Dr Vandermast
Writer of this and that. Reader of the other.
Not a doctor, and my name isn't Vandermast.
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- Reposted by Dr VandermastRUN. RUN FAR AWAY FROM THIS CONTEST.
- Reposted by Dr VandermastI’ve only read Riddley Walker (couple of years ago) but there were a couple of really lovely blogs about Turtle Diary in particular that piqued my interest. If you wrote about this book, thank you so much! 💕
- Reposted by Dr VandermastI'm feeling very unsociable tonight. I don't wanna be within 100ft of another person! So I've bought a cinema ticket to see the Melania movie! 😂
- Reposted by Dr VandermastWe gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
- Reposted by Dr VandermastA subsequent report posted on bsky was similarly unhelpful. This item is the best I could find: thebristolcable.org/2026/02/pale...
- Reposted by Dr VandermastI read Paul’s translation side by side with an older one, and it’s great. Very readable without losing the special weirdness of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
- Reposted by Dr VandermastFloored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
- Reposted by Dr VandermastBlack to move. Puzzle "March to the Back Rank" from chess.com. #ChessPuzzles
- Reposted by Dr VandermastI want to laugh at it but sadly it’s true.
- Reposted by Dr VandermastBulk sales of tickets to Melania are being promoted through emails from WH Faith Office advisor Paula White-Cain using her National Faith Advisory Board list. People are encouraged to purchase 30 tickets at a time to “support our First Lady.” meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...
- Reposted by Dr VandermastBlack to move. Puzzle "Back and Forth" from chess.com. #ChessPuzzles
- Reposted by Dr VandermastIt was probably difficult to foresee that Trump would put the Kennedy Center out of business.
- Reposted by Dr Vandermastpsa link to block the ai scraper.
- Reposted by Dr Vandermast10/10 ICE protest sign
- Reposted by Dr VandermastI will likely be watching the first installment of #Bridgerton over the next few days. I will have thoughts. And a reminder that if you want a queer normative Regency romance of manners, wit, and magic, I have a trilogy for that. It’s queer joy, fashion, and fun.
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- Review of my latest reading: Wild Talents, By Charles Fort. It's great, but if you're interested, go for his first one, The Book of the Damned. 🙂
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- Sonnets in Sand A Salute to The Sandman A verse appreciation, one poem for each volume of Neil Gaiman's epic comic. On kindle, cheap as chips! 😁 #sandman mybook.to/sonnetsinsand
- Catholicism, are you okay, hun?
- Reposted by Dr VandermastThrilled to receive an author's copy of this beauty this morning. Huge thanks to Worldstone Publishing & Dustin Bilyk for including me. Please do take a look at this fab #indie publisher's catalogue. If you're looking for #winterseason #reads they've got you covered! #scifi #FantasyFest
- Reposted by Dr VandermastWhat’s everyone reading this weekend?
- Reposted by Dr VandermastNo, what this means is that the rich will continue to have tutors, while the poor will have an autocorrect 'teacher' that confidently informs them there are six Rs in "strawberry."
- We want to make sure tutoring isn't the preserve of a lucky few, but accessible to every child who needs it. AI can help us do that. Safe, personalised, one-to-one learning support to help every child achieve and thrive. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
- Reposted by Dr VandermastCivil litigator here with years of experience of business people’s emails to each other in disclosed evidence for disputes. As a general rule: the senior the business person, the less effort they put into emails, and the more effort expected from those reading them. Effectively a mark of rank.
- Reposted by Dr Vandermast"why are these rich freaks so bad at writing emails?" because they've never had to be good enough at it to keep paying rent
- Reposted by Dr VandermastOk, let’s do this🙄 We’ll start with an explainer covering: 🕒What is a 15-minute city 🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford 👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article 🧵 1/25
- Reposted by Dr VandermastNew mental image just dropped. I'm not saying you're all definitely missing out by not reading nerd books, but…wait, no that's exactly what I'm saying.
- Reposted by Dr Vandermastwas epstein uniquely responsible for evil or is he just the one obscenely wealthy person whose emails we're getting to read
- Reposted by Dr VandermastThis is one of my favourite books from the past few years, I IMPLORE you all to make it the top selling adult BOTM in years so I can talk to everyone about it.
- Reposted by Dr VandermastMy mum had bombs dropped on her as a child. My dad bled on a beach in battle. I'm not yet bored of rules-based coexistence, because anger isn't the same as education, history isn't a comic, and interesting times don't just happen to someone else.
- Reposted by Dr VandermastPeter Mandelson – the great genius at the heart of New Labour. Dominic Cummings – the great genius at the heart of 'Leave'. Nick Timothy – the great genius at the.... Morgan McSweeney – the great genius at the.... Can we ban all alleged great geniuses and cast them into outer darkness forever?
- Reposted by Dr VandermastMy books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
- Reposted by Dr VandermastGood luck to all those of you doing No Solero February this year. I have managed 9 hours so far. Not sure I can take it all the way this time. If you manage it please donate the £23.33 you've saved here www.justgiving.com/page/nolero
- Reposted by Dr VandermastAbuse of children is fractally self-similar to all the other patterns of domination that hold each other up and that often find embodiment in the most powerful people in our current destructive systems - white supremacy, nature domination, and patriarchy to just a few.
- Reposted by Dr VandermastLet us all laugh at the sorry and needy human being that is Matt Goodwin. Don’t get angry. He lives that. Just laugh at him. What a sad, sour, ridiculous fool he is. Does he think people can’t see through him? Laugh him to scorn - a pygmy - wannabe colossus.
- Reposted by Dr VandermastThere’s no justification for shooting someone ten times in the back. There’s no justification for shooting someone ten times in the back. The debate about what Alex Pretti did or didn’t do is irrelevant. The agents committed murder. It wasn’t a “bad shoot”. It was a killing
- Endless Enchantments: A Thousand Magical Treasures for Fantasy Role-playing Games Cursed cloaks, sensational swords and poisonous pies! "...wondrous doodads... heartily recommended." In handsome hardback or pleasurable paperback. #ttrpg mybook.to/endlessencha...
- Reposted by Dr VandermastA Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
- Reposted by Dr VandermastWriter in the top 1% of writerly success: "Can't wait to alienate myself from my peers and audience to work with literally the worst boss in the world for a cool 80k a year."
- Reposted by Dr VandermastLet’s make Springsteen’s song for Minneapolis go viral: youtu.be/GDaPdpwA4Iw?...
- Reposted by Dr VandermastNEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights. After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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- Reposted by Dr VandermastVery interesting research paper that shows that using AI with programming can significantly reduce mastery over topics. Perhaps unsurprising, but the lack of significant speed gains in this exercise are remarkable www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- The Rede of the Rook: Fantasy Stories A king none has seen, a doomed messenger, a feud in tattoos, wars, waterfalls, werewolves and puppets. mybook.to/redeoftherook
- Reposted by Dr VandermastThe U.S. Embassy in Denmark removed 44 Danish flags honoring Danish soldiers killed in Afghanistan outside the building, drawing outrage from the country’s veterans amid heightened tensions between Copenhagen and Washington. wapo.st/4rfbSOz
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- Reposted by Dr VandermastA sad but important five-minute read. Worth your time. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Dr VandermastI'm confused by Republican gun policy. If you lawfully have a gun near a protest the government can kill you. But, if you kill protesters with a gun they'll make you a celebrity.
- Nobody will mourn Trump as they mourn Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Nobody will say, he shouldn't have died, he was a good person. Either of them, and millions of other random Americans, would have made an infinitely better president.
- Reposted by Dr VandermastI think we should talk about what actually DOES make us buy a book. Reply or repost with things you like to see in the marketing [largely copy/graphics] for a book. For me, I like to know the demographic/genre + the problem/questions the book is going to tackle. I want the answer remain a mystery.
- Reposted by Dr VandermastFascism is just criminality with political power. It's all about enriching yourself and to hell with anyone else. Lying, hurting people, killing - doesn't matter. It's all about the grift and avoiding being caught.
- Reposted by Dr VandermastTWO SHOOTERS. Not just a lone dumbass in a panic, poorly trained, altho a gun expert claims they were running with fingers on triggers, so they are indeed lacking any real law enforcement skills. Taught to gun people down like it’s their Call Of Duty, the video game they gushed on afterwards,
- Reposted by Dr VandermastLovely gig at Cambridge Junction - these were the shadows on the walk back to the station - next shows in CORNWALL - Bodmin and Falmouth www.ticketsource.co.uk/intobodmin/j... thepoly.org/whats-on/eve...
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