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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It creates a pastiche of strong writing. You can’t become a great author by mimicking great authors, otherwise we’d all do it.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It would be interesting to see the study replicated with calculators instead of A.I.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Morning. Halfway through Everlasting (Harrow) and very much swept up in the story.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Anthropic employees apparently intended to allow their AI agents to interact with 3rd party websites without regard to those sites’ TOS or purpose. The specific harms, while not directly predictable, arise from that initial human intention.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Morning! Halfway through “The Devil is Dead” (Lafferty). Not quite sure what the hell it’s about but it’s surprisingly enjoyable. Gave up on the “Hospital Station” books for now- fun plots, awful characters. Looking forward to switching to some modern fantasy next.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Quantum Magician is one of my my current favourite books. Highly recommended.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Morning! I’m reading Star Surgeon (White) which trots along nicely except for all the rather jarring bits where the protagonist fantasies about sexually assaulting his reluctant love interest. Listening to Children of Strife (Tchaikovsky) which is as good as expected.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think (probably) disapproving of something but going along with it publicly is a near perfect example of what complicity means.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes, that’s the one Asimov I’ve kept. I must reread it sometime.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's Tchaikovsky all round here. Just finished Green City Wars which definitely grew on me and started the audio of Children of Strife having had a ball rereading the earlier ones in preparation. in non-Tchaikovsky news. I finished Slow Gods which really was excellent.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I had a really good time at a Proclaimers set once. But out they go.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I want a novel idea, intelligent development and good writing. Character, setting, plot and message can be anything at all as long as they are written well, but if it's missing that startling idea I'm unlikely to stay interested.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

People with delusional parasitotis have very little control over what is clearly a truly horrible condition. They may take up pseudo science in a desperate search for a cure. It’s really not the same as right wing anti vaxxers driven by selfish ideologies.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yoon Ha Lee’s Machineries of Empire books are some of my absolute favourite modern SF novels. I’m currently most of the way through Slow Gods (Claire North) which is also excellent.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It might be the feeblest defence possible but what choice does he have? He won’t admit anything, it’s all on video and this is apparently the only argument left to him. Expect him to pursue it with the desperation of a drowning man with a clutchable straw.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Good morning. I’m reading the excellent Slow Gods (North) and listening to Green City Wars (Tchaikovsky) which was a slow start but gets better throughout. Snapped up No Life Forsaken (Erickson) but will have to reread the first one again first.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Post cataract surgery I have good distance vision, cheap close up reading glasses (books and tablet) and prescription glasses for mid distance (computer, board games, jigsaws). If I could choose again I’d probably pick the mid distance for convenience but it is nice to see the stars from bed.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I was sectioned after my son was born 35 years ago.I didn’t spend the rest of my life in a mental hospital. I was back to work in 12 months.The severity of puerperal psychosis does not predict the length of the illness and hospitals aren’t jails. If she’s no longer ill she should be released.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm halfway through Slow Gods and it's excellent.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Morning. Audio is Green City Wars (Tchaikovsky) which had a slow start but is growing on me. Just started Slow Gods (North) in paperback which was a close to instant hook. I want to know what’s going on!

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We had one of Eysenck's test books when I was a child but my parents never regarded it as more than a curiosity and it was obvious that the more you did them the better score you got. I found tests fun so I did lots of them. It was quite clear that I was not the prodigy my scores suggested!

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

You don’t have to like her, her choices or her politics to recognise that she’s in a highly vulnerable and unsupported position. I genuinely don’t know how we should be responding but in the UK we’ve just seen what wall to wall ‘point and laugh’ coverage can lead to.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’m well over 50 and I was only 14 when Chariots of Fire came out. All the ones before that were definitely “before my time”. I’ve seen 4 of the list in total.

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This fall, the QUANTUM EVOLUTION expands! Meet THE QUANTUM DAWN, the highly-anticipated, long-awaited 4th book in @derekkunsken.bsky.social 's QUANTUM EVOLUTION series which began with THE QUANTUM MAGICIAN! Out October 2026 in the UK and November 2026 in the US. Preorder now: geni.us/quantdawn

A paperback copy of THE QUANTUM DAWN by Derek Kunsken on blue fabric dotted with crystal stars.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Morning! Having fun rereading the first 3 Children of Time books (Tchaikovsky). Found Concrete Island (Ballard) in charity shop- bleak but good. Starting Platform Decay (Wells) on audio- lots of reading treats this week.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Perhaps the NYT can use their media expertise to comment on the astonishing newsworthiness of accusations of PhD plagiarism against a sociology professor? 241 articles in 22 days, I understand.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I remember the first illustration vividly from my copy in childhood. It illustrated the scariness of the empty clothes people perfectly

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hello, I'm Louise, I'm an undertow on a red-flagged beach in Portugal.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

That’s your idea of someone online being agitated? Have you considered getting out more?

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Triggered? Find me one comment in this thread In which anyone is showing any signs of being 'triggered'.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Maybe researchers are analysing donations by social class. It’s the only characteristic that I can imagine parental occupation might usefully identify.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Nonesuch on Kindle- I was a bit put off Spufford by some of his Narnia comments but I’m enjoying this. Still House of Saints on Audible. I haven’t had much listening time recently, but it seems to be coming to a pretty decent climax.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"The story, characters, scenes, humour, structure and voice came from me”. So they are just missing the boring bit of putting down the actual words in the order they would appear on the page, then?

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We have one small elderly dog allowed on the bed (along with both cats) and one fairly large adolescent dog who has a dog bed on the bedroom floor. Old dog is definitely smug and defends her privilege fiercely. Young dog is resigned to the general unfairness of life.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Shortly after we moved to the north of England the local permanent traveller site was hit by catastrophic floods and everything lost. I was utterly shocked at a neighbour's gleeful reaction, justified by 'how they behave'. Around here it's a bigotry that doesn't even try to hide.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Afternoon. Reading Ironclads(Tchaikovsky) from the library, audio House of Saints (Künsken) which has got a bit bogged down in details but is still good, just finished Rakesfall (Chandrasekhera) which was much more readable than I’d anticipated.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

My dog is called Odysseus (Odd for everyday), with his name on his harness. I reckon for about 50% of the random people I meet the name means nothing and for another quarter or so it's a vague 'isn't that a Greek thing?' (From now on I imagine they'll all think I named him after Matt Damon.)

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Bought a set of Encyclopaedia Britannica on a 2 year payment plan.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

:-( If there’s any chance that it’s facial cellulitis, tell your dr’s receptionist that and it should be looked at urgently.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

She was a horrible bigot. She was also apparently an elderly woman living alone in an isolated area and if it turns out that and not her politics was why she was murdered then I would hope people would manage to care on behalf of women in similar circumstances.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Something of a devil’s advocate post. FIFA are required by their rules to be fair, even handed, not to give in to political influence and to operate a fair and open appeals procedure. Whether they broke one additional rule in the process of breaking all the above is hardly worth the argument.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Good day. Listening to House of Saints (Künsken), just finished The Invincible (Lem), thinking about what to start next. Maybe Pocketful of Lies (Charles).

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

York has several HP themed shops now. One of them makes a great deal of noise about being legit and licensed but who really knows?

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Character-driven hard SF- plenty of both science and LGBTQ+ characters in this story about a Venus colony.

Front cover of Derek Künsken ‘The House of Styx’ featuring swirling orange clouds, giant jellyfish-type objects and distant lightning

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I got about that far, objected, was assured by several people that I’d find ethical issues were tackled in either book 3 or 4 onwards. DNF.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

That's pretty good eyesight! I went on a husky trip in northern Sweden with no moon and the starlight reflected on the snow was perfectly adequate to see the surroundings by. It needed the snow though.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I was solo wild camping on Dartmoor and nipped out for a wee in barely adequate visibility, dressed only in a t-shirt.The fog rolled up in seconds. I was camped on a small tor surrounded by bogs, no other humans for miles, and it took 20 terrified minutes to find my tent again.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Perhaps I was unfair to Baroness Orczy then? She might have assumed her readers would know the parties were appropriately timed. I did know that the Lunar Society in Birmingham was so named because they met on evenings with a full moon for ease of travel. Still not sure about cloud cover though.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I got irritated with The Scarlet Pimpernel where the Blakeneys apparently drive their carriage home from parties in the moonlight. The number of nights in England where there’s no cloud cover and the moon is near enough full for a horse to see by- well, you wouldn’t go to many parties.

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Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

What are a million people going to do in a heavily mechanised Mars colony?

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