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Jamie Delano

@jamiedelano.bsky.social

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I used to write comics professionally; now I occasionally write and publish novels and other stuff just for the hell of it. lepusbooks.co.uk

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 13d

I wonder which corporate entity gets the contract for the operation of UK digital ID...

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 14d

Compulsory digital ID now, is it? Labour remorseless in shooting its feet off.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 14d

Ta. Lucky to spot it; wind was savage and making my useless old eyes stream like bastards...

Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 14d

Lurid east of England sundown.

#photography

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 14d

Fortification.
#photography (phone snap)

Steel pilings, rusted by sea; crenellations diminish to b/g

Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 14d

@cultauthor.bsky.social
Rust never peeps (sorry)
#photography (phone snap)

Close on rusted steel, sea horizon visible through a circular hole cut through it.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 15d

Ignominious, damnit!

Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 15d

Walked too far for our age today; had to catch the bus back. Ignomious.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 15d

I cut my tether with solar and battery.

Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 15d

Vanlife.

2 people relax in sun on chairs outside campervan

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 16d

They know they are all-in and are desperate to buy the pot before anyone wakes up and raises back. All the stupid chips are in their stack, and that should make them uneasy.

Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 16d

These types notably prone to superstition. An exploitable vulnerability? "Out demons, out!" Time to start chucking curses about like confetti.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 16d

To be fair, I'm only less than a third in... listening to the audiobook in a van by a marsh, strafed by the fucking RAF... so maybe not fully sympathetic.

But no, no humans, yet, that I'd identify as such.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 16d

So, reassuringly, perhaps, absolutely nothing - other than the arena of an inundated world contorted by cultural dementia - in common with my own Lepus novels.

I'll hear the posh gits out, though... 😉

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 16d

Having my first go at an Ian McEwan book since First Love, Last Rites (1975). What We Can Know attracted me with its premise of an inundated world surviving 100 years into the future... Disappointingly, the viewpoint, so far, is (I suppose predictably) that of tedious literary academics.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 16d

A few enjoyable days in North Norfolk marred only slightly by the frequency of flags and flag graffiti and the near constant reverberating roar of jet fighters hosing my taxes from their exhausts over the North Sea.

Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 22d

Reading while driving is a bonus. Cherry is authors who can perform their own work; I wish I was one of them.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 22d

I really enjoy audiobooks. Tried that with Jerusalem, but the narrator was about a hundred miles away from a Northampton accent and I couldn't cope with that. 😉

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 22d

I thought it was too long, largely due to unedited repetitive description, but the otherwise brilliant prose held me to the end... although the tiny typeface and bible paper fucked my eyes completely.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 22d

The British state is an embarrassment to its people.

Well, to this one, at least...

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 23d

Nice late-summer red admiral in central English woodland.

#butterflies

Close from above: butterfly on the ground in afternoon sunshine- orange, burnt sienna, black and white

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 23d

Media reporting Google's proposed 'massive new data centre' in Hertfordshire as if it is unequivocally a good thing...

Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 23d

Wishful thinking maybe, but if I were Reform, I'd be worried that inoculating my system with Tory 'expertise' might backfire and introduce fatal political sepsis...

Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 24d

Who's selling all these bloody flags? Bet it's Tice or Farage.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 26d

If they are the centre they should be afraid of 'real extremists' and be very wary of 'visiting Utah'.