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Louisa Scott

@louisascott.bsky.social
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Writer, reader, mum, business founder. SE Londoner who grew up in Portugal and Gibraltar. I like books, running, theatre, jigsaws, cooking & eating. Published in Litro.

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Louisa Scott @louisascott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you are in the UK and can spare 45 seconds, please sign. They need 100,000 signatures by Sunday. Thank you 🙏  petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Add gynaecological conditions e.g. Endometriosis to Equality Act 2010 Guidance
We call on the UK government to include gynaecological conditions such as endometriosis, adenomyosis, fibroids, PCOS, PMDD, menopause & menstrual disorders as “impairments with fluctuating or recurrin...
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Just let women run everything. The other way isn’t working. Let’s give the matriarchy a shot. www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-ne...
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Melinda Gates Matches Olivia Rodrigo’s $10 Million Daisy Chain Festival Donation to 10 Repro Nonprofits
Melinda French Gates joined Olivia Rodrigo at her inaugural Daisy Chain Fields music festival, doubling a $10 million pledge to nonprofits
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Mark Tolman (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 🖖 @mtolman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Good writing and acting can make even Rocky lovable.
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Louisa Scott @louisascott.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The Disneyland of World Cup finals. What the actual?! 🕺🏻 🤦‍♀️
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
So far this is the worst World Cup Final ever
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 17/07/2026
I’m so happy for them
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This is fucking terrorism. Purpose is to frighten anyone else out of telling the truth about what it's like to work at Meta. I was privileged to write the introduction for her vital book. I was very much not the first person they asked. Most people were understandably too scared to do it.
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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Every day common sense becomes a little more endangered. Anyways, fuck gen AI. Be a real writer. 😘
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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I’m filled with white-hot rage at Olga Tolarczuk. I’ve spent every day of three decades struggling with my art. The art lives in the struggle; the product is only the last traces of the art. If you’re not in the struggle, you’re not making art. All respect I’ve had for her has instantly vanished.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Dear Labour supporters. If you want to put me off voting Green rather than Labour, the key is *not* to attack the Greens, but to ask yourself why I, a life-long Labour supporter, who has voted Labour at every GE since 1983 (my first), can't support Labour. Look at yourselves. Look at your party.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/04/2026
I’ll have what Hungary’s having.
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an elderly woman is sitting at a table in a restaurant and looking at the camera .
ALT: an elderly woman is sitting at a table in a restaurant and looking at the camera .
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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Generative AI is a tool of fascism. If you use it, you better be prepared to be shamed by people who actually like thinking.
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Mike McLean @mike99.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Let us hope that they will never get the chance. It the UK electorate is stupid enough to vote in a Reform government, we are lost.
News story from the Guardian: Reform UK government would replace top civil servants with those ‘more like[ly] to implement party’s priorities’
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
A reminder that Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and the entire Conservative-supporting press have spent the past week lambasting Keir Starmer for not joining the Iran war. Here's what has happened since then to public opinion
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Louisa Scott @louisascott.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Happy World Book Day to those who celebrate 📚 This year my kids opted for elitist psychopath and skeleton detective. Apparently at least one of my children must dress as Skulduggery every WBD... (@dereklandy.bsky.social) #SkulduggeryPleasant #TheSecretHistory
A teenager dressed as Henry Winter from The Secret History, wearing glasses, holding an umbrella and carrying a copy of the Odyssey beside a smaller child dressed as Skulduggery Pleasant in jacket and tie, wearing a hat and a skull mask.A teenager dressed as Henry Winter from The Secret History, wearing glasses, holding an umbrella and carrying a copy of The Secret History beside a smaller child dressed as Skulduggery Pleasant in jacket and tie, wearing a hat and a skull mask and carrying a copy of the novel.A child dressed as Draco Malfoy for World Book Day, carrying a wand and wearing a cloak, beside a teenager dressed as Skulduggery Pleasant wearing a hat, jacket, tie and skull mask.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...
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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 02/03/2026
Uh no...we definitely realize it.
Quote from Washington Times editorial board

"[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen. Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?
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God @thegodshow.com · 01/03/2026
Thou shalt not kill schoolchildren to distract from your crimes against children.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
im starting to think the woke mind virus wasnt actually the biggest threat to civilization
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Louisa Scott @louisascott.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
A bad photo (I was weeping) of the most extraordinary evening. When Gisèle Pelicot walked out, 2000+ people got to their feet to cheer and clap. And again at the end. So much love, admiration and hope in the room. I've never been part of a moment like it and it will live with me forever ❤️
Kristen Scott-Thomas, Juliet Stevenson, Gisèle Pelicot, Kate Winslet and Samira Ahmed on stage at the Soutbank Centre, London.
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
There's two minutes of missing videotape at the exact time of Epstein's murder. Trump went into a hospital with a gunshot wound and released a report from a doctor who wasn't there, one week later Journalists, what the fuck is wrong with you?
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
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Louisa Scott @louisascott.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
This is perfect.
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God @thegodshow.com · 16/02/2026
There are concentration camps in the USA. People are being disappeared. One facility has 3,500 people, most of them children. Now, what are we going to do about it?!
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Louisa Scott @louisascott.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Art is political. It always has been. 💪 Arundhati www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
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Arundhati Roy quits Berlin film festival over ‘stay out of politics’ comment
Author says she is ‘disgusted’ by claim from jury president Wim Wenders that film-makers should remain apolitical
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God @thegodshow.com · 06/02/2026
Today President Epstein kicked off Black History Month by sharing a racist AI video of Barack and Michelle Obama. It's not funny. He's a racist fascist pedophile who mocks murder victims and anyone who still supports him is pure evil.
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God @thegodshow.com · 30/01/2026
Thou shalt not arrest journalists for practicing journalism.
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God @thegodshow.com · 28/01/2026
Ilhan Omar is fucking awesome. What a badass! 👊
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Thousands March Against Trump In Freezing Weather
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Thousands March Against Trump In Freezing Weather
The resistance is hotter than ever
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Louisa Scott @louisascott.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This might be where I give up hope. I went to a talk at the @societyofauthors.bsky.social last week and AI was a hot topic but we all felt people would ultimately still want human created art. Apparently that was an assumption too far 😫 #AI #art #humanwritten www.nme.com/news/music/a...
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AI-generated country track 'Walk My Walk' tops US Billboard chart
AI-generated country track 'Walk My Walk' tops US Billboard chart, after garnering over three million streams on Spotify
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The end logic of this if you’re in the UK btw is DEFEND THE BBC. Complain about it, protest bad coverage of course, but we won’t get another institution that makes safe, publicly funded, reliable, human-created, vetted content for kids if we let the BBC get destroyed.
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Roland Allen gazes on the space where Chapter XVIII shall be @zibaldoni.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Simpsons 'tap the sign' meme with text: your reminder that the UK book industry is worth over £7bn, more than four times the steel industry (£1.7bn) and six times the fishing industry (£1.1bn) so maybe English degrees do have a point after all.
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I wrote an opinion column for the Observer! I never do opinion columns but I was just really annoyed by cultural vandalism and Kemi Badenoch. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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In praise of “rip-off” degrees | The Observer
Kemi Badenoch’s attack on the arts and humanities isn’t just culturally short-sighted, it’s economically illiterate
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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 09/10/2025
The very definition of ‘unviable’
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
COME ON
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Louisa Scott @louisascott.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
news.uk.cityam.com/story/236769... FFS. This is how human history ends, with arrogant, overpaid, supposedly smart people relying on machines rather than figuring things out or looking things up for themselves.
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Deloitte refunds Australian government after AI ‘made up citations’ in report
Big Four firm Deloitte is set to issue a partial refund to the Australian federal government after a report it issued contained several errors caused by the use of AI. Deloitte was commissioned by the...
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
📣We're delighted with the Court’s decision yesterday. It's a win for authors and rightsholders, and a step in the right direction towards compensation for the unlawful use of copyright-protected works. Big Tech is not above the law and creators’ rights cannot be ignored. ✊ tinyurl.com/4db9u2fn
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US judge preliminarily approves $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement
A federal judge in California on Thursday preliminarily approved a landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright class action brought by a group of authors against artificial intelligence company Anthropic, according to the authors' representatives.
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Louisa Scott @louisascott.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I am thrilled to have a short story in Litro magazine this weekend. www.litromagazine.com/litro-magazi...
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ASYLUM  | Litro Magazine
A young undocumented woman trapped in modern slavery cleans hospital corridors at night. When a “doctor with the brown eyes” notices her, Ana must choose whether to trust a stranger’s offer of help or...
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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Angela Rayner has clearly been careless. But also: Angela Rayner is clearly held to higher standards than any other politician because she's a working class woman.
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Louisa Scott @louisascott.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Dramatic sky over the Thames this morning.
A dramatic sky - half dark cloud and half wispy cloud in blue sky with a gauzy sun.
The Shard and Blackfriars Bridge in the foreground.
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Louisa Scott @louisascott.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Possibly the greatest invention of all time 🥖 😍
A vending machine selling baguettes
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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
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Louisa Scott @louisascott.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Woolwich wandering on a beautiful day.
A seagull atop a street lampA rusted barge on the Thames in the foreground and the Tate & Lyle factory in the background, all against a very blue sky.
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Louisa Scott @louisascott.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
June. Late because life has been pretty gruelling. It was a fine reading month though. What would I do without the books… #BookSky #reading #books
A pile of six books.
Six Wild Crowns by Holly Race
Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra
Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh
Snowblind by Ragnar Jonasson
The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden
The Looking-Glass War by John le Carré
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Louisa Scott @louisascott.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
My bad photos of my friend Katherine's stunning print which is now framed and hanging in my garden office. I haven't yet been able to entice her over to BlueSky but you can find her on Instagram or here: katherineanteney.co.uk
A beautiful print of people crowded into a small boat underneath a storm and threatened by a huge wave.
The writing on the print is the Warsan Shire quote: You have to understand, no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.A beautiful print hanging above a chair and beside a bookcase. The print is of people crowded into a small boat underneath a storm and threatened by a huge wave.
The writing on the print is the Warsan Shire quote: You have to understand, no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.
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Louisa Scott @louisascott.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Our word of the day calendar knows 🤔
A word of the day calendar showing the word scofflaw for June 13, 2025, with the definition ‘a contemptuous law violator’.
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Louisa Scott @louisascott.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Usually, my 8-year-old’s questions are along the lines of: would you rather live in our house or our house shaped like a cat? This morning, though, he asked me whether I would choose reading or writing if I could only have one…and now I can’t think about anything else.
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