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Paul Clammer

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Writer | BLACK CROWN: Biography of Henry Christophe, King of Haiti | Antarctic Editor | Recovering Lonely Planet guidebook author | Bristol paulclammer.com

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
There should be an internet law that whenever a writer sees this Harlan Ellison on their feed, they have to repost it, like the Tom Holland Umbrella clip.
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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If James Percival is arguing that Haiti is a safe place to send people back to and that they no longer require Temporary Protected Status in the United States, I am happy to take him around Port-au-Prince and environs at a time of his choosing so he can see that “safety” for himself.
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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
All hail eyewitnesses Corinna and Andrea, whose reaction to a collapsing bridge was to have an extending drinking session at the local Spoons.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
You deal with global warming. Lebanon deals with global warming while having Israel as its neighbour.
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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As a sidebar, this just one of hundreds of AI slop travel guidebooks that currently plague Amazon, helping crowd out actual human travel writers. It's happened to me, with my own worked stolen and vomited back up to sold by a fake author with a fake cover on the tax-dodging 'book' site.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/08/2026
KEEP BULLYING THEM IT WORKS
wired.com
The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact
Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.
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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As a sidebar, this just one of hundreds of AI slop travel guidebooks that currently plague Amazon, helping crowd out actual human travel writers. It's happened to me, with my own worked stolen and vomited back up to sold by a fake author with a fake cover on the tax-dodging 'book' site.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
“There are dark days ahead. If we are to fight against those with untold financial wealth, we will need untold intellectual wealth….Reading for pleasure and delight are vital – but alongside that and even more urgently: reading for power”
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Emma Dabbadoo 🌸🏳️‍⚧️💚 @emmadabbadoo.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026
New website called Bristol.is so the community can add inclusive and exclusive shops and services, many places are adding themselves. Look at this map already ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️ and it’s only just got going. I fucking love Bristol
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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
My one addition to the Odyssey discourse is that it would have been 100% better if it had less angst and more Harryhausen.
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Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Want to join IHN? You can now sign up as a member for just £10 a year! You'll get our newsletter, access to free online events with experts, invites to our meet-ups and access to online resources. The more of us, the better! Do join up! membermojo.co.uk/independenth...
Group of wooden people with the words "membership has arrived (hurray)"
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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Print runs have gone up, but alas, pay rates for freelance writers have barely changed since the time that Austen was writing.
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Haiti Support Group @haitisupportgroup.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The US-led Gang Suppression Forces will continue sending troups to Haiti. The UK is funding a human rights compliance mechanism to oversee this operation. However, the structural issues around humanitarian crime remain unaddressed: haitisupportgroup.org/yet-another-...
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HSG Statement: UK funding to the Gang Suppression Forces
UK Funding for Human Rights Compliance to the Gang Suppresion Forces won’t fix 500 Years of impunity in Haiti.
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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
A mosaic of ‘Marley the Ilford Mammoth’ made from plastic bottle tops by artist Caitlin Atherton commemorates a mammoth skull excavated in 1863 from Uphall brick pits, Ilford. It’s a steppe mammoth, which lived c 200,000 ka 🦣 londongeopartnership.org.uk/wp/wp-conten... #londongeology
A photo of the mammoth mosaic on Ilford Lane made of circular, plastic bottle tops. It shows the skeleton of a mammoth in white superimposed on the shape of a mammoth which is made of multicoloured bottle tops. The mosaic also includes the plastic shed.org logo. The mosaic is placed on a brick wall with windows above. The street sign ‘Ilford Lane’ is in the bottom right corner.
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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The internet’s blessed me by reminding me of Stéphan Gladieu’s insanely hard photos of costumes made by Young Congolese artists from all the shit we dump there I don’t want to ever see another leather jacket wearing billy idol clone in a cyberpunk setting again www.stephangladieu.fr/homo-detritus/
A photo by Stephan Gladieu of someone stood in a street in Kinshasa wearing a costume made from brightly coloured plastic buckets and water containers A photo by Stephan Gladieu of someone stood in a street in Kinshasa wearing a suit of armour made out of rubbish A photo by Stephan Gladieu of someone stood in a street in Kinshasa wearing a costume made from hundreds of old flip flopsA photo by Stephan Gladieu of someone stood in a street in Kinshasa wearing a costume made from brightly coloured plastic rubbish
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 13/07/2026
Live a life where people talk about you after you die like they do Sam Neil.
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Scare-argh Boo-arnard 👻 @sarahbpolar.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Watching Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World (1956) documentary and it starts off great and then.. 1. We have to dynamite these coral reefs for science! :D 2. We hit a whale with our boat :( 3. Sharks attracted to the dying whale >:( 4. We killed the sharks "to avenge the whale" :D Incredible
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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
One of the (many) awful things the tech bros have done is to poison the well with their catch-all public definition of 'AI'. Machine-learning is incredibly clever and wonderful; generative LLMs should be burned to the ground and their ashes covered with salt.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:
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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
CABO VERDE
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 92K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 62K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 25/06/2026
Werner Herzog didn't drag a 30-ton steamship up a hill so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable"
A man in a white suit watches a boat on a hill
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Liz Wise @lizwise.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The Plastics from Mean Girls - three young white women - sit in a convertible, looking at the camera. The text reads “Get in loser, we’re going to become historically accurate Luddites.”
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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Anyone who knows about the history of Caribbean slavery, particularly Haiti:
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Tom Hardy in Mad Max: That's Bait
Alt: Tom Hardy in Mad Max: That's Bait
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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Celebrating this day six years ago (June 7 2020) when the good people of Bristol tore down the statue of enslaver Edward Colston during a Black Lives Matter protest, and threw him in the river. What a splash this brave act made.
Digital photograph of Black Lives Matter protests in Bristol, 07/07/2020. Photographed by Keir Gravil. Crowds are gathered at the Floating Harbour (near Pero’s Bridge) and a statue of Edward Colston, with ropes attached, is making a splash in the water. ‘We the Curious’ (science centre) is in the background. Many of the crowd wear face masks (because of Coronavirus), and a lot of them are photographing the event. Edward Colston statue plinth in Bristol, with a cardboard plaque reading 'The plaque is dedicated to the slaves that were taken from their homes'.Metal plaque on Bristol harbour reading: June 7th, 2020: At this spot, during worldwide anti-racism protests, a statue celebrating the 17th century slave-trader Edward Colton was thrown into the harbour by the people of Bristol. Various campaigns to have the statue removed through official channels had been frustrated.' It is followed by this verse: 
"You came down easy in the end.
As you landed
A piece of you fell off, broke away,
And inside, nothing but air.
This whole time, you were hollow"
- Vanessa Kisuule - Bristol City Poet 2020Statue of Edward Colston on display at M Shed museum, lying horizontally and covered in graffiti.
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Gabrielle Steele ⚔️ Echoes of Chaos out now! @eldris.thellian.com · 07/06/2026
UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data
We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...
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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Celebrating this day six years ago (June 7 2020) when the good people of Bristol tore down the statue of enslaver Edward Colston during a Black Lives Matter protest, and threw him in the river. What a splash this brave act made.
Digital photograph of Black Lives Matter protests in Bristol, 07/07/2020. Photographed by Keir Gravil. Crowds are gathered at the Floating Harbour (near Pero’s Bridge) and a statue of Edward Colston, with ropes attached, is making a splash in the water. ‘We the Curious’ (science centre) is in the background. Many of the crowd wear face masks (because of Coronavirus), and a lot of them are photographing the event. Edward Colston statue plinth in Bristol, with a cardboard plaque reading 'The plaque is dedicated to the slaves that were taken from their homes'.Metal plaque on Bristol harbour reading: June 7th, 2020: At this spot, during worldwide anti-racism protests, a statue celebrating the 17th century slave-trader Edward Colton was thrown into the harbour by the people of Bristol. Various campaigns to have the statue removed through official channels had been frustrated.' It is followed by this verse: 
"You came down easy in the end.
As you landed
A piece of you fell off, broke away,
And inside, nothing but air.
This whole time, you were hollow"
- Vanessa Kisuule - Bristol City Poet 2020Statue of Edward Colston on display at M Shed museum, lying horizontally and covered in graffiti.
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On This Day - Scala Cinema @otdscalacinema.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
On this day (7th June) in 1993, the Scala Cinema closed permanently. A wake was held including a screening of King Kong (1933), the first film shown at the Kings Cross location back in 1981.
Film poster for King Kong (1933) on a background of a Scala Cinema programme.
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Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"Why three horses on this wall?" A wonderful piece on prehistoric cave art. By Stephen Phelan, who was taken into the depths of a cave in the Basque Country. He's such a good writer. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings
The long read: For tens of thousands of years, these Palaeolithic artworks were unseen. When they were rediscovered, onlookers marvelled at their vivid beauty. One of the world’s leading experts took ...
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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Looking forward to this book very much 🇭🇹✒️🗡
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The blood on this man’s hands. Determined to prevent a deal with Iran. Determined to eliminate Palestinians. Determined to kill Palestinian statehood. Determined to drag the wider region into a spiraling circle of death. The war criminal of our era. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Netanyahu orders Israeli bombing of southern Beirut
Thousands leave homes after Israeli military instructed to strike ‘terrorist targets’ in largest escalation of war since ceasefire
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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Hot dang – this is good!
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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This book is going to be BRILLIANT ⬇️
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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Hot dang – this is good!
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Paul B. Rainey @pbrainey.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The true story of how I discovered comics.
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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I can't remember who was recommending this here (@davidveevers.bsky.social?), but I've just finished it and it's bloody brilliant. More book tips like this please, Bluesky.
Hand holding a paparback edition of "The Ruin of all Witches – Life and Death in the New World" by Malcom Gaskill.
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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
As a former Lonely Planet writer, this makes me very sad to read. (LP guides do still exist btw, albeit in a form much changed from the backpacking olden times)
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
What the government is doing to trans people is a society-wide version of Section 28. It is a level of bureaucratic cruelty that utterly decimates a whole group of people’s rights and puts anyone who doesn’t ‘look’ right in the eyes of others under constant surveillance. It’s a horrific thing.
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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Pandering to transphobes. Pandering to racists. Pandering to ableists. What is the point of Labour?
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Make a mental note that separate but equal never works.
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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
A strange awful feeling, sitting at a departure gate at Heathrow getting ready for an exciting trip, yet shakin with impotent rage at Israel's murderous bombing of Lebanon, seeing places I know in Beirut turned to rubble and columns of smoke. Absolute bastards.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Israel called today's operations in Lebanon ETERNAL DARKNESS and we are still being told that this fascist nation can be reasoned with. This is just a fact: either Israel is stopped or expect the war to continue and expand. Those are the options.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The difference between these two is racism
Russia plans to illegally annex lands it invaded, even as its military falters.

Israel Plans to Control Large Parts of Southern Lebanon, Defense Minister Says
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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Happy @alcs.co.uk day to all every writer who only just realised they have to sign into their accounts to see their statement, and spent yesterday feeling sad they didn't get an email, but have just discovered they DID get some free money after all! 🎉🎊🥂
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Jessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Thread ⬇️
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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I used to walk past this when we lived in Beirut. It's in a heavily residential area, with the British Council & Goethe Institute nearby - even the shop where we bought our sofa. Just the same banal everyday stuff as any city. The Israeli government and IDF are fucking sociopaths.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
My latest for @972mag.com on how Israel’s war is against Lebanon. Not Hezbollah. Lebanon. www.972mag.com/israels-rene... Quoted @justinsalhani.bsky.social
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Israel’s renewed war on Lebanon is about more than just Hezbollah
After violating the ‘ceasefire’ 10,000 times, Israel is once again pounding Lebanon as its enduring thirst for war drives ever expanding ambitions.
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Dr. Jorts, MD @alexandrajordanmd.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
A beautiful thread that serves to remind that we we can claim the fellowship of the people of both the past and the present.
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies. 🧵 1/3
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