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Don’t know whether I should put this on my post-surgery wounds or my salad 🤷‍♂️

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On World Press Freedom Day, 6 journalists from around the globe tell Index what press freedom means to them. Afghan journalist Spozhmai Maani reminds us of the importance of protecting journalists who risk everything to bring the truth to light: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/05/worl... #WPFD2025

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Just posted my picks for the final of Richard Shaw’s albums of the 70s polls: 1. Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks (1975) 2. Television – Marquee Moon (1977) 3. Buzzcocks – Another Music In A Different Kitchen (1978) 4. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV (1971) 5. Madness – One Step Beyond (1979)

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Gall bladder removed via keyhole surgery today. Seems to have gone well, but it feels like I’ve done 200 sit-ups from a standing start. This is Not A Good Thing.

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David Jamieson’s take reasonates @ruthaylett.bsky.social 👇

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Linlithgow folks! One of my favourite bookshops in the country, Far From The Madding Crowd @ffmaddingcrowd.bsky.social, is stocking copies of TERMINAL. Reviews say TERMINAL “summons the likes of Poe and RLS,” and that it’s “for those with a love of anything Black Mirror-esque”.

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Visited The Titanic Experience in Cobh the other day. Amazing (but not surprising?) how many of the passengers had these far out back stories. It was like something out of Lost!

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"I don't know what to do with my life" Ah, but he so did. #RIPPeteShelley on what, in a just world, would've been his 70th birthday.

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School holidays cut back on the available time, but I think I’ve got my #5albums70sfinal shortlist down to 10. 2 certainties, no.10’s on a shoogly peg, but everything to play for as regards the rest.

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I bow to no one in my admiration for the landscape of Ireland, but this is a prop for a 2000s Cartoon Network Adult Swim fake ad, right?

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Reskeet the speeks, peeps 🤓 (Spiders top model’s late father’s own]

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Just saw a Simon Munnery standup gig (on a Sunday mid-afternoon), and he referenced a show he did in a different small-to-medium-sized room around 30+ yrs ago that I also saw. So, I feel sprightly.

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Hoping my profile doesn’t now mean: “Stories for those who love writers who must have noticed the glaring flaws but said, ‘That’ll do,’ regardless.”

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The inverted commas around ‘teargassed’ make me think it’s an extreme new version of gaslighting

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Having Stereolab and Pulp announce returns at around the same time has been interesting. I’m a big fan of mid-to-late period Pulp, and their 2012 reunion gig at (iirc) the Beacon Theatre was immense. (1/3)

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No, it is not in heaven that we find the dry fine winds of fact, but in the stones of March, Holy One, in the knots of their essence… —Iain Crichton Smith, “Not in Heaven” published in NEW COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011 www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754960...

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Back in the day I did my English Lit Sixth Year Studies dissertation on Camus’s novels in English translation. Got a good mark, but I just realised that I missed a really important aspect of L’Étranger that I don’t think was discussed in any of my research reading 😱

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Quite pleased about the return of @stereolabgroop.bsky.social with new music. Got tix to see them in later this year. Also, I listened to various versions of Jenny Ondioline on a loop when I was editing the final and revolutionary (in sensibility) story that I wanted to get into TERMINAL.

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Going through some of my dad’s stuff, I just found the TOFFS Queen’s Park top I got him for his 70th

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Heated seats ✅ Iced coffee ✅ Sunglasses ✅ Hoodie ✅ Definitely an in-between day in Edinburgh 🤷‍♂️

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Had a (Matchbox?) James Bond die-cast replica of this as a kid, with 👉 working plastic bullet machine guns (you know what I mean) 👉 ejector seat 👉 bulletproof back windscreen shield 👉 tiny Sean Connery in a trilby

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Enjoyed a remark from Liam Sherwin-Murray that teenagers shd be forced to listen to punk music cos no 17yo who’s been exposed to Buzzcocks does stuff like found a tech startup. I grew up to be a securitisation lawyer, but that early exposure meant I was unsuited to it, and it all ended in disaster.

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Not least because Long John is as charismatic today as he ever was.

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Ha! I can vouch that the <=7 crowd are still rotten enough to thoroughly enjoy Treasure Island!

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Since today felt like actual spring, here's a haiku wot I wrote in around 2012 and polished up in 2021: spring’s silence: ambient birdsong windswept words

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Around 34 years after being unable to use a my bloody valentine ticket because of a herniated spinal disc, I’ve snagged presale tix for the @ovohydro.bsky.social gig. It’s the hearing version of taking up a pack-a-day smoking habit at 80.

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They’re playing a string of ABBA songs in the soft play at Ratho, and my goodness, they’re just astonishingly good, aren’t they?

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Given my own near-death experience and the number of doppelgängers in Terminal (and my recent reading of Siddhartha), I’m rather intrigued by Mickey 17… 🤞

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When everything they love is taken from them, Donald & Eilidh embark on a quest for justice in the Highlands of 1814. Combining the simple nobility of Consider The Lilies with the action of Get Carter, Hellbound is a historical novel with modern impact. #scotwriterpitch2025

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Part Carys Davies’ Clear and part David Morrell’s First Blood, Hellbound is a historic novel of love and revenge that evokes Mad Max in the early 19th century Highlands. By the author of the survival memoir, Stroke, a Scotsman Scottish Book of 2019. #scotwriterpitch2025

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Helping the Wee Man prepare for his first show-and-tell by passing on my consummate storytelling skills 🤭 He’s pretty chill, I’ve got Peanuts-derived anxiety.

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As an LL.M, I can completely understand law professors complaining about LL.M s. They’re always hallucinating, writing garbage, and making a whole bunch of students who would otherwise be working hard lazier and dumber. Eh? Oh.

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Things Paddington Bear stands for: • Selling Paddington books • Selling tickets to Paddington films • Selling Paddington merchandise • Levelling the rainforest for marmalade manufacturing • Selling more Paddington merchandise!!!

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Listening to and reading about Buzzcocks’ (@buzzcocks.com) Love Bites for #5albums70s5, and… I finally discover that the theme for @channel4tv.bsky.social’s 1985-2001 Tour de France was written my Pete Shelley. What an artist that man was! youtu.be/FTYqzUE_9rY?...

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