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Ranno @ranno2k.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

10 years late to the party, but have today acquired an excellent book on one of my favourite nostalgic things @alexcassidy.bsky.social

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Alex Cassidy @alexcassidy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Google's AI overviews have a pretty bad plagiarism and search intent problem. 📖 When using Google in an attempt to remember the names of very famous short stories, it 'created' its own. But, still links to the original source material, in the AI overview and the organic results. 👇

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Alex Cassidy @alexcassidy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Work meeting in the Hepworth today in a sunny Wakefield

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Alex Cassidy @alexcassidy.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I ended up buying the one quarter piggy bank, a lot weightier than I imagined.

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Alex Cassidy @alexcassidy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

January's finished books (in what was a writing heavy month). The back-to-back Alejandra Pizarnik made for a quite bleak start to the year, finishing with the Zevon biography helped pick it up.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

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Alex Cassidy @alexcassidy.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Whenever the news about AI replacing writers gets a bit too much - I remember this comment from two years ago on Reddit. This person gave up on their project because they thought ChatGPT would replace authors, and well, imagine what they could have done in the two years since.

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Alex Cassidy @alexcassidy.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

A very 90s leftover bookmark in a second-hand book

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Alex Cassidy @alexcassidy.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Wask Studio (waskstudio.com) 'makes things you probably haven't seen before': One quarter piggy banks, hard to read dice, match bookmarks

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Alex Cassidy @alexcassidy.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

One of Jimbocho Book Town's 130 (!) book stores.

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Alex Cassidy @alexcassidy.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

In 2024 I read more deliberately than any year before, including stopping books that I wasn't enjoying (a new rule!). Of the 38 I read, here are my top five 👇.

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Alex Cassidy @alexcassidy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Getting film developed has been a very humbling experience. Being happy with <10% of around 40 photos reenforces just how much of an art form this is (or that I am terrible at it). Going to be fun learning!

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Alex Cassidy @alexcassidy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Found in a second-hand book store. #booksky

Dad bought this for me a few years ago. I have read it at least 4 times, please keep it in the family xxx (but only if you want to)

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Alex Cassidy @alexcassidy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This year my WIP novel Mammoth was longlisted for both the Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award, run by the Bridport Prize, and the Plaza First Chapters Prize. I've written about how important (motivationally) this has been for me, with some advice too: www.linkedin.com/pulse/import... #writingcommunity

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The Importance of Being Longlisted

Last month my work-in-progress novel Mammoth was longlisted for the Peggy Chapman-Andrews first novel award, a part of the Bridport Prizes. Thousands of prospective unagented writers enter every year,...

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Alex Cassidy @alexcassidy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I've found over 30 signed books in second-hand shops this year. Including three former England rugby coaches, two England cricket captains, and one Michael McIntyre. #BookSky

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