Abi Collins > Recent Status Updates

“This is partly the fault of Jews by the way. Falsettos was written by Jews, and like all theatre and comedy written by Jews about Jews, it is self deprecating and not, as theatre and comedy about other minorities and/or women tends to be, empowering.”

Lmao I love my people

Schrodinger’s Whites: “Jews are white or non-white according to the politics of the observer.”

Hahaha what a way to put it

“When it is pointed out to him that sometimes anti capitalism blurs into antisemitism, his first instinct is to protect the anti capitalism and dismiss the antisemitism with irritation.”

“Being white is not about skin colour, but security. It means you are protected because you are a member of the majority culture. Protected, that is, from prejudice, discrimination, second-class citizenship, dispossession, and genocide. Which Jews have not always been.”

Damn I’d never noticed that you could use the noun Jew as an adjective and it immediately makes it derogatory

“It doesn’t matter how rich you are, because the racists will smash in the door of your big house that they know you don’t deserve anyway and only own because you’re Jews.”

AMEN

“The difference between the active quality of traditional far-right anti Jewish racism, and the passive nature of the progressive neglect of Jewish sensibilities.”

“Jews are the only objects of racism who are imagined, by the racists, as both low and high status.”

This book may kill what’s left of my spirit but my god is it good

Aeons passed... worlds spun and whirled...
Time was motionless... It stood still-it passed through a thousand ages....
No, it was only a minute or so...
Two people were standing looking down on a dead man....
Slowly, very slowly, Vera Claythorne and Philip Lombard lifted their heads and looked into each other's eyes...

The fact that it’s the final chapter and I still don’t know who the killer is, is insane

Genuinely on the edge of my seat - Agatha Christie is a master and I genuinely have no idea whodunnit

I’m listening to the Dan Stevens audiobook and what a delightful narrator he is - such a wonderful job with all the distinct character voices!

“Why did you have to endure it, since the end was always the same? Why was it not possible to cut a few days or weeks out of your life? Nobody ever escaped detection, and nobody ever failed to confess. When once you had succumbed to thoughtcrime it was certain that by a given date you would be dead.“

Peter Capaldi pulling out all his acting stops for this passage good god

‘The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended.’

I think newspeak is the most depressing thing so far for me

‘Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’

First female tube train driver in 1978 bloody hell

Oooh - the District Railway in east London issued posters and handbills in Yiddish in 1907!

‘It was never the intention that this branch of the Northern should come to an end at Mill Hill East, but instead carry on to Mill Hill and Edgware over an existing alignment.’

You’re telling me I could have had a tube station near me???? 😭

‘A number of stations have flower gardens or vegetable allotments tended by the staff in their spare time and there is also an annual Underground In Bloom competition entered by up to a quarter of the stations and depots enter every year.’

Awwwww

‘Most commonly lost items are mobile phones; the strangest including a park bench, samurai swords, a lawnmower, worn underwear, false teeth, a grandfather clock, a stuffed fox, breast implants and prosthetic limbs.’

Who brings a lawnmower on the tube and then FORGETS IT?? 😭

‘A number of creature comforts were provided to make the life of shelterers more amenable. Snacks and hot drinks, delivered by special tube trains, were served nightly, and at some stations there were even libraries, recorded music played on gramophones provided by American charities and live entertainment.’

Tearing up over these shelterers in WWII

The fact that you can earn a living with £150 a day from busking at tube stations is insane

Oooh Angel has the longest escalators - I’ll have to visit!

I love the concept that aliens would come visit earth just to see our solar eclipse lol

‘Even if you don’t believe in ghosts, there are so many reasons to keep them’

Loving the whimsy of this book so far

Wow so the enemy of the people is Jewish, got it 😭😭

“Something in his face suggested it, irresistibly. And again, perhaps it was not even unorthodoxy that was written in his face, but simply intelligence.”

Half a chapter in and I’m already feeling traumatised, partly by Peter Capaldi’s incredible narration. Let’s goooo, I guess

Light on the Discworld isn't like light elsewhere.
It's grown up a bit, it's been around, it doesn't feel the need to rush everywhere. It knows that however fast it goes darkness always gets there first, so it takes it easy.