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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"We want more Doctor Who!" *monkey's paw curls a finger*

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Being an adult is spending half your life dealing with shit just because it doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to. Imagine if people actually did their jobs properly. What a concept!

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thrilled to be closing out @trumanbooks.bsky.social Farsley Lit Fest's Crime Day with Can You Solve the Murder? Live once again! This year Crime Day is on Oct 31 🎃👻 and tickets for the whole day are now available from farsleylit.co.uk

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did Anthropic's Claude discover something new in biotech? Well, just like with those recent alleged math proofs, it looks like it was given the answers in advance from real humans doing actual research. (gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...)

Dr. Mestre and his colleagues have yet to publish their findings. But for the past three years, they have regularly used Anthropic’s A.I. models as they have written code, drafted manuscripts and performed other tasks.

In doing so, Dr. Mestre said he and colleagues shared key findings about the enzymes with Anthropic.

Anthropic said that Claude’s key contribution was identifying an array of RNA molecules and a protein associated with reverse transcriptase in a system. But Dr. Mestre said that he and his colleagues had made that discovery over a year ago.

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Chilly morning walk. The sheep didn't seem to mind 🐏

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In my Inbox today: a very nice e-mail from a festival abroad, outlining the precise details of where they are based and what they would like me to do, plus details of the fee they're offering, and an assurance that they cover transport and accommodation. There. Not so difficult, is it?

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Will Smith as Mike Lowrey: Dawg, This What We Do

ALT: Will Smith as Mike Lowrey: Dawg, This What We Do

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Cosmic Lighthouse Comics @cosmiclighthouse.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Coming to Kickstarter! ALL SYSTEMS RED — the official Graphic Novel adaptation of Book 1 in The Murderbot Diaries by @marthawells.com. Click here to sign up for exclusive discounts and content! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Great fun to be back at Bark!Fest again with these wonderful authors 😊🐶

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Home from Bloody Scotland and back on the Can You Solve the Murder? treadmill. Despite these numbers, I have a ways to go. I reckon the final ms will come in around 85,000 words, coincidentally the same as the first two books. Come back in a couple of weeks and we’ll see if I’m right 😉

A screengrab of the Scrivener progress tracker for the third book in the Can You Solve the Murder? series. It shows 1,401 words written this session, totalling 74,451 so far with a final target of 75,000 words.

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lichtenstein's hack jobs helped convince multiple generations of people, including alleged art lovers and cognoscenti, that comics art was shit. No, just Roy.

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As usual I forgot to take pics at @bloodyscotland.bsky.social this year… partly because I was having too much of a good time, especially at the karaoke 🤘😉 I did remember to get a couple from the sold-out Can You Solve the Murder? event on Friday, though. Thanks to everyone who came along!

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026

NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...

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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Good morning

I really think Rasputin lucked out, in that being remembered by history as some species of giant unkillable six wizard is something most of us can only fruitlessly aspire to.

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Lovely misty morning train ride to get to Stirling for @bloodyscotland.bsky.social. Looking forward to this evening's sold out (!) Can You Solve the Murder? event!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good grief, thanks to a video on Instagram, I've just discovered that the Criterion edition of Lone Wolf & Cub (that I've had on my shelf for about 9 years) has a secret compartment in the spine containing the blueprint for the weaponised babycart..!

The blueprint for the weaponised babycart!

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wow, this is a new one for me: post something on FB about an event having sold out, get a flurry of comments from obviously fake profiles all claiming they have 4 tickets they no longer need and are willing to sell. Scammers gonna scam 🤬

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just been informed that this weekend's Can You Solve the Murder? Live event at Bloody Scotland has also sold out. Amazing. See you in Stirling – and if you missed out, remember I'm also in Farsley and Lincoln later in the year 🗡🔍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Really looking forward to Fatal Shore next month, where I'm hosting Can You Solve the Murder? Live on the Saturday evening. That event sold out weeks ago, but there are a few tickets left for the main festival. Hurry, hurry… shorehamwordfest.com/events/fatal...

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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LifuX @lifux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is why the internet was invented... #LifuX #Dogs #Dogsofbluesky

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy Remembering That Steve Buscemi actually grabbed his old firefighting gear and went to help out shifting rubble, and continues to advocate for first responders suffering serious physical and mental effects from that day Day

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don't need Al to imagine what I looked like in the '80s, because I was there for real 😂 (I don't have many photos, mind - as a teen I was a little camera-shy)

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

TITLE AND COVER REVEAL: My next novel, Painting With A Dead God's Blood, will be published on 22 June 2027. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Painting With A Dead God's Blood by Eddie Robson. The cover shows a mural of alien beings in a street in Kyoto.

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Local teenagers in the park randomly singing snatches of Your Love by The Outfield. Sometimes the kids are all right 🤟

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BGC5000 @bgc5k.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ready for pre-order, a water-themed ambient compilation featuring myself and the lovely folks at @passedrecordings.bsky.social ⛲️ Half the money will go to @doctorswithoutborders.org ⛑️ Support artists, support good causes, and enjoy the waves 🌊 #electronicmusic #ambient #waves #water #newalbum #msf

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Passed Oceans, by Passed Recordings

48 track album

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Zazie Todd PhD @zazietodd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Can you solve the crime? Join us for the canine crime and mystery panel with @antonyjohnston.bsky.social @blakemara.bsky.social and @samhollandbooks.bsky.social Sep 22nd at 10am PT (1pm ET). Sign up: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Three books on a mossy rock: The Dog Sitter Detective Plays Dead by Antony Johnston has an orange cover with drawings of a dog and various film-related things; The Dog Park Detectives Paw and Order by Blake Mara has a white cover with a purple border, and shows the legs of a dead person under a swing; Broken House by Louisa Scarr shows a woman police detective and her dog on a rural road leading towards a house.

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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#Denmark built so much wind that some blustery hours the turbines out-produce what the whole country is using. When that happens, the extra power doesn’t sit idle. It moves through Denmark’s links into the wider European network and heads to neighbors like Germany, Norway, Sweden. #ActOnClimate

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Friday was another great Can You Solve the Murder? Live event at Waterstones Piccadilly (lots of signed copies now in store)… then Saturday was full-on nerd time with others who write and love interactive books at Fighting Fantasy Fest 6, organised by the brilliant @acegamebooks.bsky.social 🎲

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 02/09/2026

Underrated god-tier advice

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A packed house at Waterstones Brighton tonight for Can You Solve the Murder? Live! Thanks to everyone who came out, and well done to those who did indeed solve it 😃🔍

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A packed house at Waterstones Brighton tonight for Can You Solve the Murder? Live! Thanks to everyone who came out, and well done to those who did indeed solve it 😃🔍

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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/09/2026

Woman’s Solo Hiking Trip Shockingly Doesn’t Have To Do With Inner Journey Or Anything theonion.com/woman-s-solo-hiking-tr…

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Heading out tomorrow to host a couple of Can You Solve the Murder? Live events (Brighton and London, see other posts for details) but still making good progress on book 3 whenever I’m at my desk. So close, so close… (to finishing the rough draft, LOL, there’s still loads of work to do 😅)

A screengrab of the Scrivener progress tracker for the third book in the Can You Solve the Murder? series. It shows 1,180 words written this session, totalling 66,083 so far with a final target of 75,000 words.

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Florencia Minuzzi @flom.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Recommended for aspiring, early- or mid-career game writers and narrative designers. If you're interested, there's more info on the signup page. See you there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sgwennu-ar...

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Sgwennu ar gyfer Gemau/ Writing for Video Games

Do's and Don'ts of Games Narrative

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Florencia Minuzzi @flom.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This Sep I'm leading an online interactive workshop on game writing and narrative design, hosted by CULT Cymru! Join me in speedrunning the game writing process, from creating a design document to choosing the right structure & tools through to a finished work in 3 hours. (Link below 🔽 )

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Been a while since I did a food post! Recent dishes have been determined largely by the veg our neighbours gave us before they went on holiday 😂 Tonight: their courgette and carrots, our smoked mackerel and bulgur wheat, with chillis, spices, fresh lime and coriander. Very nice indeed 😋

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Looking forward to hosting Can You Solve the Murder? Live this week, the first of several autumn events! Waterstones Brighton on Thursday, then Waterstones Piccadilly on Friday, both at 7pm – with more to follow in the coming weeks. See you there 🔍

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Oh god, this is a new one in the annals of AI nonsense scam emails: now I'm getting them about my translated editions, in the destination language… 🤪

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