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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Bees are hard to photograph. Always in a rush.

A big fluffy bumble bee atop a bright yellow flower.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Seems legit. I’m sure a massive courier company uses this email address for all its communications.

A screenshot of a notification from my phone of a scam purporting to be a missed delivery message from Evri. The sender is ‘williamg28[at]yahoo.com’

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

4 things I’m growing to love about magazines as the content ecosystem worsens 🧵

It's me! Dark curly hair, short beard, black glasses, reading a magazine.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Incredible lightning last night (and some welcome cool air). I’m in love with this clip (filmed at 240fps).

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It’s weird being a writer and a thinker (I’m not saying I’m a good thinker…) at the moment.

A cartoon picture of a brain thoughtfully scratching its top.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

This was an interesting book - particularly the stuff about learning and failing in public. Yet I feel it didn’t really embrace the ethos that it espoused. Most of the examples of success were the usual ‘and they grew a newsletter to 100k subscribers’, etc.

The front cover of Tiny Experiments (How to live freely in a goal-obsessed world), by Anne-Laure Le Cunff

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I really enjoyed this book. Full of real-world examples and told with warmth and understanding.

The front cover of The Next Conversation (Argue less, talk more), by Jefferson Fisher.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I’m worried about the person who mixed these up.

A box of Tampax tampons sitting in the fridge section of Sainsbury’s next to boxes of four chocolate eclairs.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I'd like to see magazines return to prominence as a go-to source of 'content'. And maybe as the internet gets more and more crowded with content, that's exactly what'll happen. open.spotify.com/episode/592b...

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

This is the best ad ever. Doctor is speaking question, yet says no question. Egg is vegetable. Should doctor attempt to plummet own blood sugar, or is it uncertain if throw out egg will plummet blood sugar in general? Most compelling, such click.

A sponsored ad in an article, featuring a picture of a person holding a cracked egg, and a bowl with several other egg yolks and whites already in it. The text reads:

Doctor: ?Throw Out This Vegetable Now To Plummet Your Blood Sugar?

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

A lil snippet from my podcast episode: I Miss Magazines. One of the strengths of magazines is their focused, finite nature means they don't have to try the 'spray-and-pray' approach of online content creation. open.spotify.com/episode/592b...

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

It’s really important to take to heart the very prescriptive and generic advice imparted by forum users who may or may not have actually written anything themselves. #RewansWritingTips #Writing

Me looking curiously at a leather journal, as though I’ve just read something surprising.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Can books not be challenging? Language shouldn’t have to go easy on you. open.spotify.com/episode/54Bq... #Reading #Writing

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

#Autism and #ADHD means I often think up some truly kick-ass systems, routines, and ideas to make my life easier…then promptly forget them. So at the start of the year I created a ‘Manual of Me’ to help keep me on track. open.substack.com/pub/rewantre...

A statue of a woman reading a scroll. The headline over the top of the image reads: Why I created a manual of me.

A subheading reads: Thrive in a neurotypical world by rewriting the rule book.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Magazines! Do you still read them? I feel like they may be a good alternative to today's content soup, rather than an outdated format. What do you think? open.spotify.com/episode/592b...

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Once you finish your book, you have to actually tell people what it’s about. It’s therefore imperative that you never finish your book. #RewansWritingTips #Writing

Me looking well thoughtful as I ponder something, my hand, holding a quill, resting on my chin. Thoughtfully.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Treating people like they’re stupid is the best way to make them stupid. 100,000 words in an average novel, and none of them is supposed to challenge you? open.spotify.com/episode/54Bq... #Reading #Writing

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Any other #ActuallyAutistic and #ADHD folks find measuring productivity difficult? I struggle with this in work - I’m constantly wondering if I’ve ’done enough’ - so I found a way to visualise it using dice. Here’s how it works: open.substack.com/pub/rewantre...

A stone statue writing in a book.

The headline is: This system will change how you see productivity (literally).

The subheading is: NGL though, this way of tracking a visualising your output is a little…dicey

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Lovely insight from Tim Minchin here on what actually constitutes art. This is from his collected speeches, You Don’t Have To Have A Dream. A super quick but very thought-provoking read. #Booksky💙📚 #Reading

Page 97 of Tim Minchin’s book You Don’t Have To Have A Dream:

“Art is any expression of an idea into which you've put a bit of fucking effort.

It is often the fast-thinking, bias-riddled, adrenalised, dehumanising part of our brain that tweets. It is the slow-thinking, contemplative, creative, self-aware, humanising part of our brain that makes art.

So if I were to use the publication of this book as an opportunity to add a bonus Life Lesson, it might be this:

A valuable idea is usually one that has been carefully considered. Our feelings are not virtuous purely by virtue of how keenly we feel them. Take time to hone your opinions, then take pride in how you express them.

That's why we create stories and songs and plays and films and paintings. That's why we hone a craft and learn how to confront and cajole and seduce. That's why we work so hard to make them laugh and think and cry.

That's what the art is for.”

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Beautiful and eerie. We stopped by the local wishing well today. Didn’t have a strip of cloth to hang on the tree though. These are all people’s hopes for healing and memories of those already gone.

Dozens of coloured and patterned strips of fabric tied to a mossy tree branch in a woods.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I hate these wall-mounted kitchen knife holders. The last thing I want to present an intruder with is a selection of potential murder weapons. 📷 Photo by Nathan Dumlao via Unsplash.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

'Oh, it's the Autism' isn't just the name of my newsletter, it's something of a mantra. Because what could be more neurodivergent than sometimes forgetting you are? open.substack.com/pub/rewantre...

A closeup photo of a shocked stone statue. Over the top are the words:

My neurodivergence still surprises me

An honest reflection of where I am with my neurodiversity right now.

rewantremethick.substack.com

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Being sick as a kid: Watch films and cartoons all day on the sofa. Being sick as an adult: Pretty sure I’ve coughed up an organ, but I’ve got work in 45 minutes.

It’s me - a man, with long curly brown/black/grey hair and a brown/black/grey and for some reason ginger beard - laying under a stripy duvet looking haggard.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

“Keep it short and simple” always annoys me. We’re limiting our ability to express ourselves due to the fear of challenging our readers. open.spotify.com/episode/54Bq... #Reading #Writing

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

No one has an attention span for books anymore. If you can, act out your book on social media instead. #RewansWritingTips #Writing

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Any name sounds fantastical when you spell it wrong: Gary = Gharrae Karen = Charehn Simon = Symun Bonus worldbuilding points if you throw an apostrophe in the middle. #RewansWritingTips #Writing

Me looking curiously at a leather journal, like I’ve just read something really surprising.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

People sometimes change very suddenly. Did they discover a 'hack' or a 'secret'? Or was something else at work? The real secret to self-improvement isn't a quick fix: open.spotify.com/episode/7qPx...

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

THREAD: I gave up on reading challenges in 2024 because I was beginning to understand that reading consistently wasn't working for me. It was time to 'let myself off the leash' and find out what my AuDHD brain needed and how it worked. #Reading #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD (1/13)

A golden pocket watch hanging on a chain in front of a black background. There are phantom images of the watch arrange in a curve on either side, to represent the fact it is swinging from side to side.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

How to take a good author photo: Pose like your arm is glued to a bookcase, but you haven’t noticed because you’re wondering why there’s a pelican on the top shelf. #RewansWritingTips #Writing

Me next to a bookcase, one arm resting on a shelf, looking thoughtfully up at the sky.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Some awesome light patterns on the ceiling courtesy of the kids’ iridescent pencil case.

Orange, red, and yellow strips of light on a white ceiling.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Some quick thoughts on the #Discworld novel Thud! and the power not only of Sir Terry's fantastical universe, but of fantasy as a genre. #Reading #BookSky💙📚

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Lovely pics! I’d always wanted to snap some dragonflies, and finally managed to get these last year. Focus isn’t perfect, but time was of the essence!

A large green and black dragonfly rests on some dry brown grass stems.

A large green and black dragonfly rests on some dry brown grass stems. From this angle you can also see spots of turquoise on the underside of its…tail? Sticky-outy-body?

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Happy New White Dwarf Day to all those who celebrate. #Nerdlings

The front cover of White Dwarf 514, featuring Magnus the Red, demon primacy of Tzeentch.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Terry Pratchett, being bang on the money again… #Discworld #Reading

A paragraph from Thud! by Terry Pratchett:

“You can always find an excuse that your side will accept, and who cares what the enemy thinks? In the real world, it wouldn't make any difference.”

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I once accidentally decapitated one of these while strimming my gran’s overgrown lawn for her 😢

A grey slow worm on an asphalt pavement.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The real secret to writing success is sharing memes about how hard, weird and quirky being a writer is. On no account should you attempt to do any actual writing. #RewansWritingTips #Writing

Me looking well thoughtful while sucking on the arm of my glasses.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Went to a donkey sanctuary today and the hair game was 🔥

A chestnut borne horse with an epic blonde mane.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Did I enjoy Horus Rising by Dan Abnett? Well, put it this way - I finished it and straight away bought the next two books in the series…

The paperback spines of Horus Rising, by Dan Abnett, False Gods, by Graham McNeill, and Galaxy in Flames, by Ben Counter.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I have a day off to work on my #novel, and this 17th century Spanish galleon just happens to be visiting my town this weekend and I got to explore it. The book features ships like this. I’m calling this a sign from the universe.

A replica 17th century Spanish galleon in a harbour.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I’m having a great #reading month so far. Now I’m onto this. The Watch books are my favourite sub-series in the Discworld universe. Will this meet the high standards of the series so far?

The front cover of Snuff, by Terry Pratchett, depicting an armoured Sam Vines, ubiquitous cigar in mouth, steering a paddle boat down a frothing river while a few chickens flap away in panic.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Make sure when introducing a female character that you describe what her breasts are like. Because otherwise how will the audience know about her breasts? #RewansWritingTips #Writing

It’s me, standing thoughtfully in front some wood panelling, sucking thoughtfully on the end on a quill, looking thoughtfully at the floor. Thoughtfully.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Normally this cove is full of seals. Today it was empty. Stupid seal pricks.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Apple’s ‘wotz in dis image’ AI tells me two things about this beetle: 1) It’s a green rose chafer 2) It won Insect of the Year in 2000. Probably not this particular one.

An iridescent green rose chafer beetle on a dusty stone step.

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Rewan Tremethick @rewantremethick.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Going to replace myself with this for the rest of the day and see if anyone at work notices.

A life size-ish golden retriever teddy wearing my shirt and tie sits in a Secret Labs gaming chair in my home office.

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