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morag @mordant.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Dark times ahead folks, you can feel it in your bones. Be thinking about what you want to be able to say you did when.

morag @mordant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lad on guitar played it live in the pub last night and I found myself trying to explain it to several people without crying.

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morag @mordant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just a reminder for anybody who's forgotten (you knew once, I promise; you just forgot) that Wichita Lineman, by Jimmy Webb and sung by Glenn Campbell, is the best song ever written.

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MK Hardy @mkhardywrites.com · 24/09/2026

The Haunting of Avis Lovelock is now out in paperback, ebook, and audiobook from @solarisbooks. Join Avis and the other passengers of the Excambion as they undertake a transatlantic crossing full of ghosts, mysterious lights on the water, and hidden secrets... Get your copy today! geni.us/avisl

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morag @mordant.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Well our book launch got cancelled due to a lack of ticket sales and I didn't get the job that would've saved me from redundancy. Can I go back to bed for the rest of the week plz?

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morag @mordant.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I mean it was Thatcher. Obviously.

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morag @mordant.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I dunno if the crabs in a barrel thing is actually true about crabs, but it's definitely true about contemporary Britain. 5/5

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morag @mordant.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The people in that group right now saying "I keep my bills down and use only what I can afford, they should too"... they'll be the first to fall, and they'd better hope that the folk above them on the ladder show them more kindness than they're showing the indebted and desperate today. 4/5

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morag @mordant.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is not a population equipped to exhibit the kind of pragmatic, robust compassion we are going to need in the years to come, when yet more people 'living within their means' no longer can. 3/5

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morag @mordant.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The austerity narrative has metastasised in the bloodstream of this country. We are jealous, and sanctimonious, and sour. We would rather see children freeze than have a single person get an easier ride than we believe we did. 2/5

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morag @mordant.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm in a Facebook group that provides advice and help on energy bills in the UK. From time to time I'll click through to the comments on a post from someone who's struggling to pay what they owe, or who has gotten into debt, and friends... We are not ready for what's coming. 1/5

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morag @mordant.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

In musical terms I'd talk about "bass-baritone" for a low in-betweeny baritone and a "baritenor" for a higher in-betweeny baritone - descriptive of an approximate range more than any sort of official designation. I have my doubts that one could identify such specifics over the phone though...

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morag @mordant.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Got a new book out today, from Penguin no less. (Splasher, by Billie Host, in all good and probably also bad bookshops now.) Also just been at a trade union rally because the uni we both work at wants to needlessly cut hundreds more jobs, including mine. So a day of ups and downs.

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morag @mordant.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Not you Ben you're fine.

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morag @mordant.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Having a right old Men Are Too Headache could yous all just ease off a bit for a minute?

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morag @mordant.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Oh cool cool cool now the fact the US has a barbaric healthcare system is going to kill like 300k people in England alone and probably hasten the death of the NHS god I hate it here. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

theguardian.com

US-UK drug deal could result in 229,000 excess deaths in England, analysis suggests

Analysis reveals extent of impact on NHS of placating Donald Trump over price of British medicine exports

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morag @mordant.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Not fair that this happened to Buttigieg, but yes, sure, there are vulnerable adults who have a worse time with CPS. But those kids are the age you start making real memories. One of their earliest memories will now be a stranger interrogating them over whether their dad abused them. A new low.

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morag @mordant.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

De facto "maximum wage" - a number over which tax is 100%. Set high enough that nobody can argue that it's too low. (No practical concerns please we're dreaming here.)

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morag @mordant.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I'm sure this joke has been made already but what happens when these boys get home and their mum/wife/gf/flatmate is waiting for them, hands on hips, like "oh so ye can tidy up efter yersel', eh?"