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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 28/03/2026

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 14/03/2026

How are we feeling about using AI for editorial advice? Cos honestly, this shit is scary/impressive and I'm super conflicted. 90% of suggestions are valid. Is it helping me write better, or just better at what it thinks good writing is? Is there a difference? 📚 #BookSky #WritingCommunity #Writers

Output from Claude GenAI:

Line 141:** "When the sun sank behind brewing clouds, it was time to return to the shore." — "It was time to return to the shore" is slightly detached from her perspective. She's been the active decision-maker throughout. Consider: "When the sun sank behind brewing clouds, she decided to return to the shore." Or: "When the sun sank behind brewing clouds, she turned the raft towards the shore."

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 11/01/2026

Tarrare, a Wikipedia daily article, led me to discover this wonderful book, The Glutton by @akblakemore.bsky.social Historical Fiction x Body Horror x Quiet Heroism #BookSky 📚

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 03/12/2025

This one chart tells the future of the world. In all regions (except Africa) working age people will support increasingly more non-working age people from now until the end of the century.

Age-dependency ratio, including UN projections
The age dependency ratio is the sum of the young population (under age 15) and elderly population
(age 65 and over) relative to the working-age population (ages 15 to 64). Data are shown as the number
of dependents per 100 working-age population. Projections to 2100 are based on the UN's medium
population scenario.

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 16/11/2025

I’ll hike an Iron Age hill fort in any weather, but autumn sun is my favourite.

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 16/11/2025

They ask “aren’t you worried the UK will be mostly Islam in 10 years?” A: It won’t, it’ll be atheist B: Even if it were, no C: Stop listening to racist propaganda

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/religion/bulletins/religionenglandandwales/census2021

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 06/11/2025

I heard about the Lykov family, who lived alone and isolated in Siberia for 50 years, and tracked down a copy of this book written by the journalist who visited them every year after they were found. I’ve really been looking forward to reading this one. #BookSky 📚

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 31/10/2025

Why does this vendetta mask have an accountant’s hair cut?

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 26/10/2025

On advice I’ve sketched out the scene. Helps to see it more clearly

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 25/10/2025

Morning. Here’s some ceiling photos I took a while ago. Guess where they are?

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 21/10/2025

Whoever you are, my one #Canadian reader, I love you! 🇨🇦

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 20/10/2025

Noise cancelling headphones while the fireworks are going off

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 26/09/2025

1980 babies, this year your #birthday is mathematically unique #cake #genX

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 10/09/2025

The erasure makes it better art. Banksy saying “this is what I think” and the Government saying “we don’t want you saying that” is bang on point.

Erased outline of Banksy’s mural on the wall of the High Court

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 30/08/2025

What a lovely review! Get yours now! 📚 👉 cmrussell.uk/links 👈 📚

Just read NEVER EVEN a short paradox tale, written by Craig Russell.
I enjoyed this book and particularly liked the concept of the reader being given a choice of starting at either page 3 or 13 with a flip of a coin.
Well done Craig I look forward to reading your next novel. 👍

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 26/08/2025

I have this, but it’s 20 years old. What up-to-date text book should I get to replace it? #science

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 14/08/2025

Thank you for the recommendations. She changed her mind about immortals, and chose To Be a Cat by @matthaig.bsky.social

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 14/08/2025

What readers are saying about NEVER EVEN cmrussell.uk/never-even #Books #BookThreads 📚

"A very clever concept and well worth reading"

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 14/08/2025

Brilliant. Also “gods” 👌🏻 📚

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 13/08/2025

What a lovely review! Thank you mystery reviewer!! ❤️❤️❤️ Link in bio 😜📚 #BookSky

What an interesting concept for a book. Start from heads or tails, you choose. To say it was short and sweet does not give this imaginative tale enough credit. Well written and thoroughly enjoyable, can't wait to read the authors next book.

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 13/08/2025

It's interesting to see how party support has shifted between the demographics in recent years. #UKPolitics

Page 215, Shattered Britain - More in Common

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 12/08/2025

War of the Worlds (2025) is getting a lot of attention at the moment for being an awful film Some stories are so bad they find popularity If you wrote a so-bad-it’s-good story what would you write? What would make a story so terrible that readers could help but talk about it? #WritingCommunity 📚

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 08/08/2025

First week published = 10 copies sold. It ain’t a lot but it’s mine and I’m well chuffed Thank you 10 people for taking a chance on a new author! #BookSky #SciFi #WritingCommunity 📚

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 07/08/2025

"How's the book coming along Craig?" #WritingCommunity #BookSky 📚

Writing progress chart for my book AGELESS, annotated with with things I had going on at the time

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 04/08/2025

Saw a dead dear on the dog walk. …then an alive one …then another alive one …and then a fox stalking them

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 03/08/2025

100% of reviewers rate this book 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Link in bio ❤️📚

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 01/08/2025

Never Even - A Short Paradox Tale Released Today! Links in bio ❤️📚 #SciFi #BookSky #Book

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 31/07/2025

Looking forward to this. I expect it'll make waves.

Twitter Screenshot: Rana Dasgupta @byranadasgupta "Edited manuscript went to publishers today. Going to bed."

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 22/07/2025

Author copies of my book have around. Now I can take a load of promo photos without the “not for resale” watermark craig-russell.co.uk/never-even/ 📚 #Books #WritingCommunity #BookSky

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 11/07/2025

What if you could rewrite your past? Desperate to save his family, a time-traveling hero turns villain, forever trapped in a paradox of vengeance. NEVER EVEN - A Short Paradox Tale Pre-Order Now on Amazon amzn.eu/d/dsTfqst 📚 #BookSky #Books #Readers

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 09/07/2025

Reading about a time when everyone felt society wasn’t working and went on to do something about it 📚 #books #booksky

A book - Revolutionary Spring by Christopher Clark

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 05/07/2025

The UK is actually doing much better than Europe as a whole, which passed peak working age population in 2015 and will have more over-65s than under-25s within the decade Asia and the Americas will pass the same threshold in 2070s, with Africa and Oceana holding out until the next century. 4/4

Chart showing Europe population by age group from Our World in Data

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 05/07/2025

A thread about the aging population crisis in the #UK 🧵 1/4

Chart showing UK population by age group from Our World in Data

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 30/06/2025

My #puppy is teething and her mouth looks demonic

A puppy’s open mouth showing new and old teeth sprouting in different directions

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 23/06/2025

Imagine being 22 years old, buying your first car, and considering a self driving bed/living room as “standard”

The BBC was invited on a test drive of XPeng's Mona Max, which has just gone on sale in China for around $20,000.

For this price you get self-driving capability, voice activation, lie-flat beds, film and music streaming. Young Chinese graduates, we're told, see all these as standard features for a first car purchase.

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 07/06/2025

My GF decorated our downstairs loo. Thought you word nerds would dig it.

A small toilet, decorated with magazine pages stuck all over the walls and ceiling

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 28/04/2025

Why do British people always talk about the weather? Cos it does shit like this to us.

Weather forecast for the next week showing highs of 24 and lows of -1

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 15/04/2025

Got the initial proof copy of my first short story (cover art pending) Deffo a few things I want to tweak in the layout #WritingCommunity #Books #SciFi 📚

A book with a feather, a fossil and a WW2 bullet casing.

The book is called Never Even: A Short Paradox Tale

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 13/04/2025

Mathematicians, my daughter asked what this shape is called. It has 4 triangular faces. #maths #geometry

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Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk · 12/04/2025

I saw a magic portal in my garden this morning. Then the sun moved and it was gone.

A picture of my garden. The sunlight on the tree and the shape of the hammock suggest a circle

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