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Pam Swanborough

@pamswanborough.bsky.social

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Self-sustaining. Graceful degradation. Not a robot. 🐈‍⬛ ambidextrous leftie, vegan foodie, writer gardener, art science; likes to make things better but may use a lot of words in the process. #100smallpress reviewer. Many colours, many words, one planet 🌏

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · Jan 16

Whohooo my literary fiction novel is listed in Kirkus Review's Best 7 Indie Books for January 2025
#booksky
#fiction
#authority
#writingcommunity
#books
#literary
#Wales
#womensliterature

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/b...

Image shows the cover of the novel 'Red Gifts in the Garden of Stones' with a photo showing an old farmhouse in the snow, glimpsed at a distance through a dark silhouette of trees

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 9d

Normalising pretence and lying is just... 😶...

Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 9d

Not because the whole purpose is to reduce human thought and devalue human effort through deception and pretending to be something they're not. (obvs)

But because they put the strongest tools in the hands of the worst humans. Humans are always the problem 🙄

Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 9d

Not because the processing uses so much water and energy that the owners are thinking of setting up private nuclear power stations (which they are) and taking drinking water from human supplies even during... no especially during... drought and hot weather (which they do).

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 9d

I have a problem with LLMs (also known by their brand name, AI).

Not because they grow by stealing our words and ideas, even though I've read enough tales to know that never ends well.

#Booksky #author #ai
#AuthorRights
#plagiarism
#writing
#writingcommunity
#creatives
#copyright

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 15d

Typo, second sentence of second paragraph? I think you mean 'bellies'

Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 15d

Not a recommendation. Just... 🙄

Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 15d

Follow all the "responsible behaviour for good sleep" advice: wake 3 times a night, every night.

Accidentally have three glasses of 🍾 and a pile of marmalade toast at midnight: 8 hours 💤 👌

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 19d

... Vagina Dentata has grown a Little Willie 💪🏻

A thin green stem topped by a still-closed flower bud is growing upright out of the middle of a Venus flytrap plant. The image is brightly lit by the morning sunshine through a window

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Reuters @reuters.com · Oct 2

A video from the Israeli foreign ministry verified by Reuters showed the most prominent of the flotilla's passengers, Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, sitting on a deck surrounded by soldiers

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · Oct 2

Documents?? They found *documents*?

They're trying to make me believe that after a 2-year blockade, genocide and famine, there's a working printer in Gaza?

😶

#freedomflotilla #Gaza

Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · Sep 27

Then we need better politicians

Ps: why the ABC news logo?

Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · Sep 27

Not saying its been a hard week, but I am hitting the dark cooking chocolate and crystallised ginger before 11am

Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · Sep 17

Total sanctions now or there is no humanity left in any government on Earth

#Gaza #sanctions #genocide #auspol

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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · Sep 10

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · Sep 10

Could have been a rumour of h4mas in Sydney, or Edinburgh... any other middle-sized country whose policies they don't like 😑

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · Sep 10

What if there were a rumour of h4mas in Sydney?

Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · Sep 8

He really is the fucking antichrist 💀💀💀Kali yuga. Armilus. Al-Masih ad-Dajjal.
Efnisien but don't expect the redemptive death.

Who tf invited him in

Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · Sep 6

Moonstone and storm

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · Sep 6

Imagine every single clock, alarm, car horn, telephone, timer, church bell, claxon, beeper in the world going off full pelt, at once, continually with no turn off - could you ignore it?

That's what the planet is trying to tell us. #ClimateEmergency

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · Sep 1

The leverage that gave to the No campaign was just awful, wasn't it 😥

99.9% of indigenous folk supported the Yes campaign but the right wing girls just pointed at her as if that beat all 😑

Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · Sep 1

Smh 🤦‍♀️ incomprehensible

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · Aug 31

Nazis bashed 4 people in unprovoked attack at Camp Sovereignty

"Camp Sovereignty organisers said police arrived at the site after the men had left and made no arrests."

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · Sep 1

So. An indigenous member of Parliament supports a group whose started aim is to 'return this country to a European white heritage.'

This same indigenous member of Parliament supports violent extremists whose modus operandi is to assault indigenous people.

Right. Got it #auspol #voice #AlwaysWas

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · Aug 29

You're off the ABC news? 🥺🥺🥺 you will be missed 🙏

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Kerry Jaggers 🇦🇺 @kerryjaggers.bsky.social · Aug 26

And now for Israel, @albomp.bsky.social.

"Iranian ambassador to Australia & 3 other officials have been expelled, w seven days to leave. Operations at Australia's embassy in Tehran have been suspended, w all Australian diplomats already out of the country." #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Australia expels Iranian ambassador after ASIO says it directed antisemitic attacks

Iran was behind at least two antisemitic attacks on Australian soil, ASIO believes.

www.abc.net.au

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