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SJ Bradley

@bradleybooks.bsky.social

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Maps of Imaginary Towns available in all bookshops! Also: The Netflix Reviewer Substack, Uneasy Listening podcast. PGcert Teaching Creative Writing (Cambridge), K Blundell Trust Award. Short story writer, novelist, audio playwright. linktr.ee/bradleybooks

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SJ Bradley @bradleybooks.bsky.social · 4h

Driving home the other day. Passed a plumber-style van emblazoned with advertising for "UI / UX and Web Design!"

thought, wow, that's cool, their business must be doing well if they've got a van.

Then a minute later: why would a web design company need a van. A VAN?!!!

SJ Bradley @bradleybooks.bsky.social · 1d

Ballard, M John Harrison, Joel Lane. Lane is not hugely well known but he's so unique and an absolute banger at writing industrial decline and forgotten places. His short stories especially. His work is published in the UK by Influx Press

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SJ Bradley @bradleybooks.bsky.social · 1d

Can't believe it is only Tuesday. Feels like it should be Thursday, at least. I've only worked one day this week, as well, because I had Monday off. How come this week already feels like it's about 87 days long? UNACCEPTABLE.

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 2d

Is there a crossword person in your life? Would you like to get them a unique gift? PERHAPS FOR CHRISTMAS?

Well maybe a bespoke quiz or cryptic crossword would fit the bill, on any theme, of any size, by the author of [counts on fingers] more than 900 published crosswords, i.e. Me. Give me a shout!

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SJ Bradley @bradleybooks.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah this is definitely the sort of thing employers should be offering during the winter months imo. It's so dangerous having to drive at peak time when it's already dark, and everybody else is on the road too. so pointless, too, if you have a job that can be done from home

SJ Bradley @bradleybooks.bsky.social · 4d

I've said it before but I'll say it again: we should all be enabled into semi-hibernation throughout Winter. Short hours at work, but full pay. Government-issued heated blankets and fluffy socks. Marzipan half price in the shops. That sort of thing

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SJ Bradley @bradleybooks.bsky.social · 4d

You've got to admit that Alan Carr *is* really funny on it, though.

SJ Bradley @bradleybooks.bsky.social · 5d

I quite like horror films, but Him Indoors doesn't, so tonight we're watching Perfect Days and also having home made popcorn, still a 9/10 Halloween if you ask me

SJ Bradley @bradleybooks.bsky.social · 6d

Grants proposal: for a grant giving body to give me £3m to buy Lightwater Valley, as an arts project, and then not do anything with it.

It will be called 'the museum of forgotten childhood dreams'

Entry £18, and you won't be able to ride any of the rollercoasters

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lightwater Valley theme park on the market for £3m

The North Yorkshire attraction attracts more than 230,000 visitors each year.

www.bbc.co.uk

SJ Bradley @bradleybooks.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you 🙏

SJ Bradley @bradleybooks.bsky.social · 7d

He's a classic standard issue cat 💞 and as individual as they come! we love him to bits. Thanks for your good wishes 🙏

SJ Bradley @bradleybooks.bsky.social · 7d

£9K a year for a CD-ROM is WILD. These guys really saw the NHS coming didn't they?!

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SJ Bradley @bradleybooks.bsky.social · 7d

He really is a poorly little (big) guy, Thank you for the hugs 🙏

SJ Bradley @bradleybooks.bsky.social · 7d

thank you 🙏

SJ Bradley @bradleybooks.bsky.social · 7d

thank you 🙏

SJ Bradley @bradleybooks.bsky.social · 7d

thank you, I have given him a skritch behind the ears for you, and he says thank you very much

SJ Bradley @bradleybooks.bsky.social · 8d

your good wishes and best thoughts for this little (big) guy, please, who is not very well at the moment and seems to be a bit out of sorts 💞

an extremely handsome white-faced brown tabby cat, lying down completely hard asleep, on a turquoise fleecy blanket

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Jack Hurley @loudribs.bsky.social · 8d

Been seeing a lot of AI-is-coming-for-your-therapist headlines so I want to tell you a story from back when I was a lovely primary care mental health worker with the NHS.

This was back around 2006ish, when we were in the thick of CBT WILL CURE ALL mania.

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