Graham Sleight

“A civil servant, restrained in dress & manner” -Guardian. (I'm not actually a civil servant.) Surname rhymes with kite not Kate. Writes about #sciencefiction and #fantasy. Hugo winner. Tweets in personal capacity. Puns. He/him

2023-06-16

@zomda YOU AND HART DESERVE EACH OTHER

2023-06-16

@zomda DAVE I DID NOT NEED TO SEE THIS

2023-06-16

From Guardian obituary of crossword-setter Rufus:

His longest published one-word solution was an anagram for that place with a long name on the Isle of Anglesey: "Giggling troll follows Clancy, Larry, Billy and Peggy who howl, wrongly disturbing a place in Wales (58)".
2023-06-16

@ceejbot uh…a targeted EMP blast?

2023-06-15

I….don’t understand anything any more?

2023-06-15

@PaulGrahamRaven Sorry to break it to ya

2023-06-15

Michael Tilson-Thomas and friend.

2023-06-15

Can’t forget this classic from the austere, restrained Sir Adrian Boult.

2023-06-15

Herbert von Karajan: conductor…and biker?

(And try not to think about where that light at the bottom is emanating from.)

2023-06-15

Whereas in this one, Bernstein is clearly a one-episode Succession character about to be sworn at by Brian Cox

2023-06-15

Classical music art departments are terrible, part one zillion. Case in point: the wonderful Antonio Pappano recording of Verdi’s Requiem - cover looks like the poster for a 1983 disaster movie about forest fires.

2023-06-15

The Science Fiction Foundation [1] will be holding its AGM on Saturday as part of a wider free Zoom event organised with our friends at the BSFA. Details here: sf-foundation.org/fresh-about

[1]: Chair of trustees: uh, me.

2023-06-15
2023-06-15

@EndlessBookshelf looking forward!

Graham Sleight boosted:
how to do anythingwikihow
2023-06-14

How to Replace the Bridge on an Acoustic Guitar

2023-06-13

As opposed to the Boeing 787, clearly the Tigger of planes, and the 757, the Eeyore.

2023-06-12

Booking flights. Fear I’m becoming one of those people who has strong opinions on what model airplane they fly on. (A380 in this case: the heffalump of the skies.)

2023-06-11

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