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What I Read In 2025
The Year Of Reading Middlebrow-ly
Dec 8
The Bluestocking 394: Beards, brains, bins
a giant monument to government inaction
Dec 5

November 2025

The Bluestocking 393: Orcas and popstar perks
let’s start liquidating grandmas for optimal efficiency
Nov 28
The Bluestocking 392: DEI Wolves
I have a hard time pinpointing how I believe we should have made different choices
Nov 21
The Bluestocking 391: German OR policeman
Nancy Mitford's decor thoughts, BBC at war and the rise of Palantir
Nov 14
The Bluestocking 390: Visual images and apex stakeholders
They had a mental deficiency of which they were unaware
Nov 7

October 2025

The Bluestocking 389: Testosterone and Richard III
comedy is about people of no consequence
Oct 31
The Bluestocking 388: Traitors and Goons
through the medium of snails
Oct 24
The Bluestocking 387: Cola bottles and Vermeer's sneer
The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm
Oct 17
Fear And Laughing in Riyadh
A dispatch from my time watching stand-up comedy in Saudi Arabia
Oct 16
The Bluestocking 386: Sun miracles and showgirls
a layered lasagne of toilet paper
Oct 10
The Bluestocking 385: Shrinkwash Alan, stonewash Nick
getting ‘negged’ by Reform voters
Oct 3
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