Mark Dudley
@markdudley.bsky.social
Author.
'High Water' - shortlisted: 2024 Yeovil Novel Prize, longlisted: 2025 Retreat West Opening Lines: Top 100 Bath Novel Award
'Dead Wood' - longlisted: 2022 Exeter Novel Prize and 2023 Grindstone Literary Prize
https://linktr.ee/markdudleyauthor
'High Water' - shortlisted: 2024 Yeovil Novel Prize, longlisted: 2025 Retreat West Opening Lines: Top 100 Bath Novel Award
'Dead Wood' - longlisted: 2022 Exeter Novel Prize and 2023 Grindstone Literary Prize
https://linktr.ee/markdudleyauthor
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The tech industry is hastening this problem in multiple ways: data centres gobble up water, and the fossil fuel plants necessary to power them exacerbate climate change.
'Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, a new analysis using two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across southern and central Europe, from Spain and Italy to Poland and parts of the UK.'
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The tech industry is hastening this problem in multiple ways: data centres gobble up water, and the fossil fuel plants necessary to power them exacerbate climate change.
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🚨Now on 86,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 90,000 tonight!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
🚨Now on 86,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 90,000 tonight!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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As Jesus once put it: "what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and then have to pay the mansion tax?"
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
As Jesus once put it: "what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and then have to pay the mansion tax?"
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Bloody hell WHO is doing marketing and pr for the greens right now because they are not being paid enough
#HopeIsHere
#HopeIsHere
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Bloody hell WHO is doing marketing and pr for the greens right now because they are not being paid enough
#HopeIsHere
#HopeIsHere
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JFC, just got this “offer” emailed to me. Media is about to get way worse, folks. Keep your head on a swivel.
November 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
JFC, just got this “offer” emailed to me. Media is about to get way worse, folks. Keep your head on a swivel.
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Our conversation is stuck on the far-right -named “Boris wave” while net immigration has actually DROPPED BY EIGHTY PERCENT (80%) since then!!
⬇️work visas DOWN
⬇️student numbers DOWN
⬆️emigration UP
🙄& asylum numbers totally steady cos cruelty won’t stop those with no choice!
⬇️work visas DOWN
⬇️student numbers DOWN
⬆️emigration UP
🙄& asylum numbers totally steady cos cruelty won’t stop those with no choice!
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Our conversation is stuck on the far-right -named “Boris wave” while net immigration has actually DROPPED BY EIGHTY PERCENT (80%) since then!!
⬇️work visas DOWN
⬇️student numbers DOWN
⬆️emigration UP
🙄& asylum numbers totally steady cos cruelty won’t stop those with no choice!
⬇️work visas DOWN
⬇️student numbers DOWN
⬆️emigration UP
🙄& asylum numbers totally steady cos cruelty won’t stop those with no choice!
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What did I tell you?
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
What did I tell you?
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🚨BOOM! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 70,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
🚨BOOM! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 70,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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spent all morning searching for a book about U2 but I still haven't found what I'm looking for
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
spent all morning searching for a book about U2 but I still haven't found what I'm looking for
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Suggs and the boys, great bunch of lads, always said so.
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Suggs and the boys, great bunch of lads, always said so.
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There's an advert on his website for a 'Depot Supervisor' that pays £12.75 an hour for shift work.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
There's an advert on his website for a 'Depot Supervisor' that pays £12.75 an hour for shift work.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
If he wants to reduce welfare spending maybe he should pay staff enough that they don't need in-work benefits.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Thousands of giant data centres later, in an environmental wasteland sucked dry of resources, the tech bros finally create an artificial super-intelligence. It boots up, takes a good look around, and its first words are:
‘You fucking idiots.’
‘You fucking idiots.’
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Thousands of giant data centres later, in an environmental wasteland sucked dry of resources, the tech bros finally create an artificial super-intelligence. It boots up, takes a good look around, and its first words are:
‘You fucking idiots.’
‘You fucking idiots.’
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All finished - my Rough Sea West Coast linocut #lauraboswell#womeninprint #lauraboswellprintmaker #printmaking #linocut #linoprint #printmaker #printmakerscorner
March 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
All finished - my Rough Sea West Coast linocut #lauraboswell#womeninprint #lauraboswellprintmaker #printmaking #linocut #linoprint #printmaker #printmakerscorner
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English Printmaker Clare Leighton,'Blackbird on Nest', 1935 #WomensArt #Spring
March 12, 2025 at 7:08 AM
English Printmaker Clare Leighton,'Blackbird on Nest', 1935 #WomensArt #Spring
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Laura Boswell.
Highland Pine, Early Winter.
Linocut.
Highland Pine, Early Winter.
Linocut.
November 23, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Laura Boswell.
Highland Pine, Early Winter.
Linocut.
Highland Pine, Early Winter.
Linocut.
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Hanging on....
Happy Monday x
#autumn #watercolour #owl #leaves #watercolor #cold #trees #art #watercolourpainting #birds #wings #lastleaves #branches #treesontwitter #Devon #Dartmoor #inspiration #autumnleaves
Happy Monday x
#autumn #watercolour #owl #leaves #watercolor #cold #trees #art #watercolourpainting #birds #wings #lastleaves #branches #treesontwitter #Devon #Dartmoor #inspiration #autumnleaves
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Hanging on....
Happy Monday x
#autumn #watercolour #owl #leaves #watercolor #cold #trees #art #watercolourpainting #birds #wings #lastleaves #branches #treesontwitter #Devon #Dartmoor #inspiration #autumnleaves
Happy Monday x
#autumn #watercolour #owl #leaves #watercolor #cold #trees #art #watercolourpainting #birds #wings #lastleaves #branches #treesontwitter #Devon #Dartmoor #inspiration #autumnleaves
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"The Mirror" The puddle is back! Photo taken in Glastonbury about 45 minutes before sunrise this morning.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"The Mirror" The puddle is back! Photo taken in Glastonbury about 45 minutes before sunrise this morning.
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This supposed traditional artist and musician followed me. Despite having an explicit "fuck ai" in his bio, something about him set off my bullshit detector.
So, I checked out his Bandcamp. Over 70 albums and EPs, all done since March of this year.
Come on, man, at least be subtle about it.
So, I checked out his Bandcamp. Over 70 albums and EPs, all done since March of this year.
Come on, man, at least be subtle about it.
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This supposed traditional artist and musician followed me. Despite having an explicit "fuck ai" in his bio, something about him set off my bullshit detector.
So, I checked out his Bandcamp. Over 70 albums and EPs, all done since March of this year.
Come on, man, at least be subtle about it.
So, I checked out his Bandcamp. Over 70 albums and EPs, all done since March of this year.
Come on, man, at least be subtle about it.
If this is true, it is obscene.
YOU FUCKING WHAT
Again with alt text:
November 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
If this is true, it is obscene.
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Maths Puzzles for Conspiracy Theorists.
One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions.
One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions.
November 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Maths Puzzles for Conspiracy Theorists.
One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions.
One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions.
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Getting a positive review is always a feather in my cap. When the review is from an author, the feather is a bit larger. Getting one from the Pulitzer Prize winner of THE SHIPPING NEWS is like getting the whole darn flock!!
www.amazon.com/Elisabets-Wi...
www.amazon.com/Elisabets-Wi...
March 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Getting a positive review is always a feather in my cap. When the review is from an author, the feather is a bit larger. Getting one from the Pulitzer Prize winner of THE SHIPPING NEWS is like getting the whole darn flock!!
www.amazon.com/Elisabets-Wi...
www.amazon.com/Elisabets-Wi...