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Lucienne Cummings

@lucimcummings.bsky.social
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Writer of tiny things. Fiction: NFFD, Mslexia, Neither Fish Nor Foul, Funny Pearls, Trash Cat Lit. Gags: Breaking The News, Noising Up, The Skewer, Newsjack. She/her luciennecummings.com www.comedy.co.uk/people/lucienne-cu…

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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 1h
Problem is, v few of my childhood friends knew what I was talking about...
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Breaking news - Breaking the News is now available on YouTube! #BTN #TopicalComedy www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tur5...
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Worst Traitor Ever? | Breaking the News
YouTube video by BBC Scottish Comedy
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Goodnight Hookland. May your sleep be sound and your heart be light.
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You only have until 8pm (BST) tomorrow to send us your biohazard horror 🦝 We still have room in our brainpans for things that creep and grow and burn and infect and transform and generally mess with us. Inspo and info here: trashcatlit.com/call-for-bio...
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Call for Biohazard Horror
For our first Halloween issue, we want HORROR flash with a biohazardous flavour and a speculative seasoning. There are many subgenres in horror storytelling, and we’d love to see a variety in…
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hej hej!
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Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
For anyone wondering what to do without NanoWrimo, we have a completely new, completely free project tracker so you can still aim for 50k in 30 days AND win gold stars for your efforts (and we do a thing called Write November which is also awesome) writershq.co.uk/project-trac...
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Project Tracker for Creative Writers
Keep on top of your WIP by tracking by words, pages, chapters, or time spent writing. Plus downloadable progress log to AI-proof your work.
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Check out the return of Breaking the News on BBC Sounds (audio) and on BBC Scotland (TV - 11pm today) if you're in need of a good laugh. (There's a tiny contribution from me in there somewhere...) #TopicalComedy #BTN www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio Scotland - Breaking the News, Rosco McClelland, Amanda Dwyer, Chris Forbes and Tiffany Stevenson
Des Clarke hosts Scotland's award-winning satirical news quiz.
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National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For the evening crowd!
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Some ideas for a biohazard horror flash from Trash Cat 🦝 There are now only SIX days left to write and submit your horrifying dark biology 🖤 100 to 1000 words. Any subgenre. Inspo and info here: trashcatlit.com/call-for-bio...
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Come on all you horror flash writers - we need your biologically hazardous wordage in the bin☣️ Our Halloween sub call is open until 11th October. 100-1000 words. Any horror subgenre. Visit our sub call page for inspo and info 🦝 trashcatlit.com/call-for-bio... #horrorwriting #submissioncalls
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As we prepare to say farewell to September, remember you have until 8pm (UK) on 11th October to sub your biohazard horror flash. Our Ed loves the dark side of microbes, insects and botany. Weird sentience. Mutation. Moulds and fungi. Get on it here: trashcatlit.com/call-for-bio...
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Call for Biohazard Horror
For our first Halloween issue, we want HORROR flash with a biohazardous flavour and a speculative seasoning and a speculative seasoning. There are many subgenres in horror storytelling, and we&#821…
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our very first prose poetry issue is NOW LIVE 🦝 Twenty absolute stunners for you to savour. Huge thanks to Jude Potts @judepickledplum.bsky.social for her reading assistance. We'll start highlighting these beauts soon. For now, grab a brew and lose yourself 💜 trashcatlit.com/prose-poetry... 1/2
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Prose Poetry, September 2026
We have twenty beautiful pieces in this, our first issue of prose poetry. Inspired by a very special raccoon, Jimothy, the theme was a celebration of tenacity and difference. Click on the images to…
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Goodnight Hookland. Pleasant dreams.
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We're getting well excited for all your biohazards here in the bin! 🦝 Make it gross, make it creepy, make it terrifying, make it horror. Give us your darkest biology, 100-1000 words. Open 27th Sept to 11th Oct for Halloween launch. Get informed here: trashcatlit.com/call-for-bio... #horrorwriting
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Officer Karen @kazbaaa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I bloody love the world Jim Henson envisaged and presented to us. Wish he were here. Happy 90th birthday, Jim Henson.
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Kermit and Rowlf on The Muppet Show Stage
ALT: Kermit and Rowlf on The Muppet Show Stage
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Daylight hurts...
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Shout out to the staff at Newcastle Eye Centre, Royal Victoria Infirmary, who were all efficient, reassuring, and generally fabulous. #Toon #NHS
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just done at the Eye Hospital. IYKYK
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Ralph Wiggum Takes a Pill
Alt: Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons is given a pill and his pupils dilate.
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
With apologies for any implied toxic masculinity - I've just spent a week with my elderly parent...
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Warning: contains twisted news items, including a pinch from me. Have a listen. It'll put hairs on your chest (whether you want them or not). www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - The Skewer, Series 17, The Days of Earl(y) Spencer
The Days of Earl(y) Spencer, as Jon Holmes remixes the news into a satirical soundscape.
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our next sub call creeps ever closer and it's our first for horror only 🦝 We want biohazards and our sub call page has inspirational images and ideas. Unleash your dark biology...call open 27th Sept to 11th Oct and publishes on All Hallows Eve trashcatlit.com/call-for-bio... #submissioncalls
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
More teasings for our first prose poem issue, coming Monday 🦝 @kathyprokhovnik.bsky.social gives us a vast fragment of love in one piece, and the sea, senses, & structure in her second 💜 Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social gives us relatable pain, momentum and acceptance in the yoga studio 💜
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Watching the live stream of 45/47's UN speech. I swear there are bots trying to out-insult each other in the chat. It's hilarious. Less toe-curling than the speech anyway.
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Me: *subs dark, gothic flash* *checks watch* Better get on with writing those topical jokes... #WriterWeirdness #AmWriting
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Anne Hathaway's Funny 2Faced Moment
Alt: Anne Hathaway waves a black lace fan in front of her face, changing her face from scared to evil grin.
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Jesus
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As well as spotlighting @joycebingham.bsky.social's stories today, we also have the Q&A she did with Trash Cat. Get informed and inspired trashcatlit.com/2026/09/16/q...
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Q & A with Joyce Bingham
My writing mojo is cyclic, so I’m used to having days when new writing just doesn’t happen, I try to relax into it. I edit if I have something written. Otherwise, I go and potter in the garden or t…
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Probably, but then he's cleverer than me.
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So AI models are basically teens then. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon
Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating headaches for monitoring and oversight
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
True, I've always been unfocused... Just now I have no reason to mask it. 😂
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
FFS US confirms for first time it has deployed weapons in space www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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US confirms for first time it has deployed weapons in space
Analysts warn of an acceleration in high-risk arms race with Russia and China in Earth’s orbit
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Discovering that Helena Bonham Carter guest-starred in Miami Vice has been the best moment of my week so far... youtu.be/_rdoyvvHDa8?...
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Miami Vice - Spotlight: Helena Bonham Carter | NBC Classics
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We're thrilled to reveal the contributor line up for our very first prose poetry issue 🦝 Look out for this 20-piece issue on 28th September, it's a beaut 💜 @madeleinewrite.bsky.social Moira Ashley, Lavanya Arora, Polly Conway, @sandrinado.bsky.social @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social Rachel Jones 1/2
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
That's where I'm from!Shame you didn't get the views, but the walks are good anyway. Especially love the Iron Age fort on the Herefordshire Beacon.
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
See here for further reading: www.newharbinger.com/978162625170...
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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
A New York Times bestseller—with 1.5 million copies sold!If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingeri...
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Anyone who wants to correct my formula can kindly go to the same place my mother's advice goes, i.e. the bin, along with her conspiracy theories and the racism.
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
([length of my life in years] - 1) = 1 x phone call with my mother #AdultChildMaths
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Well it's clean now. I just have to get my shit together for the rest of the house. It's only once a year, until they move here 😂🤣😳
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hard to care about cleaning the kitchen for a parent's impending annual visit when your nihilist tendencies are being exacerbated by the news. Hey ho. #EndTimes
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Thanks, I'll take a look!
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Bravo! Took me right back to my media undergrad days. Only yours was better 🙂
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Our prose poem submissions close at 8pm tonight (BST). Don't delay if you want us to help celebrate tenacity and difference in honour of the adorable trash cat, #Jimothy trashcatlit.com/call-for-pro...
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Call for Prose Poems
Jimothy, the Seattle trash cat with short spine syndrome, has taken the internet by storm. We obviously love how adorable he is with his squished-up body and cheeky scamper, but also how incredibly…
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yes, also that.
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm saving it for later, because I know I'll watch it too quickly 🙂
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It really is a great story, so no problem!
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Love this.
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Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Last chance to join! We are super excited for a generative workshop with the amazing @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social as part of the Writing as Resistance Festival. What worlds are we writing into existence, and what are the milestones along the way? Book here writershq.co.uk/whq-event/sp...
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sub for Jimothy! (Also sub if you want to join a really supportive community of writers.)
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Was writing into the wee hours, and again all today. Fantastic sense of achievement, but this is the current view from my mirror: #AmWriting
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Cartoon Cat Confused, Scratches Head
Alt: Tom the grey cartoon cat, taping his eyes open to stay awake.
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Today we are spotlighting @amberken.bsky.social and her fab speculative flash 🦝 We loved how the worry of a pregnant mother bleeds into this wonderfully non-techy story of time travel. Reader @leighloveday.bsky.social said: Inventive, intelligent and empathetic. trashcatlit.com/time-space-a...
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Our prose poetry call is open until the 10th. Some ideas that fit the theme of tenacity and difference... A plant surviving in a hostile environment 🌱 A spider whose web is repeatedly broken 🕸️ A street dog helps a lost child get home 🐕 trashcatlit.com/call-for-pro...
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Call for Prose Poems
Jimothy, the Seattle trash cat with short spine syndrome, has taken the internet by storm. We obviously love how adorable he is with his squished-up body and cheeky scamper, but also how incredibly…
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