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Ewan Downie

@ewandownie.com
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Theatre-maker, writer, dad; joint artistic director of @companywolves.org

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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 28/09/2026
Helping my 11 y.o. learn the order of the planets for her homework today -- made me think of this, by the awesome Fatima Asghar www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E_W...
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Fatimah Asghar - "Pluto Shits on the Universe"
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 21/09/2026
“The most important thing about the gadget isn’t what it does, it’s who it does it for and who it does it to.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
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The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence
A vivid and entertaining polemnic on the economics of the tech revolution, filled with righteous ire
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 11/09/2026
So proud of everyone involved in this amazing play, and lucky to be working on it.
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 10/09/2026
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Send a reminder to Meta: you have to respond
Use this to send a final chance email to Meta if you've emailed them and they've not responded to your smart glasses objections.
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 31/08/2026
I am very much looking forward to seeing Anna Von Hausswolff on Wednesday evening.
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 31/08/2026
Yes, yes, yes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Bhutan hosts first ‘conscious food summit’ amid threats to global supplies
Organisers say people must revive spiritual relationship with food amid double threat of climate crisis and conflict
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 27/08/2026
Isn't this a lovely thing! So looking forward the launch...!
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
this week's post is mostly a roundup of just some of the seemingly countless attacks on Flock cameras margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/people-rea...
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 24/08/2026
@cjsalisbury.bsky.social
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 24/08/2026
Thoroughly recommend Corinne Salisbury's furious play Slayers, at Assembly George Square for the rest of the Fringe. Strong stuff.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Going to weigh in here with some personal stuff. My son is diagnosed autistic. It made a world of difference because his school had to make accommodations that allowed him to actually cope and learn there, rather than be categorised as "naughty" in an escalating round of attempted control that
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 30/07/2026
Just signed this. ehe.movement-action.org/p/meta/share...
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Send legal notice to Meta saying they CANNOT use your face and image
AI glasses can film and share your voice and face without your consent. But you have a legal right to say no.
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 30/06/2026
Very nice from @citymystic.bsky.social AI koolaid compared to Salem witch-trial hysteria. open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
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The Spectral Evidence for AI
AI is bad enough on its own without giving it god-like powers
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 17/06/2026
I would like to see this exhibition - love Leonora Carrington's work.
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Leonora Carrington work painted during psychiatric confinement to go on show for first time
Exclusive: Villa Pilar, painted in 1940 during the surrealist artist’s stay in a Spanish sanatorium, will be displayed at London’s Freud museum
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 16/06/2026
Another resource someone shared with me recently: digital self-defence
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Home
About Us We are a collective of technical professionals based in Britain working around computer systems in radical political spaces. Our aim is to provide up-to-date, practical and accessible…
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 15/06/2026
After all the horrendous far-right activity in Glasgow in recent days, someone sent me this guide to bystander intervention, which I found really useful -- I'm sharing it here in case anyone else finds it helpful.
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The 5Ds of Bystander Intervention
WE TURN THE CARE WE HAVE FOR EACH OTHER INTO SIMPLE, CREATIVE, AND EFFECTIVE ACTION
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 10/05/2026
I am very proud indeed to have my short story The Other Mara in issue 7 of the fantastic Thin Skin Magazine... !
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
How on earth is this acceptable?
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Whether you've gone out and done your bit for democracy, or that's another day at the office done with, you deserve a reward. So here's our Ewan Downie's new story, 'The Other Mara', as a wee treat for you. Check it out on Thin Skin at the link below. @thin-skin.bsky.social @ewandownie.com
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The Other Mara - Thin Skin
I keep dreaming about the other girl. She is looking down into the water, and I’m looking up at her through the silvered surface. She is wearing a white slip that reflects the moon. She reaches for me...
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Check out the latest issue of Strange Horizons for a brand new poem from our Ewan Downie! Just a heads up that 'Beetles' is not one for entomophobes. @ewandownie.com @strangehorizons.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
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Beetles
in dark / some thing / moves some / thing moves / in dark
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 08/05/2026
I am so proud to have my poem 'beetles' in the current edition of the awesome @strangehorizons.bsky.social
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
E.M. Faulds is back with 'To Stave Off the Void', part of the new anthology Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity -- subjects very close to our hearts! Preorders are available now from the link below. aanpress.com/aanorder.htm... @bethkesh.bsky.social @aanpress.bsky.social
Cover image to the book, showing the back of an astronaut in a spacesuit as he steps off into a psychedelic swirl of cosmic colors and stars. The title circles around the figure.
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 03/05/2026
New project: extracting all the books from my kindle, breaking the DRM so I can access them elsewhere, and exiting the Amazon ecosystem.
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Our Ewan Downie's on a roll! Check out 'Semele', the latest story in his ongoing exploration of the Dionysus myth, in the new issue of Carmina Magazine. @ewandownie.com carminamagazine.com/issues-main/...
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Semele by Ewan Downie | Carmina Magazine | March 2026
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 30/03/2026
Now this is a POEM buff.ly/QDQ9Auw
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Shitty Boyfriend
Your voice rang toward me over the phone: it was like living out in the country near the Illinois river, and the sound of a train passing or a gunshot…
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Company of Wolves @companyofwolves.org · 13/03/2026
Applications now OPEN for our 2026 Theatre-Maker Placement programme! Company of Wolves are offering a rare opportunity for 2 early career artists to be embedded in the operations of one of Scotland’s foremost contemporary performance companies. INFO HERE: companyofwolves.org/news/theatre...
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NEW OPPORTUNITY: Theatre-Maker Placements 2026
This website requires Javascript for some parts to function properly. Your experience may vary.
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 06/03/2026
Thanks so much for coming to the show!
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 04/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 24/02/2026
“We lack the language that would let us prize the arduous, the uncomfortable, the slow and wandering, the unpredictable, the vulnerable or risky, the intimate, the embodied.”
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What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take…
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 22/02/2026
My first published story is in the Autumn/Winter edition of the awesome Frigg Magazine: friggmagazine.com
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Frigg: A Magazine of Fiction and Poetry, Issue 65, Winter 2025-2026 | Front Page
Frigg: A Magazine of Fiction and Poetry, Fall/Winter 2025-26, Issue 65. Writers: Shane Allison, Ewan Downie, Kathy Fish, Adelaide Gifford, Samuel Goldsmith, Kim Magowan, Jasmine Melchor, Michael Meyer...
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 19/02/2026
“The most important phase of creation looks like nothing is happening. We’re systematically destroying our capacity for it.” buff.ly/X2GXbAR
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7 Short Lessons from Gabriel García Márquez
Learn from a rare & timeless conversation between friends | + 7 Writing Exercises
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 16/02/2026
I just joined the @quitgpt boycott. OpenAI's president was the biggest donor in Trump's Super PAC's year-end report. It's time to quit. Join us: quitgpt.org // #QuitGPT
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QuitGPT — OpenAI Execs are Trump's Biggest Donors
Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 16/02/2026
I can't think of anything that would annoy Trump more: I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Help Minneapolis Get a Nobel Peace Prize. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...
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Help Minneapolis Get a Nobel Peace Prize
Students protest against ICE during a walkout at the University of Minnesota, on January 26, 2026 (Brandon Bell / Getty Images) The editors of The Nation are formally nominating the city of Minneapo...
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 13/02/2026
New @convergecult.bsky.social album just dropped! Can't wait to listen. Please come to Glasgow when you tour...
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 10/02/2026
“the tyranny of the quantifiable”
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What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take…
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
#Scotland Our Ewan Downie is on the road with The Bacchae! Kicking off in Glasgow (Citizen's Theatre, 4-7 March) and Edinburgh (Festival Studio, 9-10 March), he'll be on tour from Orkney to Aberdeen and more. Full dates and ticket links in the post below. @ewandownie.com @companyofwolves.org
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 31/01/2026
Working on a new version of Aeschylus's Agamemnon last week my main thought is: this could go badly wrong. But I quite like being a little scared of my collaborators.
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 31/01/2026
I started reading 2666 by Roberto Bolano. To my surprise, given that it is supposed to be a great work of literature, I am thoroughly enjoying it. #booksky
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 30/01/2026
Cory Doctorow: How AI is ensh*ttifying the web | Part Two of the Prospect Podcast interview
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Cory Doctorow: How AI is ensh*ttifying the web | Part Two of the Prospect Podcast interview
Looking for part one? Click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9XRREj1DSo On this episode of the Prospect Podcast, our hosts Ellen Halliday and Alona Ferber are joined by journalist, tech…
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 29/01/2026
Long, but excellent... The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. | Aaron Bastani Meets Cory Doctorow
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The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. | Aaron Bastani Meets Cory Doctorow
Did you know that the standard of Google searches has actually gotten worse over recent years? Once you think about it, it makes sense. Highly effective search means fewer searches overall. And fewer…
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 28/01/2026
Somehow, reading George Saunders' words always makes me feel calmer and more able to listen. “also start weightlifting, build a machine-gun turret …”
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‘​How do you really tell the truth about this moment?’: George Saunders on ghosts, mortality and Trump’s America
The Lincoln in the Bardo author is back with another metaphysical tale. He discusses Buddhism, partisan politics and the terrifying flight that changed his life
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/01/2026
Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today. We used to have a name for this | Marina Hyde
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Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today. We used to have a name for this | Marina Hyde
Truly, I am the country’s biggest fan. But in the spirit of free speech its leaders apparently love, here’s a few things the rest of the world needs them to know, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The #BSFA Awards longlist is out - and the GSFWC are all over it! Christopher Caldwell, Jenni Coutts, E.M. Faulds and Neil Williamson are all up for awards this year. Incoming.. @seraph76.bsky.social @jennicoutts.bsky.social @bethkesh.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @bsfa.bsky.social (1/)
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Vote for the BSFA Awards
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 26/01/2026
Thoroughly recommend @margaret.bsky.social 's excellent threads reporting from the ground of resistance in Minneapolis.
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Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com · 26/01/2026
Listening to a parent trying to teach their 6 year old to play Monopoly: 6 y.o. "I don't want to go to jail. I don't like that. Can we change the rules of this game?" I hope so, kid, I hope so.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 22/01/2026
Elon Musk is a white supremacist. Case closed.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 24/01/2026
Board of Peace - Season 1
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