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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper

@lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social
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Australian. I write kissing books. Sometimes they’re kissing on page one. Sometimes it takes longer. Lexxie writes all kinds of romance, Elle writes short instalove romance. Both are steeeeamy. www.lexxiecouper.com www.ellecouper.com

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Having seen the Joyce Carol Oates very bad, not good tweet about romance and AI, I can't help thinking about the way that romance has been treated as a punching bag for so long and always by people who are completely unwilling to engage with the genre and know little about it.
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Fish” can be both singular (one individual fish) or plural (multiple fish of the same species.) “Fishes” refers to individuals of different species. 🐟 Fish 🐟🐟🐟 Fish 🐠🐟🐡 Fishes Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Holy crap, just bought first lot of tickets to make sure we could secure flights to and from Tassie so we can spend Christmas with our daughter. 🤯 Ummm.... Please please please pleeeease buy my books? Cause damn!
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E.M. Anderson | author & schism enthusiast too hot for Bluesky @elizmanderson.com · 15/09/2026
Dean Winchester
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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Cancer: Look for changes in your professional life this week when your boss announces "If the police ask, I was here all morning.”
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Please buy my books. My daughter has just accepted a job in Tasmania, which is NOT a part of mainland Australia, which means I can't just drive down to visit her because there's the whole Bass Strait in the way, which means I'm going to need to fly, which is heartbreakingly expensive. #booksky
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Tasmanian Devil Close-Up in Tasmania
Alt: Tasmanian Devil Close-Up in Tasmania
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026
You know, when you find out that the art you like is made by people you've learned hold views you find wholly repugnant, I don't think you need to disavow ever having enjoyed the art. It's okay to acknowledge you liked or loved that art, but are now putting it aside. That was then, this is now.
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I noticed something about my word choice of late. When I’m incredulous at someone, shocked by their behaviour, or think they’re being an idiot I call them dude. When I’m impressed with someone, happy with news about them or news they have shared, I call them mate. No idea what this means 😁🥴
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
imagine being a fitness guy for the last 10 years — tracking macros, avoiding seed oils, and strength training every day so you will live longer — only for AI to end all of humanity by 2030
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Show us your face for the week 
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Will Ferrell as Anchorman Ron Burgundy Screaming
Alt: Will Ferrell as Anchorman Ron Burgundy Screaming
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com
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Witney Thee Stallion @witneyseibold.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Sneakers" still provides me with my favorite fantasy during these corrupt times. I wish that hackers could locate the wealth of all the oligarchs, billionaires, and money-grubbing presidential dynasties, and then forcibly transfer it to charities or poor people.
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
post something random or you'll have an awful September
A simple line drawing representing the trolley problem solution. With the solution in the bottom left being "Slip the switch by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolly to a safe halt.
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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
2. The Hidden Switch Turning off the first setting isn't enough. Most people stop there. On the same settings page: Google Workspace smart features → Manage Workspace smart feature settings → Turn off both checkboxes → Save. Both settings need to be turned off.
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They Call Me Gary @theycallmegary.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 27/08/2026
Twenty years on from Gardasil vaccine launch, Australia on track to eliminate cervical cancer
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Australia on track to eliminate cervical cancer 20 years on from vaccine launch
Twenty years on from the launch of the world-first vaccine against cervical cancer, Australian Immunisation Register data shows HPV vaccine coverage for girls and girls is dropping.
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I have a new release today. Because the world needs more dingo shapeshifter romance heroes, I say. #booksky #romancelandia www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6LM38D2
A book cover featuring a man's bare chest and chin, with the title Wild Dingo in an ornate serfi font, with After Midnight Series and Lexxie Couper underneath.
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/membership/2...
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This is not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly
Global heating is an outrage, not a tragedy. We deserve the facts about the climate crisis – I choose the Guardian because it’s one of the few places left to share them honestly
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 24/08/2026
How do you vaccinate 1,000 tiny penguins against bird flu in the wild? It’s ‘really tricky’ but there is a way
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How do you vaccinate 1,000 tiny penguins against bird flu in the wild? It’s ‘really tricky’ but there is a way
Phillip Island’s ‘iconic’ little penguins get first bird flu vaccinations in what is thought to be largest program of its kind * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast More than 1,000 little penguins have received their first dose of bird flu vaccine in Victoria, in what is believed to be the world’s largest vaccination program involving wild birds. Catherine Basterfield, the chief executive of Phillip Island Nature Parks, said vaccinations began early last week and were ramping up. Continue reading...
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Sooo...just found an unopened packet of rice that expired six years ago. Should I risk it? Or throw it away? Thoughts? #foodsky
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
give me a single image from a film that makes you hear the song from the soundtrack on your head
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Marty McFly's Iconic Back To The Future Performance
Alt: Marty McFly's Iconic Back To The Future Performance of Johnny B-Good
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Working on current WIP five minutes ago. Check a different Word doc for plotting notes. Go back to current WIP (that I hadn't closed). WIP isn't there. (Weird) Go to Open Recents. Click on WIP. Get this message. Can't find current WIP anywhere. Heart explodes in chest #writersky #romancelandia
A Word error message saying "Can't open The Christmas Complication/The document has been deleted or is not currently accessible"
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Medical Advice
How to survive the global heatwave 
Stay hydrated 
Treat yourself to an ice cream 
Dismantle the fossil fuel industry which is literally burning the planet for the short term profit of a vanishingly small capitalist class
Loose fitting clothing
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just saw the cast list for #Murderbot season 2, and I now can't stop thinking Steve Buscemi is ART. I'm probably wrong, but damn, I kinda hope I'm not.
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This breaks my heart and makes me sick.
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Will the Avengers ever discover that Phil Coulson is alive????
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Phil Coulson: Not Answering That Question
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Hear me out... Dacre Montgomery for Carl in the Dungeon Crawler Carl TV show. Or Peter Claffey. #tvsky #dungeoncrawlercarl
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I am generally skeptical of boycotts. But I don't think one can overstate the degree to which J.K. Rowling has chosen to make loathing of trans people and cruelty about them into her primary identity. Nobody on earth will suffer from skipping the Harry Potter series. Let's not make her richer.
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Absolutely the fuck not. This idea being perpetuated that people working for money and not love is bad needs to fucking die. Of course people work for money. These cunts build a capitalist world where EVERYTHING costs a fortune and then insist everyone should get used to being poor? Get fucked.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
They're wearing the cats.....
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
For a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? At least four KFC hand wet wipes packets (but quite beaten up and faded from the years of being in the junk drawer)
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
With a low chuckle, I shake my head. “I’m a firefighter, remember? Saving damsels in distress is part of the job.” #booksky #romancelandia www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD29BY6N
An image of a book cover for the book, The Mountain Man's Heat (featuring a bare chested man with the title written in the middle), surrounded by flames and a list of tropes found in the book: small-town romance, He falls first, alpha-but-tender hero, OTT desire, forced proximity, the dog plays cupid, steeeamy, instalove quick read, love heals all, and mountain man finds his HEA.
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
how it feels to be a freelance writer
screenshot from the animated fox Robin Hood, feat. Robin Hood disguised as a blind beggar dressed in rags shaking a little empty tin cup
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Boo London @cmdrsue.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
MASH had a lot of great writing, but this has always been one of my favorite bits.
Hawkeye: War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.

Father Mulcahy: How do you figure, Hawkeye?

Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?

Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.

Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This looks awesome. *adds to TBR list* #booksky
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San Merg @sandromergvaz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
😘❤️‍🔥😍
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
There's a conversation going on in our house right now about the chances of Russell being dropped and Piastri going to Mercedes next year. There are very strong feelings on all sides. Interesting. (I am a major Oscar fan, so all I want is for him to be in a team that treats him well) #f1
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?
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David Attenborough with a Horned Lizard
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’m having a banh mi for lunch, followed by a chocolate crackle for dessert. Pauline Hanson can suck it. #aussielunch #multicultural
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Look, it's not that hard to sew pockets in pyjama pants. So why the hell is it almost impossible to get pyjama pants with pockets in them? Who the hell decided women didn't get to have pockets in their pyjamas pants?? I want pockets in my pyjama pants, damn it!!!
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Elliot Page was fantastic in #TheOdyssey. Little screen time but very important role with a big payoff. I hope he can appreciate the love and the hateful grifters can choke on it. Ditto Zendaya and Lupita.
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“Verify your age” I watched Sesame Street on our black-and-white TV
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 13/07/2026
This is pretty well known, but the Australian flag Sam Neill wore on his uniform in Event Horizon was designed at his request to show the Union Jack replaced with the Aboriginal flag, because he hoped in the future this is how it would actually look. A proper fucken ally in every way, this bloke.
Sam Neill on profile in EVENT HORIZON, with a patch on his jacket that shows the Australian flag but with the Union Jack replaced with the Aboriginal flag, because fuck colonialism and Sam knew that this always was, always will be, Aboriginal land
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 13/07/2026
In a world of Lindsey Grahams, be the Sam Neill
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Lexxie Couper/Elle Couper @lexxiecouperwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
One of my favourite comfort films is the Aussie comedy, The Dish, starring Sam Neill. I will be watching it tonight, followed by Hunt for the Wilderpeople. His passing has devastated me.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I like Bluesky but what baffles me about it is the same thing that baffles me about all social media: that it badgers hardworking people to be more interested in a transient digital version of themselves than the art they've created over decades. Fuck that. I'm here to recover and get my books read.
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