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Steve O'Gorman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Proofreader and copy editor based in South Wales. Reader, music fan, walker, talker, amateur photographer, transport geek, semi-professional drinker.

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Steve O'Gorman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @steveeditor.bsky.social · 28m
And if you're really lucky, they'll run extra trains at the end of the day as well.
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 58m
A tree that's had long experience of the wind. From this morning's dog walk #wales
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7h
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
bylinetimes.com
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Zeno Agency @zenoagency.bsky.social · 6h
ICYMI: Christian Cameron’s THE VENETIAN HERETIC has been long-listed for the HWA Gold Crown Award! zenoagency.com/news/christi... @phokion.bsky.social Published by @orionbooks.bsky.social
Cover for Christian Cameron’s THE VENETIAN HERETIC — blue background, with Venice skyline in black line drawing; winged lion device in centre, holding book and sword. Plus author and title information, and a red sticker for the long-listing.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 6h
“You know who else banned jazz and organised rallies?” Reader, they went there.
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A blue note - jazz festival organiser says car rally will shut down hospitality
‘Hitler hated jazz and banned it completely - instead he organised rallies!’
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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 6h
I could not be less interested in something 'created' by nobody. The whole point of art is human expression. The whole point of experiencing art is connecting with another human's ideas. I don't know what killed the souls of these people but it's really fucking grim.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 9h
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Steve O'Gorman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @steveeditor.bsky.social · 5h
The older I get, the more convinced I become that adults-only public transport would be an excellent idea.
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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 7h
The trouble with the term 'personalised music', though, is that in truth, most of us like a little bit of everything, and algorithms hate that.
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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 10h
Art, literature and music are ways we express our human experience. Generative AI has nothing to say. Its remixed slop can only ever be, to quote Shakespeare, “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
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Steve O'Gorman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @steveeditor.bsky.social · 12h
I've become the unofficial resident tourist guide on the early T4 bus to Brecon - mainly because the onboard information screens and audio announcements are rarely operational. I don't mind, because I get to meet nice people from around the world.
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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 14h
Simon Cowell thought he had the formula of music sussed and almost nothing he championed is played or remembered now.
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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz359bs
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🚨NEW POLICY ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 All Evri executives to have their Christmas presents delivered by Evri, to see how they like it. Love Christmas. Vote Binface.
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Steve O'Gorman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @steveeditor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wouldn't that make it an iconic 80s solo performer?
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Steve O'Gorman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @steveeditor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The end of September is shaking out to be just as fucked up as the rest. I don't yet know whether my last invoice got into the system before the deadline. I'm still waiting on a purchase order to be raised so I can invoice the same publisher for a different project. Nobody is answering emails.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every month of 2026 has been warmer than average in the UK. #climatecrisis
bbc.co.uk
UK weather: Temperatures to hit 26C in burst of late September warmth
Temperatures are expected to rise well above the late September average on Tuesday with a very warm night to follow, as Simon King explains.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For any confused Americans, dogging is a traditional British term for walking the dog, if you're ever over here and see someone with their pet make sure to tell them how much you love dogging. That nothing makes you happier than seeing that wagging tail and panting mouth out on the heath.
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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
15.00 FILM: THE FIFTH SENSE
Unnecessary prequel about a young boy who discovers he has the very normal ability to smell things.
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WoodPig Press @woodpigpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just read a reviews of a book that complained about there being no (or insufficient) world building, and realised what they actually mean is that it's not spelled out explicitly in a big unsubtle infodump. One reviewer actually complained, "the world building is just reading the story"! #booksky
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Steve O'Gorman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @steveeditor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If an 'auberge' is a French inn, is an aubergine a small French inn? Asking for a friend.
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licia @astra99.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Norway's melting ice reveals 48 prehistoric arrows, including a 6,000-year-old slate arrowhead with its shaft. It's incredible what's preserved, offering a rare glimpse into ancient life, but also a stark reminder of what climate change uncovers and threatens.
thedebrief.org
Hidden in Ice for Millennia, a 6,000-Year-Old Discovery Has Emerged from Western Scandinavia's Once-
Archaeologists with Norway's "Secrets of the Ice" program have uncovered 48 prehistoric arrows in the Jotunheimen mountains, including an exceptionally well-preserved 6,000-year-old slate arrowhead. T
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 28/09/2026
This autumn, the William Morris Gallery in London presents Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK, spotlighting the homes of many important British artists and thinkers, including the Ladies of Llangollen ✍️ Norena Shopland
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Rare Welsh collection on display in London
Norena Shopland This autumn, the William Morris Gallery in London presents Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK, a “major touring exhibition that explores the people and places that have helped ...
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As everyone has observed already, if ONLY she'd dressed in a balaclava and shouted at a hotel, all this could've been avoided!
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fish ‘n’ Chip Van, Otley Road, Bradford, photo by Ian Beesley. 'The chip shop owner told me he had to fire one of his assistants because he kept parking the van the wrong way round.'
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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
depressing though that even now the mainstream media discussion of social care is all reduced to whether people have to use inheritance/property value and not what and who it is for, where and how it should be provided, whether it should remain distinct from NHS and what role of state vs citizens is
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Comment on Reddit about this: "My mum tried to send a gift card to someone at the council who had helped her quit smoking. They turned it down because she wasn't allowed to accept gifts." And yet some MPs (and the authorities) think it's totally normal and fine to do this...
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Steve O'Gorman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @steveeditor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well, this has sort of buggered next weekend. The adventure I was sketching out involved the Heart of Wales Line, but have you ever known railway engineering work that ended on schedule?
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Steve O'Gorman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @steveeditor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is an extraordinary discovery. Imagine being the guy who picked up a piece of rock and helped to rewrite the science books. I know this stretch of coast and I've often seen people with tools for fossil-hunting. Most of them must find the same things over and over ... then this happens.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 27/09/2026
Wales doesn't need another reductive, imposed and baffling non-descript area named by outsiders for outsiders. It's not a country. And the country it's in has its own, more appropriate, native name ✍️ Stephen Price
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If ever an English place name needs binning it's 'Waterfall Country'
Stephen Price Once upon a time, in a land far far away (Blaenau Gwent), I took my first tentative steps into the horrifying working world with real grown ups with strange job titles, even stranger job...
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Walked past a Wetherspoons in Paddington and the uncharitable thought went through my head: “I bet it’s full of Reform voters.” I gave myself a telling off. Then I noticed that a dozen or so people drinking outside were all holding cardboard Tommy Robinson masks! I’m hoping that was a fluke.
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Some unintended consequences I suspect the rise of AI agents will create: 1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all. 2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person. 3. Businesses that operate without websites.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just one of many accounts on the Hellsite pretending to be Ukrainian, pumping out Russian propaganda, actually from Nigeria. The entire site is a misinformation engine.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Merthyr Rising 1831: lost document uncovers true story of 'hero' who led revolt. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Lost document uncovers story of Merthyr Rising 'hero' Lewis Lewis
New evidence has uncovered what happened next to a man who led a workers' revolt almost 200 years ago.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 26/09/2026
Farage is a total charlatan and his malign influence on our politics needs to be recognised more widely ✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-1tZl
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“A unique voice, tone and heart.” Everything Will Swallow You has been chosen as one of the top ten paperback releases so far of 2026 by this week’s Bookseller Magazine. Free international delivery here in case you’ve not got yours yet: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
A round up of the year’s best paperbacks, beginning with my latest novel.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 26/09/2026
In Wales, climate change is discussed as if it sits apart from the cost-of-living crisis. Yet extreme weather affects harvests, supply chains and prices. Flooding threatens homes and businesses. The effects may begin elsewhere, but they do not remain elsewhere ✍️ Nicola Pulman
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Why climate change isn’t top of Wales’s agenda and how we change that
Nicola Pulman, Director of Size of Wales I had recently returned from visiting Size of Wales’s partners, the Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS) and TaHuKah, in a 118,000-hectare landscape that is one of...
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
EXTRAORDINARY EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE 41 DEGREES Never happened anything like this Almost 41C again in SPAIN today Almost 30C in Germany And it will get much worse. Thousands of records will fall next days in Spain,France,Benelux,Germany,Switzerlands,Scandinavia,Baltics etc..
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Waste Land, Tredegar, south Wales, 1951, painting by Nan Youngman, English artist, 1906-95 (Manchester Art Gallery).
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You are so right. That had not occurred to me. That's exactly what the proliferation of Tommys and Tommos is about.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 26/09/2026
Check out this satellite view of hurricanes Nolo, Odalys and Polo in the Pacific Ocean 👀 High activity in this region is closely linked to the strong El Niño. Polo is set to move across Baja California Sur on Monday, whilst Odalys and Nolo will remain over the ocean for now🌀
A satellite loop showing three hurricanes in the Pacific Ocean. Hurricane Polo in the east, Hurricane Nolo in the west and Hurricane Odalys in the middle
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What good are notebooks? @whatgoodrnotebooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@chartlifepod.bsky.social Metallica's Musicbrainz entry made me laugh: "Attention! The album known sometimes as The Black Album is already in this database, it is correctly named simply Metallica. This is because The Black Album is only a fan-composed name. Please do not add it or rename it."
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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you're in Wales: petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
petitions.senedd.wales
Petition: Reform the ASD/ADHD pathway with joint GP and school responsibility and mandatory neurodiversity training.
Families seeking autism or ADHD assessment in Wales can face unclear pathways, inconsistent communication and uncertainty about where responsibility lies between education, primary care and specialist...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
If we promise not to bring an iced coffee into a job interview, will you promise to pay us a living wage?
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Steve O'Gorman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @steveeditor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'd have been equally clueless.
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Steve O'Gorman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @steveeditor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm up and about really early for an adventure (public transport permitting, of course). The plan is to head deep into mid Wales to scope out connections to the Heart of Wales railway line. Will I make it past Llyswen without a fuck-up? Watch this space ...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Financial stuff is understandably a turnoff for most people so let me just say this is alarm bell material. Keep an eye on the AI bubble and regional banks.
cnbc.com
History shows financial calamities occur when rates rise rapidly like this: 'Something always breaks'
The 10-year Treasury note yield is spiking to levels not seen in years, and that may be a bad omen for financial markets.
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Steve O'Gorman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @steveeditor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'We apologise for the ongoing delays on the Core Valley Lines. This is due to the wrong kind of train.' You really couldn't make this up.
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Writers : Developmental Edit : Structural Edit : Copy/Line edit : Proofreading Car owners : Car Design : Engine/Body Mods : Regular Service : Valeting Gardeners : Buying the land : Landscaping/Layout : Pruning/Weeding : In-Laws are coming round
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