Andy Muir

Or misfiled. Was looking at one last week that had six months of 248Sqd instead of 48.

Finished this today. Couple of essays have multiple underlinings. Good read

That looks really interesting. Have highlighted a number of those endnotes to follow up. Thanks for sharing

That is gold

Salvage by Jennifer Mills review – urgent post-apocalyptic novel proposes a better way of living In her mesmerising fifth novel set in the near-future, the Australian author offers a timely model of resistance to despair and passivity

Was looking forward to getting a copy of this. Might be this morning’s chore

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Think so. Some sites were saying there might be a chance but felt a long shot

No aurora for the Gong. Very disappointed and too tired to wait any longer

This is almost too accurate to be funny

Thanks for the recommendation. The search begins

Reframing Indigenous Biography: an introduction – Australian Academy of the Humanities The existential predicament of modern Indigeneity, forged in the violent and traumatic history of colonialism, makes the sympathetic retrieval and respectful portrait of a whole life especially fraugh...

On the new collection, Reframing Indigenous Biography humanities.org.au/power-of-the...

What are the stats on first term govts increasing majority?

The other annoyance is a decent Substack that after a short spell only sends opening paras unless you subscribe

👇🚨📷 #CDP #PhDscholarship

A photograph of the installation - three screens on three walls depict different views of the same scene, rendered in Unreal Engine, of a town

"Beware Blue Skies" - I was privileged to contribute to this project, an immersive video installation at the Imperial War Museum, exploring the psychological impacts of drone warfare. Project lead, Beryl Pong, has now written a piece on it + a video! www.centrefordronesandculture.com/beware-blue-...

It's a hard life as an indie author. Last chance to grab my short story collection for free on Kindle.

Get it at amzn.eu/d/0ZEPgKN or if out of the UK find it on your local site.

New Yorker magazine cover: Techno-Fascism Comes to America

It’s New Yorker official:

Techno-Fascism Comes to America

This was a very lonely beat last year. But it’s heating up. Better late than never.

A surprise review never fails to bring a smile.

Hate it when I finish a book and stare at the TBR’s and none scream out at me to pick them up

colour photo of a B-57 variant in flight, banking to the camera high in a cloudy blue sky, with the undercarriage down. the aircraft is silver, with orange lightning bolts down the fuselage and wingtip pods. “UNITED STATES WEATHER BUREAU” is written in large lettering along the fuselage. there is also a black “dog nose”, and striped probes on each wing

“ESSA B-57 N1005 in flight”

a great shot of the aircraft used by the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), which then became the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration..

(from the NOAA Digital Collections - grab it while you can, www.noaa.gov/digital-coll...)

1/2

Great list. Catherine Jinks is such a good writer she deserves a bigger audience

Accounts that are clearly marketing/bots - see you later alligator’s

Are any of these authors here on BlueSky?

Candice Fox
Tim Sullivan
Michael Woods
Ann Cleeves
Louise Penny
Elly Griffiths
Angela Marsons
Val McDermid
Hayley Scrivenor
Petronella McGovern
Nick Louth
Dervla McTiernan
Robert Bryndza
Chris Hammer
MW Craven

Seem to have picked up a number of bots/AI accounts today

Sorry fat thumbs account for the Tim not Tom

Great covers there Tim. What is the title of book 1?

It was a constant giggle from day one as we trooped across for our coffees. Surprised it’s still there

How Elon Musk’s X became the global right’s supercharged front page Musk has now used X as a platform to make aggressive interventions in US politics – and in those of other countries

Perhaps it's now time for organisations whose core missions include promoting evidence-based inquiry (e.g., universities and their academic units, learned societies, research centres, some think-tanks) to stop using X altogether to platform their work? Asking for (quite) a (lot of) friends.

Paperback novel Citizen Vince by Jess Walter

Citizen Vince by @jesswalter.bsky.social. It’s tough crime, featuring a not-so-tough criminal; time and place (Spokane, 1980) are vivid; there are dashes of tragedy and comedy, and a thematic question – whether a criminal can ever be a citizen – pokes through the drama. Loved it, highly recommended.

You moving south or staying in the north?

Now I have to track down a copy