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Reader. Writer. Traveller. Distance runner. Music obsessive. Goth DJ - have laptop, will travel.

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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
And there we have it.
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Also: cries in Bristolian
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
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A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas
In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…
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Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I keep thinking about all of the people who were NOT hired as part of this exercise. All the real world production crew. The actors. The caterers supporting real world shoots. So many people with real skills not being paid. So. Many. Creative. People. Not. Being. Paid.
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
All other reasons this is icky aside, I’m so tired of privileged people saying Thing is necessary rather than “I’m lucky enough to have it”, negating the lived experience of everyone less well off.
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Yeah. This.
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
there are two tragedies of the commons the enclosure acts the upper classes imposed to steal them from us and the victim blaming narrative that insists that that was actually the lesser evil because the masses were so incompetent and terrible
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Please don't let the fear of not doing something well stop you from trying it for the first time. Write a messy story. Paint a crappy flower. Whittle the worst wooden bear of all time. The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.
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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Always worth taking a moment to remind you if you’re pirating authors’ book you’re a shitty person. You can rail that our profession isn’t a profession all you want. You can paint yourself as an online revolutionary liberating ideas. It’s all bullshit. You’re just a shitty person who hates writers.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 23/11/2025
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We are indeed living in the worst timeline.
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Yeah. Exactly this, and nobody listens.
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Doesn’t matter as long as all the media only pays attention to Reform.
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I left the NHS in 2011, not least because the NHS already regarded support staff with contempt, and both numbers and skills have only been decimated since. So now it need to function with less? Hint: this will not free up clinician time.
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
@misterkristoff.bsky.social’s Empire of the Dawn landed on my Kindle yesterday but I was unable to start it till this morning’s commute. I’ll be back in the land of the living in a couple weeks. Boyfriend knows not to talk to me for a while.
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Or, why I have gone cold turkey on the BBC. I miss Radio 3 like you wouldn’t believe. But this is some non stop bullshit.
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Asian Cajun Socialist @dissidentelizabeth.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Many years ago, my typewriter crapped out in the middle of a medieval lit paper due at 8 am, so I pulled out my art supplies and did it on parchment in calligraphy with a couple of illustrations. Got an A. Try that with ChatGPT
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
For medical reasons, I go through extensive periods when I can’t drink, so I’be just had to deal with The Feelings all along.
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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
“all these things, actual material things we should be worried about are not the problems of, or caused by trans people”. Thank you @zackpolanski.bsky.social for echoing the sentiment of our open letter: chng.it/Fp54zPQ4tF
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Sign the Petition
Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Too late!
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Aargh! Guess who’s due to fly to Poland on 2 October? Wrocław (the other side of the country) but if they close the airspace 😢. Should have booked my flight to Berlin.
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Appropos of the second picture, I once again state: share.google/bSwpxzV3NCh9...
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On Crusades, or, how not to identify with losers
I think about Crusades a lot because that’s my job. I also think about them a lot because, well, there were a lot of them – which is pretty wild when you consider they didn’t exist as a pheno…
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
*snort*
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John Bull @garius.eurosky.social · 13/09/2025
This is absolute truth. These days my Friday afternoon painting sessions are various friends dropping in for a chat as much as to paint. Turns out talking about how you feel, or what you're worried about, seems way easier when you're all holding brushes and focused on tiny figures, not each other.
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This is just about the cutest thing I’ve ever seen! And I thought I knew my Australian animals.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 11/09/2025
every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The stuff Jeffrey Epstein’s friends felt comfortable saying and drawing in grotesque detail with their names attached knowing they would not face consequences is the kind of thing I think of when I think about rape culture and how sexual violence against girls and young women is actually glorified
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Ed Sinclair @edsinclair.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
There’s a way of inauthenticity performing authenticity that a hefty chunk of people can’t see through. Farridge is good at it, Starmer is very bad at it.
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Sigh. Yes. We know.
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
For the first time in my several decades living in the UK, I am grateful that I am not, in Canadian parlance, a visible minority.
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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 06/09/2025
The fact that Starmer is defending Glinners 'freedom of speech' whilst also forcing the entire country to use a VPN or tie their social media to a photo ID really gives the game away doesn't it?
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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I'm scared I will draw the Wrath of the Fanboys, but... this week on my newsletter I wrote about why I think the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" writers have so little appeal to a huge swathe of today's SF/F writers & readers. undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-why-...
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this is why we don't read the Golden Age anymore.
There are so many histories of the future. Spinning through timespace, studying this apocalypse, a key part of my undercover mission is studying stories about the future. When and where and how were ...
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I will never stop finding it amusing that Tabitha King almost divorced Stephen King two times: once because of his addiction in the 80's, and once because while he was writing 11/22/63 he listened to Mambo No. 5 on repeat 18 hours a day. This is true.
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
JFC. I avoid Heathrow as much as possible anyway, but having family in Canada means sometimes it’s unavoidable.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 31/08/2025
Giraffes, long considered a single species, are in fact four. scim.ag/4n2po6f
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Giraffes are four distinct species, major report confirms
The revised classification will help ensure different giraffe populations are adequately protected, conservationists say
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Sound familiar, my British readers?
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
ID which I, as an immigrant, have to have, but many British-born people don’t.
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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Genre rules are only guidelines anyway! Want some Dragons in your Western? A locked boat murder mystery in your sci-fantasy? GBBO in outer space? A Necromantic bildungsroman? Searing examinations of war with bonus military Pteranodons? A literal plot device? We've got all that and more! 1/3
Against a blue background, tiled book covers:

THREE EIGHT ONE and THE MISHEARD WORLD by Aliya Whiteley
RAKESFALL and THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by Vajra Chandrasekera
THE SALT ORACLE by Lorraine Wilson
THE MOUNTAIN CROWN by Karin Lowachee
THE DEATH I GAVE HIM by Em X. Liu
SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER by C. S. E. Cooney
THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed
THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN by Caspar Geon
METAL FROM HEAVEN by August Clarke
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
This. Exactly.
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Imagine my complete lack of surprise.
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Empathy Test @empathytest.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Losing Touch has had 5m+ Spotify streams 🎉👏🏼👋🏼
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Ow. But true.
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
While I’ve broadened my horizons with all my other genre reading, it had never occurred to me that I should find some non-Anglo espionage novels. That would be fascinating!
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Pure. Unadulterated. Joy.
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 18/08/2025
Amplifying that last repost. I don’t get people who don’t understand that anti-trans hatred is only secondarily about controlling trans people. Its main purpose is to control you. Anti-trans weirdos want a world in which they get to police everybody’s gender conformity, every minute of every day.
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I’m close enough in time to subsistence farming roots to know what various ancestors went through so I can have my decadent urban existence.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
One of the best ways to cripple Russia’s ambitions longterm would be to moonshot renewables development then spread the tech everywhere super-cheap. Russia produces nothing of significance beyond oil and gas. The economy would tank. Plus a huge win in the fight against the climate crisis.
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
This is relevant to my interests!
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inulro 🇨🇦🍁🇬🇧🇪🇺 @inulro.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Imagine my complete lack of surprise.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
We need to big this up, a V important legal judgement; if it had gone against us it would have been all over the oligarch/transphobic media as a "Landmark" case. I suspect it may be very useful in preventing Universities from silencing trans people under the pretext of pandering to the OfS.
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Trans Advocates Win Landmark UK Tribunal Case.
Eva Echo and Saba Ali share the story behind their tribunal win.
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