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Alex Cochran

@cannotbegrouped.bsky.social

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Alex Cochran (he/him) is the pseudonym of the less spellable Alex Weinle, a writer based in Cambridge. My debut SF novel is THE POLLUTANT SPEAKS from Bee Orchid Press. https://mybook.to/thepollutantspeaks

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 6h

@britfantasysoc.bsky.social I'm having flashbacks to my first day at university! Where's my class? What did I sign up for? Where is my mind!?!

@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social

Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 15h

Sell it to me, Patrick. 😄

Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 15h

Oh no, "luxury" not luxury. Is it a bit humble?

Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 15h

We're just bumbling around before the train leaves. Have fun, see you there!

Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 15h

Ok, so he can't use the title "Prince", but at least he gets to keep the prefix "Randy". No one can take that away from him...

Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 3d

Fingers crossed for you! 🍀

See you in Brighton 🪩🐉🐿️

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 3d

I was on a panel with Steven Erickson once and he used the metaphor that reality is the nebulous thing sitting at the center of a circle of humans, and we are all constantly staring and pointing at the thing and describing what we see. It's reality by consensus. The brain's job is hallucinating

Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 3d

"Ich werde am du." As Karl Jaspars said, meaning, "I become with you". The more we interact with each other, the more real we become.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 3d

Another announcement from the department for the bleeding obvious!

Car headlights to be reviewed after drivers complain of being 'blinded' at night - BBC News share.google/L7tO8hRWJDTy...

Car headlights to be reviewed after drivers complain of being 'blinded' at night

Concern over the glare from brighter headlamps is prompting the government to review vehicle design.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 3d

"Ich werde am du." As Karl Jaspars said, meaning, "I become with you". The more we interact with each other, the more real we become.

Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 3d

More PSAs like this, please !

Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 4d

Self-powered travel ❣️

Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 4d

Floating monorail wind farm, please. Thank you very kindly mister.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 4d

In a discovered-today-exchange, I can offer you: vatic, resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.

Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 4d

Stumbled across an interesting new word today while working on my PhD novel: acicular (adj) meaning "(chiefly of crystals) needle-shaped."

Neat!

a cartoon of a pearl with a star on her chest

ALT: a cartoon of a pearl with a star on her chest

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 4d

Yes! The drugs DO work! I'm clear of viruses and infection just in time for @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social 🤩

Heading there early on the Friday train 🚃🚆🚂

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 4d

I did work out that if I got a tattoo, it would immediately render it much less cool and attractive 😆

Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 4d

I sympathise. No. 1 son is prone to rash decisions, and now he's too old to caution. Ho hum, let them be free!

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 4d

One's cathartic, and the type of word record breakers love. It's difficult to see the positive side of a bomb, I guess.

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 4d

Make the most of that blue daylight time, that's key. It hits me pretty badly too... and I'm nowhere near that latitude.

Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 4d

Not just in SFFH... 😆

Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, I was pretty sure you'd be in a far-flung edge of the galaxy where child laws don't apply.

Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 4d

I've never thought about this before, but is there a minimum age to get a tattoo? I deliberately haven't looked it up so I can have a guess. 16?

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 5d

Come on... Let it be the cute little Brit! It's not, though, is it?

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 5d

You're nailing it. I'm sitting down at the desk for the second time to try to keep up.

a man says he can 't keep up in a netflix ad

Alt: a man says he can 't keep up in a netflix ad

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6d

Barker called me up one night and without preamble said "It's opinions, not onions. Not onions. This is Clive Barker. I've been trying to track down and stop this error in editions for decades. OPINIONS."

Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 6d

(It wasn't until Jeff and Ann VanderMeer were working on their anthology The Weird that I learned that "onions" is a typo. Either Jeff or Ann mentioned to me that Barker asked them to fix the typo that had haunted the story in countless reprintings, incl in their own earlier antho The New Weird.)

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Alex Cochran @cannotbegrouped.bsky.social · 6d

Just watched The Instigators, great film 8/10. Damon and Casey Affleck are pitch-perfect.