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Just lit a bunch of joss sticks and now have an irrational worry that they'll burn the house down, so I'm running between rooms to check on them. This is the opposite of the calming effect they're meant to have.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 01/10/2026

Tickets are available here! I hope to see you there. tickets.wigtownbookfestival.com/sales/events... On a separate note... I've heard whispers of a local cafe serving a giant scone. I consider it my official duty to visit every single cafe until I locate it.

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Kestral Gaian & Denise Brown - Outsiders, Obsession and Betrayal

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 01/10/2026

Big milestone: I’m heading to Wigtown Book Festival for my very first time as an author! I’ll be on a panel with the brilliant Denise Brown, hosted by The Traitors star Rachael King: Outsiders, Obsession, and Betrayal. To say I’m excited is an understatement!

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 30/09/2026

I made a custom Winamp skin for my metal band when I was 16 and wish I still had the damn thing. We had four (4) whole downloads from our band website!!

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 29/09/2026

I'd trip over all the text labels

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 28/09/2026

My school librarian let me hack around on early computers, and created a safe space for my obnoxious queer teenage overconfidence - even at a time where you couldn't actively acknowledge LGBTQ+ identities in schools. Here's a little blog post about librarians. news.kestr.al/ask-a-librar...

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Ask a Librarian

On bad assumptions, an overdue book, and the magical people who help us make sense of the world.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 28/09/2026

"I tried to be productive but my cat demanded that I rest, properly hydrate, and not do anything."

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 28/09/2026

Every time I make a to-do list, my cat sits on it. Every single time. Can't tell whether I'm annoyed, proud, or both. // cc @supernote.com

A black and white cat sits atop a Supernote tablet, on which I had just made a to-do list.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 28/09/2026

Vector's solo shit was epic tho

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 27/09/2026

Just ate some really fucking good potatoes. Grew them myself and everything.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 26/09/2026

Having a robot that cleans the floors is great because I no longer have to clean my floors! Of course I do now have to clean my robot, which is infinitely more complicated than cleaning my floors, but LOOK AT MY FLOORS!

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 26/09/2026

In just over a week I will be a part of the amazing Wigtown Book Festival! I’ll be on panel with Denise Brown, talking with Traitors star Rachael King about Outsiders, Obsession and Betrayal. Hope to see you there! tickets.wigtownbookfestival.com/sales/events...

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Kestral Gaian & Denise Brown - Outsiders, Obsession and Betrayal

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 23/09/2026

Today is a day for unhitching your cart and allowing the animals that pull them to rest a little. Happy Equine Ox day, everyone!

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 22/09/2026

Welcome to the real 1%

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 22/09/2026

"Why won't you have a civilised debate with me?" Sorry but if your starting point is that I don't deserve to exist, it's neither civil nor a debate.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 20/09/2026

"I think there’s a time for politics and a music concert is not one of those places" says man who has never been to a music concert or listened to a song before, presumably. www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

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Ed Sheeran fans say singer ‘doesn’t deserve this’ after Macklemore row

Fans attending the concert in Philadelphia said they were sticking by the English musician

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 18/09/2026

"Delete yourself" is a better copilot prompt ;-)

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 17/09/2026

Thrilled to announce I’ll be at the Wigtown Book Festival this year! I’ll be joining the wonderful Denise Brown on the 4th of October at 3pm for our panel “Outsiders, Obsession and Betrayal”. Hope to see you there! Tickets are available now! 👇👇 tickets.wigtownbookfestival.com/sales/events...

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Kestral Gaian & Denise Brown - Outsiders, Obsession and Betrayal

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 13/09/2026

The fact that They Might Be Giants didn’t change their name after becoming giants is possibly the greatest case study of imposter syndrome of our generation.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 13/09/2026

Donate to me instead of Nigel Farage. I won’t do anything useful with your money - which is instantly better than anything Farage will do with it.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 09/09/2026

Just been hit with an unexpected £1500 car repair bill for a wiring fault. Anyway, if you feel like softening that sting a little, please consider throwing some coin at my ample yet pleasant frame: ko-fi.com/kestr_al No pressure, the world is hell and I know we're all struggling <3

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 09/09/2026

Mr Price would be spinning in his grave. If he were dead.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 09/09/2026

When I first studied computing we were taught the principle of GIGO. Garbage In, Garbage Out. Love that we've thrown that out in favour of spicy chatbots who have personified 'Garbage Out' no matter the input or lack thereof.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 08/09/2026

@kamenspider.bsky.social I tried to text you happy birthday earlier but it kept failing. So: happy birthday!

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 07/09/2026

London friends. If I wanted to sit and work for a few hours in Soho, I used to sit in Balans No. 34, who'd keep me in tea and snacks while I worked. Alas, Balans No. 34 is no more, and No. 60 is more restaurant-y. So, if I want to sit and work for a few hours in Soho, where do I do that now?

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 05/09/2026

The second that an open source project accepts or encourages the use of generative AI, it stops being open. I continue to be perplexed that this is a controversial statement.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 05/09/2026

Nightmare fuel. I didn't realise how terrified I was of you all chasing me around a landscape filled with giant inflatable ducks until now.

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Sean of the WTF FFS @sheepbop.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I love me some non-agonistic interactions involving directed, infraspecific oral-oral contact with some movement of the lips/mouthparts and no food transfer.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 03/09/2026

They promised us a machine that could do anything, and instead they built Talkie Toaster™, your chirpy breakfast companion.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 01/09/2026

Sisyphus would have loved LLMs, and you know it.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 01/09/2026

Wow ding dong okay how’s my breath smell

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Reis Asher 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @landale.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You really think because you turn all the sliders to “no” that Google is going to stop collecting and using your personal data? Why would they? Who’s going to hold them accountable? (At least in the US). We need to stop assuming mega corporations are following the law and find an alternative.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 31/08/2026

“What if a famously nasty, evil rich guy actually had a point?” Can’t tell if they’re talking about Depp or Scrooge, but either way I hope Dickens rises from the grave a slaps him round the face with the whole point of the original story.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 30/08/2026

Would you like to read an advance copy of my next book?Advance readers help make us all better writers. Please do sign up if you're interested!

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 30/08/2026

The tech oligarchy will just start training their models with cats and I don’t want to subject them to that. Cats should not pay the price of man’s folly.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 30/08/2026

When you're reviewing a chapter and you find another unknown contribution from your keyboard-loving cat.

A screenshot of three lines of text that read:

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 29/08/2026

Good to hear you don't. Remind me to tell you my Milo story sometime.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 29/08/2026

Please subscribe to my blog by RSS or email. I'm very occasionally interesting.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 29/08/2026

I always feel really weird in these last few days of August, like it's an odd sort of liminal space between seasons. Summer is technically over, and autumn is technically here, but it feels like neither of those things are quite true yet. Anyway, I wrote a poem about it.

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At August's Edge

A poem inspired by the feelings that come as one season ends and another is struggling to begin.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 29/08/2026

Obviously Steve isn’t his real name. It’s Stephen.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 29/08/2026

This post is powered by the person who sent me a long piece of 'fan' mail after my last book came out, complaining that it ended on a cliffhanger. YOUR MOVE, STEVE.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 29/08/2026

How many cliffhangers can I fit into one book? You'll see. You'll all see.

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Kestral Gaian @kestr.al · 29/08/2026

Had this battle when pricing my last book. Publisher suggested £21.99, I insisted on £12.99 and while they agreed to take a hit financially themselves, my royalties have been very low as a result too. But like... I can't ask people to spend that much on a book? Maybe I'm just being dense.

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