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Susan Murray

@pulpthorn.bsky.social

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Writer of Fantasy & SF. Northerner. Girly swot. She/her. Ooh, squirrel...

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · Oct 23

"AWAKE! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light."

Morning sunlight is finding its way round (and through) a yellow curtain which is still closed over an east-facing window. In the foreground is a floofy black cat, leaning forwards and slightly sideways from the right of the frame to peer intently into the camera with wide eyes, pupils dilated.

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 10h

Maybe still just a baby whip… I’m sure we’ve bought them shorter than 30cm in the past. www.rjtreesandhedging.co.uk/blog/what-ar...

A comprehensive guide to bare root whips

Bare root whips, lots of species of hedging plants and trees, buy British plants direct from specialist grower RJ Trees and Hedging

www.rjtreesandhedging.co.uk

Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 14h

Are they known as whips at that size?

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 15h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 17h

Also used a lot by Heyer as Regency slang for drunk. Often used by the protagonist’s younger brother/cousin while explaining why he’d bought an unsound/winded/expensive horse from a dodgy/notorious character.

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 21h

This is today! If you're in the Humber area, come hang out with a bunch of lovely sff people & listen to me talk about books, murder, dragons, & more.

Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 13d

I'm heading down to Beverley in a couple of weeks to talk to the Humber SFF group about my books. If you're in the area & like big fantasy stories about dragons, murder, & characters kicking against the system, then please come along.

Author photo of Andrew Knighton next to the cover for his novel The Executioner's Blade, featuring a grey-haired woman wielding a sword in front of a dragon. Between them, details for an event:
Humber SFF
Andrew Knighton
Sunday October 12 from 6.30pm
Upstairs @ Monk's Walk Inn, Beverley

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 20h

Love how the planting wraps around the bench. Perfect.

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Rob H&ynes @robonabike.bsky.social · 20h

Can anyone hazard a guess as to what I have here, please? Self-seeded in a pot outdoors, central/southern UK.
First thought was tomato family, and image search suggested physalis or tomatillo, but in not confident about either.
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Mystery seedling. Flower a bit like a large tomato flower, with 5-fold symmetry, but lemon yellow with a black centre. Plant is currently about 20cm high.

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 1d

Important announcement: pears bought on 25/9 have attained peak eat-over-the-sink juiciness.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited lick pic

Ginger Highland cow calf shoves his tongue up one nostril, because he can.

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ECIU @eciu.net · 2d

Marginal Gains: how wind is pushing gas out of the power market and cutting costs

Growth in British renewables cutting electricity prices by up to a quarter.
eciu.net/analysis/re...

Marginal Gains: how wind is pushing gas out of the power market and…

Growth in British renewables cutting electricity prices by up to a quarter.

eciu.net

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 2d

“Portland. Shit. I'm still only in Portland. I'm here a week now, waiting for a mission, getting softer. Every minute I stay on this roof, I get weaker, and every minute The Frog squats in street, he gets stronger. Each time I looked around the walls moved in a little tighter.”

A woman (Kristi Noem) and a man in cammo gear at sunglasses, looking down over the edge of the roof

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 1d

What five events defined your childhood?

Torrey Canyon disaster
Moon landing
Joining the EEC
Fuel crisis (crises?)
Waist-deep snowdrifts (coinciding with the Winter of Discontent)

Benjamin Bedbreaker @defn28.bsky.social · 1d

What five events defined your childhood?

Falklands War
Prince Charles marrying Lady Dianna
Lockerbie disaster/Pan Am flight 103
Challenger Shuttle disaster
IRA bombings

🏳️‍🌈🌟 Simon will take you Hot To Go 🌟🏳️‍🌈 @thesimonc90.bsky.social · 1d

What five events defined your childhood?

9/11
The new millennium
Death of Princess Diana
The Soham murders
The Simpsons moving to Channel 4

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 1d

My right knee sends a message of solidarity.

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 2d

This implies your knee joints are fully functional!

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 2d

Downward dog is really good for getting up off the floor when your knees just won’t.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 2d

PUBLIC AWARENESS IS GROWING AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE TADPOLLING

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 2d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 2d

Got to wonder how much oversight there is of sampling methods. Have been wondering for a while, tbh. This makes me wonder more.

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 2d

Give in to the brain weasels.

My brain weasels just want to draw pretty pictures.

A line drawing of a robin sitting on broken spear.

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 2d

Fab result!

Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 2d

It’s what the brainweasels want…

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 2d

Going to do it anyway, obv.

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 2d

Domestic alert state: sanding a doorframe between coats and pondering the difference in risk inherent in developing a full-length near-future-set novel for an established male author as opposed to an unknown female author.

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 2d

So much for rigorous sampling methods…

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Rob Jacobs @robjake.bsky.social · 2d

Can I just add a British perspective. Reform are in trouble. Despite being massively under reported the Gill / Russian money scandal is huge. Remember he pleaded guilty. I suspect MI5 are all over RefUK's accounts and sooner or later this is going to blow up. Timeline 👇🏽

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