Love your enemy. It'll confuse the shit out of them, but reserve the right to block the bastard if they get on your bloody nerves.

The 2025 Christmas book haul. I chose the two orange ones, my beloved chose the others.

All I want for Christmas ... are a few more responses to our GP survey on #tinnitus & #hyperacusis! 🎅 🤣 If you’re a #GP, please give me the gift of your thoughts on how you assess & manage these in primary care. To make sure you’re on Santa’s nice list, scan the QR code! #PrimaryCare

Have you ever talked to your GP about tinnitus or sound sensitivity? We want to hear what it was like — good or bad. Your experience can help improve support for others in the future. 👉 Over 18 + UK residents only. 👉 Take part using the QR code or app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/nottingham...

I’m inviting #GPs to take part in a short service evaluation on #tinnitus & #hyperacusis management in #PrimaryCare Your experience can help shape better care for people living with these conditions. Survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/nottingham... #GeneralPractice #GPSky #BJGP #RCGP #JustAGP

I'm working on a Christmas story which I really wanted to publish in time for the festive season, but I might not make it in time. Keep your fingers crossed!

I’m looking for a little help with my PhD research: a service evaluation to understand how GPs assess and manage ppl presenting with #tinnitus & #hyperacusis. If you’re a #GP, your insights are incredibly valuable. The short, confidential survey takes around 10–15 mins. Scan QR or link in thread

🎧 Do you live with tinnitus or sound sensitivity? We’re running a study to learn about people’s experiences of talking to their GP, and what support you were offered. If you're 18+ and live in the UK, you can take part. 👉 Scan the QR code below or email [email protected] for the link.

Most years, I listen to All About Eve's Scarlet and Other Stories in September at least once, but I never think to play December in the month of the same month. Until now. What a track.

⏳There’s still time to take part! We’re inviting GPs to share their experiences managing tinnitus and hyperacusis in primary care. 📆 Survey closes 31 Dec 2025 ✅ 10–15 mins | 🔒 Confidential | 💬 Your insights matter 👉 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/nottingham... #PrimaryCare #Tinnitus #GPsurvey

Treble Seventeen, not out and new horizons. open.substack.com/pub/turquois...

New post on my Substack blog, in case you've been wondering where, oh where have I been? turquoisefloyd.substack.com/p/and-so-im-...

Zing!

Today marked the launch of a book which contains my first published short story - more fact than fiction though! It also happens to be the first thing published about my PhD research project. #phdchat #tinnitus #hyperacusis #phdsky #UoN

👋 I’m Nic Wray, PhD researcher at NIHR Nottingham BRC. We’re asking GPs to share experiences of managing tinnitus & hyperacusis in primary care. 🩺 10–15 mins | 🔒 Confidential | 📋 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/nottingham... #PrimaryCare #Tinnitus #GPsurvey #Research #Hyperacusis

Him: "We have too many books." Me: "No, you can never have too many books. If anything, you can never have enough books." *buys two more books*

I don't know if anyone else is using the phrase "The Age of Arseholes", but if you ask me, it is entirely fitting to our times. Apologies to the great Chinese proverb but: "May you live in interesting times that are not beset with arseholes."

Every day, GPs help people living with #tinnitus or #hyperacusis, but we know support varies across the UK. Please help us identify what resources & training could make a difference. 🩺 Survey link: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/nottingham... #PrimaryCare #HearingHealth #MedicalResearch

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell

I’m inviting #GPs to take part in a short service evaluation on #tinnitus & #hyperacusis management in #PrimaryCare Your experience can help shape better care for people living with these conditions. Survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/nottingham... #GeneralPractice #GPSky #BJGP #RCGP #JustAGP

We often speak of you.

Don’t Look Up: Writing Cosmic Horror - come join the madness - 15/11/25 - 11:00

I know from reading Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall, Spike Millgan wasn't a fan of the "bloody Warsaw Concerto", but I bloody love it.

Passed an old folks home on my travels this morning, where the residents were having a singalong to 'Side By Side@ with a chap on a guitar. Made me wonder what us Gen Xers will be singing when we fill up the homes. Britpop? Metal? "Everybody! SOOOO SALLLLY CAN WAAAIT, SHE KNOWS IT'S TOO LAAAATE..."

I’m looking for a little help with my PhD research: a service evaluation to understand how GPs assess and manage ppl presenting with #tinnitus & #hyperacusis. If you’re a #GP, your insights are incredibly valuable. The short, confidential survey takes around 10–15 mins. Scan QR or link in thread

Samir Zitouni deserves the George Cross for his courageous actions on Saturday night. It's awarded "for acts of the greatest heroism or for most conspicuous courage in circumstance of extreme danger", not in the enemy's presence. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Somehow Fesshole has been invited to SWEDEN. Tell your Swedish friends. Can't quite believe this is happening. We're also playing Liverpool very soon and have just announced some new Leicester dates. TICKETS --> sites.google.com/view/fesshole

New post on the Substack about my third novelette, and second in the Vespertine series. open.substack.com/pub/turquois...

What a cracking evening: brilliant Bugle Live show AND Gian Van Veen winning the European Darts Championships!

Double screening the Darts European Championships and The Bugle 18th Anniversary Live Show @thebugle.bsky.social @podchris.bsky.social ! What a time to be alive!

I tested AI and the outcome was scarier than I expected open.substack.com/pub/eyglo/p/...

New post on the Substack: where the writer explains! turquoisefloyd.substack.com/p/being-for-...

Is squeezy Nutella a thing?

It's so hard to get people to look at anything you post, isn't it? I thought I'd try doing a video of a post I wrote, to move with the times. It got three views yesterday, so here it is on BSky. Two minutes of your time to watch my whimsical noodling, if you'll indulge me. (Please indulge me)

New post at the Substack! This one has a video! turquoisefloyd.substack.com/p/id-settle-... #silliness #ludicrousdreams #funnies

Superb interview of Lord Heseltine by Victoria Derbyshire on Newsnight, just now. Seek it out, if you can. He doesn't mince words!

I'm finally catching up with season 3 of The Orville, now subtitled "New Horizons". Is it just me or is Dr Finn is the Meg Griffin of the show, what with the emotional beatings she's taken in the first two shows of the season?

Currently reading. I love World SF.

Come here, ya little bugger! #silliness #funnies #idiot #ideas turquoisefloyd.substack.com/p/faster-tha...

Six years ago, I bid on this chair at the local auction house. Reader, I did not win it but I often think of it in a wistful manner.

Ferengi Rule of Acquisition number 98: if you can't take it with you, don't go.

The human world gets more horrible by the day, but have you ever considered the employment needs of the porcine residents of Planet Earth? New on my Substack, The "As and When, Weakly" ! open.substack.com/pub/turquois...

The wonderful Dame Patricia Routledge is no longer among us, and I mark her passing with this magnificent rendition of a Noble Coward song. youtu.be/UKTviQNM6KA?...

Belatedly, my weekend book haul.

Just a kindly reminder that the story that should-be-science-fiction-but-soon-won't be, named Cautionary Pulses is available in the new Interzone, written by me and @ashleystokes.bsky.social. shop.interzone.press/b/E76yw?fbcl...

"Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen, Anthem.

The Oxford Shorter Dictionary comprises two hefty volumes and sometimes just lately I'd just like to hurl it with great force at certain people, screaming, "LOOK UP THE DEFINITIONS OF HUMILITY, EMPATHY AND COMPASSION, YOU F*CKWIT!" Oh my Bob. So much asshattery is afoot.

I've read it and it's brilliant!

Got tea stained mugs? This is what I do to get them sparkling clean again. Thanks to my Aunt Barbara for the tip.