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Niall Murray

@niallmurray.bsky.social

Would rather be at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

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Omigod the wailing/talking bulldogs and pugs, I could send you so many of those and I EXPIRE every time.

16.11.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I really want some Rolos now. I appreciate this is not the point.

16.11.2025 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The deep questions.

15.11.2025 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I sent this to Liz Truss and now she's watching Goldfinger.

14.11.2025 09:26 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Always found it pretty cool that there's a medieval demon of typos

13.11.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Princess Diana is making me produce sounds like a blocked drain

13.11.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Side note: I can't tell you when precisely I will find a future use for the gif I made of it, I just know the day will come and it will be EXACTLY the thing I need to express... something.

12.11.2025 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@timdowling.bsky.social has been adventuring with jelly and it looks like Pertwee-era Doctor Who communing with an alien ambassador who might be a baddie.

12.11.2025 10:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’ve just finished Havoc by Rebecca Wait; an utter hoot, clever, thoughtful, really rather tender, awfully well written and did I mention it’s a hoot?

Do read it. Although if it turns out you don’t love Louise Adler with every fibre of your being I’m afraid we can never be friends.

πŸ’™πŸ“š

10.11.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just needs some tiny biplanes and…

09.11.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They won't appreciate it. No honour, apparently.

08.11.2025 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThe arrested man, who had himself appeared in a police appeal saying, β€˜Look, we’re all trying to find out who did this’, has been named as…

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07.11.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How-D.

07.11.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s The Day After and I can offer you only this.

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good people get in their own heads a bit.

Not over it.

07.11.2025 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Orange and pink cover for Like a Cat Loves a Bird, a forthcoming biography of Muriel Spark, with a black and white photo of Spark holding a black cat on the cover

Orange and pink cover for Like a Cat Loves a Bird, a forthcoming biography of Muriel Spark, with a black and white photo of Spark holding a black cat on the cover

Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...

Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious

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02.11.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 119    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3

We finally did! Don’t think I can realistically claim credit though. πŸ˜†

Thank you @trientertainment.bsky.social and Marina and Richard; your Traitors eps were as big an event as the show itself. 😍

07.11.2025 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

An outcome in which lying wins the day because truthful people self-sabotage themselves out of contention is a bit too on the nose for these times, if you ask me. πŸ˜†

06.11.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So cat.

04.11.2025 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
04.11.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 8253    πŸ” 2221    πŸ’¬ 94    πŸ“Œ 73

What would be a good name for a bad pub?

β€œThe Dog Returns.”

04.11.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Drinking from the wrong side of the glass is the one thing that reliably cures hiccups* for me.

How does that work, then?

* Actually prefer the spelling β€˜hiccoughs’ but don’t want to sound too, y’know, fogey.

03.11.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

More lap time with the cat though…?

03.11.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Welcome to that stage in life when your childhood gets recycled. 😁

03.11.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am increasingly of the view that there is nothing Schitt’s Creek can’t either explain, contextualise or illustrate. It’s like the 21st century’s I Ching or something.

30.10.2025 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Aaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaaaaa

30.10.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Another generation lost to drugs.

30.10.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education:

1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail

29.10.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 512    πŸ” 131    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 11
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Got to love this headline.

28.10.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

YES PLEASE!

28.10.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families

27.10.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 213    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 11

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