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"Deciding to write a book, it never feels like a great idea. It’s always like knowingly entering a bad marriage. If you had any sense, you wouldn’t do it, but you know you’re going to do it." – Percival Everett www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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Thorpe Marsh Apocalypse An outdoor creative writing workshop at the abandoned site of the former Thorpe Marsh Power Station. Course Leader: Steve Ely More information and booking details here: Tickets (£25) are on sale from Eventbrite on Monday 3rd February. www.eventbrite.com/.../thorpe-m....

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The best weather. Freezing fog when arriving at work last Wednesday.

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There's still time to make a change 🗣️ Add your name to this author-organised letter and encourage the government to change its course on copyright exemption for generative AI use of creatives works docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #CreativeRights #ArtificalIntelligence #PayTheCreator

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Read the comments, they're eye-opening

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Utterly wild story about Messianics, immigration fraud and something close to modern slavery www.thejc.com/news/uk/syna...

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Had the privilege to read early drafts of this. It is another absolute winner. If Zohar Jacobs isn’t on your radar as a rising talent, fix your instruments.

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Bought my ticket and really looking forward to it!

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This story is so good.

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This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

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Full-on "All Summer in a Day" experience just now. Literally first glimpse of sun in a week and I was stuck in a queue at the bubble tea place.

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I had the astonishing good fortune to read an advance copy of this story. I ugly cried in the best way. Highly recommended.

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What if a hurricane hit Houston during the first crewed Mars mission? In the midst of a chaotic evacuation, a young flight controller meant to be working the night shift has to take charge. My novelette is in the March/April edition of @asimovssfmag.bsky.social, on sale now...

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Very good long-form article with international perspective: this may be a new phenomenon in America, but not globally. Forewarned is forearmed. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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This should worry all creatives: A consultation on changes to UK copyright law is “fixed” in favour of artificial intelligence companies and will lead to a “wholesale” transfer of wealth from the creative industries to the tech tells The Guardian.

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Very good long-form article with international perspective: this may be a new phenomenon in America, but not globally. Forewarned is forearmed. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:

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The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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Loving Adrian Duncan's "Love Notes from a German Building Site." The world needs more literary fiction about engineers and engineering. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/love...

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This isn't an exaggeration. Before Cockpit Resource Management became a thing, captains who acted like, and were deferentially treated like macho gods of the skies did things like let their planes run out of fuel or fly straight into the ground, and the other officers were too scared to stop them.

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Always repost

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It’s a must read for anyone who cares about the poetics of weird fiction atseajournal.com/potboiler-un...

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Great talk on the mysteries of tie-in fiction – and that tale of "writing fanfic instead of my thesis" was all too relatable. Who knew it was (once) a path to a book contract?

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Very much enjoyed "A Complete Unknown," though it's a bit of a jukebox musical. And Dylan is such an enigma. It's like a Pete Seeger biopic that accidentally got too much Dylan in it.

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A great joy to discover new reviewers whose tastes align with yours. I've been reading @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social for a long while, but now I can add @mwosam.bsky.social and @wmhenrymorris.com to the list.

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Rewatched "Hidden Figures" last night. Although it makes a hash of the historical facts, the basic story it tells is – sadly – still very relevant.

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Always retweet

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"Poets, who wound their objects and inject their lives into the cut, are very serious fetishists." - Lee Seong-bok, Indeterminate Inflorescence: Notes from a Poetry Class

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Forget about getting my own book published, it's a thrill just knowing I'll be in the acknowledgments in my friends' books

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NORTHERN FICTION ALLIANCE STARTER PACK 📣 People and presses that make up the NFA - supporting the publishing industry in the North. Let me know if I've missed anyone including any NFA authors who are over here - will update regularly! ✍️ Shares appreciated! go.bsky.app/6RGYudb

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Lou Sullivan's diaries. Or possibly the tiniest little breaks of sun and blue sky in the January cloud deck.

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Just a reminder, apropos of nothing, that you can connect, enjoy, identify with, or be inspired by a work of art without knowing, connecting, identifying with or acknowledging that work's creator. It's the curse of too much information the internet provides that we sometimes lose sight of that.

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I needed this reminder that finding your own book "middling and uneven" is no barrier to success.

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