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This morning I’m storms cannot and footsteps forgot, I’m the door on the latch and the nicotine patch but my arms are open and I can catch

This is a photo of a tired old man holding a kindle. He’s wearing a brown trench coat and an olive-green baseball cap. His eyes look kind of happy, kind of sad, maybe even kind of kind.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m just arriving in Manchester and it’s dark already. The city feels like the sheets hired killers put down under their victims so they have less to clean up. I’m going to listen to some music, eat pizza, and read a book until time reminds me to breathe

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 28/09/2026

It's that day again. Use any and all resources available to help you through it. (And, as always, #FuckAI)

Reminder to treat your body like a data center:
1. Consume as much water and literature as possible
2. Upset the local city council with your existence

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This morning I am a scrabble of old words, a babble of new. I’m a stumble of cobbles, and a tremble of wobbles but I’ll deep breathe the air and I’m out there to care

A photo of an old man in an ill-fitting brown trench coat smiles to the camera. He’s wearing a brown waistcoat and striped red and blue tie. In his hands is a pair of glasses.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just re-opened my shop to sell some signed books... and original art. Scrappy cats, painted by hand, for you, go get one! I will add all of the ones in this picture today and then see if I can paint a few more... (I am raising some money to aircon my flat here.) vivschwarz.bigcartel.com

Colourful cats painted on scrap paper and cut out.

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tonight I’m having a rewatch of Children of Men and my goodness it’s good. I remember buying the book in Preston station back in the 90s on my way to Lancaster and found it amazing. The film is equally as good

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Ian McFee @ianm45.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@imcmillan.bsky.social I saw this on my way back today. I've been going to Stockport for over 50 years and never knew of this till I saw it by chance; by the brilliant Alan Boyson in 1965 (he did the famous 3 Ships mosaic in Hull).

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Red cock in morning fast food warning. Red cock at night poet’s plight.

Photo of a street lit by lonely white light. To one side is the red glow of disappointment emanating from Nando’s chicken symbol

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Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Purple Emperor (Apatura iris): A Eurasian Butterfly with a wingspan of 80mm (3.1in). Thank you again Vlad Mureşan for sharing your photo of this spectacular butterfly taken in Romania. #purpleemperor #savebutterflies #butterflies #butterfly #wildlife #nature #romania

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Critical Star Trek on the season-finale for "Strange New Worlds" s4: latestartrek.substack.com/p/snw-410-wh...

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SNW 4.10: What to expect when you’re expecting a Space Baby

Or: Was Star Trek ever actually good?

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Canada Hardcover 🇨🇦 @canadahardcover.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is very disturbing to read how OpenAI coached the Tumbler Ridge school shooter in planning mass murder. Tech companies need to be held accountable for their design "flaws."

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This morning I am low light, out of sight, lost the fight just whine not shine but damn I look fine

It’s that old man again, all thinning hair and greying beard and this time he’s standing with his hands in tan coloured trousers whilst sporting a Star Trek t shirt, an open denim shirt and a brown peacoat. He looks like a collection of rusty bolts on an abandoned garage floor.

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve put a poem reading up on my page www.facebook.com/share/v/1RBG...

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Might have done a bit of a rant at my MP. It's quite a nice feeling actually. Give it a go.

It has been promoted and pushed and egged and funded and nurtured by social media, where the racism, the hate. the disdain for our country's values is open and constant - and which remains unregulated to the cost of us all; and by the British media, also entirely unregulated (I suppose we could crowd fund some dentures for Ofcom but I remain unconvinced that it would know what to do with them), including those parts of it which are most trusted by the British public (link to BBC article below, where the thugs are referred to as if they are ordinary protesters, and a life-threatening criminal act in the channel aqainst RNLI staff is relegated to a brief mention in paragraph 15).

We used to hear "both sides" from the news. and even then, that was an absurd position, where only one side ever provided facts, and the other only ever provided feelings. We don't hear that any more. Now we only hear one side. it is the racist. hateful side. and it is framed, always, as "legitimate concerns".

They are not legitimate. We saw no village-wide protest from Piddington, when they had 2,600 mostly white young men in those barracks, and endured crimes, including rape, associated with those men. But 1200 brown men? Suddenly that's "legitimate concerns". It isn't. It's racism.

We cannot predicate the human rights of a person upon the strong feelings of a group that hates them.

That is not how human rights work ir this country, or it didn't used to be. We have done precisely this to trans people in this country - handed their harmless lives directly to the tiny, well- connected, well-funded group that hates them most. We are now normalising racism in precisely the same way. This is going to destroy our society.

What we need from the government urgently is:-
• Press regulation, sharp-eared enough to identify a dogwhistle and bold enough to call it what it is: with the good of our inclusive society at it's core and meaningful punishments
• Social media regulation: frankly X should be shut down. and the embarrassing fact that we don't want to annoy the chief nazi because he owns Starlink needs to be faced, because X's continued influence or our society must end. Facebook isn't much better: regulate them or end them.

• We need clear, unequivocal statements from our PM. and from our MPs, about the fact that this is racism and terrorism. It is not "legitimate concerns".
• We need these Blackshirts and their leaders proscribed as terrorists, and sentenced accordingly
• And we need a concerted public information campaign to offset the colossal, constant untruths the press and social media have propagated: our society has hardly any crime. Refugees aren't disproportionately criminal. And tell people what benefits refugees get because it's shockingly low and people believe utter nonsense they read on Facebook. Educate people! We used to have incredibly effective public information films on prime time TV - I'm old enough to remember when drink driving went from "a bit of a laugh, ho ho ho evervone does it," to "nobody does that now" virtually overniqht, because of such a campaign.

I realise government is hard, and that our current qovernment is tasked with undoing 20 years of utter incompetence. But that must start from the basis of British values. "Respect and dignity" isn't an idea. It's an action, taken every day, it's the courage to stand up against hate, every day, and to call it what it is and to say the uncomfortable thing and sometimes, yes, the unpopular thing.

I hope that our government has this courage. I have not seen it yet,
Yours faithfully,

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This morning I am spider-webbed and summer-ebbed, dew-scattered, sleep-shattered. I’m fading stars and aching scars but turning to day like a flower to the sun.

An old man with wide eyes the colour of day-bright bruises looks into the camera. His beard is as grey as his clothes and looks like a collection of bin bags left out in the sun.

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Me at my desk in Ocean Soft sometime in the mid 90s

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Say “Is that for me? Thank you!” at the coffee checkout as though they are giving you a gift

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ve just added a fun new book review of Six Weeks by Matt Goodfellow Please follow, share, and comment www.facebook.com/share/18RQja...

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ve just added a fun new book review of Six Weeks by Matt Goodfellow Please follow, share, and comment www.facebook.com/share/18RQja...

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was tagged in a thing on instagram of "books to read instead of Walliams". The post referenced Harpercollins no longer publishing his backlist. Some of the comments were batshit (eg calling parents who don't like racism snowflakes) but it did get me thinking re my beliefs around reading and choice

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Impermanences: All these falling autumn leaves And this haiku’s words

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves.

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh wow. Sophie is amazing! Always

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I love this timeline of the universe because when you turn it on its side it becomes an ominous super powerful entity

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's about a week until my new book is out! I WILL HAUNT THIS, published by Walker Books, illustrated by Chris Riddell. Order it from your favourite bookshop!

"I will haunt this" by Viviane Schwarz and Chris Riddell. The cover shows a little girl holding paper and a pencil, looking at a small ghost floating on the other side of the title.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hello folks! I have started a new FB page. I’ll be putting up bits and shits about me and my writing onto it. I’d appreciate follows and shares and all the shizzle www.facebook.com/share/1ehfVW...

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This morning I am cloud-tossed, map-lost, paths-crossed and past and gone too fast but I can be moon-still until I see again

Photo of an old man holding his head in his hands so that only his large nose and big eyes can be seen

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Urgh. Scrolling through Instagram and saw my face and now I understand everything

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Why is it that so few people with fuck you money only ever say yes sir?

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Andy Walsh @englishscribe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

OPPORTUNITY Madhead, Senior Narrative Designer Not affiliated. Shares welcome careers.madheadgames.com/jobs/senior-...

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Senior Narrative Designer - Mad Head Games

Senior Narrative Designer at Mad Head Games

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s “ok” I guess. But rubbish with jam

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The best cracker is a water biscuit. Fight me

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hear about my morning walk fb.watch/v/6usNvthdr/?

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This morning I am rain-dashed, thought-splashed, sleep-crashed past muddle and puddle to calmer waters where a sail is just a page to write on

An old man with a grey beard, blue eyes, and a ridiculous hat looks at the camera trying to manifest ease and well-being

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And illustrator of our lovely Out There In The Wild!

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coralrumble.bsky.social @coralrumble.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

After an initial flurry of kind reviews, I wondered if WSR had got lost in the summer break, but a kind review from @afharrold.com this morning, and then this one from avid reader, @edfinch.bsky.social , have made me believe it might make its way into the reading world. So thoughtful in detail.🥹

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Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

WARNING: my hair is now shorter and I have 63 new wrinkles

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Fenner Pearson @fennerpearson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's #electronicears at eight o'clock! Featuring: Loula Yorke; Ofra Haza and Black Dog Productions; Boddy | Scanner; Polypores; Plaid; Immersion; and MORE! Stream from www.candofm.co.uk at 8pm or listen on Mixcloud from tomorrow morning.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I wrote something about the role of the senses in my books, and why losing them is the most frightening thing of all... www.joanne-harris.co.uk/scent-and-se...

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The Sensual Word | Joanne Harris

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is out so soon!!!

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