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Eddie Robson

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Novelist, scriptwriter, journalist, incompetent guitarist. I span the genres. https://eddierobson.wordpress.com

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · Feb 6

ANNOUNCEMENT! My next novel, The Heist Of Hollow London, will be published by Tor on 30 September 2025.

One of the world's largest corporations collapses. During the sale of its assets, five clone workers are bought to steal a large sum of money stashed an obscure facility in a near-abandoned city.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 6h

This is top.

Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 8h

"Once you get trapped... there's no escape!"

📽️ THE BIG COMBO (1955) 11:45pm #CornelWilde #RichardConte #BrianDonlevy #JeanWallace crime drama #TPTVsubtitles

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 9h

Just flown in from Riyadh, and boy are my excuses tired

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 8h

#totp

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve not actively hated Rishi Sunak in a while, so the news he’s taken a job with Anthropic AI (aka the company I’m part of a mass lawsuit against for stealing our work to train their LLM) is actually kind of comforting.

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Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social · 11h

Your autumn (or all season!) reads, sorted. Exclusively from
@starsandsabers.bsky.social.
We will have exponentially more books in 2026 and 2027, but these 5 first stunners are all worthy of awards and ready for you to read right now.

Stars and Sabers @starsandsabers.bsky.social · 11h

The shadows grow longer as enchantment swirls among the embers and whispers of this liminal season. We have 5 perfect books:
#books #sff #scifi #fantasy #horror

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 11h

#THETWEN2IES Day 10

"Good Kisses" by Miso Extra feat. Metronomy (2024)

It's Friday night, let's have a bop shall we? Taut, catchy, in-your-face stuff from Miso. Metronomy should always work with other vocalists IMO.

tidal.com/track/435219...

Miso Extra & Metronomy - Good Kisses

Listen to Good Kisses on TIDAL

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 13h

OK, so here's why this probably isn't "legal bullshit."* And also a quick reminder that not all law is American law, and the law where you live and do business matters.

*I'm not going to opine on whether GW *should* take action; this is about their legal claims.

#warhammer #minigames

Hate Wanks: Attorney at Law @guyver3x.bsky.social · 1d

So GW are pulling their legal bullshit with a creator on some immensely spurious grounds.

They are arguing that even not similar models are unfair competition because they're compatible with their games...

Please donate to help the legal fund #nerdlings

www.gofundme.com/f/defend-cre...

Donate to Defend creative freedom against Games Workshop threats, organized by Francesco Pizzo

Hi, my name is Francesco Pizzo, founder of Ghamak. Since 20… Francesco Pizzo needs your support for Defend creative freedom against Games Workshop threats

www.gofundme.com

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Nathan Reyes @inquisitornate.bsky.social · 13h

It's also worth noting that we're not talking about some off brand Rhino compatible doors here. The models in question are so obviously derived from GW design work that I have to wonder why he thought he'd get away with it.

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bestie @bestiel.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah, my first instinct was to eye-roll GW being overly litigious, but then I looked at the actual "original models, do not steal" stuff.

Yeah, those are blatant theft of IP. IP is the only thing of value GW has. Fair play to them trying to protect it.

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 13h

I'm all for letting people enjoy things, I like plenty of trash myself, but the phrase "the THIRD Harry Potter Draco-Hermione friends-to-enemies fan fic to be turned into a bestselling novel in 2025" is violently disgusting

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 13h

I love this. A poster by artist Ed Bauer & printer Conrad Kayser advertising their combined creative services, c1960, Hamburg. I do hope this gem did its job. It deserved to.

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 20h

I have two tickets for @warringtonruncorn.com in Manchester tomorrow but have been cruelly stricken with a sickness so can no longer go.

Free to anyone who wants to go - for a small donation to a charity that supports local refugees and asylum seekers.

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M‎ I‎ K‎ E‎ ‎ R‎ Y‎ A‎ N @bikecyan.bsky.social · 17h

The funniest thing about the Catherine Connolly smear campaign is that the establishment seems to be following Ivan Yates' advice, despite his impressive record of getting things spectacularly wrong, as highlighted on this old but evergreen tweet from @prayforpatrick.bsky.social

The tweet reads: Ivan Yates, he's the guy who went bankrupt running a fucking bookies in Ireland.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 15h

And the track is still out there, you can stream the original version of the album any time you like.

Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 16h

I mean, it depends how you define it. I like Dylan's awkwardness but I think of "cool" as being at ease wherever, and I don't get that impression from Dylan, he often seems ill at ease.

Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 16h

Being goofy and funny does not preclude cool.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 16h

The funniest part of this is the comparisons drawn. Whatever you think of Dylan and Springsteen, both have qualities that pull against coolness: Dylan is awkward, Springsteen is earnest. Cash was more effortlessly cool than either of them.

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 18h

Israel highlighting how many 100s of aid trucks they will now allow into Gaza is a tacit admission that they were using aid as a weapon of war, by the way. seems weird not to talk about this

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 17h

Disappointing to see somewhat muted promotion of the latest haul of Hidden Treasures - presumably all Radio Circle recoveries - on 4 Extra. Surely one of the standouts will be Victor Pemberton's 1972 play Eyes of the Buddha (on air/online from Thursday 16 October) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Hidden Treasures, Eyes of the Buddha by Victor Pemberton

Paul receives letters from his dead father asking him to return to Sri Lanka. From 1972.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 17h

No wonder he's kept the same band together for twenty years or however long it is.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 18h

The Oregonian Frogs are missing a trick not playing Paul McCartney’s Frog Chorus as their song, “we all stand together” is a perfect sentiment all things considered

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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 18h

Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center, Tokyo, Japan r/brutalism

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 21h

One thing our culture seems amazing at is giving huge amounts of money to people who don’t need it, and very little to people who do.

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Sophia McDougall @sophiamcdougall.bsky.social · 18h

Whatever this is, I have no idea why they called it that, but I suppose it's what I've suffered from for the last several years.

A picture of a ...product, involving a pack of some kind of playing cards?? It features images of an anthropomorphic gumball machine with a sleazy expression riding a bike, an anthopomorphic shark wearing a pirate hat, and an anthopomorphic... dowel? Small piece of wood? I honestly do not know, but it's holding a tennis ball. The background features the Italian flag and is titled "Italian Brainrot."

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 19h

As someone who's read quite a few Beatles books I can confirm this is a very good one.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 19h

If any derivative of the word "prime" was ever pronounced "primm" it's not now, for the very good reason that the word "prim" exists and it makes sense to pronounce "prime" like "time", "crime" etc.

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