a winnable fight."
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The Bluestocking 368: Manosphere and Mitfords
two nearly extinct megafauna in a doomed fight to the death
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The Bluestocking vol 367: Group chats and Gump
a new one just with smart people
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The Bluestocking 366: Ominous clay flute
yes, I've been playing the new Assassin's Creed
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The Bluestocking 365: Elon's concubines and smartphone lobotomies
DEI for white male novelists
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The Bluestocking
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