Niall Murray
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Would rather be at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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John Scalzi
15 days ago
As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.
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Yeah. Hacked.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
www.eadt.co.uk/news/2612357...
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Reform branch's social media 'hijacked' as series of 'vile' posts shared
Reform's Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket branch promised to shut down its X after the 'vile' posts emerged.
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/26123575.bury-st-edmunds-reform-branchs-social-media-hijacked/
17 days ago
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I quite expect to be alone in this opinion but I did not like the 1995 Pride & Prejudice.
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Sometimes when one writer ponders another you get gold; what they notice, what they wonder about, multiplies instead of diminishing their subject. So, readers of Muriel Spark, I strongly recommend you grab a copy of this by
@drjamesbailey.bsky.social
because it’s One of Those. 💙📚
25 days ago
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Look what the cat dragged in! 🤩🤩🤩 Happy publication day
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about 2 months ago
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Fahrenheit Wandsworth Roundabout.
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2 months ago
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Yes
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but is the cat now too big to hitch a ride on the tortoise?
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Tim Dowling: spring has sprung – and so has our tortoise
I’m on the sofa with a beer, watching a show where people always end up not buying property in Mediterranean resorts
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/apr/04/tim-dowling-spring-has-sprung-so-has-our-tortoise
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Simon Pegg
2 months ago
Hear me out. Keep the State Visit, but send Princess Anne instead.
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Love this. 🤣🤣🤣
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2 months ago
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Wait, there's a Matthew Lynn Headline Generator now???
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2 months ago
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David Quantick
3 months ago
I'm sorry but it's just going to sound like tramps coughing.
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Felicity Evans 📽🎬✏️
3 months ago
Can we PLEASE skip the part where the UK experiments with fascism/faragism/trumpism and go straight to, say, a national Green New Deal and a huge arts revival?
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I didn’t think I could be looking forward to this more than I already am but… 📚💙
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3 months ago
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Jim [REDACTED]
3 months ago
The older you get the more often you walk into a room and forget why. Same with wars, I guess.
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“Hopefully you’ve shat out the evil now.”
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3 months ago
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All my sympathies are with Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill. I’ve no patience for Emma. 📚 💙
3 months ago
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I thought I’d have a nice gravelled seating area in the garden. All I’ve made is a big toilet for the cat.
3 months ago
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Nellie Cubed
3 months ago
It’s so wild that one of the reasons BlueSky is dissed so much is because there are smart people here who write and read books and then they have the gall to talk about what they know from writing and reading books. How dare you.
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I am having so much fun with this.
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3 months ago
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Most evenings my half-formed thought is, “At what hour can I reasonably go to bed and read?”
4 months ago
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Sarah Churchwell
4 months ago
Addendum to a thread with which I wholly concur: people who think art is only about power are invariably shit at art, and only intermittently effective at power.
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One of the reasons I love ‘Metropolitan’ by
@whitstillman.bsky.social
is it’s like catching up on what Edith Wharton’s New York families are doing a century later. Always wondered.
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David Quantick
4 months ago
Just noticed that the Frankenstein entry on Wikipedia was partly written by AI and I'm dramatic ironyed out.
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@joshtpm.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower
4 months ago
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Further expense incurred… 💙 📚
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4 months ago
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Josh Marshall
4 months ago
Honestly the biggest news out of this Texas special election is that Wambsganss is a real name. I'm reconsidering my priors.
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The cat has remembered that my bed is a good place to sleep during the day.
4 months ago
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The Exploding Heads
4 months ago
Should we ban the over 65s from social media? The government are considering banning the elderly from social media as their brains haven't properly developed. But is a ban a step too far?
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4 months ago
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I’ve been reading ‘Jane Austen’s Bookshelf’ by
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and it’s clearly going to cost me. First dent in the bank balance is this beautiful object. 📚 💙
4 months ago
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Too many Americans in 2024 when told, even by Trump himself, how he planned to rule: “I ain’t reading all that, happy for you or sorry for your loss. You got my vote though.” Those Americans today: “Wait, wut?”
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Click on the link. Read the piece from 2024. But sure, US and UK apologists, take Trump ‘seriously but not literally’, right?
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Anon Opin
5 months ago
There's a massive overlap between miserable whiny sods and lads who listen to right wing influencers and obsess about protein. Eat some chips and do something good for other people lads. It'll cheer you up.
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Today’s delightful discovery: Clotworthy Skeffington is the name of a real person.
5 months ago
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Buddy Spell
5 months ago
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I’m at the point where I’m really hoping someone has done the maths and established a Foundation on a remote island somewhere that will see the new Dark Ages reduced to a mere thousand years. (And can I get an invite?)
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Sam Wollaston
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Do children still count their ages in quarters? I can distinctly remember (for instance) proudly declaring that I was 5 and 3/4. This was information it was important people should know and I was happy to oblige.
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Jane Austen First Drafts
5 months ago
I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
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Jane Austen First Drafts
5 months ago
He’s a 10, but his aunt is the noble Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
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Steve Rosenberg
5 months ago
Ciaran Jenkins and I have recorded another Channel 4 News/BBC News long-distance musical collaboration for Christmas. This year we play The Coventry Carol. To all who are celebrating, wishing you a happy, peaceful Christmas.
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For Christmas, a BBC/Channel 4 collaboration: The Coventry Carol
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
https://youtu.be/j7tspeLj7F8
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I have never, and never will again, read such a perfect description of Thomas Skinner.
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6 months ago
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I watched a bit of the really quite bad Alien: Resurrection and am only just now realising that it's basically The Poseidon Adventure but with xenomorphs.
6 months ago
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Sarah Churchwell
6 months ago
“Newsroom morale soared” ftw
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Me. It’s me. I’m the apanthrope.
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6 months ago
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I’m reading one of those twisty-turny yeahbutwhat’sREALLYgoingon books and I’ll stick with it but maybe it’s age because my mood is very much ‘sigh skip to the ENNNNND.’
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I do not expect
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to account for an entire nation's cuisine but how is putting pudding on the same plate as your roast dinner different from Rachel's meat trifle? HOW?
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/no...
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Fluffy and fabulous! 17 ways with marshmallows – from cheesecake to salad to an espresso martini
They come into their own around Thanksgiving in the US, used alongside savoury dishes, as well as in desserts. Now is the time to try them with sweet potatoes, in a strawberry mousse, or even with sou...
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/nov/23/fluffy-and-fabulous-17-ways-with-marshmallows-from-cheesecake-to-salad-to-an-espresso-martini
7 months ago
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Uncle Duke
7 months ago
squirrel: *points gun* me: what do you want me to do? squirrel: *gestures at sign* me: alright, i get it *opens book drop* squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion* me: NOT A SQUIRREL! squirrel: *disappears into book drop* me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
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The deep questions.
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