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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 5m

It was about £400 if anyone wants to know.

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 6m

I don't like the sound of that - please explain. Like, unsold copies from shops?

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 9m

I didn't mean to type 'the outraged' but let's go with it

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 10m

No. Don't give them ideas 🤣

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 11m

Someone in the thread mentioned an advance - I had an advance for one of my books and was the outraged to find the publisher docks it from your royalties until it's paid back 🤣😱

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 20m

To be fair, if that was an academic book it'd be a blockbuster

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 26m

I don't know what any of those things are but it's nice to see you having fun.

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 40m

I love bus journeys like that but I feel sorry for the driver

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 42m

The Colour of Magic Markers

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 1h

Ta. As a young man I was a big film buff but these days I encounter the social media debates first and the films second. Digger looks like an interesting premise, to me as well.

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 1h

Why am I only now hearing about this film? Also, is it any good?

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 4h

What were they so scared of?

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 6h

Black pudding, the superfood

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12h

Australopithecus 3 million years ago:

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 8h

That's the deadlines talking 🤣

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 8h

Every British middle aged person

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 8h

As if they're not advantaged enough! Private education is such a hindrance I'm thinking of taking my kids off Eton's waiting list.

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 8h

Understood. All is well, no issues at all.

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 8h

What if they place the orders and spend all that money but in the end they don't actually distribute 15million copies?

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 8h

Why would they place all those contracts and spend all that money on something that shows as a loss on a financial document?

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 9h

She's failed the test now sorry. Dilated pupils. Right to remain silent, etc.

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 9h

If you're not sure what ballroom culture is please watch the film Paris is Burning (1990)

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 9h

🤣 is Cat doing a field sobriety test?

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 9h

Oh wow I looked up the phrase PROTECT THE DOLLS and it comes from ballroom culture which is notably black and Latinx how interesting

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 9h

I wonder if they used AI to hide it

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 9h

Wrong kind of speaking up

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 9h

Exactly. My list of lanyard wearers was very conservative and I also think train staff and cleaners wear them

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 9h

5/ So attacking 'lanyard wearers' is a way of attacking the working class, just like factory workers were maligned when they had powerful unions and resisted neoliberalism, decades ago.

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 9h

4) Now a massive part of the working class is teachers, school staff, social workers, office workers, university admin, researchers, librarians, council workers, healthcare, science, media, meter readers, shop staff etc. etc...

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 9h

3/It fascinates me that people go on about blue collar workers now, when from 1979 onwards every government has either a) actively attacked them or more latterly b) not given a f**ck about them now that they have no political power (see a)).

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 9h

2/That's not to contradict you. Very many workers of all types do wear lanyards and most workers are not factory workers.

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 9h

1/I suspect part of the 'deep symbolism' is that factory workers and many manual workers aren't allowed to wear lanyards (some of the time) for safety reasons.

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 11h

Oh good point not recently no

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 12h

It was all worth it though to free the country from the Taliban.

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 21h

Neither did the cast, if the lore is to be believed.

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