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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Here we are then, with only three days left to be part of The Squat Pen Rests Short Story Writing Championship of the World! There is still time, it's never too late (actually it is, but you get my meaning). Send us your stories! Send! Send! Send! squatpenrestsshort.wixsite.com/the-squat-pe...

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If you haven't already entered, or booked your seats, do it now! Time is ticking. Only, not the sort of tick you get when you've done your homework properly. Which I never did, and accounts for a lot. (Cue violins). By the way, look how Mark Rutterford, fabulous writer, looks in this photo.

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The Squat Pen Rests Short Story Writing Championship of the World!

The Squat Pen Rests Short Story Writing Championship of the World! Is back! Six finalists, one audience, one winner!

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Here's me promoting The Squat Pen Rests Short Story Writing Championship of the World! I chose the music myself 😆 www.swindon1055.co.uk/what.../get-... There's still time to submit your stories, just £5 a pop! Here's the link: squatpenrestsshort.wixsite.com/the-squat-pe...

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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The Squat Pen Rests Short Story Writing Championship of the World!

The Squat Pen Rests Short Story Writing Championship of the World! Is back! Six finalists, one audience, one winner!

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

#BlueWaveIn80Days Here's a great meme to send to any Independents you know In 80 days WE CAN VOTE OUT every Republican that goes along with Trump's lies and Corruption Your VOTE MATTERS Go to Iwillvote.com

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It’s time for the UK Government to license gamebird shooting in England and give Hen Harriers and other birds of prey the protection they deserve. Contact your MP today and help stop the illegal killing of these incredible birds. action.rspb.org.uk/page/185536/...

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Save Our Birds of Prey!

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The Squat Pen Rests Short Story Writing Championship of the World! Is seeking submissions for this year's competition. Just £5 to enter. Bursaries available. For details how to enter, click the link: squatpenrestsshort.wixsite.com/the-squat-pe...

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is a writing event like no other! Live readings, live music, a live audience (mostly) and a live bar selling live booze! Yes, The Squat Pen is back! Just 29 days left to submit your stories. Follow the link below for more details. squatpenrestsshort.wixsite.com/the-squat-pe...

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

There are only 109 days left until TSPR! There will be live readings, live music, a live audience (mostly), a live bar with live booze! Plus me! So, to enter your story or to be in the audience, act fast!

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A mild wind blew through the streets today and so I cooked a massive roast dinner and now I've got cramp in my left shoulder and 97 inch waistline.

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Does anyone else get cat separation anxiety? I never used to worry about leaving Claude the Magnificent, but these days I can barely go out to the pub without clinging to his little furry leg for ten minutes before I leave. I mean, look at him. Wouldn't you have separation anxiety if he were yours?

Claude the Magnificent waiting for a herring to drop through the skylight in our bedroom

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I've recently increased my tutting. I used to tut about once a month but I'm relying more and more on a single, eye-rolling tut. It's much easier than speaking. Sometimes I will tut and say something too, if I can be bothered. Like, maybe, 'tut' eye roll, 'bloody idiot!' Tutting! It's the future!

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Hello loves! The Squat Pen Rest Short Story Championships of the World is back. Six writers will read their work to an appreciative audience this November. To be in with a chance of being one of the Magnificent Six, click on the link and send your stories. t.ly/D0B1J and please share far and wide. 😀

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Microsoft Word won't let me add 'c*unts' to my dictionary so now I've got the two blue lines of disapproval underlining it. I'm going to try the singular to see if that's acceptable. Don't go away.

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 16/01/2025

. A friend of mine posted this elsewhere. Some helpful facts to counter, debunk & shame the dumbfuckery being spread by people who have no compunction about causing other people pain, as long as they think those people are on "the other team." MAGA: The asshole dads we all hate in kids' sports.

"Let's get the record straight on some of the myths & disinformation going around about California. First off, California is not broke. It experienced a budget shortfall last year, due do a decline in revenue (after a $98 billion budget surplus), due to the economy shrinking. It is still the 5th largest economy in the world, the largest economy in the US, & contributes more to the federal government & the overall US economy than any other state. It even contributes $80 billion to the federal government over & above the subsidies it receives. It currently keeps $27 billion in reserve.
Los Angeles did not cut funding for the LAFD. In the past fiscal year, firefighting received an additional $76 million over the previous year in salaries & $58 million in new equipment. Some parts of the department had cuts, but overall, there was a huge increase in budget.
Los Angeles is not out of water to fight fires. The hydrant system was simply not designed to try to extinguish hundreds of homes at a time.
The system was being drained faster than it can be replenished. It's a question of bandwidth, where the output is greater than the input. The system that supplies water pressure was not designed for a natural catastrophe of this magnitude. In fact, the experts who are calling for upgrades to the system are admitting that even with more water & more firefighters, these once in a century conditions that combined hurricane force winds with dry air, still would not have been stoppable.
So for the people enjoying their moment of schadenfreude, & looking to scapegoat the politicians: First off, shame on you. We don't rejoice when our fellow states experience disaster. Secondly, for the finger pointing, chances are great that you simply have no idea what you're talking about, & we've never demanded that hurricane states change their policies when they needed disaster relief money.
We just send help."
Of course, nobody on BLUESKY needs to be told this shit. But there it is. Pass it on.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

It may be satire but this clip really sums up where we are on Brexit right now With the always brilliant @rosieisaholt.bsky.social

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💙 Benevolent B*tch - MN 💙 @benevolentbitch.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I couldn’t resist this one.

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Taz || momsmeatyalt on twt @greatsouthernpansy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Couldn’t help but think of all of the amazing people who have donated to the Sheen Fest fundraiser when I heard Michael say this. With every cent, every offer to help us in our efforts, you have all proven just how true his words are. So proud to be a part of this fandom 🥹🩵

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Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Good morning! I've begun a starter pack for prose poets. go.bsky.app/EdpM3cb Please share.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Israel nearly killed the head of the World Health Organization. Has any Western government commented on this yet? Can you imagine their response if it was Iran or Russia?

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CCTV footage shows WHO chief fleeing Yemeni airport amid Israeli strike – video

The Houthis have been intensifying attacks against Israel in an effort to pressure it to end its war in Gaza

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 14/11/2024

King Charles charges this RNLI lifeboat station to launch its boat because he owns the beach. And they’re not the only charity he’s rinsing (Location: Sennen Cove, Cornwall) youtu.be/pocnThE3nHc

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CHARLES, STOP FLEECING BRITAIN

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 28/12/2024

New Writing Prize here with some fabulous judges - includes writers from UK & Ireland and is for novel, play or screenwriting. Please share :)

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Launch of Oxford/42 New Writing Prize: now open for submissions

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 28/12/2024

Weatherglass Prize for a novella (rare in this day and age), with the wonderful Ali Smith as judge. International. Please share: weatherglassbooks.com/novella-priz...

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

There's something very dodgy going on at ABBA Voyage. I've been waiting outside the stage door, autograph book and pen poised, since the end of yesterday's matinee and they still haven't come out.

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Joan Hussey Local Elections Matter @joanhussey1.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Creating the conditions that promote voter apathy is a very effective voter suppression tactic to keep incumbent self-dealing "do-nothings" reelected locally & monsters in office at the federal level. New Jersey is a case in point. #DemVoice1 #DemCastNJ #wtpBLUE #DemCast

https://x.com/wtpBLUE/status/1866301210061590914

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Mark Rutterford @markrutterford.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Talking Tales is back Quarterly in2025 New year, new venue but you’ll do just fine as you are ❤️

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 29/11/2024

Please watch and share

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists. If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 24/11/2024

Take note. Don’t get into it with them. Don’t argue for fun. Don’t give them oxygen or attention. Block early.

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

As I am over here now and gone from there I thought it might be okay to (re)post the piece I wrote about my mum's death in 2021, titled 'Call Mum, Home' which Michael Sheen recorded on BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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BBC Radio Wales - Michael Sheen: Margins to Mainstream, Call Mum Home by Stephen Tuffin

In this bonus episode, Michael Sheen performs Call Mum Home by Stephen Tuffin.

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I've just been to see Gladiator II. Here is my detailed verdict. 🙄

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This is Claude the Magnificent atop a 7 foot post. To be honest I didn't think he had it in him. But up he sent, like a rat up a drain pipe. No messing. I love that boy.❤️

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Lucy English @lucyenglish.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hello to all my #bookish #writer friends here on 🦋 let me know about your latest publications and I will share ♥️♥️♥️ 🎉🎉

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Jenny Knight @jennyknight.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Hard agreeing here - had an assessment on early novel draft from @andrewwille.bsky.social for my novel and it was 💯worth every penny.

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Earlier we devoured a nice takeaway, delivered on a pallet on a forklift truck. Teresa has since been trying to roll me upstairs so that we might sleep it off but my stomach(s) have become tangled in the spindles on the staircase. I'm stuck here now while she fetches the stomach pump from the shed.

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Ah, Claude the Magnificent. These days he rarely fails to greet me when I return from the pub. And I rarely stay on my feet when I see him because, well, he's such a beautiful, beautiful boy.

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

To celebrate 2,000 BlueSky followers, I'm going to do a little giveaway. Repost and follow and I'll pick one lucky person at random to win a 12-month Gift Subscription at Bert's Books worth OVER £100. You have until noon on Sunday 17th November

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Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

The correct way to exit a London bus while holding a pork pie hat. As taught at The Lucy Clayton School of Deportment and the Fred Astaire School of Dance and Drama circa 1947.

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