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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

This is very exciting. An unexpected Christmas fillip!

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

That was a very horrible game of football

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I've kept trying to make one happen but just embarrassing myself

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Enjoyed reading this. Can't believe you haven't done it until now!

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I can completely imagine! (Hence I don't have one.) But it was very relatable.

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

'We have built a trillion-dollar system to externalize thought, then act astonished when the interior world collapses.' onepercentrule.substack.com/p/under-40s-... I'm not so worried about 'declining memory' as much as the 'collapse of the interior world' (which is why my WIP is about exactly this)

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Under 40's Declining Memory

A Large US Study Finds Memory Decline Surge in Young People

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I get it. This was in Bradford in the 90s BTW. I could well be wrong but I think in this case it was just yer classic attempt to be superior to the ignorant masses (which included me)

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

What, with "olt" at the end?? In that case I take it all back.... I've only ever heard other English people say "REN-oh". Maybe I've moved in rarified circles

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I had an ex who always pronounced Renault 'REN-olt'. I eventually asked him why and he said 'because, love, you *know* how it should be pronounced if you're going to say it the French way' (so I assume he meant 'rrrruhn-OH'). His parents also pronounced it this way. A particular kind of arseholery

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Wow. Yes. I could have written this (I didn't)

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EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

"At its core, [Heroneering] is about focusing less on ourselves and more on the wider world that surrounds us..." A beautiful outlook from @easybynature.bsky.social Bill Davison billdavison.substack.com/p/birdwatchi...

Here's the truth: The reason birdwatching is stereotyped as “for old people” is because our culture is so dysfunctional it takes most people 50 years or more to figure out what makes for a meaningful life. The answer is genuine connection to other people and nature. Birds are how most people can get there fastest. Birdwatching is not a hobby for old people. It's one of the most important things anyone can do at any age to improve the quality of their life.

At its core, birdwatching is about focusing less on ourselves and more on the wider world that surrounds us.

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WORDTheatre @wordtheatre.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

On the eve of Halloween, WORDTheatre turns the lights low for A Horror-Filled Halloween in Santa Monica. Curated by Patton Oswalt Directed by Cedering Fox Reception at 6:15 pm • Performances at 7:15 pm Tickets available through the link in our bio.

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Vicky Grut @vickygrut.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

How sad if we've lost the Edge Hill Prize. It's been important to so many people, including me. We were talking about it at the Leicester Writes event last month with Abi Hynes and Malachi McIntosh, both shortlisted last year.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 05/10/2025

“We’ve seen reprehensible behavior by DHS agents against journalists in all three of America’s largest cities. There’s no reason to think it will stop there, so it’s critical that we refuse to normalize this,” FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social told amNewYork.

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ICE attack on reporters: Press freedom and civil liberties groups condemn assault of amNewYork journalist, and others | amNewYork

Press freedom and civil liberties organizations sharply condemned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Wednesday after journalists, including

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The included story is from Ruby’s collection THIS PARADISE which is all bangers. One of the best short story collections I’ve read in years. Available from @boilerhouse.bsky.social!

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

This is *so* generous - thank you!

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

My spine is tingling as a short from my @boilerhouse.bsky.social collection is in Ghost Box IV: a deluxe coffin of spooky/horror stories from Canadian publishers of gorgeous box sets Hingston & Olsen w/ texts selected by excellent human @pattonoswalt.bsky.social 🙏 Out today, print run very limited!

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Ghost Box IV — Hingston & Olsen Publishing

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The Answer-Man (Thaddeus Howze) @ebonstorm.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Why do people think creativity is like turning on a light and BANG, you have something new, interesting and able to be sold? I try to explain this to my beloved wife: “Every meaningful act of creativity is the sum of thousands of quiet decisions, risks, revisions, and mostly failures.”

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Same. Very depressed and worried

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Many thanks for the shout! 🙏

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

There Is No Meant to Be" is available for preorder! My publisher promised that if I have 250 preorders that I get a case of prosecco left over from last year's Christmas party. 500 preorders before March & they'll go halfsies on a vintage George Foreman! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ther...

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

So embarrassing of the Guardian to publish this

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

I've always been glad there's no ebook version of my book, even though I know I could have had more sales.

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

This sounds unmissable! Congratulations

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Overhyped uplit in turns out to have all been lies shocker

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Hastings Writers Workshop @hastingswrites.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The Short Story - Experiments In The Not Normal with the beyond brilliant @rubycowling.bsky.social is now available for booking! Saturday, 5th July 2 – 5pm Cost £49 Two reduced price spaces available for those on a low income. More info & booking: www.hastingswritersworkshop.com/courses/p/th...

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I'm very much looking forward to this workshop in Hastings on 5 July for @hastingswrites.bsky.social - might you come along? Bring your abnormality!

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I was really sorry not to have been able to make this! Congratulations @susannacrossman.bsky.social

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Politicians During Mental Health Awareness Month

4 panel comic

Panel 1: Politician on podium saying “Wooo! Let’s talk about mental health awareness!

Panel 2: Audience member with raised hand says “And also funding for mental health services?”

Panel 3: Politician presses button that triggers two rockets to pop out the sides of the podium

Panel 4: Politician makes a swift exit through the skylight above, mercifully avoiding any tricky questions about actually providing substantial care for people with metal health issues.

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Here to report the first two swifts 🐧🐧

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

In addition to tutoring their Writing Short Fiction course, I’m giving 2 workshops for @grantabooks.bsky.social Writers’ Workshop on translation + writing about art Translating Literature for Beginners tixoom.app/pwalecturer/... Writing Creatively About Art tixoom.app/pwalecturer/...