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Here we go. I'd started anor book already but decided to sneak in a short one. Books read in 2024 No.1. The Outsider/ L'Étranger - Albert Camus (trans. Joseph Laredo). Hadn't revisited since I read it when young, so it was like reading it anew. Is it best read young? #books

Morgan S has contacted investors ahead of a planned sale of up to $3bn of debt they and others such as Bank of America & Barclays lent to EM to complete his Twitter buyout. The banks hope to sell senior debt @ 90-95c on the $, retaining more jr holdings archive.md/hiccx

I remain hopeful that everyone on my book-related list (dealers (incl rare books), libraries, archival institutions, bookshops etc) x.com/i/lists/192007… will make the move to Bluesky. There's an active (and growing) number of ppl and orgs, there.

@dkfcdotnet Looking as it does, it's not even about how much it costs. At any price it looks dreadful.

@aptronym That doesn’t look too appealing! I normally go for the sushi or falafel or a panino.

More than a quarter of English councils expect to have to sell homes to balance their housing budgets while over a third have cut back on repairs and maintenance in what has been described as a crisis in social housing finance. theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

@damiankelleher Can't just go around changing the things that one must do.

@aptronym One must

Yeah so anyway I bought a few books today

@EtcFairs Are you on bluesky? I can't find you there.

Don’t forget to visit us this Sunday 19th January for the first Bloomsbury Book Fair of 2025! Check details on website!

@damiankelleher You will go back again as per usual practice, though.

@aptronym Yes. Might be tomorrow, might be tonight.

@damiankelleher Oh there are more expensive ones than that here, but they are say bigger books, coffee table books with decent photography, reference bks. But we don't have a $2.50 section.

@aptronym There is a high priced section that is ridiculous - $5-$9. And they are basically the same books. The $2.50 section is great. A few years back they had a $1/$0.50 section which was also good, though it was really full of dusty old mass market paperbacks

@damiankelleher Your Lifeline bookfairs are better and lower priced than ours.

@aptronym lifelineqld.org.au/shops-and-even…

"a rapid unscheduled disassembly"? I think you mean it exploded.

"It's sad to say that since the 1980s we've said this is what's going to happen and it's happening just as predicted, if not a little bit faster and a little bit worse." This.

US Securities and Exchange Commission - Musk failed to properly disclose his ownership of Twitter, which allowed him to buy shares of the platform at “artificially low prices.” edition.cnn.com/2025/01/14/bus… The official press release and details: sec.gov/enforcement-li…

@ABSStats No bluesky?

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@tony_robbo Noice.

@aptronym Very controlled. They’re nice pick-ups for a street library. Haven’t had a close look at the Harvill but couldn’t resist

Home safe from a day in the country! On the left is our combined haul from Mr Booksywooksy (terrible name, great bookstore) in Kongwak; pic on the right is from op shops in Loch and Korumburra.

@tony_robbo I learned of it today on bsky. I had no idea either. She's worse than I thought.

@aptronym Jesus Christ. I wasn’t aware of this. She’s a monster

A full page colour ad in the WSJ costs $350,000. I’m sure she’ll be expecting a return on that investment