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murphyami.bsky.social
• I cook and write for money. •40 years experience. • For not money, I write fiction. • I'm learning to read and speak Irish.
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If I owned a bookshop it would be chaotic, deliberately so. You wouldn’t be able to find what you came in for unless you got lucky. You’d have to wander the shelves, picking books you’d never heard of but intrigue you. The anti-AI bookshop. I imagine I’d go out of business fast.

SpAd: Let’s cut funding to the disabled community. Minister: Yeah, cool. What should we spend the money saved? SpAd: USA bombers! Minister: Ace! That way we can create more disabled people!

I don't understand how Marvin Gaye's nephew's kids can sue any songwriter who says "oooh baby" in a song but evil tech companies can just rifle through copyrighted material for AI without paying the authors.

Nothing here is created by AI. All of it is created using my own, very human, experiences, understandings, life lessons, imperfections. All of it would benefit from a human editor to share ideas with, to use that editor’s technical nouse and experiences. Enjoy! #AI #Writers timwrite.net

The same applies in the UK @teamlabouruk.bsky.social . Cutting disability allowances, winter fuel allowance?

Not a piece of fiction this time. This piece is entirely factual. #Family #Police #Grief #Writers timwrite.net/on-being-que...

The whole "voters get more conservative as they get older" trope was rooted in young voters gradually becoming home owners with opinions on interest rates and capital gains tax. That transition isn't happening on scale anymore.

@smartreads.bsky.social thank you.

Not a piece of fiction this time. This piece is entirely factual. #Family #Police #Grief #Writers timwrite.net/on-being-que...

Sweet chilli jam/sauce Rocket/Arugula (Eruca sativa) Balsamic glaze These ingredients can all leave the room now. [door slams closed] Now, all you other ingredients, let’s make something delicious.

We grew the blackcurrants, the first year we have gathered more than a handful; we made the cake tin, we baked the cake but the recipe for this stunning blackcurrant yogurt cake is from SOUR, by @markdiacono.bsky.social

#BlueSkyMonday Just about to enter this in an exhibition. It's an acrylic painting of Pasture Hill near Malton in the Yorkshire Wolds UK. Sometimes we do get stunning blue skies like this even in rainy Yorkshire and when we do, the hills seem to go on forever. #yorkshirewolds

From the very same paragraph in Orwell's essay: "England has got to be true to herself. She is not being true to herself while the refugees who have sought our shores are penned up in concentration camps, and company directors work out subtle schemes to dodge their Excess Profits Tax."

Dire Straits of Hormuz more like.

a herd of remorseless wild pirates and inhuman atheistical devils were infernally cheering him on with their curses

Today’s weather in North Yorkshire feels horribly like living in Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. And I never, ever want to do that again. Long story.

NEW COOKBOOK RECIPE ON KAVEY EATS: Mangal II’s Turkish Lamb Beyti (Kebabs) www.kaveyeats.com/turkish-lamb...

@fictionfanspod.bsky.social hiya from the UK, here are some short stories (and more) for you :) timwrite.net

Bay leaves are essential to making bœuf bourguignon. Bay leaves add deliciousness. #Food #Cooking

@kavey.bsky.social hiya! :)

NEW KAVEY EATS COOKBOOK REVIEW: Mangal II: Stories and Recipes by Ferhat and Sertaç Dirik www.kaveyeats.com/mangal-ii-co... #food #cookbook #foodsky

People don’t talk about Jayne County enough. youtu.be/xSd6QjCDY9g?...

Feels weird not to be GasheadAu any more.

Nice piece here by @kavey.bsky.social on the Dirik brothers at Mangal II and the book of the same name www.kaveyeats.com/mangal-ii-co...

incommunicable contemplations

Testing. It really is quite isn’t it?

I've hit 30 followers! Shout dear follower if you're not a bot.

Where are all the Starter Packs please?

@nethertonfoundry.bsky.social Gawd bleedin' well bless your heart… as always.

The point of posting this to here (fewer than 30 followers) is beginning to elude me. That said, tally blood ho! Given I'm not a website designer by trade but I am a writer…. here are some free short stories for you PLUS how a novel dies in its infancy (well, 30,000 words). timwrite.net

@bookspotlight.bsky.social Hiya, any chance you could have a look over this - timwrite.net please?

I've asked at least ten good faith questions on here to zero response. On the other hand, I've made a few off-the-cuff thoughts, and had lots of unasked for advice from random blokes. Is this a common thing on Bluesky?

Argentinian biologist Rebeca Gerschman was born 122 years ago today. Her 1953 paper proposed that oxygen free radicals can do significant cell damage. Her theory of oxygen toxicity was not accepted at the time, but was confirmed in 1969. #WomenInSTEM #Biology #Argentina #HistSci 🧪

I notice the eating of organ meat is a hot topic on *that* newsletter platform. Well years ago I wrote about eating the best 'organ' of all.. topographickitchens.substack.com/p/dangly-bits

“Am I alone in thinking that…” “Am I the only one who…” No, you are neither. There are many millions of other people who have exactly the same, tired, unoriginal, uninsightful thought. “Unpopular opinion…” Oh, just fuck off. Good morning all :)