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Melinda Salisbury

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · Nov 17

Copies of my next Barrington Stoke teen novel, THE FOUNDATION, are here! The third in my loosely-connected series about what happens when tech turns dark, this one stars keen gamer Ivy Finch, who is sent to the Ash Tree Foundation, where she meets some familiar faces...

Cover art by Holly Ovendon

A stack of eight thin books, alternating blue, red and green, topped by a front facing book. The green cover of this features the author's name, Melinda Salisbury, in black, and the title and subtitle, THE FOUNDATION; will always welcome you, in white. Behind the text are three shadowy, hooded and faceless figures, where their faces should be are lines like old-fashioned computer code. The stack is flanked on both sides by additional copies of the book, cover out

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 17h

This made me do a whole new laugh I'd never done before. Thank you!

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kattsdogma.bsky.social @kattsdogma.bsky.social · 2d

waiter: would you like some capers with your pasta

batman: what

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 21h

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 18h

Parents summoned to school when I was 11 as I'd handed in erotic fantasy for a writing assignment. Was into D&D. I perused mum's spicy romance for sentences and lazily changed names. E.g. "The Barbarian's prickly face chafed the warlock's soft loins." Great way to come out though

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 1d

Also! Yesterday I went for a big wood walk to see my beloved amanita muscaria in their glory, AND, for the first time in my life, I saw amanita pantherina BUT because I didn't know they existed until I got home, I assumed they were crusty old muscaria and refused to photograph them for being ugly

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 1d

Yesssssssssssssssssssss

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 1d

The only thing that's inevitable about AI is me gracelessly singing "I told you! I told you!" when the bubble collapses and all the charmless little grifters realise their empire of slop has crumbled around them

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 1d

This is one of my all-time favourite films and it is vexing me greatly I can't make it up to London for this

Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 1d

Nicolas Roeg's psychological horror thriller masterpiece - DON'T LOOK NOW (1973) shows just one time this HorrOctober, next Thursday at midday in our downstairs screen from a 4K restoration.

🎟️ : tinyurl.com/dontlooknowpcc

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 1d

I think it's really clear from the fact her (objective) best songwriting came about during a lockdown, isolated with someone she could bounce ideas back and forth with, that writing an album alone in the middle of the tour that made your entire team mega-wealthy is not a wise creative choice

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 1d

Oh I missed this because I was Living Offline, like a prize fanny. NEXT QUARTER!

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 2d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 2d

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 3d

Absolutely delighted by a headline today that reports a Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine can't be reached to learn of his win, because he's hiking in Idaho and having a digital detox. What a man! What an icon! I love him!

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 3d

It's the greatest honour of my career to write for @barringtonstoke.bsky.social!

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 3d

Art gets bad when creators don't have people around them telling them the truth

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 3d

I think TS's biggest problem isn't being happy, or Millennial Cringe, etc.. I think what's happened to her is the same thing that happens to some hugely popular authors, and it's that she's not being 'edited' properly anymore. Nobody wants to upset her and lose access to the money-printing machine

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 3d

Thank you!

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 3d

Do you have a link for the UK case? I'd love to throw my hat into the ring!

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 4d

Knickers at half mast today everyone, for Jilly Cooper x

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 4d

Yes! Like a much less fraught version of Ready Steady Cook!

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 4d

Arborio rice, a poussin, butternut squash, M&S concentrated stock, parmesan cheese, chopped hazelnuts, a loaf of good bread, salted butter, white wine, a wedge of bleu d'Auvergne!

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 4d

Oh God, I want to be in this Airbnb so bad

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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine you're at a writers' retreat with the lads and you're all showing off a draft after dinner and then your mate's girlfriend goes here is the novel Frankenstein which I just wrote

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 4d

And that's the last of the good Welsh cakes from the good Welsh bakery. Now I'm going to have to slum it with M&S nonsense unless I can find a better hook up

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 5d

Well, I'm not sure how I feel about that. Maybe I'll get some so I can root my contempt in experience!