Sep 2019 <buys new bike>
Oct 2019 - early 2025 "You're not having a new bike."
Early 2025 "You're not having a new bike unless I get the same amount of money as the bike costs".
Aug 2025 "Why have you transferred me £? Is it for the credit card bill?"
Also Aug 2025, 2 minutes later "Did I say that?"
@lcannell 🧵N+1 on Netflix
“…if Netflix now occupies a place in the market similar to cable companies, the business it’s most spiritually aligned with is Blockbuster: a widely disliked service staffed by people who know nothing about movies, stocked with thousands of titles to see, few of them worth watching. Even Netflix knows its users can’t find titles that they like.”
And thanks for the introduction to the N+1 Magazine and Foundation!
Found new homes for some bikes we don't ride anymore. The number of bikes in our household is now equal to the number of people 😭
Time for an N+1 🤔
Funny bicycle shop name: "N+1 Bikes" (https://n1bikes.com/)
Unfortunately (or luckily, depending on the point of view 😉) they mostly seem to have mountain bikes and nothing really fancy like folding bikes, recumbents, trikes, tandems, etc. 😇
In other news: I recently noticed that the n+1 rule also applies to #mechanicalkeyboards: I'm eagerly awaiting @thpoll's #polykbd becoming available for preorder at https://www.crowdsupply.com/polykybd/polykybd 😁
US liberals "seem not to see or to recognize #Palestinian suffering because they literally do not see or recognize it. They are far too intent, far too focused, on the suffering of people with whom they can more readily identify, people they understand to be just like themselves."
Saree Makdisi in #Nplusone
Quite a thorough summary of Turkey's earthquake and it's aftermath. An updated version of Justus Links' March 2nd article that appeared in the #Lefteast magazine
#Turkey #nplusone #JustusLinks #earthquakes
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/the-catastrophe-in-turkey/
One way of reading the AKP’s progress is as a two-step process of privatization. In its first two terms, the AKP government privatized a large portion of Turkey’s state assets; since then, it has moved to make the state itself the private property of one man and his friends. The first phase — standard neoliberalism — won the AKP applause from the Western establishment, which is now aghast at the second phase, which looks more like Putin than Thatcher.
"The Ellipse Maker," a new short story of mine, is in the spring 2023 issue of n+1 magazine.
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/fiction-drama/the-ellipse-maker/
It was disappointing that these devices didn’t operate on different principles. The sameness suggested that the mystery in them was limited, that the idea behind them was a known form that Jacob hadn’t encountered before only because he didn’t know very much about the world.
Jon Roach
Greg Lloyd
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