Derek Farrell
@derekifarrell.bsky.social
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He/ him. Crime-writer. Puppy-parent. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦✍️🧠🐕🦺
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Anton Gerashchenko
4 months ago
The Spanish military, with tears in their eyes, sees off
#Ukrainian
soldiers after military exercises. (archive video)
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I’m beyond furious. I hope all those people who cheered for this are happy now.
news.sky.com/story/trans-...
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Trans women to be strip searched by male transport police after court ruling
British Transport Police, the force that polices Britain's railways, is adopting an interim policy while it digests the Supreme Court's ruling that the definition of a "woman" under equality laws refe...
https://news.sky.com/story/trans-women-to-be-strip-searched-by-male-transport-police-after-court-ruling-13350577
7 months ago
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Well hopefully now she’s won the battle against trans people she’ll turn her sights and her billions to reproductive rights and rape conviction rates.
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TheBookTrail
7 months ago
The first Connor Fraser novel set in
#Edinburgh
and
#Stirling
... Book 7 out in just over a month. Prepare now...
thebooktrail.com/book-trails/...
@nlbro.bsky.social
#crimefiction
@littlebrown.bsky.social
@lomondtrossachs.bsky.social
@stirlingcht.bsky.social
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No Man's Land - The Book Trail
BookTrail Boarding Pass: No Man’s Land Destination/location: Stirling, Edinburgh Author/guide: Neil Broadfoot Departure Time: 2019
https://thebooktrail.com/book-trails/no-mans-land-neil-broadfoot/
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As a young man, I fell in love with the US. The country’s soul is still there, despite Trump’s best efforts to destroy it | John Harris
For many of us, the United States means music, progress, hope. Whatever their president does, plenty of Americans continue to believe in those too, says Guardian columnist John Harris
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/06/us-soul-donald-trump-destroy-music
7 months ago
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Message from Evri- “we’ve got your parcel” - has the air of a ransom note. Which - as it’s Evri - is rather apt.
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Josef O'Shea
8 months ago
Not really sure we can get back from a world where random blokes in Wisconsin or Wigan - or presidents and politicians who couldn't pick Le Pen out of a line-up - can confidently dismiss an 11-year investigation by the EU & French justice system - because the woke.
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I want one that plays Peggy Lee’s version of Fever.
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Moira Donegan
8 months ago
I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism
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Sarah Hilary
8 months ago
Win a Character Name in my new book and raise funds for trans rights in the US 🏳️⚧️
www.32auctions.com/organization...
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Character Name (Sarah Hilary)
Auction item 'Character Name (Sarah Hilary)' hosted online at 32auctions.
https://www.32auctions.com/organizations/124888/auctions/173700/auction_items/6055561
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These pictures are as brilliant as the situation is heartbreaking.
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8 months ago
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Andrea Junker
8 months ago
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.
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I mean, who hasn’t?
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Dutchy Patrick
8 months ago
Good question…
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Yesterday we dog sat for two beauties, watched a Dr Who Marathon, caught up on the latest Reacher and had - all round - a
#VeryGoodDay
8 months ago
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Had a haircut yesterday. Installed a new printer (so I’m basically Einstein innit) and - thanks to a conversation with
@dvbishop.com
- spent a lovely evening rediscovering the later works of
@alisonmoyet.bsky.social
. It was a very good day.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king
10 months ago
jk rowling naming a russian-irish character
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It’s simply not possible to take a bad photo of this beautiful soul.
8 months ago
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Well that’s me not going then. One look at my socials and the Fanta Fuhrer would have me in Guantanamo.
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FX Coudert
8 months ago
French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated. Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration.
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant que son or...
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly
8 months ago
I wrote this on young men, and why we need to stop lying about why they're easy prey for reptiles like Andrew Tate.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Séamas O'Reilly: We need to stop lying about what makes lost boys such easy marks for cons
Economically depressed young men are aggressively targeted with the oldest, most seductive pitch there is — money for nothing — by bad faith actors with enormous wealth
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-columnists/arid-41592826.html
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Paging Mel Brooks. Netflix | Director Carl Erik Rinsch indicted in an $11 million fraud case
filmstories.co.uk/news/netflix...
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Netflix | Director Carl Erik Rinsch indicted in an $11 million fraud case
Director Carl Erik Rinsch has been arrested for allegedly defrauding $11 million from Netflix - money once meant for a sci-fi series.
https://filmstories.co.uk/news/netflix-director-carl-erik-rinsch-indicted-in-an-11-million-fraud-case/
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“They cheat,” says this narcissistic sociopath*, who has cheated in every business deal, marriage, and personal relationship he’s ever had. (*edited to remove the word “motherfucker”)
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8 months ago
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Heard the new Doobie Brothers single and flew straight back to my 80s childhood. Which is apt as the threat of Nuclear war, Russian Empire, right wing anti gay media personality in the White House, and the feeling of fear and fury I’ve been experiencing are also a reminder of that golden age. 😬
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Danny Marshall
8 months ago
Hi, Ian Rankin said my books were like ‘Alistair MacLean, but turbo charged’, they’re locked-room murder mysteries wrapped up in thrillers. Currently finishing a country house locked-room occult murder set in the 30s - Agatha Christie meets Dennis Wheatley!
dannymarshall.co.uk/anthrax-isla...
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Anthrax Island
One of Ian Rankin’s top ten books of 2021. ‘One of the thrillers of the year’ Scottish Sun When you have a problem that can’t be solved, you call John Tyler. Nine people are trapped on an anth…
https://dannymarshall.co.uk/anthrax-island-2/
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gamera obscura
8 months ago
“Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here… Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities.” Mahmoud Khalil’s letter, dictated from his detention cell, is breathtaking.
inthesetimes.com/article/mahm...
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Interview Room One
8 months ago
Looking forward to this so much - still a few tickets left but going fast!
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Eve Ainsworth
8 months ago
Pieces of Us is getting some lovely reviews but could use a little boost on here. Can you help?
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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️
8 months ago
Clouds parted just in time for maximum totality at 1:58 a.m. here. The total lunar eclipse as viewed from my front door:
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Heather J Fitt
8 months ago
Sharing for the morning crew 🤓
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Keith Edwards
8 months ago
More of this!
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‘We swept into Moscow in Gorbachev’s limousine’: Neil Tennant’s love affair with Russia – before the ‘cancer of Putin’
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
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‘We swept into Moscow in Gorbachev’s limousine’: Neil Tennant’s love affair with Russia – before the ‘cancer of Putin’
They played Red Square, launched MTV Russia and got driven home from a gay club by the police. But the freedoms witnessed by Pet Shop Boys have been crushed. Singer Neil Tennant relives those heady da...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/mar/12/neil-tennant-pet-shop-boys-russia-putin-gay-club-mtv?CMP=share_btn_url
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Every time I see this tree on my daily walk I’m reminded that it’s Cthulhu’s world and we just live in it…
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Interview Room One
8 months ago
New review up! Paperboy (out Thursday) by
@callummcsorley.bsky.social
, follow up to the McIlvanney Prize for best Scottish crime book of the year 'Squeaky Clean', one of our stand out reads last year. Can this one compare? (Spoiler: yes!) Find out in our review:
interviewroomone.com/books/paperb...
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I mean… we’ve all been Marilyn at some point.
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Just had to explain to this one that trying to climb over the fence to get to the foxes in next doors garden is not only rude but - as the fence is at least six feet high - futile. Still, she’s a tenacious warrior, so nothing is impossible.
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Story prompt.
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8 months ago
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In an alternative universe I have the confidence and the wardrobe of San Marino’s song contest host.
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The Swedish
#melodifestivalen
show has been pure Scandi Song Joy. And the Sauna song dancers were 🔥
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This fucker in his fucking cravat… Jesus wept. <Breathes into paper bag>
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Had a fantastic day today at a plotting workshop* delivered by
@matahb.bsky.social
And now I’m catching up on the work backlog and playing one of my favourite Diana albums. (*a workshop about plotting fiction and not a plot to fix the world. Though fuck knows we need one of those.)
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Interview Room One
8 months ago
Visited Tap Social in
#oxford
last week. Such a cool venue (pizza ovens ready!) .Looking forward to March 27th’s Interview Room One session with
@sarahhilary.bsky.social
&
#mickherron
+
@dauntbooks.bsky.social
-some tickets (£5 + booking fee) left but going fast
eventbrite.co.uk/e/interview-ro…
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Joanne Harris
8 months ago
Squeaky knows what you did last summer…
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Today. I hope to see some of you there.
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I fucking LOVE a sword and sandals epic. Hope there’s an appropriate level of- ahem - Greek activity.
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Interview Room One
9 months ago
Happy Monday (if there is such a thing). A new interview with
@william1shaw.bsky.social
up on the site today. He talks to us about all things writing including his forthcoming book The Red Shore. Find out more at:
interviewroomone.com/william-shaw...
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Not sure Skys new TV show “glory hole of the year,” has legs to be honest.
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Interview Room One
10 months ago
If you read our interview with Anna this week (and more than 300 of you have already) you'll be wanting to read this - if you haven't, take a look here and get your order in!
interviewroomone.com/anna-sharpe-...
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If the Polish Porno milkmaids were acceptable I see no reason why Malta can’t send this absolute BANGER to Eurovision this year..
youtu.be/dgiL4xcT-DY?...
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