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@craigstone.bsky.social

Author. Shortlisted for the Dundee Book Prize. 4 books. 2 kids. Every 17th syllable in my recent novel is a rhyme. It took me over 4 years to craft. Please add it to your reading list if you find words wonderful. Title: The Last March of the Pirate Snails.

101 Followers  |  32 Following  |  29 Posts  |  Joined: 14.11.2024  |  1.7495

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What's everyone mad about this week? Ahh, I see, someone didn't like Snow White when they were a kid. Ooo so annoying 🀣🀣

01.04.2025 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She's the devil's mouthpiece, and her entire job is converting the crimes, lies and bullshit of the Trump administration into believable truths. But, sadly, Karoline Leavitt is very, very good at it. A constant Trump promotion, while insulting the Democrats every other sentence. #trump

05.03.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is how old I now look: just walked into an empty coffee shop. The 20-something guy working was listening to banging tunes. When I sat down with my coffee, he changed the music to Bill Withers Lean on Me. He must have thought the fast music and coffee combined could kill me.

21.02.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We're a mass collection of liabilities, fragilities & ego hoping to not be found out. Take the question, "what do you do for a living?", what people really mean is, "how much ££ do you make?". Go one further and that boils down to, "am I better than you?". The 1st question we ask. Ridiculous. Twats.

07.02.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why does the gov. have the worst speech writers in history? Don't speak of Manchester and Leeds as places of great potential. It reduces them, sounds patronising. They're established cities. Don't announce to the world the UK has potential. 2/10. Needs a rewrite. Think bigger. #rachelreeves #labour

29.01.2025 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lots of "we will", less "this is how". Not their fault. Maybe it's impossible, beyond humans. We've gone from a global power to a tiny island with potential. Nice one awful leaders, going back decades. Nice one stupid voters of Britain for Brexit. Nice one lettuce. #rachelreeves #UKpolitics #Labour

29.01.2025 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh god Rachel Reeves get to the point. Throw previous party under the bus. Promote yourself. Read out a GCSE-level speech with zero content. GET TO THE POINT. Nice work taking a counter shot at Liz Truss and her lawyers though. That was funny. #economy #rachelreeves #politics

29.01.2025 10:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump's entire plan as US president is "look up at the stars Americans, while I take all the money on the ground". #trump #inauguration2025

21.01.2025 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Humans are too smart for their own good but too dumb for everyone else's.

11.01.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Remember that at the end of the long and winding road, we shit ourselves when we die... so life may not be quite as serious as our thoughts delude us into thinking it is.

06.01.2025 11:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Everything is promotion. Even your face. Your face is promotion for your thoughts. Your thoughts are promotion for existence. Existence is promotion for nothing. Nothing is promotion for everything. Everything is a promotion for your thoughts. And so on.

03.01.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you have a vision for the cover, this guy will bring it to life for sure. Look up Bayu Sulistomo. One of the best, and doesn't charge the world, unlike some far less talented people. I've used him twice. Both times more than happy.

21.12.2024 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The awareness of aging is a strange process. #RockyV is on. Hit info. See it's from 1990. Think, I was 10, back then. Calculate that was 30ish years ago. Remember my dad would have watched/enjoyed this. Think I'm the dad now. Wonder what film my son will be watching in 30 years time, thinking of me.

19.12.2024 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Enjoyed The Jackal. Weird how in some action scenes, a punch sounded like a chubby goldfish being dropped into custard. And occasionally highly intelligent people made stupid decisions. Redmayne nails the plastic nice-guy face, desperately trying to hide the dead eyes of a killer. #thejackal

15.12.2024 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nigel Farage, asked a question, complains about Starmer reading from a script. Proceeds to ignore the question and read from a pre-rehearsed speech. Ends with a line stolen from LBC reporter. I'm off to bed, can't watch the oblivious toad. #bbcqt

05.12.2024 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Too much poetry
uses spacing,
to appear like it has
something to say.
But look closely,
and it's just spacing,
at the end of
another long day.
#poems

05.12.2024 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Don't eat at Antonio's in Kingston. The tables are eating the customers. Screams coming from inside. Bones and heads litter the pavement. Please avoid for your own safety. Police have been called. A bigger sign could have saved lives, though the capital letters are appreciated. #warning #sunday

01.12.2024 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've never been. Would love to go. One day, hopefully. Yes, now 2. Had a girl, she's 3 now. Has it been that long? Time really does fly. Thanks for buying the book, that's fab. Someone else bought one too. The power of Blue Sky! πŸ˜„πŸ‘

19.11.2024 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Shameless self-promotion, I admit. But I'm proud of this.

Cellunova’s production of KNOCK KNOCK finished its New York run in September and was a major success on so many levels. I couldn’t be more pleased. A heartfelt thank you to all involved.
https://buff.ly/3ANsUyQ...

18.11.2024 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah, just found this. Amazing work, sir. I'll share it to my X when I get a mo. I've still got the account. I'll duck in, post this, then run away again. Hopefully the evil won't follow me back πŸ˜‚πŸ‘β€οΈ

18.11.2024 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, left Twitter. This place seems much nicer. I'm sure the racism, sexism and general hatred of the world will find this place one day. But, until then, biscuits and sunrises.

18.11.2024 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Last March of the Pirate Snails : Stone, Craig: Amazon.co.uk: Books The Last March of the Pirate Snails : Stone, Craig: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Thank you. It's out on Amazon and no good book shops. I tried to write something mainstream, but ended up creating a piece of art so niche it has no audience. Oops. The link is below, in case you have a desire to become reader number 4. I knew reader number 4 would arrive one day! amzn.eu/d/5HxKlZe

18.11.2024 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh mate, wow, that's amazing! Massive congrats. NYC of all places, I think I've heard of it? Never sleeps, quite busy. Hot dogs, cold smoke, the Twoirtles, Trumpland! What's the name of the play? Behind all of the world's successful artists, stretches an horizon of long-suffering wives, so I hear πŸ˜ƒβ€οΈ

18.11.2024 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm good, thanks. Recently finished my latest, which took so long to craft I feel all penned out. An entire novel that rhymes about cancer and pirate snails. 4 years of work, read by no-one πŸ˜‚. How about you, working on anything at the mo?

17.11.2024 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

All we have to do, to accept this brave new world, is set fire to all we ever were. Ffs πŸ˜‚

16.11.2024 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@floydtoulet.bsky.social and so we start again, ol' friend. In hopefully a much nicer place. Assuming it's you, and me. And someone hasn't just nicked our previous handles. Which surely can't be the case. Yours sincerely, Scott.

16.11.2024 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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I live in a reasonably posh place now and the toilet graffiti hits different. Less 'Lee sucks cock', more 'in your soul lies both your conflict and resolution'.

16.11.2024 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Goodbye 80,000 followers, an original blue tick and some sort of 'influence'. Hello zero followers. But speaking into an empty cupboard beats shouting over a stadium full of right-wing bots and emotionally challenged humans.

14.11.2024 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So long #Twitter, you became infected with the rare disease known as Maximus Cuntus, and so here I am. #X #Musk

14.11.2024 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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